Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: Putin is the grand puppeteer behind these conflicts

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies at the Yale School of Management, said Russia benefits from Middle East instability, stronger sanctions are needed, and Putin exploits ...

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Careful what you bid for: The Ellisons' Paramount/WBD deal is slipping toward a costly legal and financial cliff | Fortune

With free cash flow at just $96 million, the $110 billion Warner Bros. bid faces a ticking fee Paramount can barely afford as states want a 2027 trial.

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Putin The Puppeteer: How Russia Benefits From Trump’s War in Iran

The War in Iran "provided the exact lifeline that Putin needed to rescue him from economic catastrophe."

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Trump's third tariff tantrum piles more dizzying distractions on top of ever-spiraling failures | Fortune

Booed at the World Cup, buried in the polls — Trump's tariff clock runs out Friday, but he never retreats, only finds a new distraction.

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Why It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War Economy

Corporations walked away from Russia in historic numbers. Governments loosened sanctions just as the pressure was working.

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Which Side Are You On? Swift, Trump, and America's 250th

"Swift stands for success through competence, talent, and the joyous embrace of all that American society can be. Trump stands for inherited wealth, anger, divisiveness, and corruption," writes Jeffre...

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Netflix could turn NBC into its biggest bet yet — and this time, the math actually works | Fortune

After walking away from Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix may have stumbled onto a far better deal, one that could define the streaming era.

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How Mission Hijacking Undermines the Fight for American Democracy

"The movement to strengthen democracy in America is suffering as a surfeit of advocacy groups is crowding an ecosystem of nonprofits, coalitions, and think tanks," writes Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

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Trump mistakes the bully pulpit for bullying leadership — history's villains were never heroes | Fortune

His admiration for Attila the Hun, Stalin and Hitler reveals a fundamental misreading of power: brute force builds empires that crumble, not legacies.

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Trump, Iran and the Denial of Defeat

"Trump always declares victory and relentlessly repeats that narrative, regardless of the facts or the outcome, in any and every situation," write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian.

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How Trump Keeps Exploiting America’s Legal Loopholes

President Donald Trump continues to outfox constitutional cognoscenti by finding conniving cracks in America's legal system.

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The Supreme Court handed Trump a Golden Chariot on tariffs — now he just has to take it | Fortune

The Supreme Court struck down Trump's IEEPA tariffs — and may have accidentally boosted his economic presidency. The exit ramp is in sight.

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The Truth About Donald Trump’s Sanity

“Trump’s penchant for exaggeration, self-promotion, and misrepresentation is hardly new,” argues Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

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How Ukraine Found the Cards To Win, Without Help From the U.S.

Kyiv’s revolutionary drone industry has turned the tide against Russia’s invasion.

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The U.S. has 1,200 AI bills and no good test for any of them | Fortune

Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques and NYU's Gary Marcus offer a method for separating necessary AI regulation from legislative noise.

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Colonies in Collision: What Some Allied Leaders Get Wrong About Trump

"President Donald Trump probes the limits of what is permissible, pressing forward to test resistance, but retreats once he encounters barriers that cannot be overcome," write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and S...

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Your trusted advocate or your rebellious Frankenstein: how you deploy agentic AI determines which one you get | Fortune

Yale's Chief Executive Leadership Institute analyzed agentic AI across 13 industries: the most dangerous decision isn't whether to deploy AI — it's where.

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Why your data infrastructure — not your AI model — will determine whether Agentic AI scales | Fortune

Most enterprises are burning AI budgets on tools they're not ready to use. The constraint isn't compute — it's the messy, siloed data underneath.

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Anthropic's most powerful AI model just exposed a crisis in corporate governance. Here's the framework every CEO needs. | Fortune

Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and colleagues argue that Claude Mythos will break enterprise deployment in ways that cannot be undone—without key fixes.

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AI won't kill your job — it will kill the path to your first one | Fortune

The AI disruption story is being told wrong. Firms aren't firing — they're freezing hiring.

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The futility of Trump’s grandiose personal branding of public assets, from ballrooms and bills to ships and planes | Fortune

From Trump RX to Trump-class warships, this relentless personal branding is unprecedented — and a case study in the fragility hiding beneath the gold leaf.

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld's New Book Trump’s Ten Commandments Achieves Instantaneous New York Times, USA Today, And Amazon Bestseller Status in First Week

Trump’s Ten Commandments, the new book by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, has achieved a “Triple Crown” distinction in publishing, debuting simultaneously as a bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon national bestseller lists in its first week of release.

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America's CEOs have become reluctant guardians of democracy | Fortune

As "No Kings" protests draw millions and institutional trust collapses, America's business leaders may be democracy's last credible line.

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Trump Told Me All His Shady Business Secrets: Professor

Leadership expert Jeffrey Sonnenfeld dissected the behavioral patterns behind Trump’s rise, survival, and power plays.

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