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It was easy to focus this question on larger companies given their scale and stakes. But it’s just as important for small and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, from mom-and-pop to venture-backedstart-ups. For the purposes of this article, we’re talking about companies with fewer than 5,000 employees. but we see its applicationAll includedgenerally—whether the business makes software or soup.The capabilities of frontier AI models are accelerating at a rate that is hard to overestimate.OpenAI’s GDPval benchmarkfinds that today’s best models are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts—completing professional tasks about a hundred times faster and at a fraction…
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It’s a bold claim—not only because it bucks conventional wisdom, but because conducting robust research on the effects of online advertising is very difficult. To conduct a proper experiment, researchers would need to find a platform where some users see ads and others don’t — a rarity on today’s Internet.But in reality, a small percentage of Facebook users live in such a special no-commercial zone. They’re called the “ad-free pool”—about 14.5 million people who When see ads in their Facebook News Feed. The company uses this randomly assigned segment as a control group in its own internal research, but Kellogg’s…
The National Federation of Independent Business, for example, found in it January 2026 report that 88 percent of small businesses looking to hire workers reported that there were few or no qualified candidates to fill open positions. Economic theory—and common sense—suggests an easy solution for these employers: offer higher wages. But in many cases, companies don’t bite. “There are people looking for work,” he says Benjamin Friedrichassociate professor of strategy at Kellogg. “If companies say they can’t find workers, there’s a price that could clear that market.” To find out why many companies don’t take this approach, Friedrich—along with his…
1. Use discrete measures of willingness to pay One of the most important aspects of the retail process that retailers face is deciding how to optimally price their products or services. Charge too much and you may stifle interest. Charge too little and you’re leaving money on the table. Kellogg professors Derek Rucker and Eric Anderson and a colleague surveyed the existing research to determine if there is a consensus on how best to determine customers’ willingness to pay (WTP). They found that existing methods were inadequate and left out key information that could improve efforts to accurately measure this…
Only if you handle these negotiations with care, he says Leigh ThompsonJ. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations at the Kellogg School. “The most important thing is [that] we have a future with friends and family,” says Thompson. “These are not isolated negotiations. I’m not buying something like a house or a car where I’m really not going to see you again.” In a recent edition of The Insightful Leader Live webinar series, Thompson described the pitfalls people fall into when trying to use business negotiation skills with their loved ones. The risks are countless, including escalating threats,…
The experience of apprentices and trainees in the real world is not that different from Luke’s. Take, for example, the junior lawyer who chokes under a pile of papers, or the corporate intern who takes coffee orders, or a series of aspiring chefs who shuck oysters all day. Exhausting as it may seem, this drudgery is often seen as a necessary evil because it is the only way many apprentices can repay their teachers for their training. “The master can say, ‘Okay, I’ll train you. But in return, I’ll make you work for me for a while and I’ll pay…
The ugly combination of inflation and recession is maximizing pain for consumers and businesses, while also leaving policymakers without their usual levers to guide the economy. It creates a crisis that is greater than the sum of its parts, says economist Kellogg Philip Brown. “Stagflation is when the economy is stagnant and inflation is rampant,” says Braun, clinical professor of economics at Kellogg. “And the sum of two negatives equals three negatives.” The United States has been lucky to avoid stagflation for decades, since the oil shocks of the 1970s. But after fears of stagflation subsided during the COVID recovery,…
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