Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid for another business. After some negotiating, the companies engaged in the merger ...
Economics & Business
Apr 19, 2022
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Promotion at work has greater emotional benefit for men than women, says a new study on gender and workplace emotion.
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2022
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You would never drive your car using only your rear-view mirror, but according to Scott Stewart, MBA '83, Ph.D. '85, that's exactly how many professional investors make key investment decisions.
Economics & Business
Apr 1, 2022
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You pick up a piece of plastic litter from the beach, and get a small buzz. You've done something for the environment. But then you look around, and see plastic everywhere. It's much more than you could pick up.
Environment
Mar 23, 2022
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Global corporations seeking to reduce their impact on global warming and enhance diversity should look to an unexpected, abundant resource to ensure success, says Valentina Marano, associate professor of business at Northeastern—women.
Economics & Business
Mar 8, 2022
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New research offers an alternative perspective on adaptation to climate threats in Southeast Asia.
Economics & Business
Jan 13, 2022
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DAILI successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:07 a.m. EST on Dec. 21, 2021 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 22, 2021
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Women employees are facing bigger career challenges than their male colleagues with interruptions to their work-from-home life, according to new research by UConn management professor Nora Madjar.
Economics & Business
Dec 13, 2021
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Studying the complexity of mud on the ocean floor is a life's work for Timothy Lyons, so when the tall and lean biogeochemist asks you to join an expedition in search of chemical mysteries buried deep beneath the waves, be ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2021
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When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. This was the late 1970s. At school, the teachers would hit us. It was called getting the cane, the cane being a long, flexible stick. This tradition, exported from a Dickensian ...
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2021
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