Politics and Policy
How Should Business Leaders Respond to the U.S. Military Operation in Venezuela?
Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld provides CEOs with advice and factors to consider in the wake of the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Are our institutions up to the job?
The massive problems associated with sustainability, from climate change to resource preservation, require coordinated, society-wide responses. Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom argues for the importance of giving local institutions enough power to better manage common resources—though it’s not easy.
Do you need a nudge?
Richard Thaler outlines how principles from behavioral economics can help policymakers and managers achieve better outcomes.
How do we manage disasters?
Healthcare is a field known for its complexity and fragmentation. Managing a massive cross-sectoral healthcare project is always a challenge. Coordinating the healthcare response to a disaster puts a strained system under even more pressure. John Piescik ’81 looked into the way the healthcare system responds to disaster for MITRE a not-for-profit company that operates three federally funded research and development centers. His findings may have implications well beyond healthcare, providing a means to manage solutions to some of the complex problems facing society.