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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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July 3, 2024

Want Your Kids to Choose Healthy Foods? Here Are Some Research-Backed Tips.

First, stop demanding that they choose healthy foods!

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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July 1, 2024

How to Spot Political Deepfakes

AI literacy—and a healthy dose of human intuition—can take us pretty far.

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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.

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June 11, 2024

Unique. Revolutionary. Fundamental. A Little Hype Can Help Scientists Win Grants.

“Promotional language is important not just for securing funding but for actually conveying the merits of good ideas.”

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June 1, 2024

How to Talk About What You Do (without Being Boring)

The key is not to say too much—or too little. Here are some exercises to get you started.

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June 1, 2024

Everyone Wants to Ditch the Middleman. Or Do They?

Not always, according to surprising new evidence from an app connecting housekeepers to clients.

June 1, 2024

It’s Painful to Spend Money—Unless It’s a Refund

New research shows why it feels different to spend the money we get back after returning a product.

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June 1, 2024

Can Your Company Do Hybrid Better?

There is no single “best” policy, but it is critical to recognize the benefits of both in-person and remote work.

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May 14, 2024

Video-Game Companies Are Spending Big on Sponsored Streams. Are They Getting Their Money’s Worth?

Probably not—with a few notable exceptions.

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