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Overreacting to Bad Financial News Can Lead to Poor Investment Decisions
Neuroscientific research reveals that the brain reacts differently to negative vs. positive outcomes; recent research in finance shows that market participants (including investors and investment professionals) draw different lessons from market conditions depending on whether conditions are good or poor. Professor Camelia Kuhnen of University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School designed an experiment involving […]
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Why Deception Is Not Always Wrong
Lying, or any form of deception, is a negative and destructive behavior that is proscribed in organizations—at least theoretically. ReReal-lifeypically complicates theory, and a study from the University of Chicago Prof. Emma Levine reveals that whether deception is, unwarranted and destructive is heavily dependent on the context. Levine conducted a series of inductive and empirical […]
DEI Under Fire and the Future of Gender Equality
As more politicians and courts turn against Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) programs, more firms and organizations are proactively dropping these programs to avoid future lawsuits. How will this trend impact the prospect for future gender equality in the workplace? A team of legal scholars from Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia, and the University of […]
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Productivity or Control? What Truly Motivates Return-to-Office Mandates
As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to recede, should companies that had let employees work from home during the pandemic call them back to the office? Many managers argue that employees in the office are more productive and that working from home reduces firm performance. Many employees counter that eliminating commutes and giving […]
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Companies Need to Better Prepare Their People for AI
More than half of American professionals use artificial intelligence (AI) in their jobs, according to research from Washington State University’s Carson College of Business. The research was based on a survey of 1200 full-time professionals from throughout the United States. While 56% of professionals said they used AI in their jobs, that still left a […]
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Opinions of Other Managers Guide Middle Management Response to Strategy
Many people “make sense” of the world through their peers—that is, they seek to better understand events in the world around them by talking with and learning how their peers are responding to the events in question. This occurs when a new corporate strategy is announced by top management that is ambiguous—that is, not clearly […]
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Geography Still Counts for Electronic Word of Mouth
The Internet age, some argue, heralds “the death of distance.” For example, aside from occasional utilitarian factors, such as shipping costs, geography is irrelevant to a purchasing decision. Unlike physical stores, the geographic location of online vendors is irrelevant to the consumer. Along these same lines, one might assume that geographical proximity is even less […]
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