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How the Right Business Model Can Fuel Creativity

Selling creative work requires leaders to align art and economics. Yale Insights brought together the CFOs of a video game ...
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How Cooling the Planet with Geoengineering Would Upend Climate Economics

In a new working paper, Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue and Samuel Hartzmark of Boston College model how the use of reflective aerosols ...
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Do the New Obesity Drugs Pay for Themselves?

In the view of Yale SOM health economist Jason Abaluck, drugs like the blockbuster semaglutide—better known under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy—are pretty close to miracle treatments. “Of all the ...
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The Best Leaders Use Intuition

In an excerpt from her new book Sovereign: Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty, and Chaos, Yale SOM’s Emma Seppälä writes that drawing on instinct as well as ...
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A Very Un-American Response to the Murder of Brian Thompson

In the aftermath of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder in Midtown Manhattan, the most popular posts on social media are ones which express support if not ecstasy over the brazen ...
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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 the leading maker of natural soap and a force reshaping how entire industries think about packaging, supply chains, and ...
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When AI Is the Editor, Consumer Complaints Are More Likely to Succeed‌

An analysis of complaints submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reveals that consumers are using tools like ChatGPT to help them articulate their concerns. Those AI-edited grievances ...
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AI Monopolists Could Be a Disaster for Workers

What do you think is missing from the debate about AI and job loss? The macroeconomists who are thinking about this question are focused on comparing two rates. Let’s say that eventually goods ...
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Mobilizing a System to Treat People with Sickle Cell Disease

Leading care for people with sickle cell disease requires more than medical expertise, says Cece Calhoun ’21, medical director of Yale’s Sickle Cell Program. She reflects on the challenges of building ...
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Who Trains Junior Employees in the Age of AI?

This commentary originally appeared in K. Sudhir’s Substack newsletter The Slow Part. The views expressed are the author’s own. Many senior people are noticing the same thing lately: their junior ...
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Over the (Very) Long Run, Stock Bubbles Are Rare

Professor William Goetzmann has a longstanding interest in long-term financial returns. “Financial history helps you estimate and plan,” he says. “Five years doesn’t help you with the trend. If you’ve ...