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Healthcare

Can We Build a Better Prescription Drug Market?

Medicare will soon be able to negotiate directly with drug makers. But one economist explains why “the goal should be to increase value, not just lower prices.”

Researchers: Amanda Starc

Policy

Big Tech Takes the Stand

Google may look like a monopoly, but is its power actually hurting consumers? A legal expert weighs in.

Researchers: R. Mark McCareins

Politics & Elections

How the Electoral College May Curb Election Fraud

This distinctive aspect of American democracy has come under increased scrutiny. But the very quality that most vexes its critics comes with an underrecognized upside.

Researchers: Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

Economics

Is Chinese Youth Unemployment as Bad as It Looks?

China’s exceptional growth in recent decades has influenced the education and career choices of young people and their families. But now that high-skilled jobs are drying up and recent graduates are struggling to find work, there is a growing mismatch between expectations and new realities.

Researchers: Nancy Qian

Finance & Accounting

How Your Personality Shapes Your Portfolio

Extroversion. Openness. Neuroticism. It turns out individual traits have a meaningful impact on our investment decisions.

Researchers: Zhengyang Jiang, Cameron Peng and Hongjun Yan

Finance & Accounting

The Enduring Power of Bond Ratings

In 1909, John Moody handed out his first As, Bs and Cs. The market would never be the same.

Researchers: Asaf Bernstein, Carola Frydman and Eric Hilt

Organizations

It’s Election Season. Here Comes the Morally Charged Language.

In the U.S., presidential candidates across the political spectrum lean on value-laden rhetoric—but emphasize different values.

Researchers: Kobi Hackenburg, William Brady and Manos Tsakiris

Marketing

Podcast: Why Canada Goose Soared and Shinola Sputtered

Luxury is dominated by older brands. So what happens when newer entrants try to break through? In the second of two bonus episodes of our series, “Insight Unpacked: Extraordinary Brands and How to Build Them,” we show what can go right—and wrong.

Researchers: Gregory Carpenter

Entrepreneurship

Could Generative AI Out-Entrepreneur Humans? Maybe, but Here's What Matters More.

3 tips to help you understand what that means for you as a business-builder.

Researchers: David Schonthal

Marketing

Podcast: So You Want to Be a Luxury Brand

So opulent! So exclusive! In the first of two bonus episodes of our series, “Insight Unpacked: Extraordinary Brands and How to Build Them,” we explore everything that helps brands like Ferrari and Manolo Blahnik scream luxury.

Researchers: Gregory Carpenter

Entrepreneurship

Take 5: How to Sell Your Startup from the Start

Advice from our experts on pitching your idea—and yourself.

Researchers: Neal J. Roese, Carter Cast, Craig Wortmann, Rick Desai and Efosa Ojomo

Finance & Accounting

The More Investors Know, the More Executives Disclose

CEOs are likelier to volunteer bad news when the public better understands their personal motives for maximizing short-term stock prices.

Researchers: Jung Min Kim

Organizations

Knowing Your Boss’s Salary Can Make You Work Harder—or Slack Off

Your level of motivation depends on whether you have a fair shot at getting promoted yourself.

Researchers: Erika Deserranno, Philipp Kastrau and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

Finance & Accounting

When Crypto Went Mainstream—and Drove Up Housing Prices

Many Americans have cryptocurrency in their portfolios and treat it much like any other investment.

Researchers: Darren Aiello, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson and Jason D. Kotter

Policy

Why Do Long Wars Happen?

War is a highly inefficient way of dividing contested resources—yet conflicts endure when there are powerful incentives to feign strength.

Researchers: Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjöström

Podcast: The Case for Admitting (Some) Flaws at Work

On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Why showing vulnerability can actually be a boon for leaders.

Researchers: Maryam Kouchaki

Organizations

Social-Media Algorithms Have Hijacked “Social Learning”

We make sense of the world by observing and mimicking others, but digital platforms throw that process into turmoil. Can anything be done?

Researchers: William Brady, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Björn Lindström and M.J. Crockett

Organizations

Podcast: Platforms Are Experimenting on Their Users … a Lot. Is That Okay?

On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Opaque algorithms on platforms like LinkedIn, Uber, and TaskRabbit have more power than ever. It’s starting to impact livelihoods.

Researchers: Hatim Rahman

Careers

Take 5: Not So Fast!

A little patience can lead to better ideas, stronger organizations, and more-ethical conduct at work.

Researchers: Swaminathan Sridharan, Daniel Barron, Michael Powell, Loran Nordgren and Benjamin F. Jones

Strategy

How Autocracies Unravel

Over time, leaders grow more repressive and cling to yes-men—a cycle that’s playing out today in Putin’s Russia.

Researchers: Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin