Economics
5 Trends in a Volatile Global Economy
“We live in an interesting world, one with much upside as well as significant downside.”
Researchers: Sergio Rebelo
August 8, 2024
Marketing
A Troubling Trend in Nonprofit Branding
When nonprofit organizations rebrand themselves, inspiration may not be the answer.
Researchers: Timothy Calkins
August 8, 2024
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.
Researchers: Hatim Rahman
August 5, 2024
Organizations
Employees See Bias in the Workplace. Their Bosses Don’t.
People in positions of power are often unable to see inequities in their own organizations—even if they see it elsewhere.
Researchers: Christopher To, Dylan Wiwad and Maryam Kouchaki
August 1, 2024
Marketing
Beware the “Bad-Influencer Effect”
Content creators’ self-indulgent posts may get “likes” on social media, but research shows they might not lead to more enduring connections.
Researchers: Jessica Gamlin and Rima Touré-Tillery
August 1, 2024
Operations
America Is Rediscovering the Drive-Through
Since the pandemic, fast-food customers are more likely to order at the drive-through, fueling the recovery of restaurants that can accommodate them.
Researchers: Partha Sarati Mishra, Sunil Chopra and Ioannis Stamatopoulos
August 1, 2024
Organizations
Take 5: Work Is Changing. What Does the Future Hold?
Remote work, technology, and climate change are all set to transform the labor market. Here’s how.
Researchers: Dimitris Papanikolaou, Bryan Seegmiller, Hyejin Youn, Sergio Rebelo, Jacopo Ponticelli, Hatim Rahman and and coauthors
July 30, 2024
Data Analytics
4 Leadership Lessons from the NFL’s Chief Data Officer
Here’s how the league is going deep on AI, from addressing player safety to fine-tuning fan marketing.
Researchers: Joel K. Shapiro and Paul Ballew
July 25, 2024
Strategy
Is Your Team Playing It Too Safe?
Fear of failure can stifle innovation. A new study shows how to incentivize people to tackle those high-risk, high-reward projects.
Researchers: Hector Chade and Jeroen Swinkels
July 24, 2024
Healthcare
Podcast: American Healthcare—Is This the Best We Can Do?
In the final episode of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we travel overseas, and through our own backyard, in search of a way forward.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Amanda Starc
July 22, 2024
Healthcare
Podcast: The Bargain That Fuels Big Pharma
What will we pay for the next groundbreaking drug? In episode 4 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explore the trade-off at the heart of pharmaceutical innovation.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Amanda Starc and Kevin Outterson
July 15, 2024
Healthcare
Podcast: The Misadventures of Insuring America
In episode 3 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explain how insurance companies became everybody’s favorite villain.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell
July 8, 2024
Innovation
Innovation Requires an Environment of Creative Risk
If you really want to change paradigms, you must be willing to accept that there is no such thing as true innovation without risk.
Researchers: David Schonthal
July 6, 2024
Marketing
Want Your Kids to Choose Healthy Foods? Here Are Some Research-Backed Tips.
First, stop demanding that they choose healthy foods!
Researchers: Michal Maimaran
July 3, 2024
Healthcare
Podcast: The Power of the Physician's Pen
We rely on doctors to keep us healthy. In episode 2 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we learn at what cost.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell
July 1, 2024
Marketing
Gen AI Can Tailor Ads to Our Personalities—and They’re Pretty Persuasive
“The effects are probably only likely to get stronger as time persists.”
Researchers: Sandra Matz, Jacob D. Teeny, Sumer S. Vaid, Heinrich Peters and Moran Cerf
July 1, 2024
Operations
There’s a Smarter Way to A/B Test
A new model can help you reduce the length or size of your experiments by as much as 50 percent, for significant cost savings.
Researchers: Vikas Deep, Achal Bassamboo and Sandeep Kumar Juneja
July 1, 2024
Entrepreneurship
After Prison, Opportunities Are Hard to Come By. Enter Entrepreneurship.
Labor-market discrimination is driving many formerly incarcerated people, particularly Black individuals, toward entrepreneurship.
Researchers: Kylie Hwang and Damon Phillips
July 1, 2024
Organizations
How to Spot Political Deepfakes
AI literacy—and a healthy dose of human intuition—can take us pretty far.
Researchers: Matthew Groh
July 1, 2024
Healthcare
Podcast: The Problem with Megaproviders
In episode 1 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we investigate how hospital systems got so big—and what that means for our health and our pocketbooks.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Lawton R. Burns
June 24, 2024
