Leadership
Putting a Price on Climate Risk
Yale SOM’s Todd Cort, an expert on corporate sustainability and sustainable finance, explains how AI is enabling new ways to price environmental and social risks.
Who Trains Junior Employees in the Age of AI?
AI is best at exactly the entry-level work that used to turn novices into experts. Professor K. Sudhir writes that organizations will need to find new ways to build the skills and judgment that junior employees once developed by doing those tasks themselves.
What Critics Get Wrong About Dual-Class Shares
The SpaceX IPO has renewed debate over dual-class share structures, which give founders outsized voting power. Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian argue that these structures can create long-term shareholder value under the right conditions.
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The Leadership Mission
Since its founding, Yale SOM has trained students to make a difference in any professional setting. For the school’s 50th anniversary, we spoke to faculty and alumni about how they articulate meaningful missions, apply business principles creatively across sectors, and make the hard decisions that can define the course of an organization.
You Probably Need a Mission Statement
Professor James Baron says a genuine mission statement can help organizations of all kinds cultivate thriving internal cultures and credibility in the outside world.
Leadership Lessons from a Lifetime Investing in Tech
Anne Glover ’78 traces her journey from shop-floor foreman to deep-tech investor and discusses the challenges facing the UK and Europe in building homegrown tech giants.
Inside the 25-Year Mission to Give India’s City Dwellers a Voice in Government
Drawing on his experience at Yale SOM, his career in finance, and his first encounter with a New England town meeting, Ramesh Ramanathan ’91 returned to India with his wife, Swati, to help citizens shape the future of their communities.
Mobilizing a System to Treat People with Sickle Cell Disease
Cece Calhoun ’21, medical director of Yale’s Sickle Cell Program, reflects on the challenges of building teams and structures to support patients facing both chronic illness and systemic inequities.
How Dr. Bronner’s Turned a Soap Company into a Blueprint for Regenerative Business
Darcy Shiber-Knowles ’13 has helped grow Dr. Bronner’s from a cult favorite to a force reshaping how industries think about sustainability.
A Guide to Getting Agentic AI Right
Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and coauthors present a framework for determining when and how to effectively deploy agentic AI.
The Real Job Destruction from AI Is Hitting Before Careers Can Start
Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his co-authors say that the impact of AI can be seen among recent college graduates, who are finding it harder and harder to get that first job. With no entry to the workforce, how will younger people develop the skills and wisdom to lead in the future?
