Tag: General Motors
A century of tragedy: How the car and gas industry knew...
Bill Kovarik, Radford University
On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General...
Why companies file for bankruptcy – and how it protects both...
Lindsey Simon, University of Georgia
Reports have emerged that Purdue Pharma is in settlement talks to resolve thousands of federal and state lawsuits over its...
Is Trump’s trade war saving American jobs – or killing them?
Jeffrey Kucik, University of Arizona
With the U.S.-China trade war intensifying, there is a lot of talk about whether tariffs save American jobs – as...
“You’re unallocated!” and other BS companies use to obscure reality
Kate Suslava, Bucknell University
Corporate America has invented many ways to avoid letting the public know it’s laying people off – or telling employees themselves...
How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...
Why cities should stop playing Amazon’s game and quit offering companies...
Amihai Glazer, University of California, Irvine
New York City should count its blessings.
Amazon’s decision to walk away from its plan to build a new headquarters...
Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
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...