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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.

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Finance & Accounting

Why Lower Real-Estate Commissions Mean Higher Home Prices

And why that’s a good thing for most buyers and sellers.

Marketing

Podcast: Third-Party Cookies Are Crumbling. What’s a Marketer to Do?

New rules are making it harder to track customers’ online behaviors. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we look at what this means for companies large and small.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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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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.

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Politics & Elections

Take 5: How to Talk Politics (Constructively)

Research-backed advice for your next conversation.

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Policy

When the Minimum Wage Rises, Do Men and Women Benefit Equally?

The policy is gender-neutral. The impact, less so.

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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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Policy

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.

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Organizations

5 Telltale Signs That a Photo Is AI-generated

For one, scour for details that defy the laws of physics.

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Organizations

Why We Shouldn’t Romanticize Failure

We expect people will learn from their setbacks. New research suggests the truth is more complicated.

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Economics

Why Do Prices Rise Like Rockets … but Fall Like Feathers?

Behavioral psychology sheds light on a longstanding economic puzzle.

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Marketing

How the Right Price Promotion Can Nudge Kids to Choose Healthier Foods

“It shows that kids are sensitive to prices.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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