Take 5: Is Your Price Right?
Pricing plays a big part in a product’s success or failure. Kellogg faculty research helps demystify the process.
Researchers: Eric T. Anderson, Derek D. Rucker, Anna Tuchman, Suraj Malladi, Robert L. Bray and Galen Bodenhausen
March 24, 2026
Say Hello to Your New AI Study Buddy
As students continue to use generative AI for their homework, professors have found a way to enrich rather than combat the experience.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray and Sébastien Martin
January 1, 2026
Surge Pricing in Aisle Five?
Despite concern, the use of digital price tags in grocery stores hasn’t moved the needle on costs for consumers.
Researchers: Ioannis Stamatopoulos, Robert Sanders and Robert L. Bray
August 1, 2025
Everyone Wants to Ditch the Middleman. Or Do They?
Not always, according to surprising new evidence from an app connecting housekeepers to clients.
Researchers: Ekaterina Astashkina, Robert L. Bray, Ruslan Momot and Marat Salikhov
June 1, 2024
ChatGPT Has Arrived. What’s a Manager to Do?
4 tips for leading a team in an age of generative AI.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray
July 21, 2023
Take 5: Research-Backed Tips for Scheduling Your Day
Kellogg faculty offer ideas for working smarter and not harder.
Researchers: Maryam Kouchaki, Maria Ibanez, Nicola Persico, Robert L. Bray, Jan A. Van Mieghem, Itai Gurvich and and coauthors
April 1, 2023
Are “Menu Costs” Messing Up Your Supply Chain?
When it’s cheaper to change product prices, companies benefit—and so do their suppliers, new research shows.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray and Ioannis Stamatopoulos
January 4, 2021
Having a Far-Flung Supply Chain May Lead to More Product Defects
When firms have to collaborate over long distances, the final product suffers.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray, Juan Camilo Serpa and Ahmet Colak
May 15, 2020
Podcast: The (Surprisingly Muddy) Case for Transparency
Economists prize sharing information. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we ask if that’s always the right move.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray
February 20, 2020
A Simple Way to Make Your Customers More Satisfied with Their Deliveries
Hint: It comes down to when you send status updates.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray
December 2, 2019
Take 5: How to Increase Your Office's Productivity
Research-backed tips for improving workflows and discouraging slacking.
Researchers: Michael Powell, Robert L. Bray, Nicola Persico, George Georgiadis, Jan A. Van Mieghem and Chaithanya Bandi
July 5, 2019
A Counterintuitive Way to Keep Shelves Stocked and Prices Down
New research suggests how to improve supply-chain efficiency and avoid “inventory runs.”
Researchers: Robert L. Bray, Yuliang Yao, Yongrui Duan and Jiazhen Huo
October 4, 2018
A Smarter Way to Schedule
What multitaskers can learn from how judges schedule hearings.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
October 5, 2015
Whipping the Supply Line into Shape
New insight into the bullwhip effect.
Researchers: Robert L. Bray and Haim Mendelson
March 13, 2013
