Tag: Walmart
Big-box retail chains were never a solution for America’s downtowns −...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Holiday shopping is in full swing, but city dwellers may have fewer options for...
AI shop assistants: get ready for a world where you can’t...
Shweta Singh, University of Warwick
I regularly fly with KLM from Minneapolis to New Delhi, and always stop over...
Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, Trump: The risks and rewards of...
Joshua T. Beck, University of Oregon
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Companies and CEOs are increasingly wading into...
Can capitalism solve capitalism’s problems?
Elizabeth Schmidt, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Capitalism is in trouble – at least judging by recent polls.
A majority of American millennials reject the economic system,...
What Amazon, Walmart employees risk when they use the workplace for...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
It has somehow become sort of normal to use the workplace to protest social issues unrelated to the job...
Companies promoting causes can be accused of ‘wokewashing’ – allying themselves...
Kim Sheehan, University of Oregon
More consumers want companies to address societal problems, including climate change and crumbling infrastructure.
Additionally, more than half want to buy...
Online shopping: why its unstoppable growth may be coming to an...
Ralf Seifert, IMD Business School and Richard Markoff, EPFL- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Many people probably...
Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here’s how workers can...
Beth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Walmart recently said it plans to deploy robots to scan shelves,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
