Tag: Business
Singles Day shows China’s global retail power
Venkatesh Shankar, Texas A&M University
Nov. 11, or 11/11, has been celebrated as Singles Day – a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day for single people...
Hiring highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products
Gaurav Khanna, University of California San Diego and Munseob Lee, University of California San Diego
Much of the current debate over immigration is about what...
Why the unemployment rate will never get to zero percent –...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The U.S. Labor Department continues to release wonderful news for U.S. workers.
Just this week, on Sept. 20, the agency said...
Here’s how Trump-era politics are affecting worker morale – and what...
Wayne Hochwarter, Florida State University
Pundits are projecting this year’s midterm elections to be nasty, polarizing and “epic.”
They’re also expected to stress a lot of...
Apple’s $1 trillion value doesn’t mean it’s the ‘biggest’ company
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
On Aug. 2, Apple became the first U.S. public corporation to achieve a US$1 trillion valuation, making it the largest...
2015, the year that was: economics and business
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation
As we approach 2016, we look back at the big stories of The Conversation’s economics and business coverage over the past...
Low milk prices unearth the supply chain’s dirty secrets
Low milk prices unearth the supply chain's dirty secrets
Janet Godsell, University of Warwick and Ruth Leary, University of Warwick
Farmers have been leading cows into...
Offensive marketing can work – but not if it vilifies women
Offensive marketing can work – but not if it vilifies women
Isabelle Szmigin
, University of Birmingham
Scott Taylor
, University of Birmingham
In 1969 the Family Planning Information...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
