Researchers in Hong Kong and the UK have found that a $1 investment in bribery returns $6–9 in terms of company value, with more money paid to an authority resulting in greater benefits. However, those benefits decrease ...
Economics & Business
Feb 7, 2022
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Migration has always been a regular feature of human existence, but these days it is more visible—and politicized—than ever. A 2016 survey found the vast majority of people (80%) would welcome refugees, in agreement with ...
Social Sciences
Feb 4, 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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In 2020, for the first time in Australia, more than half the shareholders of a public company voted in support of a climate change resolution put forward by shareholders in the face of opposition from the company's board ...
Economics & Business
Nov 8, 2021
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The New Zealand government is currently developing plans to address two crises—climate change and waste—and to embrace a circular economy. But it has no clear path for how to do this. The resulting muddle is watering ...
Economics & Business
Nov 3, 2021
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Companies must do more to understand cognitive diversity and foster a culture of 'constructive disagreement' within their boardrooms to make better decisions, according to a new report published today.
Economics & Business
Oct 28, 2021
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