The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior:...
With even minor changes to the design of an online store, sellers may get more full-priced sales from price-insensitive shoppers. As shoppers spend more time on the website given higher search...
View ArticleKids of Working Moms Grow Into Happy Adults
In earlier research, Kathleen McGinn and colleagues discovered that adult kids of working moms are high achievers at work. Now it turns out they are happy, too.
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Should we blame the robots when high tech does harm? ... Time to mingle vs. money to spend ... Creative consultants bring fresh ideas.
View ArticleNo More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Immigrants bring with them innovations from their homelands, knowledge that local inventors often build upon, says Prithwiraj Choudhury. Examples: turmeric medicine, double-entry bookkeeping, and...
View ArticleThe Creative Consulting Company
The most creative consulting companies balance conflicting demands between short‐term business development and long‐term knowledge creation. Research by Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan, and David P....
View ArticleThe Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many who were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it.
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Changing your thinking can change your life ... An innovative contest seeks employee ideas ... Blockbuster films on a micro-budget.
View Article4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
In the face of today’s many messy problems, businesses must strive to help find solutions, argues George Serafeim. Managers who learn to exercise their “agency” at every level will be in the best...
View ArticleWhy Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
You may think you are an ethical person, but self-interest can cloud your judgment when you sit down at the bargaining table, says Max Bazerman.
View ArticleHow Does Product Liability Risk Affect Innovation? Evidence from Medical...
This analysis by Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo examines how a surge in liability risk faced by upstream suppliers of general purpose technologies (polymers) affected downstream innovation in implant...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
Practical advice for advisors ... A focus on company culture ... India's ambitious health insurance program.
View ArticleAre Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
Free trade seems to work well for countries and companies, but less well for labor, observes James Heskett. A number of new books suggest the resulting social costs need correrction. Do you agree?
View ArticleSupersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar...
Electronics manufacturers are finding it more and more difficult to stay ahead of low-cost competitors, says Willy Shih.
View ArticleEconomic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation
This study by Giacomo Magistretti and Marco Tabellini suggests that demand for democracy increases with economic integration due to the presence of a learning and cultural transmission channel, so less...
View ArticleGifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass...
Investigating the economic and political effects of immigration across US cities between 1910 and 1930, Marco Tabellini finds that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Let’s shake on it ... Sowing seeds of democracy with economic integration ... How a company focused its relief efforts.
View ArticleParmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Why did Italian bank Credito Emiliano accept young Parmigiano-Reggiano as loan collateral? What can Jane Austen and Mel Brooks teach us about finance fundamentals? What's up with millennials and their...
View ArticleWomen Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
Roughly one in 66 women has a better chance of leaving the hospital alive if their doctor is also a woman, according to research by Laura Huang and colleagues.
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