Author: kmenke
Ignorance — About One’s Investments, Anyway — Isn’t Always Bliss
Valentin Haddad’s research looks at the phenomenon of “information aversion,” when individual investors stop tracking their portfolios for fear of bad news
If Shoe Shoppers Will Accept a Half-Size Difference, How Should Merchants Adjust Inventory?
Carrying fewer pairs of some sizes could be a potential profit booster for boutiques
Huge Spending — But Little Sharing of Research Results — on Cancer Drugs
U.S. efforts to encourage transparency widely ignored by companies
How-To Guide for Happiness Surveys, Which Increasingly Drive Public Policy
Advice for researchers aims to help improve both data collection and its interpretation
How Will You Spend Your IPO Windfall?
“Uh, I already bought a house”: Tech workers spend ahead of actual stock sales
How White Men, Discussing Race and Gender Inequities, Can Gain Credibility
Adding a note of personal advocacy to any factual statement helps a lot
How Very Small Stocks Skew Investing Wisdom
Well-known market anomalies are largely absent among the biggest stocks
How Universities Can Behave Like Entrepreneurial Organizations
Tradition bound, colleges face pressures to be nimbler, more opportunistic
How Unions Tried to Harness Pension Fund Clout to Aid Organizing
A book examines labor’s alliance with other large shareholders to rein in corporate power
How to Spur Capital Spending: Plan for Failure
Companies might invest more in new ventures if they could see in advance how to redeploy the assets if things don’t pan out
How to Spot a Nudge Gone Rogue
Researchers find common warning signs in persuasion projects that went wrong
How to Speed Progress on U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Operations management research identifies synergies for more efficient action
How to Reduce the Risk of Forced Labor in Agricultural Supply Chains
Improving the search for contractors that don’t use coercion
How to Properly Incentivize Your Unicorn Finder
VCs and other investors need a contract with their seeker that blunts conflicts of interest
How to Make Sustainable Products More Appealing to Consumers
Magali Delmas proposes a “green bundle,” combining environmental good with product traits — quality, healthiness, performance, status — that have always sold
How to Encourage the Discriminated-Against to Band Together
Membership in a stigmatized group doesn’t predispose acceptance of other stigmatized groups