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Gershon Hasin. The international legal framework to oversee the growing commercial activity in space doesn’t yet exist. Gershon Hasin, a graduate of Yale Law School and an expert in international law, explains how the rules for new contexts are established, and the pitfalls with space law that we can already foresee.
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Oct 25, 2024 · Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Laura D. Tyson, Steven Tian. October 21, 2024. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump propose to use government clout to strengthen the U.S. manufacturing industry—though they have very different proposals for how to accomplish this goal. According to an analysis by Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-authors Laura Tyson ...
The Truth Beneath the Economic Misinformation | Yale Insights
September 06, 2024. This commentary originally appeared in Fortune. Writing in the journal Public Opinion 1951, Yale researchers Carl Hovland and Walter Weiss labeled their postwar studies on the trick of persuasive messaging regardless of the truth as “the sleeper effect.”. They found that a message lingers through repetition, even if ...
Organizational Behavior - Yale Insights
Jul 2, 2024 · This everyday leadership invitation goes beyond deliverables and tasks into thinking of work as a space that we co-create. Season Three of the Learning Through Experience podcast echos Dr. Brooks’ course structure, centered on interpersonal and group dynamics. Even at Yale, there is a place for learning through experience—not just books.
Is the Era of Shareholder Primacy Over? | Yale Insights
Sep 11, 2024 · Murray offered an explanation for why shareholder primacy made sense in an earlier time, and why it no longer does. In the 1970s, more than 80% of the value of Fortune 500 companies came from capital-intensive, physical stuff—factories, equipment, inventory, etc. Murray said, “In that world, you definitely are going to put a higher priority on the shareholders who are giving you the ...
How Social Media Rewards Misinformation | Yale Insights
Mar 31, 2023 · How Social Media Rewards Misinformation. A majority of false stories are spread by a small number of frequent users, suggests a new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Gizem Ceylan. But they can be taught to change their ways. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, posts and videos promoting natural remedies for the virus—everything from ...
Finding the Blueprint for Thriving Organizations | Yale Insights
Oct 8, 2024 · In terms of findings, first, founders seemed to be choosing from a relatively small number of cultural models for their organizations. We identified five blueprints that we called engineering, star, commitment, bureaucratic, and autocratic. The predominant blueprints in Silicon Valley were engineering and star.
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Sep 17, 2024 · A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Heather Tookes shows that women are less likely to get funding compared to men with similar entrepreneurial history. One reason is that investors who have experienced a poor outcome from a woman-led startup shy away from other women founders—but benefitting from successes of women founders doesn’t ...
Behavioral | Yale Insights
Aug 29, 2024 · Deborah Small. September 17, 2024. Yale SOM’s Deborah Small and her co-authors examine how people judge the ethical acceptability of ads for charities, and find that they are much more bothered by artificiality than objectification or exaggeration—a finding with implications for advertisers of all kinds. The Fed Is Cutting Rates Soon.
Impact Investing - Yale Insights
Jun 11, 2021 · Impact investing, a growing niche in finance, seeks to marry strong financial returns with positive social impacts. That can mean investing in companies whose products improve the environment, or it can mean helping a startup find ways to positively contribute to the neighborhood where it’s based. Nancy Pfund ’82, founder and managing ...