Kellogg Insight’s Best of 2014

The Kellogg School faculty produced lots of exciting research and insights this year. Here's a look at our top stories of 2014.

The Customers You Do Not Want
Meet the “harbingers of failure."

Pump Up the Jams to Feel Powerful
The right music can empower us.

Discrimination Still Undercuts Minority Wages
What explains the 30% raw wage gap between blacks and whites?

Do Former Soldiers Make Better CEOs?
They do best at firms in distress.

Getting the Growth Strategy Right
Becoming a supercompetitor requires new thinking about strategy.

Corporate Activism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
How social movements shape corporate behavior.

Don't Run in the Pentagon
Leadership lessons from a career in the military.

Networking is a Dirty Business
While necessary, it makes people feel morally unclean.

Are Bean Counters More Selfish?
Quantifying everything can lead to less ethical behavior.

Is Economic Growth a Question of Culture?
Research shows that culture seeps into economic decisions.

How to Survive as a Corporate Innovator
Why the first 18 months are so crucial.

Analyzing the $1 CEO Salary
It can signal a leader's confidence or peril.

We also revamped our Insight In Person podcast this year. Here are our top two.

Nonprofit Collaborations: Beneficial but Tricky
The business of growing organizational mission for nonprofits can be complicated. In this podcast, Open Books and Chicago Literacy Alliance founder Stacy Ratner joins Kellogg School faculty members Don Haider and Nicholas Pearce to discuss the ways nonprofits navigate the uncertainties of nonprofit consolidation.

Empowering Employees as Leaders
Manufacturer Barry-Wehmiller boasts an employee-centric corporate culture designed to empower and inspire its 8000-plus employees. Hear from company leaders and employees, as well as faculty from the Kellogg School, to learn more about how this approach has been successful.