Our Most-Read Stories of 2024 | Yale Insights
Jan 2, 2024 · Raise the Bar: Research-Based Ideas to Improve Your 2024. January 02, 2024. Harness your own creativity, learn to leverage ChatGPT, and have some fun are three of the suggestions from our faculty to help you make your new …
Big Companies Are Not the Inflation Villain | Yale Insights
Oct 1, 2024 · Even the much-cited cost of eggs is not due to a market failure in grocer profits. Rather, market efficiency drove prices up in response to an unprecedented wave of avian flu that caused the unfortunate loss of 100 million hens and a third of the U.S. egg supply.. The assertion that price-gouging and corporate profiteering caused inflation, an …
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 ...
Research - Yale Insights
Oct 23, 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 ...
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 …
Finding the Blueprint for Thriving Organizations | Yale Insights
Oct 8, 2024 · Professor James Baron’s research helped establish the now-commonplace understanding that the way a company organizes itself—what we now call its human-capital strategy—is key to creating a happy, equitable culture and ultimately to survival and success.
Can Industrial Policy Help Revive Struggling Regions?
Mar 15, 2024 · Economic inequality continues to widen—and not just between people, but between places, too. The United States, for example, has seen a regional divergence since the 1970s, when the country began transitioning away from heavy manufacturing and toward a service-based economy, resulting in dampened economic prospects and living standards throughout the Rust Belt.
Understanding the Economics of Education | Yale Insights
Apr 4, 2024 · Q: What project are you undertaking with your academic career? I study the economics of education. My goal is to understand how education shapes big-picture outcomes like inequality, upward mobility, and economic growth.
Organizational Behavior - Yale Insights
Oct 8, 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.