A new study finds good middle managers add to workplace productivity.
New research by Ilan Guttman explores how information disclosure can affect financial panics.
New research shows that seeing all your options at once makes you happier with the choice you make.
Professor Baba Shiv discusses how you can coax risk-averse managers to innovate.
A new paper says shareholder voting on executive pay doesn't improve compensation practices.
Negotiators gain more concessions with cool threats than with heated words.
Given the pervasiveness of social media, should the board of directors pay closer attention to the information exchanged on these sites? Can this information be used to improve oversight and risk management?
Nice guys may not finish first, according to research coauthored by Nir Halevy of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In fact, taking care of others in your group and even taking care of outsiders may reduce a nice guy's chance of becoming a leader.
Elections sometimes give policy makers incentives to pander to implement policies that voters think are in their best interest even though the policy maker knows they are not, says Professor Kenneth Shotts. In general, an effective media reduces this tendency to pander, "but there are some exceptions to this general rule."
The 2008 turmoil in world oil prices was not caused by an imbalance of supply and demand, argues Professor Kenneth Singleton of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Instead there was an "economically and statistically significant effect of investor flows on futures prices."
