Remote work erodes the personal bonds that boost collaboration at the office, according to research from Wharton’s Peter ...
The Long Tail theory suggests that the Internet drives demand away from hit products with mass appeal, and directs that demand to more obscure niche offerings. Yet a new research paper by Wharton ...
New research from Wharton’s Henning Piezunka reveals a common mistake that businesses make when hiring a new manager into an established leadership team. You’ve carefully selected the right new ...
Using AI as a tutor is like keeping a big jar of cookies in the kitchen cabinet, says Wharton professor Hamsa Bastani. “You tell yourself that you’re just going to eat one, but it’s a slippery slope,” ...
It was 2003, exactly 56 years after Ole Kirk Christiansen bought the first plastic injection molding machine in Denmark to start manufacturing plastic bricks for building-block toys. On the surface, ...
Most people would not prefer to take ethical advice from a computer, but a new Wharton study shows how attitudes change when users see how good AI guidance can be. No disrespect to philosopher Kwame ...
New research on index investing recommends the inclusion of ETFs in retirement accounts as an alternative investment option to open-end mutual funds. Until recently, both ETFs and mutual funds ...
The frenetic pace of Twitter means that updates are often here now and then gone in seconds. Users of the micro-blogging site are rarely interested in content tweeted by followers for more than a few ...
When accounting problems at American International Group surfaced last winter, it looked like a small matter next to the corporation-busting scandals of the Enron era. Even after AIG issued a ...
Cornell finance professor Maryam Farboodi and Penn economics professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde explore AI’s impact on the economy and financial markets, raising questions about growth, investment, ...
Meetings have emerged as one of the most universally despised conventions of American work life. But meetings themselves are not the culprit -- the problem is bad meetings. They interrupt flow, and ...
At the moment, there is no consensus about when to work, where to work or the number of hours one is expected to work. Is the traditional 40-hour work week dead? Today’s nine-to-fiver can only look at ...