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In this Insights Q&A, Dean’s Research Scholar and Associate Professor, Marketing Monic Sun tackles the increasing influence of social media...

Management Science recently published a study co-authored by Laurina Zhang, Assistant Professor in Strategy & Innovation, examining the effect of...

Harvard Business Review recently published insight co-authored by Laurina Zhang, Assistant Professor in Strategy & Innovation, on her research examining...

In a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Patricia Cortés, Associate Professor in Markets,...

Moshe Cohen provides insight on the importance of assessment when negotiating a job offer. He offers advice and guidance on...

Harvard Business Review recently published an article coauthored by Caroline Flammer, Dean’s Research Scholar and Associate Professor of Strategy and...

American Sociological Review recently published an article authored by Michel Anteby, Dean’s Research Scholar and Professor, Management & Organizations and...

For 20 years progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured...

Large digital multisided platforms (MSPs) such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Apple’s App Store have made it significantly easier for sellers to reach...

What impact will telemedicine and digital technology have on the U.S. healthcare system? Will telemedicine continue to be popular after...

A recent survey conducted over social media by Abraham (Avi) Seidmann, Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of...

Financial automation, or robo-advising, is a quickly growing industry. Trends such as WallStreetBets, the subreddit that led the GameStop surge,...

For decades, many businesses have experienced a race to incorporate the newest and best technologies in their organizations. Professor of...

Tesary Lin, Assistant Professor, Marketing, explores recent changes in privacy protection, such as Apple’s new iOS 14, and their effects...

New research from Pnina Feldman, Associate Professor, Operations & Technology Management, explores whether congestion pricing can offer a solution to...

President Biden recently passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package for COVID relief. Michael Salinger, Jacqueline and Arthur Bahr Professor and...

Many hospitals are struggling during COVID as they've had to shut down other wings to keep COVID patients safe. Do...

How should students navigate the job market and negotiating their salaries? Moshe Cohen, senior lecturer of Management & Organizations and...

According to a recent BankRate survey, most Americans could not cover a $1,000 financial emergency. Senior Lecturer of Finance Aaron...

The past year has brought a lot of trauma. How should organizations respond as it pertains to their employees? Should...

A new survey of more than 6,500 U.S. blood cancer patients and survivors reveals only half are likely to get...

What types of new organizations, products, or services will arise due to COVID that haven't yet been discussed widely? How...

Nitin Joglekar, Associate Professor, Operations and Technology Management, is currently serving as an expert on advanced manufacturing and supply chains,...

The power outages in Texas due to a winter storm are causing people to point to the fragility of energy...

The pandemic and subsequent economic downturn have forced companies to readjust their business models and pivot quickly to adapt to...

Professor of Marketing Carey Morewedge, with coauthors Haewon Yoon (Indiana University Kelley School of Business) and Irene Scopelliti (Business School...

As pharmaceutical companies and politicians scramble to disseminate the COVID-19 vaccine, one thing has become clear – accessibility is not...

Human brands such as Calvin Klein and David Beckham are at once hugely powerful as well as highly risky. In...

In this Insights@Questrom Q&A, Barbara Bickart, Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Marketing, explains how influencers...

The nation’s leading experts in biopharmaceutical innovation and pricing reform recently convened for a virtual discussion exploring the relationship between...

What impact has the pandemic had on the current US health insurance system? What bottlenecks/constraints have there been to care,...

Pfizer and Moderna are working rapidly to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine. Insights@Questrom spoke with Marcus Bellamy, Assistant Professor, Operations...

Lecturer of Management Constance Hadley recently had a piece published in MIT Sloan Management Review on team member loneliness. Specifically,...

Massachusetts' minimum wage has been raised from $12.75 to $13.50 per hour. While businesses have been preparing for this increase...

Experts predict that under a new Biden administration, mortgage rates will remain low, homebuying may become more challenging with the...

Investors will soon be able to trade water as other commodities over fears of a future scarcity of the resource....

Key 2021 trends and takeaways from interviews with 31 Boston venture capitalists, industry professionals, and experts.

A new study suggests that up to a third of "excess deaths" in 2020 may not be attributable directly to...

