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The Conversation - Business

America's nonprofit sector is pushing back against an 'authoritarian playbook' Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University

17 hours ago

How employers can support workers when they take medical leave -- Liza Barnes, Drexel University; Ashley Hardin, Washington University in St. Louis, and Christina Lacerenza, University of Colorado Boulder

17 hours ago

Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix that -- Suvrat Dhanorkar, Georgia Institute of Technology

2 days ago

Why Kevin Warsh might still prove to be an independent Federal Reserve chair -- Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University and Andrew Kerner, Michigan State University

8 days ago

Would a $1 rideshare fee affect wealthier or working-class Philadelphians more? 2 Chicago studies offer some perspective -- Parth Vaishnav, University of Michigan and Miki Tsuchiya, University of Michigan

4 days ago

New SNAP rules requiring that benefits be used at stores selling healthier food could backfire -- Benjamin Chrisinger, Tufts University

2 days ago

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3 months ago

What's in the price of a gallon of gas? -- Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

21 days ago

War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what's happening in each country tells a harder story -- Ezgi Canpolat, Harvard University

1 month ago

UAE's OPEC exit has been long in the works – and may mark the beginning of a Gulf realignment -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

24 days ago

Global supply chains cause environmental harm, but they can help repair it too -- Minelle Silva, University of Manitoba; Jia Yen Lai, Monash University, and Lee Matthews, University of Nottingham

23 days ago

Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are coming -- Aya S. Chacar, Florida International University

1 month ago

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1 month ago

How Trump plans to keep tariffs at the center of his economic policy despite stinging court losses -- Kent Jones, Babson College

4 days ago

Food aid doesn't make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs -- Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College

1 month ago

Supreme Court considers how much states can protect consumers when federal agencies won't -- Sarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University

21 days ago

Canada is kicking its US booze habit as trade tensions persist -- Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee

14 days ago

Thousands of employed Colorado workers need SNAP benefits to make ends meet -- Jennifer C. Greenfield, University of Denver

22 days ago

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips − even though they don't use the same kinds -- Vidya Mani, University of Virginia; Cornell University

20 days ago

Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients -- Sukhun Kang, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ivan Lin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sungyong Chang, Cornell University

10 days ago

Hosting the NFL draft is less about weekend beer sales and more about long-term brand value -- Tim Derdenger, Carnegie Mellon University

1 month ago

Perseverance doesn't always pay off for companies – sometimes it's better to 'fail fast' -- Scott Friend, University of Dayton and Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, EDHEC Business School

24 days ago

Why women in groups face a 'collaboration penalty' that solo female stars like Taylor Swift and Coco Gauff escape -- David Hekman, University of Colorado Boulder and Mallory Decker, University of Colorado Boulder

1 month ago

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1 year ago

So your new 'co-worker' is an AI agent – here's how to make the best of your human-machine relationship -- Nigel Melville, University of Michigan

15 days ago

For the nearly 1 in 4 US adults with chronic pain, employers' expectations of a healthy body can lead to shame -- Beth Schinoff, University of Delaware and Elana Feldman, UMass Lowell

1 month ago

Big beautiful refund? 5 tax code changes that may put more money in your pocket -- Jim Franklin, Western Governors University School of Business

2 months ago

Workplace relief is coming for employees with symptoms of menstruation, perimenopause and menopause in Philly -- Ann Juliano, Villanova University

1 month ago

Denmark's generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the 'motherhood penalty' for working moms -- Alexandra Killewald, University of Michigan

3 months ago

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1 year ago

How personal finance advice is getting political, thanks to 'finfluencers' -- Maximilian Brichta, University of Virginia

29 days ago

What oil, stocks and bonds are telling us about the Iran conflict and how long it might last -- Daniele D'Alvia, Queen Mary University of London

2 months ago

SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs are unlikely to bring skyrocketing returns that Amazon and Apple did, as companies go public later in life and early investors cash out -- Brad Badertscher, University of Notre Dame

1 month ago

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets -- Parker Bach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1 month ago

International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better -- Sarah Stroup, Middlebury College and Jennifer Hadden, Brown University

4 months ago

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1 year ago

Trump administration's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoing -- Beth Gazley, Indiana University

25 days ago

Why Americans give: New research finds 5 distinct profiles for generosity -- George E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY

1 month ago

Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists jumped to $22.4B in 2025 − Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates and the estate of Paul Allen lead a list of the biggest givers -- David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Hans Peter Schmitz, North Carolina State University, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University - Newark

2 months ago

With less charitable giving flowing directly to charities, a tax policy scholar suggests some policy fixes -- Ray Madoff, Boston College

4 months ago

Getting $750 a month didn't end homelessness – but our study shows it still improved the lives of homeless people -- Benjamin F. Henwood, University of Southern California

1 month ago

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1 year ago

Nonprofit fraud: Amid high-profile prosecutions, an accountant explains what's really going on -- Sarah Webber, University of Dayton

1 day ago

Why Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, won't stop 'til she gets enough from his estate -- Reid Kress Weisbord, Rutgers University - Newark and Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia

1 month ago

Suspending federal gas tax wouldn't save drivers as much as they might hope – here's what goes into the price of a gallon of gas -- Robert I. Harris, Georgia Institute of Technology

10 days ago

How much is a bat worth? Protecting these tiny insect-eaters isn't just good for farms – their deaths cost taxpayers and the wider economy -- Dale Manning, University of Tennessee; Anya Nakhmurina, Yale University, and Eli Fenichel, Yale University

7 days ago