Research highlights

In a 2025 article in Management and Organization Review, Xueguang Zhou and Stanford PhD student Yuze Sui show that officials and bureaucrats in China resort to a bevy of pernicious tactics – including “target substitution” and “signal jamming” –…

This book investigates how four leading Asia-Pacific nations have managed various forms of human resources, or “talent,” in their rise to economic power. In particular, it presents a comparative analysis of the talent development strategies of…

In the United States and other late-industrial countries, the division of labor has changed radically over the last 150 years. This comes as no surprise: the nature of work has been transformed by new technologies, new discoveries, and new…

In ‘You’re Supposed to Say White’: Epistemic Ambiguity and Ethnoracial Classification, Stanford PhD candidate Hye Jee Kim and Professor Aliya Saperstein argue that the responses given to race and ethnicity questions in surveys aren’t always…

Extreme weather events such as hurricanes and floods can devastate communities. In a paper recently published in Nature, Jackelyn Hwang and colleagues tracked rebuilding in the aftermath of disaster across the United States. The…

In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, Robb Willer, former graduate student Jan Voelkel, and colleagues ask whether large language models (LLMs) can generate persuasive policy messages that measurably shift public opinion.

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In a recent study published in SSM - Population Health, faculty member David Rehkopf and colleagues examine whether social support is linked to biological aging, using blood-based DNA methylation measures often called “epigenetic clocks.”…