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When and how employees choose to participate their company's employee stock purchase plans might depend on what their colleagues do.

For B2B sellers, knowing how much the buyer is willing to pay is difficult. New research from Maryland Smith is helping to figure it out.

Influence is happening at all levels across social networks online and marketers are scrambling to figure out the best people to target to spread their messages. New research has a better way to find them.

New research is important for understanding which economic forces might move expected stock returns in the first place.

Some traders time the market, others look for signs to get the most bang for their buck. But what’s the best method? Both, says new research.

New research shows with online shopping, retailers’ use of recommendation systems increases their overall sales and consumer click-throughs and conversion rates. The effect is greatest for mobile shoppers.

New research shows service providers at the lower end of the value chain mostly find that their efforts to move up yield limited success.

How do you make good decisions when you don’t have all the information in front of you? New research lays out a framework to learn from indirect or incomplete information to make better decisions.

Living through a climate-related disaster can be a harrowing experience for anyone. For professional money managers, it can even impact their investment decisions.

New research refutes a critique of a way to evaluate mutual fund performance.