Emily A. Gordon
Editor, marketer, and journalist
Longtime editor and writer; currently working for Yale on media relations and branded content. Preoccupations: politics, tech, culture, design, and social issues.
PROJECTS
New Haven Independent
{News story} Celia Paul Paints Her Biography
Report on a talk by New Yorker magazine critic Hilton Als at the Yale Center for British Art about the life and work of British painter Celia Paul.
New Haven Independent
{News story} Josh Walker Steps Up
Hanging out with The Josh Walker Quartet at the biweekly Jazz Haven jam session at Three Sheets on Elm Street in New Haven.
New Haven Independent
{News story} A House Of Rooms Of Her Own
Review of the group show “Silence Breakers” at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven
som.yale.edu
Photos: Club Fair Introduces New Students to Affinity and Interest Groups
As they completed their second week of classes on August 31, new MBA, MAM, and MMS students gathered to learn about Yale SOM’s more than 50 student-run clubs, organized around professional and extracurricular interests and personal affinities.
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{News story} Bob Woodward Interviews Pervez Musharraf
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.
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{News story} Video: International Collaboration Turns Research into Art
For the past two years, students from the Yale School of Management, Yale School of Art, and Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Tel Aviv have collaborated to create visual responses to papers written by senior faculty at Yale SOM.
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{News story} A Hands-On Lesson in Reframing Problems
As part of a Yale SOM module on design and innovation, Professor Rodrigo Canales led students from throughout the Global Network for Advanced Management in a hands-on workshop.
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{News story} Yale School of Management Welcomes New Faculty
The Yale School of Management will welcome nine new ladder-track, non-ladder, and visiting faculty members for the 2017–18 academic year, including two senior finance scholars and junior faculty in organizational behavior, economics, and finance.
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{News story} "The End of Globalization?" Hackathon
In the final session of the online course taught by Yale’s David Bach, student teams got live feedback on their presentations from former Secretary of State John Kerry and Michael Warren, managing principal of Albright Stonebridge Group.
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{Blog post} Roz Savage Teaches Courage
“You have to be vigilant to make sure that you don’t have any barnacles on your bottom,” said Roz Savage, the world’s foremost female ocean rower, who spoke to students at the Colloquium in Advanced Management.
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{News story} 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.
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{Blog post} Amy Blankson on the Benefits of Positive Psychology
"Positivity leads to three times higher creativity, 31% higher sales, 23% lower stress, and a 50% increase in the likelihood that you’ll live to age 94."
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{News story} Lessons of Japan
“Once long-term inflation expectations decline, it is not easy to raise them,” said Takehiro Sato, a member of the policy board at the Bank of Japan, in a talk at the Yale School of Management.
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{News story} Hedge Fund Founder Robert Pohly on the Importance of Street Smarts
“The hedge fund business is a wonderful business,” Robert Pohly told students. “It has great margins. But it’s also an incredibly flimsy business.... So you’re going to have to understand what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.”
100resilientcities.org
{Branded content: blog post} Resilient Buildings
For The Rockefeller Foundation, I interviewed leading architecture critics for a story on resilient architecture.