The findings suggest an active market for CEOs, who are lured to PE-owned companies by higher compensation, less public scrutiny, and the operations expertise that PE firms bring to bear. CEO ...

However, Graeber’s research suggests that leaders who are well-calibrated about what they know and don’t know, acknowledge their blind spots, and engage others in the decision process might have ...

While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, many are failing to reach their climate goals, and the media rarely picks it up. There is ...

Testing for gender bias To simulate a real-life hiring situation, the researchers created online experiments with 100 participants representing workers seeking jobs, and another 800 representing ...

Sales take a dive The research team used data collected between March and May 2020 by the nonprofit JUST Capital to examine the actions of 354 large companies that collectively employ 27 million ...

Internet Age Disperses Innovation In the working paper Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity, researchers Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein look for patterns ...

More than 33,000 people die in gun-related incidents every year in the United States—which is comparable to the number of fatalities resulting from car accidents. Current gun-purchase laws in most ...

Why are publicly funded universities so important? “Public institutions in the United States educate three-quarters of all American university students. They count among their ranks many of the ...

Consumer Chapter 13 filings, which are designed to save assets like homes, didn’t rebound in April. Through August, those filings hovered between 55 percent to 65 percent below 2019 levels, the ...

In a cluttered online world, few can resist the convenience of an automated ranking when deciding what movie to watch on Netflix or which seafood restaurant looks promising in a Google search. But ...

How often do we tell children that the key to success is putting forth effort? That advice might seem like admirable inspiration to encourage kids to work hard as they pursue their goals. However, new ...

In the Deferred Acceptance algorithm, matches are made in a series of rounds, until everyone is matched up. The matching achieved through DA has a special property of "stability." In a stable matching ...