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May 1, 2024
The Clues to Creditworthiness Hiding in Your Grocery Cart
Grocery habits—like buying mortadella beef or scheduling regular shopping trips—can be as useful as credit scores at predicting who will reliably repay loans.
Jung Youn Lee, Joonhyuk Yang and Eric T. Anderson
May 1, 2024
The Gender Pay Gap Remains Stubbornly in Place. Why?
A partial explanation comes from a seemingly separate phenomenon: the plight of younger workers.
Jaime Arellano-Bover, Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio and Matteo Paradisi
May 1, 2024
Who Takes a Risk on New Technology?
In Hollywood, new directors were more likely than veterans to embrace digital cameras—a finding that showcases how individuals’ career concerns shape tech adoption.
Grant Goehring, Filippo Mezzanotti and S. Abraham Ravid
May 1, 2024
Are Your Individual Contributors Feeling Isolated?
A lot of employees could benefit from a structured “lab” setting to inspire meaningful collaboration.
Florian Zettelmeyer
April 22, 2024
How Much Evidence Do You Need to Make a Decision? Depends on Your Mindset.
When a choice is framed as a responsibility, we’ll go the extra mile to be accurate—even when it costs us.
Galen Bodenhausen and Michalis Mamakos
April 19, 2024
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Is Going Mainstream. How Will the Industry Grow Around It?
While significant barriers remain—including regulatory uncertainty and the difficulty of scaling a labor-intensive treatment method—industry leaders see a path forward.
David Schonthal, Michael Cotton, David Esselman and Ryan Reid
April 16, 2024
The Future of Targeted Advertising in a Cookie-less World
Apple’s and Google’s responses to regulatory shifts may end up squeezing out small online retailers.
Guy Aridor
April 1, 2024
The Hedge Fund in Your Pantry
Many households utilize excess cash to support shopping habits that generate high financial returns.
Scott R. Baker, Stephanie Johnson and Lorenz Kueng
April 1, 2024
Do Green Bonds Actually Lead to Rosy Returns?
And are the companies that issue them truly addressing climate issues? New research investigates.
Aaron Yoon and Sanjai Bhagat
April 1, 2024
Why Artists Are Punished More Harshly Than Scientists for the Same Misconduct
It’s tough to separate the artist from the art, a new study finds—but easier to separate the scientist from the science.
Joseph J. Sieve and Jacob D. Teeny
March 19, 2024
What Game Theory Can Teach Us about RICO Prosecutions
“If you’re on trial with 17 other people, the fear that somebody else will confess becomes much more realistic.”
Ehud Kalai
March 11, 2024
What Would a Capital One–Discover Deal Really Mean?
A financial expert considers the acquisition’s potential impact on credit-card networks, merchants, and consumers.
Lulu Wang
March 8, 2024
When Persuading a Group, Beware the Allure of Consensus
We tend to favor strategies that win broad-but-weak support over narrow-but-strong support—and this preference can lead us astray.
Derek D. Rucker, Jesse D'Agostino, Mark Dyer and Zakary L. Tormala
March 7, 2024
How to Grow in a Multichannel World
As e-commerce continues to expand, companies need to adapt their channel strategies to stay relevant. A marketing expert offers guidance for reaching customers.
Jim Lecinski
February 23, 2024
The Dos and Don’ts of Regulating AI
How can governments capitalize on AI’s benefits while minimizing its dangers? New research examines several policies—and identifies a promising approach.
João Guerreiro, Sergio Rebelo and Pedro Teles
February 23, 2024
What’s at Stake in the UFC Antitrust Case?
The outcome of the mixed-martial-arts saga could have wide-ranging implications for the future of global sports entertainment.
Mark McCareins
February 12, 2024
Organizations Are Complex. Complexity Science Can Help Us Understand Them.
You can’t study the behavior of a flock by looking at individual birds. It’s time to bring that holistic approach to the social sciences, too.
Benjamin F. Jones, Brian Uzzi and Dashun Wang
February 2, 2024
Could Remote Work Hurt On-the-Job Learning?
We are more likely to learn from our collaborators when we are in close proximity to them, a new study finds.
Frank Van der Wouden and Hyejin Youn
February 1, 2024
Are Whistleblowers Seen as Heroes or Snitches? It Depends.
Reporting workplace misconduct often requires choosing between morality and loyalty. New research explores how that trade-off is viewed by others.
Zachariah Berry, Ike Silver and Alex Shaw
January 30, 2024
What’s Behind the Rush to Join an Internet Pile-on?
A new study investigates the reputational rewards of publicly condemning others before getting the whole story.
Jillian J. Jordan and Nour Kteily
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