Emily A. Gordon

Putting her story in the Haas story: 125th anniversary celebration honors founding donor Cora J....

Exactly 125 years after Cora Jane Flood announced the gift that launched UC Berkeley's College of Commerce, Haas students and staff packed the school's sunny courtyard to celebrate this milestone. Haas is not only the second-oldest business school in the country and the first at a public university.

Introducing the MBA/MCS

Dean Ann Harrison introduces Berkeley Haas's new MBA/MCS concurrent degree program with the Rausser College of Natural Resources.

Resilient Buildings

How can contemporary architects, engineers, students, governments, and city dwellers learn from buildings past and present? For the Rockefeller Foundation, I interviewed three leading design and architecture critics—Justin Davidson, Frederico Duarte, and Mark Lamster—on what we've learned about architectural resilience over the centuries through natural disasters, pillaging, gravity, war, and decay.

How to Start Making Real Change in Your Organization

Yale SOM leadership expert Heidi Brooks says that many companies have a bias toward taking quick action that is ill-suited to a complex and ambiguous issue. Instead, organizations should reflect on their own culture and power dynamics and create a long-term plan for impact.

The Man Is the Brand

The luxury shoe brand Stuart Weitzman is a now a corporate sibling to Coach, but it retains the DNA of its founder. Yale Insights talked to Weitzman about the connection a brand can make with customers and the moment he turned the spotlight on shoes.

Can We Talk about Politics at Work?

We asked Heidi Brooks, who studies organizational behavior and pioneered the course Everyday Leadership, for her advice on how organizations can respond positively to strong opinions and emotions around political issues-both during election season and after the votes have been cast.

Can the Occasional 'Nudge' Make You Better at Your Job?

At Google, Laszlo Bock '99 applied data analytics to human resources questions that have long been answered with hunches. His company Humu is now extending that approach for other organizations by providing AI-generated prompts to their employees.

Reinventing the Way We Work-Again

The pandemic changed where we work and how we work, how we think about the place of work in our lives and vice versa-all against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic upheaval, and a reckoning with racism. We talked with Yale SOM's Heidi Brooks about how to have necessary conversations about a new experience of work.

How to Go Back to a Better Office

Heidi Brooks, who teaches leadership at Yale SOM and advises companies on everyday leadership and organizational culture, talks about how managers can approach this moment of transition with empathy-and have a meaningful impact at an important time.

The Personnel Are Political

"The internet is good for some things, but not all. It's always better to get together and talk."Joan Ditzion knew this well: She's one of the original,...

Global Network Week Students Get a Hands-On Lesson in Reframing Problems

"Institutions don't make decisions-people make decisions," said Professor Rodrigo Canales in a Global Network Week session on March 13. That means that in order to innovate, companies need to understand what real customers-in all their variety-want, so that users' needs and perspectives drive the solutions.

Student profile: CK Chu

Condensed interview with CK Chu, graduate of the Yale School of Management's Master of Advanced Management program. CK, who also attended Fudan University in China, went on to be the worldwide material program manager at Apple.

Bob Woodward Interviews Pervez Musharraf (link unavailable)

When it comes to international affairs, “one should approach problems with an open mind, with sincerity and flexibility,” said General Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Pakistan, at an event at the Yale School of Management on April 24.

Student profile: Cecibel Arias

Condensed interview with Cecibel Arias, graduate of the Yale School of Management's Master of Advanced Management program. Cecibel, originally from Panama, is now Marketing Operations and Analytics Manager at Uber.

Student profile: Philippa Smit

Condensed interview with Philippa Smit, graduate of the Yale School of Management's Master of Advanced Management program. Philippa returned to South Africa after graduation to work as Strategic Analyst for South Africans Against Drunk Driving.

Student profile: Tiago Santos Cruz

Condensed interview Tiago Santos Cruz, graduate of the Yale School of Management's Master of Advanced Management program. Tiago, an accomplished photographer, went on to be a Procurement Manager in the Procurement Leadership Development Program at Johnson & Johnson in São Paulo, Brazil.

Bridging the Infrastructure Gap: Lessons from Latin America and Africa

A career in advising governments on structuring public-private partnerships (PPPs) is an opportunity to leverage finance to do good, said Isabel Marques de Sá, chief investment officer for public-private partnerships at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.

