Lindsey Cameron traces her decade of gig economy research to watching her mother fight downward mobility after the Great Recession, and to Jerry ...

Arvind Karunakaran joins the podcast to discuss what happens when social media outrage lands on 911 dispatchers and other frontline professionals, and how ...

James Chu gained access to a Chinese migrant school by volunteering as an English teacher and stayed connected for fifteen years. He explains ...

Vanessa Conzon set out to study flexible work policies and only later noticed that managers' responses split along gender lines. She also calls ...

A kitchen conversation at Imperial College led Brice Dattée to Ducati, then to Lamborghini. He recounts the origins of his paper with Jean-Luc ...

Flattery works even when you have nothing to brag about. Gareth Keeves, James Westphal, and Michael McDonald on why ingratiating managers come to ...

Hatim Rahman had spent a year embedded in an online labor platform when it switched to an opaque rating algorithm. That accident of ...

It started when eBay managers admitted their business sellers were upset and they didn't understand why. Corentin Curchod traces a decade of phenomenon-driven ...

Xu Huang recounts how his DBA student, now CEO of Taiwan's largest shoe manufacturer, insisted on studying succession while clashing with his own ...

How do you pick sites for a comparative ethnography? Katherine Kellogg explains why she only studies hospitals matched on everything the literature already ...

A reviewer's observation sent Carlo Salvato and Claus Rerup back into their Alessi data: the truces between original design and efficient production were ...

Emily Truelove and Katherine Kellogg walk through the countless drafts behind their radical flank paper, including reviewer orders to swap an empirical puzzle ...

What do destabilized baboon hierarchies have to do with executive risk-taking? Jennifer Jordan, Niro Sivanathan, and Adam Galinsky trace their study of power, ...

Alison Fragale, John Sumanth, Larissa Tiedens, and Gregory Northcraft used emails made public by the Enron investigation to study deference among peers, after ...

Alexandra Michel spent nine years studying investment bankers who work 100-hour weeks, and explains why organizations control employees most effectively through their bodies, ...

Merely being associated with a powerful person can make people feel powerful themselves, even when the tie gives them nothing real. Noah Goldstein ...

As a Senate aide, Victoria Brescoll noticed that the most powerful women rarely took the floor while their male counterparts seized every chance. ...

What began as a marketing study of a natural food co-op turned into something else once idealists and pragmatists started fighting. Blake Ashforth ...

Huggy Rao and Sunasir Dutta recount how a study of the 1857 Bengal Army mutinies began with a phone call to a not-yet-matriculated ...