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Basmah Safdar: Why Women Experience Illness Differently

Howie and Harlan are joined by Basmah Safdar, a Yale School of Medicine emergency physician and an expert on sex-specific differences in cardiovascular and microvascular health, which have important ...
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Jerry Avorn: Countering the Drug Marketing Machine

Howie and Harlan are joined by Harvard internist Jerry Avorn to discuss his research on the pharmaceutical industry and his work promoting evidence-based prescribing. Harlan highlights new results ...
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Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package Is Just Bad Corporate Governance

Yale SOM leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques write that the gargantuan package proposed by Tesla—based on a series of implausible performance targets—suggests a board ...
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Akiko Iwasaki: What Have We Learned About Long COVID?

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine immunologist Akiko Iwasaki, a leading authority on vaccines and long COVID. Harlan reflects on America’s crisis of trust in federal agencies; ...
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The Problems with a Socialist Vision for NYC

Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-authors suggest that some of New York City mayoral candidate Zohram Mamdani’s socialism-inspired proposals, such as city-owned grocery stores, are likely to run into ...
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Creating the Bilbao Effect

For those involved, building the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao was a career- and life-defining experience. Their ambition to create an architecturally iconic structure to house an extraordinary museum ...
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Do the New Obesity Drugs Pay for Themselves?

In the view of Yale SOM health economist Jason Abaluck, drugs like the blockbuster semaglutide—better known under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy—are pretty close to miracle treatments. “Of all the ...
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MAGA’s March Toward a Command Economy

Trump’s assault on free-market capitalism is anything but conservative, write Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, former Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper, former Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, former Medtronic ...
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No, Machiavelli Did Not Say It’s Better to Be Feared Than Loved

Boardroom debates often get degraded when one vocal director pronounces a distorted cliché to supposedly capture an entire debate in a nutshell—which just derails the discussion. For five decades, a ...
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Can AI Help Identify Persuasive Salespeople?‌

Persuasiveness is a key skill to look for when you’re hiring a salesperson—but it’s also hard to define. While most people can identify a persuasive sales pitch when they see one, even scholars of ...
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Once COVID Vaccines Were Introduced, More Republicans Died Than Democrats

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have warned that some of us are at higher risk of severe outcomes from the virus, due to factors such as age or preexisting ...
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When Private Practices Merge with Hospital Systems, Costs Go Up‌‌

Historically, physicians worked independently of—if in partnership with—hospitals. But increasingly, doctors are selling their practices to hospital systems, as well as private equity firms and ...