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Leadership

The Lessons from Pope Francis for the Class of 2025‌

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld reflects on what the next generation of leaders can learn from the late pope. ‌

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  • How Do You Encourage Innovation?

    Experts discuss how to manage, organize, hire, and reward for innovation.

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  • How DuPont's Directors Failed

    CEO Ellen Kullman's departure is one of many examples of dysfunctional corporate boards making rash decisions.

  • What’s Your Mission?

    Yale SOM’s James Baron on the ingredients for an effective mission statement.

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  • How Do You Become a Leader?

    Herminia Ibarra of INSEAD on the personal evolution required to transition into a leadership position.

  • What Can We Learn from Trump?

    Leadership scholar Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and political scientist Jacob Hacker, who recently sat down for an hour-long conversation with Donald Trump, discuss their impressions of the man and the current moment in political history.

  • What Can Aviation Teach Business about Managing Errors?

    Professor Jan Hagen of the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) on the aviation industry's open, immediate, and blame-free approach to errors.

  • Why the ‘Dump Trump’ Strategy is Doomed

    In a Fortune magazine article, Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld suggests that political rivals who underestimate Donald Trump—and the myth surrounding him—do so at their own peril.

  • How Can Companies Take Responsibility for Major Accidents?

    Naomi Hirose ’83, president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, discusses his company’s efforts since the 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

  • Putting the Iran Nuclear Deal in Context

    Professor Paul Bracken, a leading security strategist and author of The Second Nuclear Age, discusses the Iran nuclear deal.

  • Will Openness and Transparency Strengthen Democracy in the EU?

    HEC Paris's Alberto Alemanno on what the EU's commitment to openness means in practice.