
What the Right Gets Wrong About Adam Smith
Blog, Incentives, LawWhat to make of Adam Smith?

The Exploitation of Hollywood’s Writers Is Just Another Symptom of Digital Feudalism
Blog, Corporate Culture, IncentivesThe current Hollywood writers strike has drawn international attention to the plight of TV and film writers in the streaming era.

Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete?
Blog, Corporate Culture, Fairness, IncentivesIn 2021, my research assistant and I interviewed Nikhil, a father in Delhi, about his family’s experience getting their deaf son Vikas a cochlear implant.

The Secrets of Cooperation
Blog, IncentivesPeople stop their cars simply because a little light turns from green to red.

Why It’s (Sometimes) OK for the Boss to Play Favorites
Blog, Corporate Culture, Fairness, Incentives, LeadershipIt is managers’ natural tendency to pick favorites.

3 Organizational Issues Most Leaders Fail to Get Right
Blog, Corporate Culture, Incentives, Leadership
When surveys find workers feeling disrespected at work as a leading reason for quitting, it can be all too easy for leadership to brush this off as either a generational problem (“kids these days”) or something that only HR can address.
When…

The Obscure Calculation Transforming Climate Policy
Blog, Decision Making, Incentives
After long debate, economists and philosophers are reaching consensus on how to value future generations.
Barring a mass Homo sapiens extinction event from, say, nuclear war or another disaster, many more billions of humans will…

Banking Culture Reform: Trust, Technology, and The New Workplace
Blog, Compliance & Ethics Programs, Corporate Culture, Corporate Culture Assessment, Incentives, PodcastIn this episode of the Bank Notes podcast, from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, host Toni Dechario, a member of the New York Fed’s culture team, speaks with Alison Taylor about her interest in the link between unethical behavior and organizational culture, ethical pressures in finance, the need to do proper behavioral experimental research in real organizations, and more.

What Commentators Get Wrong (and Right) About North Korea
Blog, Decision Making, Incentives, NegotiationThis month, North Korea tested around two dozen missiles, including an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a range of approximately 5,000 miles.

Misinformation Is Not As Persuasive As People Fear
Blog, Decision Making, Incentives, TrustIn 2017, Collins Dictionary crowned “fake news” its word of the year.