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David Austen-Smith

Jeanne M. Brett

Alexander Chernev

David Dranove
Andrea Eisfeldt

Timothy Feddersen
Karsten Hansen

Robert Korajczyk

Angela Y. Lee

Beverly Walther
Articles

June 10, 2025
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.
Matthew Allen

June 1, 2025
The Upside of Recruiting Your Rivals
Teams that acquire players from their competitors gain an advantage that goes beyond pure skill.
Satyam Mukherjee, Yun Huang, Brian Uzzi and Noshir Contractor

June 1, 2025
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.
Jung Youn Lee, Joonhyuk Yang and Eric T. Anderson

June 1, 2025
The AI Tidal Wave Doesn’t Have to Drown Workers
As AI replaces job responsibilities, it creates just as many opportunities, new research shows.
Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence Schmidt and Bryan Seegmiller

May 29, 2025
The Powerful Lesson Pope Leo XIV Can Teach Leaders
Leaders across industries can learn from Pope Leo XIV’s balanced perspective.
Harry M. Kraemer

May 28, 2025
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.”
Ryan Hill, Dashun Wang, Benjamin F. Jones and and coauthors

May 28, 2025
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.
David Dranove

May 13, 2025
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.
Cynthia S. Wang

May 1, 2025
Meet Mr. Treadmill, Your Workout Buddy
Need some extra motivation to reach your fitness goals? Anthropomorphizing objects can help, new research shows.
Lili Wang and Rima Touré-Tillery

May 1, 2025
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.
Negar Kamali, Karyn Nakamura, Aakriti Kumar, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Jessica Hullman and Matthew Groh

May 1, 2025
Do Gut Feelings Change Over Time?
New research challenges the long-held belief that unconscious attitudes are set in stone.
Tessa Charlesworth and and coauthors

May 1, 2025
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.
Henrique Castro-Pires and George Georgiadis

May 1, 2025
How to Keep Your Network Warm
A three-pronged approach—and a generous mindset—can be a huge boon for your career.
Craig Wortmann

April 24, 2025
Policymakers Are Relying on Science More Than Ever
But there’s little common ground in the research that Republicans and Democrats cite.
Alexander C. Furnas, Timothy M. LaPira and Dashun Wang

April 23, 2025
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.
Nancy Qian

April 15, 2025
A New Era for Antitrust Enforcement
After the Biden administration’s broader approach to regulating competition, expect more-targeted enforcement in the years ahead.
R. Mark McCareins

April 11, 2025
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.”
Jillian Chown and Carlos Inoue

April 10, 2025
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.
Carter Cast

April 1, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Successful Experiments
As companies innovate, the resulting complexity makes further growth more challenging.
Yudi Huang, Sébastien Martin and Zhiwei (Tony) Qin

April 1, 2025
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.
Krishnan Nair, Mohsen Mosleh and Maryam Kouchaki
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