The pandemic has increased dependence on online shopping and the way consumers interact with companies. How has the digital purchase...

What are key conflict management strategies that managers should know? Why is it important to manage conflicts in your organizations...

As the U.S. enters the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and some states such as California lockdown, small businesses...

Associate Professor of Management & Organizations Michael Anteby researches the role that ghostwriters play in creating "authentic" content for the...

Companies are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence to lessen the burden on service employees and create a more streamlined process. Michelle...

The stock market is now intertwined with COVID – when cases spike, the market drops, and vice versa. Insights@Questrom spoke...

Professor Nitin Joglekar recently published an article in MIT Sloan Management Review on adapting supply chains to react to times...

Questrom’s Andy King recently published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on the “win-win” strategies businesses utilize. It...

Research by Chiara Longoni, Assistant Professor of Marketing, explores what is known as the “word-of-machine effect,” where customers view AI...

Restrictions on student and work visas are directing international applicants to universities in other countries. Shulamit Kahn and Megan MacGarvie,...

Initial results for the Pfizer vaccine suggest that the vaccine is 95% effective. Eric Jacquier, clinical professor of finance, explains...

COVID-19 infection rates and hospitalization rates are reaching new daily records, and deaths now have exceeded 240,000. The present surge...

The recent #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have sparked increasing discussion around gender and racial diversity in the workplace....

The tax policies proposed by President-elect Joe Biden has implications for your paycheck, investments, and retirement savings. Insights@Questrom spoke to...

BU Questrom marketing expert explores how the ability to track our online activity impacts the digital economy.

In this Q&A, Questrom Magazine talks with Jonathan Woodson and Anita Tucker about improving healthcare coverage, fixing supply issues, and...

Investments and savings expert Zvi Bodie on how the coronavirus crisis exposed long-standing faults in our retirement system—and how to...

Data from managers across the world about how they are coping with COVID-19 found a lack of clarity, fading connections,...

While open collaboration platforms like Wikipedia have dramatically increased the world’s access to educational information, enormous gaps remain that may...

Questrom's Gregory Stoller on repairing relations between China and the United States and how international trade might change after COVID.

When it comes to the best pitches and persuading an audience, there are some common threads, says Gregory Stoller, senior...

AI continues to enhance the consumer shopping experience. Chiara Longoni, Assistant Professor of Marketing, recently discussed her article published in...

In a new op-ed published by CNN Business, Questrom’s Jay Zagorsky warns that despite a COVID-19 induced coin shortage,  a...

Charles Tharp, a professor of the practice and former head of HR at Bristol Myers Squibb, on starting, maintaining, or...

What’s your tactic for enduring boring meetings? Whether you write your shopping list, play buzzword bingo, or just zone out,...

While we might not know when we’re going back to the workplace, it’s imperative to plan—and Professor Fred Foulkes posits...

Questrom’s Catherine Fazio presents new research that shows new business formation is beginning to decline in a dramatic and worrisome...

In a new piece in Psychology Today, organizational psychologist and Questrom Professor Bill Kahn dives into what that stress means,...

In a recent article published on the Harvard Business Review website, Dean Emeritus Ken Freeman reflects on how best to...

Questrom Professor’s op-ed illuminates weak points in the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

New research from BU Questrom's Rena Conti delves into the Affordable Care Act's effect on prescription drugs and what might...

Smokers’ cravings for cigarettes are strong on their own, but work by Questrom and Harvard researchers suggests one emotion can...

New research found that consumers’ actions indicate that they don’t value online privacy nearly as much as they say, that...

New research from Andrei Hagiu challenges the assumption that it’s possible to use customer data to gain an unbeatable competitive...

How to get consumers to buy now, not later — and love it

New research by Questrom’s Sanaz Mobasseri suggests that spikes in violent crime in an employer’s neighborhood can lead to still...

Even though medical AI can perform with expert-level accuracy and deliver cost-effective care at scale, why do patients overwhelmingly prefer...

First-of-its-kind study shows that cuts in federal funding for science might hinder the economy by halting innovation.

You probably don’t know if your bank files its taxes as an S corporation or a C corporation, but your...

As the marketplace for service-based employment increases, firms must carefully decide how to allocate control and employment status to those...