Most people don’t question consensus—not because they can’t, but because it feels easier to agree than to stand apart.

There are some potential fixes to academia’s research crisis.

This is the fifth the Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics series. We will explore the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole--and how advisors who understand this relationship can ...

William H. Whyte, author of the classic sociological commentary "The Organization Man," coined the term groupthink in a 1952 article that appeared in Fortune magazine in reference to the culture of ...

Peer review has become a closed system that protects shoddy and politically motivated research.

(MoneyWatch) Years ago, I was part of a merger between two public high-tech companies that ended in disaster. Turns out that executives of one company sugarcoated key aspects of their technology, and ...

Groupthink is a familiar manifestation of the inertia of no. It’s easier to see other people get hoodwinked by groupthink than it is to identify it in our midst. Groupthink Defined Irving Janis coined ...

Most of us are well aware that groupthink—the phenomenon in which decision-making is ruled by the ease of conformity—is bad for business. When our workplace falls into groupthink, we become complacent ...

"If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh my God, this means you're really good; you might already have ...

Volkswagen is facing blistering criticism for fabricating an announcement that it’s rebranding as “Voltswagen,” when announcing its electric car strategy. That turned out to be nothing more than an ...

The Solar System formed from a cloud of gas, which gave rise to a proto-star, a proto-planetary disk, and eventually the seeds of what would become planets. The crowning achievement of our own Solar ...