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As it turns out, adding a simple writing exercise to the typical morning routine can energize leaders and make them more effective throughout the day.

Investors hate competition because it destroys firm value, but it also spreads the risk among many players when market demand falls.

People love stories about determined entrepreneurs who work alone until they achieve success. But an isolationist mindset tends to backfire in the real world.

A new study examines what happens when a platform owner enters the market with a product that directly competes against rivals in the app store. Does it help or hurt innovation?

To mark its 100th anniversary in 2017, Maryland Smith's Gilad Chen explored the evolution of the research featured in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Equal pay for equal work is a simple notion, but surprisingly hard to implement without buy-in from upper management and quantitative tools for decision support.

Maryland Smith’s Brent Goldfarb shows that federal funding affects both the rate and direction of inventive activity, partly by investing in areas that private corporations eschew.

How much do analysts really move markets? New research examine the role that reports play in determining an analyst's future at big investment banks.

A new predictive app that culls through medical data can offer a better answer to many cancer patients’ top question: “What’s my prognosis?”

Alternative perspective shifts the focus from wealth distribution to wealth creation and upward mobility for the masses.