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When companies take a public stance on contentious social issues, the impetus often comes from within.
Marketing
How a Weak Sense of Self Encourages Bad Behavior
“When people don’t know who they are, they think their moral actions don’t really reflect who they are.”
Leadership
How New CEOs Can Start Off on the Right Foot with Their Board
Building a constructive relationship requires setting expectations, communicating clearly, and holding each other accountable
Economics
Overnight Success? AI Has Been a Century in the Making.
For clues about the future of AI, it helps to understand the past.
Organizations
When Our Work Is Disrupted, the Story We Tell Matters
Pandemic-era lab, school, and daycare closures threatened the careers of people in “up or out” professions. Employees benefited from the opportunity to frame these productivity lapses as temporary and out of their control.
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Organizations
What Drives Corporate Activism?
When companies take a public stance on contentious social issues, the impetus often comes from within.
Marketing
How a Weak Sense of Self Encourages Bad Behavior
“When people don’t know who they are, they think their moral actions don’t really reflect who they are.”
Leadership
How New CEOs Can Start Off on the Right Foot with Their Board
Building a constructive relationship requires setting expectations, communicating clearly, and holding each other accountable
Economics
Overnight Success? AI Has Been a Century in the Making.
For clues about the future of AI, it helps to understand the past.
Organizations
When Our Work Is Disrupted, the Story We Tell Matters
Pandemic-era lab, school, and daycare closures threatened the careers of people in “up or out” professions. Employees benefited from the opportunity to frame these productivity lapses as temporary and out of their control.
Finance & Accounting
Online Sports Betting Is Draining Household Savings
Most impacted are the bettors who can least afford it, new research shows.
Finance & Accounting
Half of All Species Might Face Extinction. Could Biodiversity Bonds Help?
Maybe. But don’t expect investors to cut governments a break.
Finance & Accounting
How Should Investors Price a Block Trade?
These off-market trades have their advantages, but the terms can be hard to manage.
Organizations
Feeling Outraged? Think Twice Before Hitting “Share.”
Misinformation fuels outrage—which in turn leads to mindless social-media shares, a new study finds.
Strategy
The Goldilocks Approach to Searching for Something New
Whether it’s the right dosage to a new drug or the right style of tennis racket for a novice player, it’s important to get your strategy right.
Organizations
Why Firms Should Lean into Sustainability
“If companies don’t change, then they won’t exist in the future.”
Finance & Accounting
Wage Inequality Decreased Dramatically in the 1940s. But Was This “Great Compression” a Mirage?
New research offers a stress test to a seminal economic finding.
Careers
Forget Retirement. Think “Rewirement.”
A former CEO of AT&T Business offers tips for jumpstarting your next career phase.
Organizations
Why We Struggle to Hold Colleagues Accountable
Physician-led medical boards rarely took strict disciplinary action against doctors who overprescribed opioids. A new study explores why.
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It Literally Pays to Love Your Work
When products or services are also a labor of love, customers perceive them as more valuable—and are willing to pay more.
Strategy
What’s the Best Way for Large, Disparate Teams to Communicate?
Modular production has revolutionized manufacturing. But it’s critical to ensure the right information reaches the right people—without information overload.
Social Impact
Take 5: Doing Business in a Warming Climate
What should leaders understand about sustainability? A collection of the latest research and ideas from Kellogg faculty.
Organizations
What Romantic Comedies Can Teach Us about Communication
From forgiving verbal gaffes to making risky overtures, these movies offer lessons that translate to the workplace.
Finance & Accounting
Why Lower Real-Estate Commissions Mean Higher Home Prices
And why that’s a good thing for most buyers and sellers.
Innovation
AI Is Revolutionizing Science. Are Scientists Ready?
AI’s influence has already spread to nearly every discipline. But fully harnessing its impact will require better training for researchers.
Leadership
The Perfect Purpose Statement Is Inspiring … and Credible
In an excerpt from her new book, Lead Bigger, former AT&T Business CEO Anne Chow explains the power of defining your company’s “why.”
Finance & Accounting
Guilty as Charged—Unless the Judge Went to Your School
For firms facing securities litigation, their executives’ alma mater could mean the difference between innocence and guilt.
Operations
For Home Deliveries, Faster Isn’t Always Better
Retail customers often prioritize convenience over speed for deliveries that require them to be at home.
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Take 5: How to Talk Politics (Constructively)
Research-backed advice for your next conversation.
Policy
When the Minimum Wage Rises, Do Men and Women Benefit Equally?
The policy is gender-neutral. The impact, less so.
Policy
Perspective: America Needs Political Age Limits
If there is a mandatory retirement age for the top officers in the U.S. military, why isn’t there one for the commander in chief?
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The Plan to Pay College Athletes
A proposed settlement granting NCAA athletes a cut of broadcast revenues stands to shake up major college sports.
