We are all lean now — or soon will be. As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making.

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. The windfall of goodies follows. But failures happen for all sorts of reasons, and they often occur even when the idea is sound.

CEO’s inclination, or aversion, to risk is a key issue for corporate boards looking to preserve the long-term growth of their companies and to incentivize the type of strategies they feel are best for spurring such expansion.

In their paper, “Status, Marriage and Managers’ Attitudes to Risk,” Wharton finance professor Nikolai Roussanov and co-author Pavel G. Savor, a professor at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, study the role that marital status plays in the investment decisions of CEOs. They find that bachelors (or bachelorettes) tend to be more aggressive in their behavior, while those who have walked down the aisle are often more cautious.

In the last few years tech companies have jumped on the wearable tech bandwagon with popular gadgets like the Fitbit or Samsung’s Gear Fit. There are also hundreds of fitness apps taking the smartphone world by storm. The importance of health technologies is becoming more prevalent as everyone, from athletes to housewives, have realised the need to track calories and steps using an app or a wristband.