Finance & Accounting
Investment Transparency Encourages Copycats—and Creates Risks
While regulations nudge insurance companies toward prudent portfolios, they may also increase systemic fragility.
Researchers: Tom Hagenberg
Juli 1, 2025
Careers
New Job, Different Industry. How to Succeed When You Make the Leap.
When you don’t just switch companies but entire sectors, you need to do your homework, focus on the culture, and build credibility fast.
Researchers: Rob Apatoff
Juni 30, 2025
Organizations
Slowing AI’s Domino Effect on Workplace Inequality
Choices we make during model design and implementation can ease AI’s downstream damage—and amplify its benefits.
Researchers: Arvind Karunakaran, Sarah Lebovitz, Devesh Narayanan and Hatim Rahman
Juni 25, 2025
Finance & Accounting
What Makes the U.S. Dollar So Special?
Despite its ups and downs, the dollar has maintained global dominance for years. New research shows why that is—and why it might not last forever.
Researchers: Zhengyang Jiang, Robert J. Richmond and Tony Zhang
Juni 16, 2025
Operations
How Your Business Can Adapt to Tariffs—and Come Out Ahead
Start by finding alternative sourcing locations. And if you don’t have them, build them now.
Researchers: Sunil Chopra
Juni 14, 2025
Careers
Podcast: How to Stay Resilient in the Face of a Major Setback
When Kellogg’s Craig Wortmann lost a portion of his leg to cancer, he felt like he lost part of his identity, too. On this episode of The Insightful Leader podcast, he offers a guide to “bouncing back better.”
Researchers: Craig Wortmann
Juni 13, 2025
Organizations
Nepotism Can Be a Good Thing in Family Business—If You Get These 4 Things Right
Here’s a cautious promotion of strategic nepotism in the family business.
Researchers: Matthew Allen
Juni 10, 2025
Organizations
The Upside of Recruiting Your Rivals
Teams that acquire players from their competitors gain an advantage that goes beyond pure skill.
Researchers: Satyam Mukherjee, Yun Huang, Brian Uzzi and Noshir Contractor
Juni 1, 2025
Marketing
No Credit History? No Problem.
A new type of score looks at people’s shopping behaviors and utility payments to determine their eligibility for loans and credit cards.
Researchers: Jung Youn Lee, Joonhyuk Yang and Eric T. Anderson
Juni 1, 2025
Finance & Accounting
The AI Tidal Wave Doesn’t Have to Drown Workers
As AI replaces job responsibilities, it creates just as many opportunities, new research shows.
Researchers: Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence Schmidt and Bryan Seegmiller
Juni 1, 2025
Leadership
The Powerful Lesson Pope Leo XIV Can Teach Leaders
Leaders across industries can learn from Pope Leo XIV’s balanced perspective.
Researchers: Harry M. Kraemer
Mai 29, 2025
Strategy
When Experts Pivot, They Pay a Price
“It’s not like we can’t enter a new area and hit a home run, but there’s just a far, far lower chance of that happening.”
Researchers: Ryan Hill, Dashun Wang, Benjamin F. Jones and and coauthors
Mai 28, 2025
Healthcare
Podcast: When a Healthcare Expert Becomes a Patient
In this bonus episode of our series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” a healthcare economist must make critical decisions with partial information.
Researchers: David Dranove
Mai 28, 2025
Leadership
Podcast: Preventing a Potential Culture Clash at Work
On this episode of The Insightful Leader: when Fuyao Glass opened a U.S. factory, it underestimated the importance of translating company culture.
Researchers: Cynthia S. Wang
Mai 13, 2025
Marketing
Meet Mr. Treadmill, Your Workout Buddy
Need some extra motivation to reach your fitness goals? Anthropomorphizing objects can help, new research shows.
Researchers: Lili Wang and Rima Touré-Tillery
Mai 1, 2025
Organizations
When Put to the Test, Are We Any Good at Spotting AI Fakes?
For the most part, yes! And the more we look, the better we get.
Researchers: Negar Kamali, Karyn Nakamura, Aakriti Kumar, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Jessica Hullman and Matthew Groh
Mai 1, 2025
Organizations
Do Gut Feelings Change Over Time?
New research challenges the long-held belief that unconscious attitudes are set in stone.
Researchers: Tessa Charlesworth and and coauthors
Mai 1, 2025
Strategy
How Higher Pay Incentives Can Backfire
While increasing bonuses and commission rates might seem like a good idea, doing so can inadvertently harm the quality of an organization’s workforce.
Researchers: Henrique Castro-Pires and George Georgiadis
Mai 1, 2025
Careers
How to Keep Your Network Warm
A three-pronged approach—and a generous mindset—can be a huge boon for your career.
Researchers: Craig Wortmann
Mai 1, 2025
Policy
Policymakers Are Relying on Science More Than Ever
But there’s little common ground in the research that Republicans and Democrats cite.
Researchers: Alexander C. Furnas, Timothy M. LaPira and Dashun Wang
April 24, 2025