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Organizations
The Unlikely Partners Growing the Market for Green Energy
The relationship between environmental activists and “dirty” energy companies can be contentious, but it can also benefit both sides.
Organizations
5 Telltale Signs That a Photo Is AI-generated
For one, scour for details that defy the laws of physics.
Marketing
How the Right Price Promotion Can Nudge Kids to Choose Healthier Foods
“It shows that kids are sensitive to prices.”
Economics
Why Do Prices Rise Like Rockets … but Fall Like Feathers?
Behavioral psychology sheds light on a longstanding economic puzzle.
Organizations
Why We Shouldn’t Romanticize Failure
We expect people will learn from their setbacks. New research suggests the truth is more complicated.
Marketing
How a Growing South Asian Diaspora Is Changing Retail
From Whole Foods to Patel Brothers, U.S. retailers are adapting to the group’s unique spending power.
Policy
People Want to Know Sustainable Policies Can Work. So Show Them.
Success stories about policies from other countries make people more likely to support similar policies in the U.S., new research finds.
Finance & Accounting
For Corporations, Secured Debt Is Out
The last century has seen a dramatic shift toward unsecured debt thanks to improved accounting practices and a desire for financial flexibility.
Economics
Would Trump Escalate the U.S.–China Trade War?
If former U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House, he would likely impose sweeping tariffs against China. His policy agenda would harm lower-income households the most.
Economics
5 Trends in a Volatile Global Economy
“We live in an interesting world, one with much upside as well as significant downside.”
Marketing
A Troubling Trend in Nonprofit Branding
When nonprofit organizations rebrand themselves, inspiration may not be the answer.
Organizations
How Algorithms Keep Workers Under Their Control
More than ever, even highly skilled workers find themselves being evaluated, rewarded, and punished by opaque algorithms. A new book, Inside the Invisible Cage, investigates.
Organizations
Why Firms Should Lean into Sustainability
“If companies don’t change, then they won’t exist in the future.”
Finance & Accounting
Wage Inequality Decreased Dramatically in the 1940s. But Was This “Great Compression” a Mirage?
New research offers a stress test to a seminal economic finding.
Leadership
Podcast: How Huy Fong’s Sriracha Went from Hot to Not
When missteps knocked the famous “rooster sauce” off its pedestal, a competitor seized the moment. On this episode of The Insightful Leader: why one brand sizzled and the other fizzled.
Careers
Forget Retirement. Think “Rewirement.”
A former CEO of AT&T Business offers tips for jumpstarting your next career phase.
Organizations
Why We Struggle to Hold Colleagues Accountable
Physician-led medical boards rarely took strict disciplinary action against doctors who overprescribed opioids. A new study explores why.
Marketing
It Literally Pays to Love Your Work
When products or services are also a labor of love, customers perceive them as more valuable—and are willing to pay more.
Strategy
What’s the Best Way for Large, Disparate Teams to Communicate?
Modular production has revolutionized manufacturing. But it’s critical to ensure the right information reaches the right people—without information overload.
Social Impact
Take 5: Doing Business in a Warming Climate
What should leaders understand about sustainability? A collection of the latest research and ideas from Kellogg faculty.
Leadership
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Organizations
What Romantic Comedies Can Teach Us about Communication
From forgiving verbal gaffes to making risky overtures, these movies offer lessons that translate to the workplace.
Finance & Accounting
Why Lower Real-Estate Commissions Mean Higher Home Prices
And why that’s a good thing for most buyers and sellers.
Marketing
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Innovation
AI Is Revolutionizing Science. Are Scientists Ready?
AI’s influence has already spread to nearly every discipline. But fully harnessing its impact will require better training for researchers.
Leadership
The Perfect Purpose Statement Is Inspiring … and Credible
In an excerpt from her new book, Lead Bigger, former AT&T Business CEO Anne Chow explains the power of defining your company’s “why.”
Finance & Accounting
Guilty as Charged—Unless the Judge Went to Your School
For firms facing securities litigation, their executives’ alma mater could mean the difference between innocence and guilt.
Operations
For Home Deliveries, Faster Isn’t Always Better
Retail customers often prioritize convenience over speed for deliveries that require them to be at home.
Strategy
Schools, Jobs, Relationships … It’s Hard to Find a Good “Fit”
A study of medical-school applicants shows how transparency can improve decision-making.
Politics & Elections
Take 5: How to Talk Politics (Constructively)
Research-backed advice for your next conversation.
Policy
When the Minimum Wage Rises, Do Men and Women Benefit Equally?
The policy is gender-neutral. The impact, less so.
Policy
Perspective: America Needs Political Age Limits
If there is a mandatory retirement age for the top officers in the U.S. military, why isn’t there one for the commander in chief?