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Consumer trust influences a savvy customer's purchasing decisions in the supermarket.
Marketing

How to Make Ads That Even Savvy Customers Trust

People are more skeptical than ever about marketing—but that doesn’t mean they distrust all of it.

We are influenced by racial biases and information even when we are not aware of their presence.
Policy

We Are Influenced by Racial Information Even When We Are Not Aware of Its Presence

Many of us acknowledge that implicit racial bias exists, but the problem goes deeper than we think.

High performing business people learn to listen.
Careers

Video: High Performers “Seek to Understand Before Being Understood”

How fostering trust can further your career and make your job easier.

A strong leadership presence is one that conveys both warmth and competence.
Leadership

Why Warmth Is the Underappreciated Skill Leaders Need

The case for demonstrating more than just competence.

Successful innovations can sometimes be a hard sell.
Innovation

Take 5: How to Encourage Innovative Thinking

Kellogg faculty on what it takes to ensure your new product or great idea takes off.

Social media echo chambers form surprisingly fast.
Organizations

The Surprising Speed with Which We Become Polarized Online

Users isolate themselves in social media echo chambers, even when they start out looking at a variety of posts.

Navigating regulatory challenges helped Uber in New York.
Policy

How Uber Took Manhattan

A Q&A on how startups can anticipate and navigate regulatory challenges.

Researchers find that the permanent income hypothesis does not hold up, and a loss of income does affect household spending.
Finance & Accounting

How the 2013 Government Shutdown Affected Workers’ Household Spending

Even temporary income dips lead to a surprising degree of belt-tightening.

Demand for nurses outpaces supply, which can be bad for patients.
Healthcare

What Happens to Patient Care When There Are Not Enough Nurses?

The impact can be significant, especially in nursing homes.

The AHCA vs ACA: Here are the differences
Healthcare

A Healthcare Policy Expert on Four Key Differences Between the ACA and the AHCA

Craig Garthwaite explains how the GOP proposal could impact patients, insurers, and hospitals.

By matching historical sales data with appropriate product life cycle curves, one can reduce new product forecasting errors.
Operations

How to Predict Demand for Your New Product

Relying on manager expertise and market research may not be enough.

Women supporting other women into the c-suite
Leadership

Getting More Women into the C-Suite Means Keeping Them in the Talent Pipeline

How to support women through three “pivot points” in their careers.

A craft brewer balances business sense and brewing knowledge.
Strategy

How Bell’s Became So Many People’s Local Beer

A Q&A with CEO Laura Bell on preserving company culture while growing aggressively.

A CEO's risk aversion encourages underperformance.
Finance & Accounting

How Risk Aversion Motivates Executives

Incentivizing leaders with too much stock promotes caution—and encourages underperformance.

Social Impact

To Stop ISIS Recruitment in Western Countries, Promote Assimilation

An outsized number of radicalized recruits come from prosperous, egalitarian nations where Muslims feel isolated.

The digital revolution hasn't upended traditional media - yet.

Even YouTube Stars Need the Traditional Media Spotlight

Sure Netflix and e-readers have upended distribution, but creative industries still rely on legacy media.

How to act ethically at work and avoid unethical behavior
Leadership

Take 5: How Leaders Can Stamp Out Bad Behavior and Create a Culture of Integrity

Practical tips to reign in an unethical boss and encourage employees to do the right thing.

A woman uses beauty products.
Marketing

The Secret to Ulta Beauty’s Success: Joy

A Q&A with Ulta’s marketing head on how consumer insights helped a brick-and-mortar chain thrive in the age of Amazon.

School gun violence is linked to the unemployment rate, and can be seen as a symptom to a struggling economy.
Economics

School Shootings Rise and Fall with the Unemployment Rate

Researchers set out to quantify gun violence at U.S. schools and made a surprising discovery.

Belief in fake news is about tribalism as much as truth.
Organizations

The Psychology Behind Fake News

Cognitive biases help explain our polarized media climate.

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