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- Why the binding arbitration game is rigged against customers (2019) https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-binding-arbitration-game-rigged-against-customers 95 comments
- When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (2005) https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/when-ceos-are-paid-bad-performance 106 comments
- Cash Amnesia https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/indulging-guilty-pleasure-dont-put-it-card 160 comments
- “We Have 30 Extra Years”: A New Way of Thinking About Aging https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/we-have-30-extra-years-new-way-thinking-about-aging 4 comments
- “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-copycat-layoffs-wont-help-tech-companies-or-their-employees 303 comments
- Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/many-companies-arent-prepared-replace-underperforming-ceos 238 comments
- Companies like HP must split to survive, is like the evolution of new species https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-some-big-corporations-must-split-survive 47 comments
- The Tipping Point: The Economics of Taxi Fares https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/tipping-point-subtle-psychology-economics-taxi-fares 131 comments
- Want to Learn How Things Work at Your New Job? Talk to People at the Bottom https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/want-learn-how-things-really-work-your-new-job 4 comments
- Practice does not necessarily make perfect when it come to creativity https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/practice-does-not-necessarily-make-perfect-when-it-comes-creativity 2 comments
- Rising US Inequality: How We Got Here, Where We're Going https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/rising-us-inequality-how-we-got-here-where-were-going 117 comments
- Roger McNamee: “Facebook Is Terrible for America” https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/roger-mcnamee-facebook-terrible-america 9 comments
- Are influencers overrated? New Study questions effectiveness of targeting “hubs” https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/are-influencers-overrated 23 comments
- The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/workplace-killing-people-nobody-cares 426 comments
- Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas” https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/marc-andreessen-take-ego-out-ideas 235 comments
- Do customers benefit from highly targeted online ads? http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/pedro-gardete-real-price-cheap-talk 12 comments
- What Our Digital Footprint Says About Us http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/what-digital-footprint-says-about-us 11 comments
- Vinod Khosla: I believe 70% of VCs reduce the potential of a company http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/vinod-khosla-be-wary-stupid-advice 94 comments
- What Makes People Collect Things? http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/itamar-simonson-what-makes-people-collect-things 21 comments
- An economist shows how imitation can sometimes beat innovation http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/chris-tonetti-economist-shows-how-imitation-can-sometimes-beat-innovation 2 comments
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- Why Working From Home Is a “Future-looking Technology” https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-working-home-future-looking-technology 9 comments practices
- Analyzing 460 CEO of 300 companies and 1.2mln of employees reviews, researchers found a significant correlation between a CEO’s personality and their firm’s culture, particularly with the “narcissist” personality https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/follow-leader-how-ceos-personality-reflected-their-companys-culture 7 comments science
- Why “Copycat” Layoffs Won’t Help Tech Companies — Or Their Employees https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-copycat-layoffs-wont-help-tech-companies-or-their-employees 179 comments programming
- How an “Impact Mindset” Unites Activists of Different Races A new study finds that people’s involvement with Black Lives Matter stems from an impulse that goes beyond identity. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-impact-mindset-unites-activists-different-races 15 comments science
- Virtual meetings generate fewer ideas (15-20% less) and less original because, according to a new research: When people focus on the narrow field of vision of a screen, their thinking becomes narrower as well. People who meet in person get creative stimulation by visually wandering around the space https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/thinking-inside-box-why-virtual-meetings-generate-fewer-ideas 516 comments science
- Study: Handing a mature idea to somebody else for execution harms the creativity of the final product. Instead, people should be involved with creative projects from relatively early in their development. http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/creativity-may-suffer-when-mature-projects-change-hands 9 comments science
- The Future of Hydrogen May Be Here. A new study shows that power-to-gas systems harnessing renewable energy can produce cleaner, cost-effective hydrogen for industry | Stanford Business https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/future-hydrogen-may-be-here 5 comments energy
- New research suggests that how technology companies recruit candidates during on-campus information sessions might play a role in dissuading women from the jobs. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-technology-companies-alienate-women-during-recruitment?linkid=52365242 5 comments science
- “The Workplace Is Killing People and Nobody Cares” https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/workplace-killing-people-nobody-cares 175 comments programming
- “The Workplace Is Killing People and Nobody Cares”. Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that long work hours, work-family conflict, and economic insecurity are toxic to employees, hurting engagement, increasing turnover, and destroying people’s physical and emotional health. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/workplace-killing-people-nobody-cares 191 comments business
- Should We Stop Licensing Doctors and Lawyers? https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/should-we-stop-licensing-doctors-lawyers 10 comments economy
- Deep Neural Networks Are More Accurate Than Humans at Detecting Sexual Orientation From Facial Images https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/deep-neural-networks-are-more-accurate-humans-detecting-sexual 3 comments science
- Silicon Valley’s Unicorns Are Overvalued: "Unicorns were once considered rare. Now, the United States is home to more than 100 of these venture-backed companies, each worth more than $1 billion." https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/silicon-valleys-unicorns-are-overvalued 9 comments technology
- A law giving special driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants in California did not increase the rate of total accidents or fatal accidents, according to a study of more than 800,000 such drivers. It has also helped reduce the likelihood of hit-and-runs. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/should-states-give-drivers-licenses-unauthorized-residents 3 comments science
- Why Are U.S. Bonds Such a Secure Investment, Despite the Country’s Growing Debt? https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-are-us-bonds-such-secure-investment-despite-countrys-growing-debt 5 comments economy
- Whites exposed to evidence of racial privilege claim to have suffered more personal life hardships than those not exposed to evidence of privilege https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/hard-knock-life-whites-claim-hardships-response-racial-inequity 1262 comments science
- Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research [PDF] http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/publication-pdf/science-2014-miguel-30-1.pdf 3 comments science
- Why the "hot hand" may be real after all http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/jeffrey-zwiebel-why-hot-hand-may-be-real-after-all 93 comments nba
- Why creativity rests on diet, exercise, and a good night's sleep http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/rx-for-innovation.html 9 comments productivity
- Uplifting study: In the event of a nuclear attack, hiding in the basement is safer than trying to flee the city http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/wein-sheltering-in-place-attack.html 18 comments science