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A new study shows that large pay gaps among R&D professionals at the same job level within an organization can stifle exploratory innovation — the kind that leads to U.S. patent filings.

In cities around the globe, it seems like bike and electric scooter rentals are everywhere. But if one isn’t in the right place when a person needs it, they aren’t going to walk out of their way to find one.

To attract more online auction bidders and drive up prices, two things matter: how long an auction is active and the day of the week it closes, finds new research.

How many streaming entertainment options are too many? A new study examines what industry leaders must do to hold the spotlight.

Financially vulnerable individuals – those without a savings safety net – stifle their own economic advancement because they negotiate less effectively.

Regret is usually thought of as a bad thing, but new research identifies conditions when it can benefit companies as well as consumers.

There’s a lot marketers can learn from the text we create on social media. New research explains how.

A popular video game reveals a clear connection between how much hierarchy founders create in their startups and where they hail from.

Some startups bet everything on a single visionary founder. But organizations with stable shared leadership are more likely to grow and emerge as industry anchors.

In the grand scheme of the economy, the accounting information that individual firms report can have big impacts.