Remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic may have relaxed company expectations concerning employees' business attire. But it raised expectations for employees' qualifications, work experience, skills and educational credentials ...
Economics & Business
Jun 29, 2026
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University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies has published a new white paper, "The Retention Mandate: Bridging the AI Fluency Gap to Secure the 2026 Workforce," authored by Wayne L. McCoy, DM, MBA, and released through ...
Economics & Business
Jun 29, 2026
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In 2020, Virginia received approximately $1 billion through a federal COVID-era emergency rental assistance program, which aimed to motivate landlords nationwide to postpone evictions of tenants who could no longer pay rent ...
Economics & Business
Jun 29, 2026
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The study, by researchers Chase Foster (King's College London) and Jeffry Frieden (Columbia University), analyzed 134 national elections in 16 countries between 1990 and 2021, alongside data from 11 waves of the European ...
Economics & Business
Jun 28, 2026
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The United States is one of only a handful of countries that allows companies to hold patents on plant varieties. As a result, a small number of corporations can—and do—suppress competition in the seed industry, stifle innovation, ...
Economics & Business
Jun 27, 2026
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Greater agility in the sales system—that is, a company's ability to rapidly adapt its sales channels to changing market conditions—is associated with higher operating profit, but only under certain conditions. That is the ...
Economics & Business
Jun 27, 2026
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In many organizations, large hierarchical gaps exist within work teams, raising the question of how frontline employees can strive for upward mobility in their careers. A recent study by the Department of Psychology at Lingnan ...
Economics & Business
Jun 26, 2026
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New research, published by the Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), shows that co-workers can have powerful—but opposing—effects on the careers of young workers. While some colleagues foster learning and long-term success, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2026
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As populations decline and age across the developed world, compact city strategies, which oversee the consolidation of urban facilities and guide residents toward transit-served hubs, have become mainstream policies. Yet ...
Economics & Business
Jun 26, 2026
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Shoppers who use shopping carts embedded with digital screens to assist trips to the supermarket spend up to a third more than those who do not, according to new research by Bayes Business School.
Economics & Business
Jun 26, 2026
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