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September 9, 2024
5 Telltale Signs That a Photo Is AI-generated
For one, scour for details that defy the laws of physics.
Matthew Groh, Negar Kamali, Karyn Nakamura, Angelos Chatzimparmpas and Jessica Hullman
September 1, 2024
Why We Shouldn’t Romanticize Failure
We expect people will learn from their setbacks. New research suggests the truth is more complicated.
Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Kaitlin Woolley, Eda Erensoy and Minhee Kim
September 1, 2024
How the Right Price Promotion Can Nudge Kids to Choose Healthier Foods
“It shows that kids are sensitive to prices.”
Szu-chi Huang, Michal Maimaran and Daniella Kupor
August 27, 2024
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.
Srinivas K. Reddy and Birju Shah
August 23, 2024
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.
Efraim Benmelech, Nitish Kumar and Raghuram G. Rajan
August 8, 2024
A Troubling Trend in Nonprofit Branding
When nonprofit organizations rebrand themselves, inspiration may not be the answer.
Timothy Calkins
August 5, 2024
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.
Hatim Rahman
August 1, 2024
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.
Christopher To, Dylan Wiwad and Maryam Kouchaki
August 1, 2024
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.
Jessica Gamlin and Rima Touré-Tillery
August 1, 2024
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.
Partha Sarati Mishra, Sunil Chopra and Ioannis Stamatopoulos
July 30, 2024
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.
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Bryan Seegmiller, Hyejin Youn, Sergio Rebelo, Jacopo Ponticelli, Hatim Rahman and and coauthors
July 25, 2024
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.
Joel K. Shapiro and Paul Ballew
July 24, 2024
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.
Hector Chade and Jeroen Swinkels
July 6, 2024
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.
David Schonthal
July 3, 2024
Want Your Kids to Choose Healthy Foods? Here Are Some Research-Backed Tips.
First, stop demanding that they choose healthy foods!
Michal Maimaran
July 1, 2024
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.”
Sandra Matz, Jacob D. Teeny, Sumer S. Vaid, Heinrich Peters and Moran Cerf
July 1, 2024
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.
Vikas Deep, Achal Bassamboo and Sandeep Kumar Juneja
July 1, 2024
After Prison, Opportunities Are Hard to Come By. Enter Entrepreneurship.
Labor-market discrimination is driving many formerly incarcerated people, particularly Black individuals, toward entrepreneurship.
Kylie Hwang and Damon Phillips
July 1, 2024
How to Spot Political Deepfakes
AI literacy—and a healthy dose of human intuition—can take us pretty far.
Matthew Groh
June 18, 2024
3 Ways AI Can Support Your Marketing Team
From providing insight into your customers to amplifying human creativity, generative AI is here to help.
Jacob D. Teeny
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