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Members of a family business look over a spreadsheet.
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.

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Organizations

The Upside of Recruiting Your Rivals

Teams that acquire players from their competitors gain an advantage that goes beyond pure skill.

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Finance & Accounting

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.

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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.

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Leadership

The Powerful Lesson Pope Leo XIV Can Teach Leaders

Leaders across industries can learn from Pope Leo XIV’s balanced perspective.

A woman in a lab coat presses a button on a purple vending machine containing various items including shoes, a toaster, a video game controller, and a hypodermic needle.
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.”

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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.

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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.

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Marketing

Meet Mr. Treadmill, Your Workout Buddy

Need some extra motivation to reach your fitness goals? Anthropomorphizing objects can help, new research shows.

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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.

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Organizations

Do Gut Feelings Change Over Time?

New research challenges the long-held belief that unconscious attitudes are set in stone.

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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.

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Careers

How to Keep Your Network Warm

A three-pronged approach—and a generous mindset—can be a huge boon for your career.

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Policy

Policymakers Are Relying on Science More Than Ever

But there’s little common ground in the research that Republicans and Democrats cite.

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Economics

What Trump Wants From Tariffs … and What the U.S. Might Get Instead

The administration hopes to bring back manufacturing and reduce trade deficits. But renegotiating trade may damage global trust in the U.S.

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Policy

A New Era for Antitrust Enforcement

After the Biden administration’s broader approach to regulating competition, expect more-targeted enforcement in the years ahead.

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Organizations

Our Colleagues’ Decisions May Influence Us More Than We Realize

The effect of peer influence “raises some interesting and potentially troubling questions about the nature of expertise and decision-making.”

Leadership

Podcast: Workers Are Stressed Out. Here’s How Leaders Can Help.

On this (rerun) episode of The Insightful Leader: You can’t always control what happens at work. But reframing setbacks, and instituting some serious calendar discipline, can go a long way toward reducing stress. 

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Operations

The Hidden Cost of Successful Experiments

As companies innovate, the resulting complexity makes further growth more challenging.

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Organizations

Why That “Follow-Back” on Social Media Is Not Guaranteed

Regardless of their political ideology, people are less likely to follow back users from certain racial groups.

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