The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted executives of businesses big and small to rethink their strategies for hiring and retaining employees, recognizing that the so-called "war for talent" has taken on new dimensions amid the ...
Economics & Business
Jan 25, 2022
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After snubbing a federal right-to-know law for years, two Chicago-area companies could soon be forced to join competitors that make it relatively easy for Americans to determine how much cancer-causing ethylene oxide drifts ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2021
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Much of the effort to make businesses sustainable centers on their supply chains, which were severely disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, according to new research from the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics ...
Economics & Business
Jul 20, 2021
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Nearly half of the performers on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts over the last nine years were from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. Yet, a comprehensive new report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2021
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New research shows executives are likely to overestimate the financial benefits of strategy planning—as conducted by an overwhelming majority of large companies—by a factor of five.
Economics & Business
May 28, 2021
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Plans are afoot to make amendments to South Africa's Companies Act that would require companies to report on wage differentials. This is the gap between executive pay and the lowest paid workers in the company. The announcement ...
Social Sciences
May 25, 2021
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Most of the revenues extracted from use of the world's oceans is concentrated among 100 transnational corporations, which have been identified for the first time by researchers at Duke University and the Stockholm Resilience ...
Environment
Jan 13, 2021
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The company seeking to develop Pebble Mine in the headwaters of Bristol Bay has long promised that the controversial project would bring Alaska jobs, economic growth and tax revenue.
Environment
Oct 30, 2020
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A recent study finds that corporate financial managers do a great job of detecting signs of potential fraud, but are less likely to voice these concerns externally when their company is under pressure to meet a financial ...
Economics & Business
Feb 10, 2020
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday the leading social network is struggling to find ways to deal with "deepfake" videos which have the potential to deceive and manipulate users on a massive scale.
Internet
Jun 27, 2019
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