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Rebecca Lester
I love accounting and I also love politics. Tax is the intersection of the two.

Rebecca Lester

Associate Professor of Accounting
Mohsen Bayati
The idea that you could make an impact with mathematics became fascinating to me.

Mohsen Bayati

The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Jeffrey Pfeffer
If power is to be used for good, more good people need power.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

The Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior
Susan Athey
I like building things that demonstrate how a class of problems can be solved.

Susan Athey

The Economics of Technology Professor
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Recent Publications by Our Faculty

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Manufacturing Risk-Free Government Debt

Zhengyang Jiang, Hanno Lustig, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Mindy Z. Xiaolan
The Journal of Finance February2026

Do Coercive Liability-Management Exercises Destroy Firm Value?

Mike Harmon
ABI Journal January12026 Vol. XLV Issue 1

From Local Knowledge to Global Patterns: A Cross-cultural Study of the Dimensions of Hazards and Adaptive Capacity

Samantha K. King, Cynthiann Heckelsmiller, Carol R. Ember, Eric C. Jones, Sebastian Wang Gaouette, Anj Lee Droe, Danielle Russell, Jacqueline Heitmann, Isana Raja, Michele J. Gelfand
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction January2026 Vol. 132
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Featured Books by Our Faculty

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Sports Business Management: Decision Making Around the Globe

George Foster, Norm O’Reilly, Antonio Dávila
New York and London
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The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Robert I. Sutton, Hayagreeva Rao
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The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - New and Expanded Edition

Anat R. Admati, Martin Hellwig
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Arguing about Tastes: Modeling How Context and Experience Change Economic Preferences

David M. Kreps
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Insights by Stanford Business

Idea Stories Opensearch
January 07, 2026
Written

Here’s the Best Way to Sell a Hot Rotisserie Chicken

Many grocery stores are doing it all wrong. It’s better to move the freshest food to the front of the shelf.
Operations & Logistics
January 07, 2026
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Class Takeaways — How to Build Connection Through Better Listening

Five lessons in five minutes: Professor Christian Wheeler shares how to have deeper, more productive conversations.
Leadership & Management
December 18, 2025
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Does the Hot Hand Really Exist? “Jeopardy!” Has Some Answers.

What the Daily Double can tell us about an irrational belief in winning streaks
Marketing
December 17, 2025
Written

Researchers Build a Virtual World to Run Experiments Over and Over

A social network with 20,000 AI-driven users simulates real human behavior — to a point.
Technology & AI
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