Drawing the line on personalization … What does a company owe its workers? … The novel drug dilemma.

Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when the number is fully explained.

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Marco Di Maggio and colleagues find that brokers tend to reveal the occurrence of a fire sale to their best clients, allowing them to generate significant profits by predating on the liquidating fund. Such information leakage comes at the expense of higher price impact, and leads to a more costly liquidation for the fire sale originator.

People who worked for a company guilty of malfeasance may see their future salary curtailed, even if they are guilty of nothing, according to research by and Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, and George Serafeim.

This economic study by Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger finds evidence of allocative inefficiency and substantial variation in comparative advantage across hospitals, with the benefits from treatment being much higher in some hospitals than others. The study overall suggests new directions for research on productivity in healthcare.

What the best product managers have in common … Seeing opportunity in long lines … It’s not always about gender.

The study by Laura Alfaro, Raffaella Sadun, and colleagues develops a simple model and provides new data to examine the relationship between vertical integration and delegation of decision-making, two critical aspects of a firm organizational design that are typically studied in isolation.

One in twelve financial advisors have been disciplined for serious misconduct, according to a recent study by finance professor Mark Egan and colleagues. The bad apples are rarely punished.

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Certified organic wine remains a tiny percentage of the global wine market. Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean provide a case study of failed new category creation, analyzing the challenges for the organic wine market over time, including overcoming an initial reputation for quality, wines being labeled with multiple names (“organic,” “biodynamic,” “natural”), and competing certification schemes.

Here are well-researched tips from Harvard Business School faculty to help you keep your career-related resolutions this year.

Data collected in a survey of 1,120 Syrian refugees in Turkey finds that 1) framing civilians’ wartime ordeal as suffering or sacrifice influences their attitudes about ending the conflict, and 2) the identity of who advocates for peace affects civilians’ attitude about supporting it. These results suggest new possibilities for reconciliation processes. Research by Kristin Fabbe and colleagues.

The most popular articles on Working Knowledge in 2017 included new research on gender and racial bias, personal productivity, and happiness.

Readers from all over the world frequently (and eloquently) comment on HBS Working Knowledge articles. Here are some of our favorites from 2017.

Hulu: The case study … The country where big business helped drive environmental controls … Why isn’t health care delivery more efficient?