This article is published jointly with the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. When a high-profile disaster occurs—from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill to Pacific Gas & Electric’s San Bruno pipeline explosion—the public scramble for answers and accountability begins. Oftentimes, among the teams of investigators called in from law enforcement and government agencies, […]
Organizational Reliability Experts Rangaraj Ramanujam and Karlene Roberts curate 30 years of work in the field for researchers and practitioners
Male graduate business students recommend riskier asset allocations on average than their female counterparts, whereas male and female professional wealth managers recommend the same asset allocations, according to new research from Nicolas Bollen, Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, and Steven Posavac, E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Marketing, of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management. […]
New Research from Kelly Goldsmith identifies a relationship between immoral behavior, scarcity, and the “maximizing mindset”
New study from Megan Lawrence reconciles “competency traps” with the benefits of experience
New research from Tae-Youn Park invokes regulatory focus theory to discussions on pay disparity and fairness issues
Organization Studies professors acknowledged for their research contributions
Kelly Haws’ latest research identifies a new correlation between price and consumption
At a high level, Kelly Haws studies consumer behavior, but much of her research boils down to the elements of choice – how do our perceptions, self-control resources, and access to information guide our decision-making (or not)? These questions have led her to focus on particular domains, namely food and finance. So when Haws, Assistant […]
Higher-ranking positions may blind people to unethical practices they are typically responsible for stopping
Medical malpractice claims are not influenced by doctors who apologize
Michael Lewis’ best-selling book Flash Boys describes a phenomenon where investors place buy or sell orders for a stock based on an acceptable quoted price only to see that price change unfavorably at the moment the trade is executed. The culprits, according to the book, are high-frequency traders (HFTs), which employ complex computer algorithms and […]
In a study to be published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, researchers found that women are usually at a disadvantage during negotiations.