Please Call Your Mom

"When my mother was found dead of unknown causes last February, I hadn't called her in three weeks. I miss that opportunity, the number in my phone, the spur-of-the-moment catch-up."

The Fat, the Thin, and the Psychology of the Body - Common Reader

I leave it to social historians to draw comparisons with other identity movements, but it can be hard to bridge the gap between accepting fatness in others and accepting it in yourself-and waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

Whimsical old map depicts California at a time when 'Hollywood was a state of mind'

Interview with Glen Creason, map historian at the Los Angeles Public Library, about a witty '40s guide to California by the illustrator Lowell E. Jones.

Back in the U.S.S.R.

By Emily Gordon - As he was founding the Ballets Russes, Sergey Diaghilev had an aesthetic and political problem to solve: which Russia to present to an international audience?...

Hilma af Klint's Many Secrets

Following the Guggenheim's major retrospective, Hilma af Klint's "secret paintings" go on show at Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Working Women

By Emily Gordon - In one of Sofonisba Anguissola's multiple self-portraits, the Renaissance painter stands against a striking green background, meeting the viewer's gaze with wide, clear eyes and...

Josh Walker Steps Up

"I usually hire people for gigs, people I'd watch movies with," said Josh Walker, bandleader of his namesake jazz quartet. "That's my benchmark. That's...

YCBA Does A Little Light Reading

"Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation." That's...

Interview: Frankie Manning, Lindy Hop Legend

Interview with swing-dance pioneer Frankie Manning before his 85th-birthday bonanza. 'Clark Gable walked into the place and somebody’d say, ‘Hey, Clark Gable’s in the house!’ ‘Oh yeah, can he dance?’”

Blackademics at MPAACT | Theater review

Idris Goodwin's new work makes scholarly talk of inequalities manifest.

Book Review: God of The Rodeo: The Search For Hope, Faith, And a Six-Second Ride in Louisiana's...

Daniel Bergner’s expansion of his eloquent Harper’s magazine story about the annual rodeo at Angola, Louisiana, state penitentiary, presses down hard on America’s open sores: race, class, masculinity, religion, family, violence.

Egypt's Golden Years, Revisited in San Francisco

At the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's de Young Museum, "Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs" goes on view. Emily Gordon reviews.

A House Of Rooms Of Her Own

"Every artist deserves to be seen," said Luciana McClure at the opening of the group show "Silence Breakers" at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on...

Celia Paul Paints Her Biography

"I'm going to read a piece today that discusses Celia's life just as she's becoming an artist," said critic Hilton Als to an overflowing auditorium at the...

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Operation Allies Welcome

A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime

Requiem for Sleep | Emily Gordon

The awake, all straight-backed and well-groomed, wait at a table made of sharp sunlight. I'm late as usual, but this is the morning I give in, sign over everything: pillow-gluttony, sheet-sickness...

Tribute in Light

"Tribute in Light," a poem, introduced by Katha Pollitt

Emily Gordon: I Find It Hard to Say Goodnight - Painted Bride Quarterly

I find it hard to say goodnight. Another tweet will stave the dread. They say a screen is just like light- I reach out, hungry, from my bed. At three, the Facebook works are slow. Despite its flaws, this day can't die. The others with their touchscreens know What clocks to set their dying by.

Shake Test | Emily Gordon

Scientists cry all the time. / They cry in the clean room / and the tears wet their masks.

Corduroy's poet laureate

The Fabric of Democracy: A Sestina

Let's plan for when the sensible are king: No one would ever hurl harpoons at whales, Affairs of state apart from men of cloth, No sketchy tunnels underneath the Channel. We'd root for justice as the party line. These lines are minnows to a whale- The King would toss them in the Channel.

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5 Reasons People Get Swamped by Their Email

Humorous blog post for IBM's Social Business Spotlight blog, promoting the release of IBM's Verse email platform.

Beyond the Zombies: Financing SMEs to Strengthen Trade

Ghostwritten article for a fashion-industry executive.

My Work Is Largely Unappreciated

Not my clip—I wish who know who wrote this!—but I love it.