Attacking a competing firm with negative advertising can have unintended consequences, warns research co-authored by Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim. In the 1980s, the business world witnessed an epic battle ...

The blockchain, a form of distributed ledger technology, has the potential to transform the financial sector by bringing lower costs, faster execution of transactions, improved transparency, ...

To keep Hitler’s war machine going, the Nazis captured bullion from European central banks that today would be worth $19 billion, writes George M. Taber, author of 'Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story ...

Credit card lending delivers a much higher return on assets than the banking sector, according to new research co-authored by Wharton’s Itamar Drechsler. The authors analyzed four potential ...

Safety is a perennial issue for ride-hail companies. Wharton’s Lindsey Cameron looks at Uber’s pilot program to match women drivers with women riders. When Wharton management professor Lindsey Cameron ...

There is no evidence yet of AI collusion hurting the financial markets, but the threat is real, warns a paper co-authored by Wharton’s Winston Wei Dou and Itay Goldstein. As world leaders last week ...

Earlier this summer, when employees first learned of a Google plan to upgrade and dramatically raise the price of its day care program, they wept. According to Wharton faculty and compensation experts ...

Wharton finance professor Michael R. Roberts revisits whether homeowners should invest extra money rather than use it to make additional mortgage payments in the current economic environment. In this ...

Wharton’s Benjamin Lockwood explains why state-run lotteries are so compelling to consumers, even when they know the odds are stacked against winning. Americans spend more than $100 billion a year on ...

Research by Wharton’s Marius Guenzel provides evidence that companies systematically fail to ignore “sunk costs” in losing ventures, which leads to significant investment distortions. “When you take ...

A new study from Wharton’s Adam Grant finds narcissism is the common denominator among CEOs who are most resistant to remote and hybrid work.

Most brands compete against other brands. Liquid Death competes against entertainment. Greg Fass, vice president of marketing at Liquid Death, joins Barbara Kahn and Americus Reed to explain how the ...