Faculty Insights

Blind recruiting is the practice of removing personally identifiable information from applicants, and it’s gaining popularity in HR departments. Dr. Stephanie Johnson talks with The Economist to examine discrimination in the workplace and software technologies that promise to remove gender and ethnic bias from the hiring process.

Philip Fernbach, Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Leeds School of Business, received a $165,000 fellowship grant to conduct a two-year research project examining the question “What makes us argue so heatedly over things we know so little about?” His project, The Cognitive Basis of Extremism , will explore how...

Insider trading or following the law? Learn how an obscure federal regulation allows insiders to buy and sell shares in advance of broad public knowledge of negative or positive market news.

The Wall Street Journal’s The Experts panel is made up of financial advisors, academics and other investment professionals who weigh in on the big issues they see in the field. This edition discusses investment diversification and the emotional influences on decision-making.