Steven Tian

Steven Tian is the director of research at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.

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  • CHONGQING, CHINA – MAY 9, 2023 – Workers look at electronic chips produced at a production workshop at the Radio Frequency and power Device Manufacturing Center in Chongqing, China, May 9, 2023. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Commentary

    Corporations still have to perform China’s dance–but not if the music stops

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Kyle Bass, and others
  • Light reflects on signage at sunset near the Glencore Plc headquarters office in Baar, Switzerland, on Friday, July 6, 2018. Glencore will buy back as much as $1 billion of its shares, a move that may soothe investor concerns after the worlds top commodity trader was hit by a U.S. Department of Justice probe earlier this week. Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCommentary

    Global resources shark Glencore must understand the world is no longer for sale

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • David Calhoun, president and chief executive officer of the Boeing Co., speaks during the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Aerospace Summit in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, Sept 15, 2022. The summit will provide a forum for the industry’s top leaders to publicly discuss the most pressing topics in air and space, according to the organizers. Photographer: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCommentary

    Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun has charted a path back to profitability–but ongoing supply chain issues seem plane crazy

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • Chart shows Urals versus Brent crude oil price

    Energy analysts have been making gaseous calls since Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s time to clear away the smoke of economic groupthink

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • The famous bank run scene from the classic 1946 Frank Capra movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.”Commentary

    How Fed shrapnel killed Silicon Valley Bank

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Jeremy Siegel, and others
  • International Monetary Fun (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva holds a press conference during the IMF and the World Bank Group annual meeting at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 13, 2022. – Georgieva urged Britain and other nations on Thursday to ensure their fiscal policies remain consistent following reports that London is mulling more U-turns for its controversial budget plan. “Don’t prolong the pain and make sure that actions are coherent and consistent,” Georgieva said at the press conference. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    How the IMF naively parroted Putin’s fake statistics–and botched its economic forecast for Russia

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen S. Roach, and others
  • Co-founder, chairman and CEO of software company Salesforce Marc Benioff attends a session at the Congress centre during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    Activists should sail away from their doomed attack on Benioff’s Salesforce

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • TOPSHOT – A military cadet stands in front of a billboard promoting contract army service in Saint Petersburg on October 5, 2022. – Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on September 21 a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russian men to bolster Moscow’s army in Ukraine, sparking demonstrations and an exodus of men abroad. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP) (Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images)

    How the Russian economy self-immolated in the year since Putin invaded Ukraine

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • A local resident carries her baby outside of their residential building partially destroyed after a missile strike in Kharkiv on January 30, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    How the free media were duped by a fake pro-Putin list of Western companies still doing business in Russia a year into the Ukraine invasion

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and others
  • Nelson Peltz, founder and chief executive officer of Trian Fund Management, speaks 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 ImagesCommentary

    The last flicker of the candle as Peltz melts

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • A british Challenger tank is engaged in a major drill as part of NATO’s “enhanced forward presence” (EFP) deployment in Poland and the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, at the Tapa estonian army camp near Rakvere on February 5, 2022. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    The U.S. has thwarted Putin’s energy blackmail. Europe says ‘Tanks a lot!’

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., during the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Nadella gave a keynote speech at an event hosted by the company’s Korean unit. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCommentary

    Biggest CEO successes and setbacks: 2022’s triumphs and 2023’s challenges

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – MARCH 24: (L-R) Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz before G7 leaders’ family photo during a NATO summit on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, on March 24, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. Heads of State and Government take part in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) Summit. They will discuss the consequences of President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the role of China in the crisis. Then decide on the next steps to strengthen NATO’s deterrence and defence. (Photo by Henry Nicholls – Pool/Getty Images)

    Biden crowned world energy czar as diplomacy triumphs over Putin’s tantrums

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • People cast their early ballots for the 2022 general election at the Ann Arbor, Michigan city clerk’s satellite office on the campus of the University of Michigan, on the eve of the US midterm elections, on November 7, 2022. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    Pollsters got it wrong in 2018, 2020, and 2022. Here’s why political polling is no more than statistical sophistry

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian
  • President Biden makes a speech on energyCommentary

    Ignore the analysts’ misinformation oil slick: Biden is making real progress on energy

    By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian