In popular perception, a patent represents innovation—the legal landmark between an inventor’s idea and the next must-have gizmo. But Kellogg's Sara Moreira suggests that many of these patents lie dormant. Learn why at Kellogg Insight. insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/how-... #KelloggLeader

How Big Companies Use Patents to Play Defense

And why that tactic could stifle innovation.

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The work doesn’t end when you leave the C-suite. Kellogg's Thomas O'Toole offers tips to get the most out of your next stage. kell.gg/051900

5 Tips to Chart Your Post-Corporate Life

The work doesn’t end when you leave the C-suite. Here are tips to get the most out of your next stage.

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DRRC-affiliated faculty William Brady and Maryam Kouchaki were recently featured in a Kellogg Insight article on how social media features reflect and shape the real world. Read the full article at insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/take-5-social-media-irl

Take 5: Social Media … IRL?

Kellogg faculty shed light on how social-media features such as influencer marketing, reposting, and “follow-backs” reflect and shape our offline lives.

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✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

So, you’ve tinkered with AI and want to level up. Get tips from Profs. Julio M. Ottino, Brian Uzzi, and Matthew Groh on using tech more effectively. Listen to "Automation, Answers, and Advice—a Playbook for AI Adoption" at Kellogg Insight. kell.gg/b35175

Podcast: Automation, Answers, and Advice—a Playbook for AI Adoption

So you’ve tinkered with AI, but now you want to level up. Here are tips from Kellogg faculty on using the tech more effectively.

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Before you lean on AI, ask yourself: do I really understand how AI works? DRRC faculty William Brady and Tessa Charlesworth are breaking down how bias shows up in AI systems and what to do about it. Tune in: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/podcast-when-it-comes-to-biases-ais-only-human

Podcast: When It Comes to Biases, AI’s Only Human

The AI models informing many of our decisions are riddled with preconceptions. On this episode of The Insightful Leader, two experts outline how bias creeps in.

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Meet @williambrady.bsky.social, an assistant professor of management and organizations at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social and a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient!

Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee William Brady on Blazing Your Own Research Path

The Spence Award recipient answered a few questions about his research on the interactions between human psychology and technology, the highlights of his career, and his practical advice for future re...

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Leadership and resilience lessons, written up by meeeeeeee*. (*It's my debut for @kellogginsight.bsky.social.) Enjoy, then take a lap! insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/buil...

Building Resilience, One Lap at a Time

A Kellogg professor and former swimming prodigy reflects on how the successes and failures of competition shaped his career beyond the pool.

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"The skills you learn for striking bargains and asking for raises can work at home … if you avoid common mistakes. Get advice for negotiating with friends and family from Professor Leigh Thompson: kell.gg/5d73f1

When the Negotiation Table Is the Dinner Table

The skills you learn for striking bargains and asking for raises can work at home … if you avoid these mistakes.

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Staying in a job too long is like overstaying your welcome at a party. Your moment to leave can come and go. Instead of waiting for a crisis to force your hand, Professor Sanjay Khosla offers three tips for good exit timing. Explore his advice in Kellogg Insight: kell.gg/b0b023

Are we overestimating the cost of political disagreement? Research from DRRC-affiliated faculty Nour Kteily and Eli Finkel finds that people often overestimate how negatively their own party will react to dissenting opinions. Read at lnkd.in/g2fuTj3a

Bucking the Party Line May Not Be as Perilous as People Think

Republicans and Democrats overestimate backlash from their own party for voicing dissent. It could be making polarization worse.

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What shapes our instinct to punish others? A new Kellogg Insight article featuring research by DRRC-affiliated faculty Maryam Kouchaki finds that faith can influence punishment decisions through “slippery slope” thinking. 🔗 Read the full article at lnkd.in/ggcS3SZF

Thanks @emollick.bsky.social for sharing our latest work on AI and empathy! It's a preprint, so we would love feedback and comments.

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AI can help us learn hard-to-teach human skills, like showing empathy. Preregistered study of 968 people found almost no correlation between feeling empathic & communicating empathy. But a single practice session with an AI coach made people measurably better at it arxiv.org/pdf/2603.15245

The waiting ... is the hardest part. A common problem many businesses face: customers leaving before getting service due to long wait times. Research from Prof. Achal Bassamboo paves the way for practical solutions. kell.gg/524dca

The Vicious Cycle of Long Wait Times

The longer customers wait, the longer they take when it’s their turn. That can gum things up further.

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Historically, new tech has replaced jobs that require more manual tasks. But a study from Kellogg's Dimitris Papanikolaou and Bryan Seegmiller suggest AI is doing the opposite, with big implications for workers. Read how at Kellogg Insight. kell.gg/83a65c

Is AI Turning Back the Clock on the Job Market?

Historically, new technologies have replaced jobs requiring more manual tasks. But AI is doing the opposite, with big implications for workers.

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Is peace a business strategy? Featuring insights from Cynthia Wang, "How Peace Can Be Good for Business" explores why peace should be considered alongside ESG as companies expand into unstable regions. 🔗 Read the full piece from Kellogg Insight: lnkd.in/gjXE87yN

How Peace Can Be Good for Business

Expanding ESG strategies to include conflict reduction can benefit both companies and the regions in which they operate.

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There is great excitement about the potential for AI to reshape science, but so far very little empirical evidence about how that is (or is not??) happening in real time. I'm excited to share a new working paper with Carolyn Stein about the impact of AlphaFold on science ->

Ellen Taaffe, a professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, has some advice on how to overcome what she calls "fear of messing up" (FOMU). I wrote about it for @kellogginsight.bsky.social: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/fear...

How to Quash Your Fear of Messing Up

FOMU can lead to an overabundance of caution. Read tips from a Kellogg expert on embracing risk and owning mistakes.

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What challenges face China in the year ahead? Professor Nancy Qian discusses real-estate anxieties, youth unemployment, and other trends to watch clouding outlook for the world’s second-largest economy at Kellogg Insight. kell.gg/5b2a1f

4 Trends to Watch in China’s Economy

The challenges go beyond tariffs and trade wars. A Kellogg expert discusses real-estate anxieties, youth unemployment, and other factors clouding the nation’s outlook.

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To keep your career on track, it’s better to make a job change early ... than to overstay your welcome. At Kellogg Insight, Prof. Sanjay Khosla identifies three signs it's time to plan a graceful departure from your current organization. kell.gg/2533d9

3 Signs It’s Time for Your Next Chapter

To keep your career on track, it’s better to make a job change early than to overstay your welcome.

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Whether it's a salary negotiation or buying furniture on Marketplace, bargaining is a fundamental part of doing business. Luckily, Prof. Caio Waisman's new study of eBay offers best practices for bargaining—learn more at Kellogg Insight. kell.gg/a1f9f0

In Price Negotiations, Every Second Counts

A study of millions of eBay transactions shows who benefits when buyers and sellers take longer than usual to respond.

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AI agents are "airplanes for the mind" - check out my latest piece in Nature. The question is not whether machines replace scientists, but what kind of scientist emerges when we learn to fly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots

As artificial-intelligence systems take on more of the scientific workflow, the central goal should not be complete automation, but designing platforms that preserve creativity, responsibility and sur...

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We are thrilled to share the program of the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-CEPR Conference on #Finance and #Development! seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/2... April 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social Featuring a dual submission with the RFS Thanks to Kellogg Asset Management Practicum, RFS, @cepr.org

For nearly a decade, Kellogg’s @noshir.bsky.social and Leslie DeChurch have conducted research on simulations of long-term NASA missions to Mars. Learn about their best practices to help keep crews from falling apart—in space, and on Earth. kell.gg/52229c #KelloggLeader

Houston, We Have a Solution

Kellogg researchers reveal a set of best practices—based on simulated missions to Mars—to keep teams working together effectively.

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Thrilled to share that alongside my role as Executive Director of the @drrc-kellogg.bsky.social I’m stepping into a new role as Executive Director of Kellogg Teaching Resources at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social. Excited to help advance cutting-edge pedagogy and the future of business education.

Happy 2026!!! In the spirit of reflecting on the past year as we begin a new one, I am sharing what our lab has been up to. Read on to learn about the q's we’re asking, find links to papers and media appearances, and see a pic of the lab at a Cubs game!

New paper, now on Kudos: we examine how conspiratorial beliefs undermine vaccine acceptance—and how perspective-taking can help break this link. Hoping this reaches practitioners & policymakers working on health misinformation. www.growkudos.com/publications...

When Conspiratorial Beliefs Are Hard to Change: Perspective-Taking as a Path to Vaccine Acceptance

Outbreaks of infectious diseases often go hand in hand with the spread of conspiracy beliefs. Once conspiracy beliefs take hold, they are difficult to change. These beliefs can make people less willin...

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New publication! Our paper in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied @apajournals.bsky.social, supported by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation identifies social interventions that reduce vaccine hesitancy linked to conspiratorial beliefs. www.researchgate.net/spotlight/69...

We’re thrilled to launch our new Kellogg (@kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social) and Dispute Resolution Research Center (@drrc-kellogg.bsky.social) website: teachwithkellogg.com! More new pedagogy will be added in 2026—we’re excited for you to explore the new website.

✨New preprint! Why do people express outrage online? In 4 studies we develop a taxonomy of online outrage motives, test what motives people report, what they infer for in- vs. out-partisans, and how motive inferences shape downstream intergroup consequences. Led by @felix-chenwei.bsky.social 🧵👇