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Do you dread delivering or receiving feedback at work? Two organizational behavior experts describe a better way to have these difficult conversations.
The spirit of the season is free, but that tree is going to cost you.
The board is supposed to stop OpenAI from veering from its mission of building technology that benefits humanity.
Industry is a leading climate polluter: Our road map shows what’s needed to cut industrial emissions in fast-growing countries.
Only a small fraction of women have received any financial education at all.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.
Questions about food insecurity can be less straightforward than they appear.
Wooing those workers will be expensive and require a lot of creativity, since many of them are employed in ‘right-to-work’ states.
When it comes to gentrification, Philadelphia baristas say they’re ‘part of the problem.’ But as low-wage workers, where else should they live and work?
Loyalty schemes tend to be the most generous when the economy has hit a patch of turbulence.
The JFK assassination was a landmark event in TV news history.
Of course the NFL is embracing Taylor Swift.
After a 20th-century manufacturing boom, the region has been in a decadeslong decline. Rural factory towns can blame technology and globalization for their woes.
Scholars writing for The Conversation take a deeper look at some of the issues expected to be on the agenda when the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies meet.
Middle-class consumers and shoppers of color give the most this way.
Pared-down packaging designs send a subtle yet powerful message of purity to shoppers – and they’re willing to fork over more cash for these goods, regardless of the actual number of additives.
Smart water management isn’t just good for the earth. It’s good for business.
Like all charitable donors, church members – even those who make donations to remain in good standing with their religious institution – give up their legal right to control that money.
The downfall of the onetime multibillionaire holds lessons for investors and regulators alike.
The share of low-income US families who sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat fell from 24.5% to 22.5% between late April and late July of 2020, a research team found.
Global warming plus leverage equals a big mess for companies.
Having a biased manager lowers productivity across the board – even for workers who aren’t targeted.
Rank-and-file union members employed by the automakers have to ratify the new contracts before they become official.
Black would-be homeowners pay the price when big investors buy up the neighborhood.