Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

@jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social

Yale SOM Lester Crown Professor in Practice of Management, Founder of Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) -- jeffrey.sonnenfeld.celi@yale.edu

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In @fortune.com - The backwards AI pacing debate & how far business is from the frontier - DC & Silicon Valley have found a new fight over AI in pacing...Corporate USA is yrs behind the AI frontier & labs’ fortunes will be decided by trust & adoption, not raw capability. fortune.com/2026/09/22/a...

fortune.comThe backwards AI pacing debate and how far business is from the frontier | FortuneIn every tech revolution, the greatest fortunes went to those who understood that a frontier is worthless until the settlers have arrived.

In TIME - Leaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, & Power Promises - Leaders across the political spectrum...want communities to actually benefit. The best listen to citizens’ concerns while constructively raising the bar for the data center industry time.com/article/2026...

time.comLeaders Pivoting on Data Centers Require More Than Roads, Water, and Power Promises"The politics of data centers have shifted," write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, David Siegel, and Stephen Henriques.

In @fortune.com - Careful what you bid for: The Ellisons’ PSKY/WBD deal is slipping toward a costly legal and financial cliff - During the bidding war, we called it a lose-lose proposition. The coin landed PSKY's way, and the levy for calling the toss may still come due fortune.com/2026/08/03/p...

fortune.comCareful what you bid for: The Ellisons' Paramount/WBD deal is slipping toward a costly legal and financial cliff | FortuneWith 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.

In @TIME - Why It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War Economy - The NATO gathering promoted a fiction of joint action and self-congratulation...the private sector has fought this war with greater consistency and courage than the many governments praising each other. time.com/article/2026...

time.comWhy It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War EconomyCorporations walked away from Russia in historic numbers. Governments loosened sanctions just as the pressure was working.

In TIME - Which Side Are You On? Swift, Trump, and America's 250th - Swift and Trump are entertainers, multi-billionaires, unrelenting self-promotion machines. Yet one stands for honest, self-made success... The other for inherited wealth, anger, divisiveness, corruption... time.com/article/2026...

time.comWhich 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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Just out in @TIME with Sen. Tim Wirth and @asharangappa.bsky.social - How Trump Keeps Exploiting America’s Legal Loopholes time.com/article/2026...

In @fortune.com - Patching the AI Policy Patchwork: Most AI Bills Lack Clarity and Coherence - The common failure is the lack of a structured method to determine whether a proposed rule addresses the gap. Our 3-stage test offers a clear solution... fortune.com/2026/05/15/a...

fortune.comThe U.S. has 1,200 AI bills and no good test for any of them | FortuneYale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques and NYU's Gary Marcus offer a method for separating necessary AI regulation from legislative noise.

In @fortune.com - Why your data infrastructure, not your AI model, will determine whether Agentic AI scales - "Agentic AI has attracted much attention...but the public remains fixated on what systems can do, not the conditions required to deploy." fortune.com/2026/04/30/a...

fortune.comWhy your data infrastructure — not your AI model — will determine whether Agentic AI scales | FortuneMost 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.

In @fortune.com - America’s CEOs have become reluctant guardians of democracy - "...the architecture of trust a functioning democracy requires has buckled, and capitalism remains one of the few forces with the reach and the credibility to fill the gap" fortune.com/2026/04/06/c...

fortune.comAmerica's CEOs have become reluctant guardians of democracy | FortuneAs "No Kings" protests draw millions and institutional trust collapses, America's business leaders may be democracy's last credible line.

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TONIGHT: White House says the U.S. is “very close” to meeting objectives in Iran, but refuses to say who in Iran they're negotiating with – the partial shutdown continues as Congress' negotiations are on shaky ground – & jury finds Meta and YouTube liable in landmark social media addiction trial.