Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Lester Crown Professor in Management Practice and Senior Associate Dean at Yale School of Management.

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SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – JULY 28 (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) drinks champaigne as Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin (R) looks on during a reception for Naval officers after the military parade, marking the Navy Day, on July 28 2024, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 25 boats and ships, a submarine, and 2500 military servicemen took part in the parade. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

An economic catastrophe is lurking beneath Russia’s GDP growth as Putin ‘throws everything into the fireplace’

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Michal Wyrebkowski, and others

DUBLIN, OHIO – JUNE 05: Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol plays his shot from the 14th tee during the Pro Am event prior to the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday at Muirfield Village Golf Club on June 05, 2024 in Dublin, Ohio. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

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

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques, and others

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND – AUGUST 1: Evan Gershkovich greets his mother Ella Milman after he arrived back in the United States as U.S. President Joe Biden looks on on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Their release, negotiated as part of a 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia that involved at least six countries, is the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

Former US President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee 2024. The RNC chairman warned against complacency when his party concludes its official nominating jamboree this week with polls predicting ex-President Donald Trump prevailing over President Joe Biden in the November election. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Whitney Tilson, and others

US President Joe Biden at the NATO 75th anniversary celebratory event during the NATO summit in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Biden and NATO’s 31 other leaders had hoped their summit would celebrate fresh unity against Russia’s Vladimir Putin, send a warning to China and prove the alliance is as strong as ever in its 75th year, but the three days of pageantry will be overshadowed by domestic turmoil across the alliance. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – JULY 15: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) appear on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Delegates, politicians, and the Republican faithful are in Milwaukee for the annual convention, concluding with former President Donald Trump accepting his party’s presidential nomination. The RNC takes place from July 15-18. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Anthony Scaramucci

Participants speak at the virtual Yale CEO Summit on June 11.

200 top CEOs reveal how AI is already transforming their sectors at Yale summit

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

Glenn Chamandy, chief executive officer of Gildan Activewear Inc., during a news conference following the Gildan Activewear annual meeting of shareholders in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Gildan Activewear Inc.’s entire board of directors and Chief Executive Officer Vince Tyra quit last week, conceding defeat after a bruising five-month battle with an activist shareholder over the future of the Canadian clothing maker. Photographer: Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Activist investors are suffering grueling defeats in proxy fights—but they can still matter when they pick the right battle

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 09: Alan Shaw, President and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corporation, testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill on March 09, 2023 in Washington, DC. The committee met to discuss concerns about public health and the environment in the wake of the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Norfolk Southern is getting back on track–but activist investor Ancora is trying to derail it in a vicious proxy fight

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

CEO of Disney Bob Iger arrives for FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, on January 23, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Bob Iger’s strategy for the next decade of growth at Disney promises a magic carpet ride for the Magic Kingdom’s future

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

Dave Calhoun, chief executive officer of Boeing Co., in an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. The company is working to assure airline customers and the Federal Aviation Administration that its jets are safe after a January 5 accident, which involved a faulty door panel on a 737 Max 9 aircraft operated by Alaska Airlines. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Inside the cockpit at Boeing: Here are the top 5 candidates for CEO as Dave Calhoun exits

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

TOPSHOT – In this pool photograph distributed by Russia’s state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to TV host and Director General of Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti) news agency Dmitry Kiselyov (not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Gavriil GRIGOROV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The latest sanctions on Russia won’t be sufficient. Here’s what would be, according to the Yale professor who inspired the great business exodus over Ukraine

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

Nelson Peltz, founder and chief executive officer of Trian Fund Management, during a session on day two of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Saudi Arabia hopes the FII will put Riyadh on the map as a global destination for deals, while also improving domestic investment, which has been limited. Photographer: Tasneem Alsultan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Nelson Peltz is America’s most overrated activist investor. Here’s what the experts missed about his performance

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – JANUARY 31: The headquarters for The Boeing Company is seen on January 31, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. Boeing is releasing their first quarterly earnings report after the recent incident where a door panel blew out on their troubled Max 9 aircraft mid flight. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Boeing is shaking up its ‘good ole boys’ culture–but the company still has a long way to go before it gets its production and financials right

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

Nelson Peltz, founder and chief executive officer of Trian Fund Management, during the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute Priority Summit in Miami, Florida, US, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The summit offers an opportunity for expert leaders in topics like climate change, poverty and immigration to meet with potential partners and catalyze projects to move from the research stage to full-developed real-world solutions. Photographer: Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Nelson Peltz is still trying to get seats on Disney’s board–but Bob Iger is no easy target for the activist investor’s 25th attempt to take control of the company

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian