Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe...
Large, productive, or internationalized firms tend to co-locate geographically. This study of the United States and Eurozone shows greater agglomeration around high performance plants, particularly...
View ArticleImproving Customer Compatibility with Operational Transparency
Service firms seeking prospective customers usually highlight the advantages of their offerings and downplay the tradeoffs. This study suggests a different approach: Provide transparency into...
View ArticleWhat Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
Tarun Khanna and Prithwiraj Choudhury use machine-learning technology to look for links between a CEO's communications style and company performance.
View ArticleHas the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
In a recent statement from the Business Roundtable, 200 powerful CEOs said corporations should widen their missions beyond just maximizing profits for shareholders.
View ArticleLipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
Influencer marketing has quickly become the best way to reach beauty consumers, proving more effective than celebrity endorsements and company ads, according to research by Alessia Vettese.
View ArticleWho Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device Industry
Major industries are undergoing a digital transformation, in which key aspects of new product development are migrating to a software-driven context. In the medical device industry, experience matters,...
View ArticleAre Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Despite warnings of an imminent recession, the US economic expansion just hit 122 months. Is the country recession-proof more than others? asks James Heskett.
View ArticleLegislators' Response to Changes in the Electorate: The Great Migration and...
The second Great Migration (1940–1970) brought to the US North and West more than four million African Americans. We show that this unique episode of internal migration contributed to the development...
View Article'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
We often make knee-jerk assumptions about what motivates other people’s choices, a bad habit both in the political and business worlds. Kate Barasz explains what we can do about it.
View ArticleMaking the Right Technical Hire
CEOs are usually more comfortable making key hires on the business side of the house than the technology side. Here is what executives need to understand about technical hires, according to Julia Austin.
View ArticleThe Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market
Despite the rise of alternative trading platforms, high-touch broker trading remains prominent in institutional equity markets. The authors analyze how fees, research, quality of execution, and...
View ArticleExperimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing
Is experimentation the right strategy for startups? This analysis of the adoption of A/B testing technology by 35,000 global startups provides evidence that a strategy based on repeated experimentation...
View ArticleEven for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
Are there immediate steps business and government should take to address climate change? Somewhere between trillion-dollar solutions and the next eco-calamity are opportunities to take action, argues...
View ArticleGermany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
In Germany, drugmakers must prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price than existing drugs. Ariel Dora Stern asks whether "value-based pricing" should become the standard elsewhere.
View ArticleCrowd Sourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
Hollywood insiders have created "The Black List," which helps surface good but often overlooked scripts. Does the wisdom of the crowd work at the box office? Research by Hong Luo.
View ArticleHow a New Leader Broke Through a Culture of Accuse, Blame, and Criticize
Children’s Hospital & Clinics COO Julie Morath sets out to change the culture there by instituting a policy of blameless reporting, which encourages employees to report anything that goes wrong or...
View ArticleWeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
WeWork's IPO has been one of the most debated in recent memory. But the real controversy, says Nori Gerardo Lietz, is what is contained in the company's prospectus.
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