How do founders leave marks that outlast them? Markus Becker walks through the mechanisms of organizational imprinting, and a career-long fascination with how ...

Bryan Spencer and Claus Rerup studied a learning arms race between market manipulators and the community they exploited. The scammers had the early ...

Christopher Myers went into the field expecting to study mentoring among air medical crews. What he found instead was storytelling doing work that ...

It started with live action role-playing: Pier Vittorio Mannucci, Davide Orazi, and Kristine de Valck recount how a shared hobby, a planned survey, ...

David Clough and Henning Piezunka explain why a firm watches its competitors' performance when deciding whether to drop a shared supplier, and how ...

Matthew Beane discusses shadow learning in robotic surgery, why the risk that matters for learning is socially constructed, and how the robot made ...

Susan Cohen began studying accelerators in 2011, puzzled that new programs copying Y Combinator's recipe got wildly different results. With Christopher Bingham and ...

What happens when a firm's divisions benchmark against each other instead of against their own past performance? Oliver Baumann, J.P. Eggers, and Nils ...

Susan Perkins presented this paper at conferences nearly a decade before it appeared in print. She recounts that long road, plus the advice ...

Dan Wang surveyed thousands of skilled migrants who returned home, then interviewed 160 of them. Those conversations changed how he measured embeddedness and ...

How does a researcher get nearly unlimited access to a Chinese phone factory, including permission to run a field experiment? Ethan Bernstein describes ...