Peter McGraw, University of Colorado Boulder
In 1960, 72% of adults were married, and over 90% would go on to marry. HR policies and management practices back then catered to nuclear families with a...
Carey Durkin Treado, University of Pittsburgh
When more than 1,300 people at the U.S. State Department lost their jobs in a mass firing this summer, most headlines focused on what it meant for American...
Joshua Stillwagon, Babson College
President Donald Trump seems to want to have it both ways on the U.S. economy.
On the one hand, he recently said the economy is in its...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
If you work on an hourly basis, you may not have given much thought to what happens to your hours after you log out of your workstation. You might assume those hours are simply...
Matthew Jordan, Penn State
News of Netflix’s bid to buy Warner Bros. last week sent shock waves through the media ecosystem.
The pending US$83 billion deal is being described as an...
Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College
The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals.
Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and...
Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University
Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated profession. Fifty years ago, it looked like that might change.
In 1970,...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
When President Donald Trump formally announced his Cabinet, one of the surprises was that the list of 24 Cabinet-level officials did not include the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). ...
