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Consumers often prioritize paying off older loans first—even when paying off newer debt would save more money—because they feel they have psychologically invested more effort toward their older debt.
07/14/2026 | By Daniel Villanova
NEW RESEARCH POSTS
New research suggests mutual fund investors may not be nearly as poor at market timing as widely cited industry metrics imply.
07/07/2026 | By Tim Riley
Managers respond more strongly to errors from AI forecasts than traditional models, suggesting that perception—not just performance—shapes demand planning decisions.
06/30/2026 | By Finnegan McKinley, Rebekah Brau, John Aloysius, and Adriana Rossiter Hofer
Customer experiences and loyalty depend not just on individual employees or managers—but on the coworkers sharing each shift and the overall “shift climate.”
06/23/2026 | By Valerie Good
RESEARCH NEWS
Aligning private firm accounting with global standards appears to reduce information barriers and significantly increase foreign investment in previously hard-to-evaluate markets.
06/09/2026 | By Kris Allee
Content goes viral not because of what brands say, but because of how it makes audiences feel, with humor and emotional impact driving the most sharing.
06/02/2026 | By Jeff Mullins and Patrick A. Stewart
A new method shows how to accurately measure treatment effects—even when key variables change—by separating direct impacts from the hidden mechanisms driving them.
06/01/2026 | By Kyle Butts
Supplier codes of conduct are widely used but often ineffective because they enforce compliance instead of enabling collaboration across the supply chain.
05/26/2026 | By Remko van Hoek
This research shows that quiet quitting reflects employees’ deliberate or gradual withdrawal of extra effort—often signaling deeper workplace issues around burnout, fairness, and evolving expectations about work.
05/19/2026 | By John Delery
This research shows that presenting prices as dollars per unit increases price sensitivity and promotion effectiveness, highlighting how small changes in price framing can significantly influence consumer decisions.
05/12/2026 | By Daniel Villanova
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