Yale Insights is published by Yale SOM, covering a wide range of topics at the intersection of business and society.

Jan 21, 2025 · Recent advancements in AI have made it possible to infer personality traits from a single photograph of a person’s face. A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue applies these techniques to a large set of photos of MBA graduates to assess the effects of personality on labor market outcomes.

Mar 15, 2024 · This year, faculty and alumni experts helped us understand issues including the expanding role of AI in our society, the new space economy, the impact of gender in the workplace, the keys to financing a greener economy, and the psychological quirks that lead us toward irrational economic choices.

3 days ago · Personality characteristics have long been thought to predict a wide range of personal outcomes, including career success: being conscientious, for example, will take you further professionally than, say, being neurotic. ‌ However, because personality has primarily been measured through surveys, obtaining large-scale, detailed data on personality traits has been challenging. Furthermore ...

2 days ago · In her PhD dissertation, Yale SOM’s Anya Nakhmurina explored the effects of state fiscal monitoring policies on the financial health of cities, finding that oversight improved municipal finances and even reduced corruption. When she presented the resulting paper, she was often asked by audience ...

Apr 21, 2020 · Two decades into the era of private space flight, companies are establishing ventures in low-earth orbit, sending private citizens into space, and pursuing exploration and development on the moon and beyond. We talked to Yale alumni and other leaders about how finance, law, and other day-to-day details of business get translated into space.

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.

Jan 10, 2025 · As they ended political endorsements at their respective newspapers, writes Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld , Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong provided a master class in how not to announce and explain a sudden change in direction.

Dec 18, 2024 · To confront interconnected environmental and social crises, impact investors will need to factor resilience-building into their expected returns, especially in the most vulnerable parts of the world.

Nov 22, 2024 · A new paper co-authored by Professor Edward Watts examines how retail investors weigh news about a public company’s environmental, social, and governance activity.