The Business of Saving the Planet
Putting their operations in harmony with the environment might be the single largest challenge faced by organizations today. Here is the latest research around building sustainability into business...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Don't shoot the messenger! ... How to address worker distress ... From script to big screen.
View ArticleWhat’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
Technology doesn't drive disruption—customers do. In a new book, marketing professor Thales Teixeira argues that successful disruptors are faster to spot and serve emerging customer needs than larger...
View ArticleDiagnostic Bubbles
This paper generates insights into the structure of asset price bubbles by modeling beliefs from fundamental psychological assumptions, and combining this with standard neoclassical mechanisms, such as...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
These CEO types are more productive ... Does revising make it better? ... Rewards spur more productivity.
View ArticleRelative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices
This paper discusses experiments involving more than 7,000 participants to shed light on how information and its presentation regarding sustainable performance can be a tool for enhancing sustainable...
View ArticleRocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
Private rocket companies are competing to be the first to send paying tourists into space, perhaps even this year. Matthew Weinzierl lays out the strategic roadmap to the stars.
View ArticleVoter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
Voter ID laws are often proposed as an antidote to election fraud. There's just one problem, according to Vincent Pons. They don't work.
View ArticleHow Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
Researchers believe gender stereotypes hold women back in the workplace. Katherine Coffman's research adds a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities.
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
The link between education and hospital mortality rates ... Why salespeople aren't effective managers ... Is communication related to employee performance?
View ArticleInfringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Copyright infringement may result from frictions preventing legal consumption, but also reveals demand. Research by Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer highlight the importance of mitigating user costs...
View ArticleJudgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry
Selecting early-stage ideas in creative industries is challenging because consumer taste is hard to predict and the quantity to sift through is large. Using The Black List that ranks scripts annually...
View ArticleThe Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
Product failures create managerial challenges for companies but market opportunities for competitors, says Ariel Dora Stern. The stakes have only grown higher.
View ArticlePursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare
What happens when Intermountain Healthcare invests resources in an innovative precision medicine unit to provide life-extending, genetically targeted therapies to late-stage cancer patients? Professors...
View ArticleStrict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel,...
Evidence on the consequences of strict ID laws adopted between 2008 and 2016 shows no significant negative effect on registration or turnout overall or for any subgroup defined by age, gender, race, or...
View ArticleThe Revision Bias
Nine studies document the revision bias: the tendency to prefer things that were revised, regardless of whether the revised versions are objectively better than their predecessors.
View ArticleWhat’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Google's founding ignited the “darkening of the digital dream,” according to a new book that critiques companies who profit off our personal data. How can consumers fight back? asks James Heskett.
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
First impressions matter ... Do labor codes ease exploitive working conditions? ... How businesses in some countries avoid taxes.
View ArticleThe Impacts of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior:...
This paper challenges the logic that making it easier for consumers to search across a wide assortment of products is the best strategy for online retailers. Research by Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira,...
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