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 ...

Studies on whether immigrants to the United States take jobs away from Americans or constitute a drain on social welfare are mixed, says Kerr, with some research showing a net loss and others showing ...

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 ...

Disney clearly knows a thing or two about creating memorable moments, says Julian De Freitas, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and ending with a bang is one surefire way of leaving an ...

Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible than previously thought. When confronted with political, policy, and market conditions that ...

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 ...

Author Abstract One attempt to regain the ground that strategy has recently lost, which was described in a separate article, has been the introduction of “business models” as the precursor to ...

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 ...

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 ...