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Articles
June 1, 2024
How to Talk About What You Do (without Being Boring)
The key is not to say too much—or too little. Here are some exercises to get you started.
Craig Wortmann
June 3, 2024
Why Did Early Governments Emerge?
Was it about cooperation—or exploitation? A new study turns to archeology for answers.
Robert C. Allen, Mattia C. Bertazzini and Leander Heldring
June 24, 2024
Podcast: The Problem with Megaproviders
In episode 1 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we investigate how hospital systems got so big—and what that means for our health and our pocketbooks.
Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Lawton R. Burns
June 11, 2024
Unique. Revolutionary. Fundamental. A Little Hype Can Help Scientists Win Grants.
“Promotional language is important not just for securing funding but for actually conveying the merits of good ideas.”
Hao Peng, Huilian Sophie Qiu, Henrik Barslund Fosse and Brian Uzzi
June 17, 2024
Will America’s Economy Soon Look Like … Italy’s?
Why one Kellogg economist is worried that the U.S. is headed toward a low-growth future.
Nicola Persico
June 18, 2024
3 Ways AI Can Support Your Marketing Team
From providing insight into your customers to amplifying human creativity, generative AI is here to help.
Jacob D. Teeny
June 18, 2024
Podcast: Why Italy’s Economy Offers a Cautionary Tale for the U.S.
Since the 1990s, taxes, debt, and regulations have hamstrung the Italian economy. On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Could America be next?
Nicola Persico
June 21, 2024
Podcast: Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 2
American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives
Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove, Amanda Starc and Paul Campbell
July 1, 2024
After Prison, Opportunities Are Hard to Come By. Enter Entrepreneurship.
Labor-market discrimination is driving many formerly incarcerated people, particularly Black individuals, toward entrepreneurship.
Kylie Hwang and Damon Phillips
July 1, 2024
There’s a Smarter Way to A/B Test
A new model can help you reduce the length or size of your experiments by as much as 50 percent, for significant cost savings.
Vikas Deep, Achal Bassamboo and Sandeep Kumar Juneja
July 1, 2024
Gen AI Can Tailor Ads to Our Personalities—and They’re Pretty Persuasive
“The effects are probably only likely to get stronger as time persists.”
Sandra Matz, Jacob D. Teeny, Sumer S. Vaid, Heinrich Peters and Moran Cerf
July 1, 2024
How to Spot Political Deepfakes
AI literacy—and a healthy dose of human intuition—can take us pretty far.
Matthew Groh
July 1, 2024
Podcast: The Power of the Physician's Pen
We rely on doctors to keep us healthy. In episode 2 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we learn at what cost.
Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell
July 6, 2024
Innovation Requires an Environment of Creative Risk
If you really want to change paradigms, you must be willing to accept that there is no such thing as true innovation without risk.
David Schonthal
July 8, 2024
Podcast: The Misadventures of Insuring America
In episode 3 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explain how insurance companies became everybody’s favorite villain.
Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell
July 3, 2024
Want Your Kids to Choose Healthy Foods? Here Are Some Research-Backed Tips.
First, stop demanding that they choose healthy foods!
Michal Maimaran
July 15, 2024
Podcast: The Bargain That Fuels Big Pharma
What will we pay for the next groundbreaking drug? In episode 4 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explore the trade-off at the heart of pharmaceutical innovation.
Craig Garthwaite, Amanda Starc and Kevin Outterson
July 22, 2024
Podcast: American Healthcare—Is This the Best We Can Do?
In the final episode of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we travel overseas, and through our own backyard, in search of a way forward.
Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Amanda Starc
July 24, 2024
Is Your Team Playing It Too Safe?
Fear of failure can stifle innovation. A new study shows how to incentivize people to tackle those high-risk, high-reward projects.
Hector Chade and Jeroen Swinkels
July 25, 2024
4 Leadership Lessons from the NFL’s Chief Data Officer
Here’s how the league is going deep on AI, from addressing player safety to fine-tuning fan marketing.
Joel K. Shapiro and Paul Ballew
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