Leadership

Mastering Motivation

Finding a better way to work toward your goals

Volatile Assets

Why we know less about bonds than we thought

Operations

Why You Should Accept Returns

Best handling of merchandise returns may be counterintuitive

Economics

Decisions, Decisions

Why humans can’t seem to make the “right” choices

Leadership

Do Less

Why managers should stop micromanaging and trust their employees

Buying Behaviors of Emerging Middle Classes

How new consumers in developing nations choose their brands

Healthcare

When Hospitals Turn Away Ambulances

Uncovering flaws in a policy intended to prevent ER overcrowding

Healthcare

Rebooting Employer-Sponsored Healthcare

Would employees be happier with more health plan choices?

Data Analytics

The Specifics of Sleep

Using statistics to understand sleep better

Policy

Will Doctors Work Less Under “Obamacare”?

The effect of lower reimbursements on the medical workforce

Healthcare

How Poverty Damages Health

Anti-poverty programs boost recipients’ well-being

Our Special Issue on Healthcare

From the editor

Healthcare

A Patient, Not a Person

Medicine’s bad habit of dehumanizing patients

Economics

Which Plane Lands Last?

The tricky science of weather delays and airport landing slots

Policy

The Impending Pension Problem

Pension liabilities are a massive hidden debt

Leadership

What Constitutes Torture?

Perceptions change based on personal experience

Marketing

Goes Together Like Guilt and Pleasure

Guilty pleasures may be the best kind

Policy

A Strategy for Peace

How world leaders should react to provocateurs

Politics & Elections

The Oprah Effect

Celebrity endorsement of political candidates can make a difference at the polls.

Marketing

Buy Bigger, Feel More Powerful

Compensating for powerlessness through purchases