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December 2, 2016
Take 5: Tips for Maintaining Your Self-Control During the Holidays
There’s a tendency to overdo it, but Kellogg researchers offer ways to stay disciplined.
Miguel Brendl, Rima Touré-Tillery, Loran Nordgren and Kelly Goldsmith
December 2, 2016
How Transparent Accounting Leads to Smarter Decisions
For companies and governments alike, massaging the numbers is a losing long-term strategy.
James Naughton
December 2, 2016
From Long Checkout Lines to Departure Gate Chaos, Can Companies Reduce Holiday Hassles?
An operations professor explores better ways to form queues, ride escalators, and deliver packages.
Martin Lariviere
December 2, 2016
How Drinking Beer Is Saving Russian Lives
Decades later, a Soviet public health initiative is still increasing male life expectancy.
Lorenz Kueng and Evgeny Yakovlev
December 2, 2016
Is There a Better Way to Allocate Organs to Transplant Patients?
Two ideas for changing a system where people linger on waitlists while kidneys spoil.
Chaithanya Bandi, Nikolaos Trichakis, Phebe Vayanos and James Schummer
December 2, 2016
People Are Tweeting about Your Products. Will It Boost Sales?
Soliciting user-generated content can be a powerful way to engage customers.
Edward Malthouse, Bobby J. Calder, Su Jung Kim and Mark Vandenbosch
December 2, 2016
What Is the Future of Impact Investing?
“People are revisiting the relationship they want their capital to have with the world.”
David Chen and Amit Bouri
December 1, 2016
Video: How to Establish Trust in Financial Transactions
Hard statistics and an understanding of culture keep the money flowing between lenders and borrowers.
Bruce Carruthers and Paola Sapienza
November 2, 2016
Reviving a Brand That’s Lost Its Luster
Return to your roots, rally your team, and emerge a stronger brand.
Timothy Calkins
November 2, 2016
Three Ways Leaders Can Solve the “People Problems” That Hold Teams Back
Sometimes the conference room should be a boxing ring, other times a campfire.
Leigh Thompson and Tanya Menon
November 2, 2016
What Good Is a Financial Advisor?
They may have your best interests in mind, but that doesn’t mean their advice is sound.
Stephen Foerster, Juhani T. Linnainmaa, Brian Melzer and Alessandro Previtero
November 2, 2016
How Millennials Are Discovering Music
To woo listeners, music platforms should get personal.
Kent Grayson and Libby Koerbel
November 2, 2016
Higher Taxes Can Make Altruistic Jobs More Attractive
But subsidizing these careers may ultimately do more good.
Benjamin B. Lockwood, Charles Nathanson and E. Glen Weyl
November 2, 2016
Do Performance Incentives Make Us Greedy?
How we are rewarded shifts our values in surprising ways.
Julia D. Hur and Loran Nordgren
October 10, 2016
Finding the Right Performance Incentives to Motivate Employees
Some incentive schemes encourage hard work—others reward those who game the system.
Daniel Barron, George Georgiadis and Jeroen Swinkels
October 10, 2016
Christine Lagarde on Income Inequality, Brexit, and the Power of M&Ms
A Q&A with the IMF managing director and Kellogg’s Sergio Rebelo.
Christine Lagarde and Sergio Rebelo
October 10, 2016
When Companies Praise Good Behavior, They May Encourage the Exact Opposite
Why giving customers credit for altruistic purchases can backfire.
Maryam Kouchaki and Ata Jami
October 6, 2016
Concerns about Scarcity Make Us Want to Be Better People
When we think we have too little, we will spend more on self-improvement.
Kelly Goldsmith, Ali Tezer and Caroline Roux
October 5, 2016
How to Use Data Visualization to Improve Your Business
Understanding how our minds read visualizations can help answer your organization’s most important questions.
Steven Franconeri and Joel K. Shapiro
October 4, 2016
Video: When Expectations Clash, Is the Problem Cultural?
You’ll do well to understand where others are coming from.
Jeanne M. Brett and Sanford Goldberg
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