Breaking News: Yale Report Breaks SSRN Download Record

NEW YORK (RichTVX.com) — According to a paper titled “Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy,” by scholars from Yale, it becomes clear: Business retreats and sanctions are crushing the Russian economy in the short term and the long term. Drawn on cutting-edge scientific facts, this is a story even Vladimir Putin heard about, maybe read about in the Russian newspapers or saw it on Russian TV — making him nuts. Maybe the Siloviki in the Kremlin heard Putin say, “How the hell do you think I feel now?” before he hung up. The “List Of Shame,” this is how professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, his colleague Steven Tian, and the Yale research team have labeled the roster of businesses that did not seize operations in the Russian Federation. The Yale researchers added another layer to that. The SSRN paper “Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy” has been online for a few weeks now. This document flew around the globe and was featured in some of the world’s biggest media outlets, and it became clear this was something special — it’s already smashing expectations. SSRN paper “Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy” download numbers have already broken the SSRN record. Over 70,000 downloads in 2 weeks. According to Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, one of the world’s foremost experts, with 30K more – it will move from all-time #21 to all-time number one! Download the paper here.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management, and Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies. Sonnenfeld is best known as the founder and CEO of Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI), affiliated with Yale University.^[1] Sonnenfeld has advised thousands of CEOs as well as multiple U.S. Presidents and nominees from both parties, including Joseph Biden, Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton as a conduit between top business and political leaders.^[2] In addition to convening regular CEO conferences, in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 United States presidential election and the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Sonnenfeld convened top executives for several high-level, off-the-record discussions to plan the collective response from the business community.^[3] He is the first academician to have rung the opening bells of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, having done so 10 times.^[4] Amidst the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sonnenfeld was involved in efforts to encourage multinational businesses to exit Russia through the Yale CELI List of Companies.

Yale School of Management

The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The School awards the Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executives (EMBA), Master of Advanced Management (MAM), Master’s Degree in Systemic Risk (SR), Master’s Degree in Global Business & Society (GBS), Master’s Degree in Asset Management (AM),^[5] and Ph.D. degrees, as well as joint degrees with nine other graduate programs at Yale University. As of August 2021, 666 students were enrolled in its MBA program, 134 in the EMBA program, 70 in the MAM program, 32 in the Master of Global Business Studies program, 11 in the Master of Systemic Risk program, 56 students in the Master of Asset Management Program, and 59 in the PhD program; 122 students were pursuing joint degrees.^[3] The School has 90 full-time faculty members, and the dean is Kerwin Kofi Charles.^[3]

The School conducts education and research in leadership, behavioral economics, operations management, marketing, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and other areas. The EMBA program offers focused study in healthcare, asset management, or sustainability. The School also offers semester-long student exchange programs with HEC Paris, IESE, the London School of Economics, the National University of Singapore Business School, and Tsinghua University. Students may also propose a quarter- or semester-long exchange program with any of the 25 other schools of the Global Network for Advanced Management.^[6]