Domenika Uskova (Warwick Business School & Nova School of Business and Economics) explores with Mathijs de Vaan (UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business) the hidden tension at the heart of professional referrals: how the strong ties that build trust between patients and specialists simultaneously undermine the search for optimal expertise matches, with measurable consequences for patient health outcomes.

Author Anna Kim (McGill University) chats with Marselia Tan (ESSEC Business School) about the profound human relationships behind her research with Kenyan tea farmers—how her grandparents’ colonial experiences shaped her understanding, why she may not have "exited" the field, and what her tears while making sense of data revealed about the agency of those typically seen only as passive beneficiaries ...

Esther Yau Chau (University of Alberta) and Amirsalar Jafari Gorizi (University of Texas at Dallas) explore with Andrew Nelson (University of Oregon), Callen Anthony (NYU Stern), and Mary Tripsas (UC Santa Barbara) how professional musicians' frustration with black-boxed digital technology sparked the surprising return of analog synthesizers, and what this reveals about the relationship between occupational dynamics and technology trajectories.

An interview with Professor Lindsey D. Cameron from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Interviewers Xian Zhu (McGill University) and Krishna Dermawan (University of Queensland) unpack the process in the development of this paper on gig-workers in the ride-hailing industry.

In this conversation, interviewers Ashley M. Flowers (University of South Carolina) and Ejian Zhou (Erasmus University) explore with Letian Zhang (Harvard University) and Shinan Wang (Northwestern University) the research process behind their study on how national differences in social trust shape hiring strategies across the European Union.

Luise Kaufmann (Technical University of Munich) and Vetrikumaran (Vetri) Ananthasayanam (University of Alabama) sit down with Panayiotis (Panikos) Georgallis (University of Amsterdam), Glen Dowell (Cornell SC Johnson College of Business), and Rodolphe Durand (HEC Paris) to unpack the development of their research on how nascent industries navigate government policy in the face of powerful incumbents.

Interviewers Marton Gera (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University) and Saeed Fanoodi (University of Mississippi) explore with Muhan Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Forrest Briscoe (The Pennsylvania State University), and Mark R. DesJardine (Dartmouth College) the development of their research on how diffuse street protests indirectly shape corporate governance through board appointments.

Interviewers Linette Dawson (University of Tampa) and Yanbo Song (INSEAD) sit down with Rodrigo Canales (Yale School of Management) and Charlie Cannon (Rhode Island School of Design) to discuss how their research bridges organizational theory and design thinking to explain why smart, well-funded teams working on urgent problems still struggle to collaborate across sectors.

Grant Jacoby (University of North Carolina) sits down with Jason Davis (INSEAD) to trace the evolution from his research on collaboration dynamics in innovation ecosystems to his current work on how AI is fundamentally reshaping teams, strategy, and the innovation process itself.

Interviewers Fabio Busicchia (Polytechnic University of Milan) and Tailun Chen (Zhejiang University) explore with Mia Chang-Zunino (ESCP Business School) and Stine Grodal (Northeastern University) the puzzle of why scientific evidence failed to shift public understanding of AIDS, and what distinguishing between causal and moral dimensions of categories reveals about resistance to new facts.