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Ravi Dhar and Jon Iwata Fortune Op-Ed Agentic AI

In the news: Ravi Dhar & Jon Iwata

Surveillance pricing is just the beginning. AI agents will be the real test of corporate trust.

That's a wrap: InsightsOn 2026

Read 4 takeaways from this year's Conference.

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Content Spotlight: What is an Insight?

Professors Ravi Dhar and Nathan Novemsky explore.

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As AI agents become increasingly capable of acting on consumers' behalf, marketing is entering a new era—one in which brands will need to compete not only for customers' attention, but also for the trust of the intelligent systems helping them make decisions.

Yale InsightsOn Conference 2026 Yale Center for Customer Insights

The 2026 InsightsOn Conference, hosted by the Yale Center for Customer Insights, brought together leaders across marketing, strategy, insights, academia, technology, and the creator economy to ask a deceptively simple question: in a world of accelerating AI, infinite content, and collapsing attention, what should marketing actually become?

Nathan Novemsky Research The Lopsided Logic of Product Comparisons

When comparing products, consumers are more sensitive to the negatives than the positives.

Hear from Discovery Students

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Sophia Li drew on lessons from Discovery Projects, an experiential course offered by the Yale Center for Customer Insights, while analyzing consumer data for a leading food products company.

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Participation in Discovery Projects, an experiential course offered by the Yale Center for Customer Insights, prepared Nina Chung ’26 for a summer internship in brand management.

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For Jordan Greer ’25, participation in the Discovery Projects, an experiential course from the Yale Center for Customer Insights, prepared her to develop comprehensive marketing solutions in her summer internship.