If by announcing a search for a second headquarters Amazon intended to play one city against another and generate millions of dollars in free publicity, it has worked. Many observers believe Amazon ...
According to this opinion piece by Scott Cowen, president emeritus and distinguished university chair of Tulane University, a full active work life will, of course, produce some failures. What counts ...
“How is it that in the middle of a relatively small town of about 125,000 people in Minnesota, you’ve got the number-one-rated health care system probably in the world?” The question was put to ...
In June 2010, in the days leading up to Mexico’s state elections, Rodolfo Torre, a leading gubernatorial candidate from the northern state of Tamaulipas, was assassinated. He had campaigned against ...
Wharton’s Cait Lamberton breaks down the demise of fabric and crafts chain Joann and why it’s so challenging for legacy brands to stay solvent. Plagued by weak sales and eroding market share, Joann ...
On October 16, federal prosecutors charged Raj Rajaratnam and his hedge fund, Galleon Group, with insider trading. On November 5, 14 additional people were charged with the same crime, and prosecutors ...
What if everyone could get a guaranteed income whether or not they worked? Experts say the concept is gaining ground globally. That’s the idea behind the universal basic income (UBI) — and it is ...
Amazon’s success makes scaling up look easy, but Wharton’s Gad Allon explains how complicated it is for firms to align timing, leadership, and strategy to achieve growth. Amazon’s incredible growth ...
The following article was written by Dr. Cornelia C. Walther, a visiting scholar at Wharton and director of global alliance POZE. A humanitarian practitioner who spent over 20 years at the United ...
The following article was written by Fabian Gaessler, an assistant professor in the department of economics and business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Henning Piezunka, an associate professor of ...
The truth about trickle-down economics is that it’s a shallow way of trying to get at a very complicated question: How do tax cuts really play out in the economy? An old term of questionable meaning ...
Wharton’s Benjamin Lockwood explains why state-run lotteries are so compelling to consumers, even when they know the odds are stacked against winning. Americans spend more than $100 billion a year on ...
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