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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 ...
Who Has the Secret to Manufacturing Success? | Yale Insights
Oct 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 and Steven Tian, the record of the last two presidential terms shows the Harris approach to be more effective at actually ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Our Most-Read Stories of 2023 - Yale Insights
Jan 5, 2023 · Our Most-Read Stories of 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 ...
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Cameron LaPoint. March 15, 2024. A new paper co-authored by Yale SOM’s Cameron LaPoint looks at an effort in 1980s Japan to narrow economic inequalities between geographic regions, in order to understand the potential impact of the similar U.S. …
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Aug 8, 2019 · Yale Insights is talking with the scholars and practitioners who are providing the expertise and leadership to make the adaptation and mitigation of this unprecedented challenge a reality.