
Marketing
Meet Mr. Treadmill, Your Workout Buddy
Need some extra motivation to reach your fitness goals? Anthropomorphizing objects can help, new research shows.
Researchers: Lili Wang and Rima Touré-Tillery
五月 1, 2025

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.
Researchers: Negar Kamali, Karyn Nakamura, Aakriti Kumar, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Jessica Hullman and Matthew Groh
五月 1, 2025

Organizations
Do Gut Feelings Change Over Time?
New research challenges the long-held belief that unconscious attitudes are set in stone.
Researchers: Tessa Charlesworth and and coauthors
五月 1, 2025

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.
Researchers: Henrique Castro-Pires and George Georgiadis
五月 1, 2025

Careers
How to Keep Your Network Warm
A three-pronged approach—and a generous mindset—can be a huge boon for your career.
Researchers: Craig Wortmann
五月 1, 2025

Policy
Policymakers Are Relying on Science More Than Ever
But there’s little common ground in the research that Republicans and Democrats cite.
Researchers: Alexander C. Furnas, Timothy M. LaPira and Dashun Wang
四月 24, 2025

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.
Researchers: Nancy Qian
四月 23, 2025

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.
Researchers: R. Mark McCareins
四月 15, 2025

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.”
Researchers: Jillian Chown
四月 11, 2025

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.
Researchers: Carter Cast
四月 10, 2025

Operations
The Hidden Cost of Successful Experiments
As companies innovate, the resulting complexity makes further growth more challenging.
Researchers: Yudi Huang, Sébastien Martin and Zhiwei (Tony) Qin
四月 1, 2025

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.
Researchers: Krishnan Nair, Mohsen Mosleh and Maryam Kouchaki
四月 1, 2025

Strategy
How America’s News Diet Went from Local to National
While many view the internet as the death knell of local print journalism, the unraveling started decades earlier—with the rise of television.
Researchers: Charles Angelucci, Julia Cagé and Michael Sinkinson
四月 1, 2025

Finance & Accounting
The Ripple Effect of an Uneven Credit Market
From freelancers to independent contractors, people who rely on temporary work are less likely to get loans and achieve life milestones.
Researchers: David A. Matsa, Brian Melzer and Michał Zator
四月 1, 2025

Leadership
How First-Time Managers Can Make the Successful Jump to Leadership
A former Fortune 500 CEO offers advice on arguably the most difficult career transition in business.
Researchers: Harry M. Kraemer
四月 1, 2025

Leadership
The Case for Muting the Boss
When discussing business strategy, leaders should leave room for new voices, who could spur the next big idea.
Researchers: Sanjay Khosla
三月 28, 2025

Entrepreneurship
Build a Successful B2B Business by First Engaging Consumers
Take the backroad to a B2B business model by stimulating demand from the bottom up.
Researchers: David Schonthal
三月 28, 2025

Leadership
Podcast: What Rom-coms Can Teach Business Leaders
On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we’ll discuss how these movies can help us navigate conflict and tackle power dynamics.
Researchers: Eli J. Finkel
三月 17, 2025

Careers
Podcast: How Should You Present Yourself at Work?
Be yourself! No, not like that. On this (rerun) episode of The Insightful Leader, we help you navigate the competing advice about how much to share and hold back.
Researchers: Ellen Taaffe and Derek D. Rucker
三月 4, 2025

Finance & Accounting
Why Small Firms Take a Pass on Profitable Opportunities
And how they can be encouraged to buy in.
Researchers: Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, Ulrike Malmendier and Waldo Ojeda
三月 4, 2025