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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

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4 iconic U.S. companies are in stormy waters—2 CEOs are possibly lost at sea, while 2 may be piloting safely to shore

Four heads of iconic U.S. enterprises face turbulent, inherited challenges with elevated investor anxiety in 2025.

15.01.2025 10

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

What CEOs Hope for the Trump Administration

I’ve hosted Yale CEO Summits before– but few have taken place in such fraught circumstances as our most recent 150th Yale CEO Summit this week or...

21.12.2024 1

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

The Beginning of the End for Russia

Henriques is a senior research fellow at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute and a former consultant to McKinsey & Co with expertise in...

10.12.2024 2

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

The ‘Trump bump’ has survived tariff announcements—but will it survive the good, the bad, and the unknown in his cabinet?

Trump's picks fit into three groups: the fortifiers (the good), the detractors (the bad), and the mercurial influencers who might do good or harm.

27.11.2024 6

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

America’s Left and Right Extremes Are Coming Together

This week’s news regarding the Biden Administration’s effort to force Alphabet to divest Google Chrome is consistent with shared anti-big...

22.11.2024 10

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Democrats should have celebrated America’s stunning economic success–but they were intimidated by progressives

The elitist Biden and Harris advisors bought into the false Trump economic narrative rather than confidently and clearly explain the actual...

11.11.2024 10

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Trump's Return Could Bring a More Peaceful Middle East

Dennis Ross is former special assistant to President Barack Obama in charge of the Middle East. He is the counselor at the Washington Institute for...

09.11.2024 2

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

As activist Starboard engages constructively, here’s a potent prescription for Pfizer’s future success under Dr. Bourla’s watch

Pfizer is getting back on track—but an even more potent prescription for success could be in the cards for the pharmaceutical giant under.  

24.10.2024 8

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Biden-Harris have a track record of real success in bringing manufacturing back to America. Trump’s all-sticks-no-carrots approach already failed

Trump and Harris share the same economic goal of boosting U.S. manufacturing—but their approaches produce vastly divergent results.

21.10.2024 1

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

University Presidents Should Not Silence Themselves

It seems like a strange moment to degrade the job of college or university presidents by imposing a cloak of silence on them when leaders of...

19.10.2024 2

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

What Comes After Yahya Sinwar's Death

Just as the elimination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a month ago catalyzed new opportunities for Mideast peace, the death of long-elusive...

18.10.2024 8

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Here are the facts that activist critics of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla are missing, according to a Yale analysis

'Some misleading narratives about Bourla’s leadership that have been put forward have been distinctly unfair,' write Jeff Sonnenfeld and Steven...

11.10.2024 2

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Kamala Harris is closing in on the perfect economic message—but the left’s price-gouging exaggerations could undermine it

Harris, unlike some of her supporters, does not assert that universal market failure driven by excessive profit-taking is the cause of inflation.

30.09.2024 2

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

After 2 years of peddling Putin’s propaganda, the IMF is returning to Russia in open defiance of the West

It is hardly surprising that Putin’s cronies are taking victory laps and celebrating the IMF’s legitimization of the Kremlin.

13.09.2024 40

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Inflation, housing, immigration, taxes: The Harris-Walz economic policy scorecard

There are some conflicts to resolve between the rhetoric and realities of the emerging Harris-Walz economic agenda.

29.08.2024 1

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Brian Niccol may well be the messiah Starbucks—and Howard Schultz—have been looking for

Schultz remains the largest shareholder—and he just helped drive out his fourth attempted successor, Laxman Narasimhan.

14.08.2024 2

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

The WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich had his employer’s support—but that’s not always the case for employees on an overseas mission

When in Rome, it is not always appropriate to do as the Romans do.

12.08.2024 20

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Ukraine’s Suprise Should Give Us Hope

Barry McCaffrey, Four Star General, U.S. Army, former chief U.S. Southern Command, 24th Infantry Division, Operation Desert Storm, two Silver Stars...

12.08.2024 7

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

How Harris’s VP Pick Contrasts Trump’s Choice

Having studied leadership across sectors for nearly a half century, I’ve found that power sharing at the top is often harder than delegation and...

06.08.2024 2

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

The ‘Trump Dump’ is back—and the stocks that he targets are crashing

A second Trump term would likely be very different from the corporate-friendly deregulatory agenda that largely defined his first.

30.07.2024 3

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Why CEOs Are Excited About Kamala Harris

While the emergence of Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for President has generated widespread enthusiasm among her party, some...

26.07.2024 2

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Biden follows a long line of Western leaders who voluntarily surrendered power at the end of a ‘heroic journey,’ says the author of The Hero’s Farewell

The end of a hero's journey is never simple, writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

23.07.2024 3

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Biden’s Choice and Leaders Who Leave

President Biden is being celebrated among Democrats for his superb tour of duty and for putting the nation’s interests over his own by stepping out...

22.07.2024 1

Time

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Tech billionaires’ Trump-Vance dance is missing the point: You can’t always get what you want

Tech leaders chafe at the Biden administration’s antitrust crackdowns—but Vance is leading the GOP in supporting more stringent enforcement.

18.07.2024 2

Fortune

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld