Economy

Employee referrals can aid hiring but carry hidden downsides. New research by Rellie Derfler-Rozin at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and Teodora Tomova Shakur of Texas Christian University finds that […]

Everybody acts differently while they are being watched, especially by those with authority. Whether it’s your boss sitting in the next cubicle next door or a cop car driving behind you, observation leads to behavioral […]

Picture a cockpit crew of two who met just minutes before takeoff, now descending through a turbulent midnight sky. They aren’t looking at each other—their eyes scan the instruments in the cockpit and the horizon […]

New research shows that retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can be designed to protect user privacy, one of the biggest concerns surrounding the future of digital money. Professor Iwa Salami of the University of […]

In February 2023, a little more than a year after the launch of ChatGPT, Vanderbilt University sent an email to its student body in the wake of a fatal campus shooting at Michigan State.This article […]

People working in tourism and hospitality develop more than 100 transferable skills—from empathy and resilience to problem-solving and communication—that are in demand across every sector of the economy, according to research from the University of […]

Highly successful women and racial minorities help to challenge stereotypes and serve as role models for members of their social groups, but seeing them in prominent roles can also create the illusion that organizations are […]

The internet has become a battleground, writes the author of a new article in the Journal of Anthropological Research, and particularly so in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which has been called the first […]

Could the rules of the options market be quietly costing you ten times more than your stock trades? A recent study in The Review of Financial Studies uncovers how current market rules protect high profits […]

Social Security’s trust funds are projected to run out by 2035, but that doesn’t mean retirees will be left with nothing. New research from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business reveals that most Americans […]