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Customer Satisfaction | Marketing
Research links customer satisfaction to 12 measures of company performance, including customer metrics, accounting measures and stock market outcomes.
23 Oct
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Work Motivation | Organizational BehaviorShannon Sciarappa studies how people engage with work after leaving a profession they once considered a “calling.” Here’s how leaders can help make career passion sustainable.9 Oct
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Leadership | Organizational BehaviorThree organizational behavior scholars on outgrowing familiar strengths, managing from the middle and navigating the limits of control.25 Sep
Credit & Lending | More Business Wisdom
U.S. consumers and businesses are now facing a future of more expensive borrowing.
16 Sep
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AI | More Business Wisdom
Rice Business faculty are exploring big questions about AI and how it’s reshaping business, technology and the classroom.
11 Sep -
Corporate Reputation | StrategyAs corporate value has become more intangible, leaders have less control over how their organizations are perceived. Anastasiya Zavyalova explains what that means for reputation strategy.28 Aug
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Innovation | Strategy
China now files more patents than any other nation. But a new measure of innovation shows that their technological catch-up is only happening in a few manufacturing sectors.
June 26
Retirement | More Business Wisdom
Here’s what that means for retirees and workers who hope to retire.
June 26
Innovation | Finance
A new study suggests regions trying to attract venture capital may need to start with commercializable university innovation.
June 05
Online Polarization | Strategy
New research shows how competition galvanizes identity and emotion to drive supporters and critics apart.
May 22
Environment | More Business Wisdom
SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact.
May 21
AI | Operations
To keep learning over time, AI systems must forget some information. A new monograph explains why that tradeoff is essential.
May 08
AI | Organizational Behavior
Generative AI may give users an early boost in creativity, but lasting gains require effective augmented learning through a more active form of human-AI collaboration called “idea co-development.”
April 24
Voter Behavior | Organizational Behavior
New research finds that trust in others — not just political ideology — shapes who wants a strong-arm leader.
April 10
Interpersonal Dynamics | Marketing
When other people disclose a success or failure, we often respond in kind, or hold back, depending on what seems likely to protect their feelings.
March 27
CEO Compensation | Accounting
When companies break loan terms, boards adjust CEO pay to focus on stabilizing finances.
March 06