Authors

David Austen-Smith

Jeanne M. Brett

Alexander Chernev

David Dranove
Andrea Eisfeldt

Timothy Feddersen
Karsten Hansen

Robert Korajczyk

Angela Y. Lee

Beverly Walther
Articles

September 13, 2016
Remaking Marketing Organizations for a Data-Driven World
A Q&A with United Airlines’ CMO on how to avoid becoming “an artifact of a prior era.”
Thomas O'Toole and Eric Leininger

October 3, 2016
Podcast: Think You Understand Why Ideas Go Viral? Big Data May Change Your Mind
From tweets to scientific discoveries, human behavior is surprisingly predictable.
Dashun Wang and Duncan Watts

October 3, 2016
Beefing Up Collateral Laws Could Encourage Banks to Lend
In many emerging economies, businesses without real estate struggle to access credit.
Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain, José Maria Liberti and Jason Sturgess

October 4, 2016
How to Nurture Your Superstar Employees
Focus on these three traits to help your top performers flourish—and stick around.
Carter Cast

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

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 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 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 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
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

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

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
Why Sending Your Kid to the Best Possible School May Backfire
Being surrounded by smarter peers can hurt test scores and incite disruptive behavior.
Steve Cicala, Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Jörg L. Spenkuch

November 2, 2016
How Millennials Are Discovering Music
To woo listeners, music platforms should get personal.
Kent Grayson and Libby Koerbel

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
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
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
Why a Scientist’s Big Break May Be Just Around the Corner
Researchers, have hope: your most successful paper can occur at any point in your career.
Roberta Sinatra, Dashun Wang, Pierre Deville, Chaoming Song and Albert-László Barabási

November 3, 2016
Podcast: You Had Me at “Bleep Blorp”
How humans and robots are learning to trust each other.
Adam Waytz, Rima Touré-Tillery, Brenna Argall and Todd Murphey

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
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