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July 29, 2020
What Astronauts Can Teach Us about Working Remotely
Space: the final frontier—for learning how to keep your team motivated during extended periods of isolation and confinement.
Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch
July 20, 2020
Black-Owned Businesses Often Struggle to Access Capital. Here’s How Financial Institutions Can Change That.
Banks and investors need to redefine creditworthiness, diversify their boards, and think more about social returns.
William Towns
July 15, 2020
The Pandemic Has Slashed Scientists’ Productivity
The extent varies a good deal by field, but the single biggest factor is whether a scientist is caring for young children.
Kyle R. Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Jerry G. Thursby, Marie C. Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph T. Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani and Dashun Wang
July 14, 2020
How to Negotiate via Email
This excerpt from Negotiating the Sweet Spot: The Art of Leaving Nothing on the Table offers three tips for writing emails that engage and persuade.
Leigh Thompson
July 6, 2020
You’ve Worked Hard to Earn Your Team’s Trust. What Happens If Layoffs Are Necessary?
Layoffs are brutal. But the news is easier to accept from leaders who consistently display honesty, competency, and concern for their employees.
Kent Grayson and Sanjay Khosla
July 2, 2020
Is Now the Time to Transition to Personalized Marketing?
Budgets are strapped. There are a million other things to do. But the risk of ignoring AI-powered modern marketing is dire.
Jim Lecinski
July 1, 2020
How to Do Design Thinking Better
Experts from Kellogg and IDEO explain the psychology behind this creative approach to problem solving.
Leigh Thompson and David Schonthal
June 29, 2020
Amid the Pandemic, Entrepreneurs Can Still Find Opportunity
The crisis provides fertile ground for startups in spaces like telehealth and touchless payment. Other startups will need to get creative.
Linda Darragh, Troy Henikoff and Sara Moreira
June 24, 2020
How to Secure Credit During a Financial Crisis
The key? Don’t tap your best collateral in good times.
Efraim Benmelech
June 11, 2020
How Have Top Marketers Responded to the Pandemic? With Rapid Innovation.
Leaders in industries from healthcare to casual dining are fast-tracking changes to the customer experience. Here are four of their stories.
Eric Leininger, Nicholas Caffentzis, Gregory Carpenter, Patricia Corsi, Joel Yashinsky, Sandra Moore and Dana Krueger
June 2, 2020
How to Coach Your Sales Team through the Pandemic (and Beyond)
The founder of the Kellogg Sales Institute offers tips for adapting to this high-stakes moment.
Craig Wortmann
June 1, 2020
Want Your Employees to Innovate? Trust Them.
R&D teams take more risks—and do better work—when their CEOs have faith in them.
Kieu-Trang Nguyen
June 1, 2020
Tired of People Invading Your Six-Foot Bubble? Game Theory Has a Solution.
Well, not exactly. But it does offer a new way of thinking about the problem.
Alvaro Sandroni
June 1, 2020
Younger Workers Lose Out When Their Coworkers Delay Retirement
But at fast-growing companies, the outlook is more promising.
Nicola Bianchi, Giulia Bovini, Jin Li, Michael Powell and Matteo Paradisi
June 1, 2020
A New System for Getting Your Kids to Eat Healthier Foods
They tend to prefer variety. Here’s how to use that instinct to get more fruits and veggies on their plates.
Margaret Echelbarger, Michal Maimaran and Susan A. Gelman
May 15, 2020
Having a Far-Flung Supply Chain May Lead to More Product Defects
When firms have to collaborate over long distances, the final product suffers.
Robert L. Bray, Juan Camilo Serpa and Ahmet Colak
May 15, 2020
3 Strategies to Transform Your Business for the Pandemic Economy
You know you need to adapt. But how?
Linda Darragh
May 13, 2020
Too Much Cross Talk. Too Little Creativity. How to Fix the Worst Parts of a Virtual Meeting.
Six tools from an unlikely place—improv comedy—to use on your next Zoom call.
Robyn L. Scott and Leigh Thompson
May 8, 2020
The U.S. Is Full of Innovative Thinkers. The Government Needs to Marshal All of Them to Fight Covid-19.
Here’s how we can accelerate efforts to reduce the spread, develop treatments, and find a vaccine.
Benjamin F. Jones
May 5, 2020
Taking on Debt Can Help a Company Grow—Until a Crisis Hits
A new study shows how highly leveraged companies have less flexibility to innovate in a downturn.
Benjamin Friedrich and Michał Zator
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