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Dec 2, 2024 · Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is on the rise after a pandemic-era lull. Yale SOM’s Dr. Howard Forman says that the disease can lead to hospitalization and even death for the youngest children, but can be prevented by proper vaccination of babies and their mothers.
The Truth Beneath the Economic Misinformation | Yale Insights
Sep 6, 2024 · Under Biden-Harris, inflation did spike to 9.1%, but inflation has also been wrangled down to 2.9%, near historic levels. Inflation woes were not unique to the U.S. The U.K., under Conservative leadership, saw a peak of 11.1%, while Canada and Germany faced highs of 8.1% and 8.8%, respectively.. Nor should excess government spending be …
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Yale Insights is produced by the Yale School of Management. In keeping with SOM’s mission of educating leaders for business and society, Insights poses questions that examine important issues at the intersection of business and society, issues that require a depth and breadth of perspectives that are not easily captured through conventional business press outlets or the academic literature.
How Social Media Rewards Misinformation | Yale Insights
Mar 31, 2023 · In this experiment, Ceylan and her colleagues asked participants to consider headlines that reflected partisan bias. Then, they examined concordant sharing (that is, liberals sharing liberal headlines or conservatives sharing conservative headlines) and discordant sharing (Iiberals sharing conservative headlines and vice-versa) among both habitual Facebook users and less frequent ones.
Our Most-Read Stories of 2023 - Yale Insights
Jan 5, 2023 · This year, Yale SOM research examined sustainable investing, the dynamics of social media, the role of race in school discipline, and the complexities of airline pricing. And faculty offered expertise on issues in the news, including the changing workplace, noncompete agreements, the politics of ESG investing, the effectiveness of masks, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and the Barbie ...
Economics - Yale Insights
Mar 15, 2024 · Increasingly, companies have the ability to target each of us with individual prices based on what they think we will pay. A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Jidong Zhou investigates whether the result is higher or lower costs for consumers.
Research - Yale Insights
Dec 5, 2024 · Yale SOM’s Cameron LaPoint and his co-author painstakingly assembled a century of local building permits. Again and again, they found, peaks in the issuing of permits preceded periods of economic turmoil.
CEOs Are More Optimistic about the Economy Than the Rest of …
Sep 24, 2024 · At our Yale CEO Caucus last week, we surveyed approximately 60 top CEOs in attendance on a broad range of economic issues. While our anonymous straw poll was informal and unscientific, the results suggest that CEOs are increasingly and broadly optimistic about the economy—in fact, much more bullish than just about any other group in the nation.. The CEOs we surveyed are surprised by the ...
Leadership - Yale Insights
Sep 11, 2024 · For more than two decades, the coffee empire has tried and failed to find a lasting successor to longtime CEO Howard Schultz. Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, with co-authors Steven Tian and Stephen Henriques, provides an insider’s view of the drama and explains why Chipotle’s Brian Nicoll might be the right person for the job.