What if you could measure effort and not just performance? What if you could determine if one person's effort in a workplace improved everyone's effort? What if you could determine if team efforts improved individual effort? ...
Social Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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New research based on thousands of reviews posted on Amazon shows that when people received free products in exchange for reviews, their ratings were significantly inflated—and product sales were stronger—even though ...
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2023
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A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible.
Economics & Business
Aug 2, 2023
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Machines can make better decisions than humans, but humans often struggle to know when the machine's decision making is actually more accurate and end up overriding the algorithm decisions for worse, according to new research ...
Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2023
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If you need a loan, you might try walking into a bank branch and meeting with a loan officer. But you might also try a peer-to-peer online lending platform such as Prosper.com or Kiva. These platforms publish your loan request ...
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2023
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During the coronavirus lockdowns, 50% of European workers were estimated to engage in some form of smart working—smart working at its worst, though, because it was unplanned and in many cases full-time, with a strong potential ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2023
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Financial distress can spread through the business network that links different firms at a speed that is dependent on the intensity of interfirm interactions. Empirical results show that, starting from the '80s, the economy ...
Economics & Business
Apr 19, 2023
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It looks like the "best practice" of removing gendered language from job listings may simply have been a "best guess" by managers seeking to increase diversity of applicant pools for their organizations. New research in Management ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2023
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Raising daughters can make male company leaders more supportive of women's struggles for equality, new research shows. This also leads to employing more women in their companies and on their boards.
Social Sciences
Mar 27, 2023
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You'd probably guess that simplifying the checkout process at an online retailer will lead customers to buy more. The question is: How much more?
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2023
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