Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian argue that after falling short of his stated objectives in Iran, ...

Subprime collateralized debt obligations catalyzed the global financial crisis. Where did these toxic assets come from? “Inside the CDO Machine,” a special project from the Yale Program on Financial ...

Leverage-induced fire sales, in which highly-leveraged investors are forced to sell more and more because prices are falling, can turn stock market corrections into economy-damaging crashes. Look no ...

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that the gargantuan package proposed by Tesla—based on a series of implausible performance targets—suggests a board ...

This commentary was originally published in Fortune. The views expressed are the author’s own. Two inconsistent phenomena seemingly can be true at the same time: AI is seen as disrupting jobs, and, ...

For years, finance experts have relied on a foundational 1997 paper that suggested that a mutual fund’s performance in one year helps predict how well it will fare the following year. A new study by ...

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Public Health biostatistician Bhramar Mukherjee to discuss how statisticians help researchers turn observations into evidence. Harlan examines a new study ...

While visiting Chicago a few years ago, economist Judith Chevalier got into a conversation with her Uber driver. She learned that the driver’s primary job was running a small, traditional funeral home ...

There are hundreds of millions of corporations in the world. They manage business in Earth’s orbit, at the bottom of the ocean, and everywhere between. It is perhaps impossible to find a corner of ...

Investors use estimates of a stock’s future price, set by finance industry analysts, as one tool to assess the asset’s value in coming months and decide whether to buy or sell. At first blush, very ...

How meaningful are these records from a long-term historical point of view? Theoretically they mean almost nothing. There is very little evidence that stock market booms are necessarily followed by ...

Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Steven Tian argue that after falling short of his stated objectives in Iran, President Trump has turned to a familiar set of political and rhetorical ...