Adam Cobb and Flannery Stevens argue that where large firms employ fewer people, state income inequality rises. The idea traces back to Jerry ...

Francis Flynn, Jennifer Chatman, and Sandra Spataro flip the usual question about stereotyping: instead of studying perceivers, they ask whether extraverted, self-monitoring targets ...

Interdisciplinary research wins citations but costs productivity. Erin Leahey, Christine Beckman, and Taryn Stanko discuss that trade-off, why their sample couldn't answer the ...

Managers at Nokia worked as filters, not daring to deliver bad news upward. Timo Vuori and Quy Huy describe how fear crept from ...

Sharon Koppman traces how omnivorous cultural tastes formed in childhood help people land creative jobs in adulthood, a link two cultural capital literatures ...

The idea for studying résumé whitening came from Sora Jun, then an undergraduate. She and Sonia Kang, Katherine DeCelles, and András Tilcsik describe ...

The scripts for Star Wars and Seinfeld were rejected multiple times. Justin Berg discusses why managers who specialize in evaluating ideas may get ...

Conventional wisdom says specialists are rewarded. Jennifer Merluzzi and Damon Phillips found the opposite among MBAs entering investment banking, where the most focused ...

Curtis Chan and Michel Anteby wanted to train alongside TSA officers until their IRB balked at researchers making national security decisions. They recount ...