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A UC Berkeley Haas study of 1.1 million emergency-room visits finds that how hospitals deploy nurse practitioners and physicians matters as much as which they hire—with no difference in patient mortality but meaningful gaps in cost and follow-up care.

A UC Berkeley Haas and Stanford GSB study of more than 1,000 major companies finds that website traffic can forecast revenue and stock prices months before earnings—more accurately than traditional metrics alone. Wall Street, the researchers say, is leaving money on the table.

A UC Berkeley Haas study of more than 25,000 PGA Tour rounds finds that professionals perform measurably worse beside colleagues with opposing political views—a gap that nearly triples when national polarization runs high.

A UC Berkeley Haas study forthcoming in Nature Communications finds that disagreement is less contentious and leads to better understanding when discussed by voice or video rather than in writing—even though most people instinctively prefer to hash out conflict over text.

A UC Berkeley Haas study in Nature, analyzing 1.4 million images and videos plus nine large language models, finds women are consistently portrayed as younger than men across online platforms—a distortion strongest in high-status jobs and amplified by AI in ways that could widen real labor-market gaps.

At UC Berkeley Haas’ eighth annual Culture Connect Conference, more than 200 top business leaders and academics—including OpenAI chief economist Ronnie Chatterji and UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons—tackled how to guide teams through AI, economic uncertainty, and the changing nature of work while preserving culture and humanity.

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