Why is everyone quitting their jobs?
DHOHA BARECHE – JANUARY 24TH, 2023 EDITOR: FELIX ZHANG Quiet Quitting In 2021, a record high number of American workers quit their jobs in what economists have called the Great Continue Reading
Pay Transparency
HANNAH SHIOHARA – NOVEMBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: KATHERINE MCKERNAN Pay transparency, which refers to the degree of openness between a company and its employees about how much people are compensated, and Continue Reading
A Bird’s Freedom: Musk’s Takeover of Twitter and its Economic/Social Impact
SID GUPTA – NOVEMBER 18TH, 2022 EDITOR: FELIX ZHANG A decade ago, Twitter’s future was looking bright. The company was benefiting from a flood of funding into the social-networking space, eventually Continue Reading
Co-ops vs Firms: Different Sides of the Same Market Coin
EVAN DAVIS- NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS PROJECT LEAD: SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI Imagine you walk into work one day. At your old job, you’d be greeted by your boss, who Continue Reading
What Patagonia’s Donation Shows Us About American Philanthropy
GRIFFIN SHUFELDT – NOVEMBER 10TH, 2022 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY Introduction In September of this year, almost the entirety of a multibillion-dollar company was given away. In an unprecedented move, Yvon Continue Reading
RetroSPACtive: just what were SPACs, anyway?
AIDEN CURRAN – NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022 EDITOR: LORENE LI If you were unfortunate enough to be a regular consumer of business-related news throughout 2021, you may have noticed a common Continue Reading
Labor Strikes Back
SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – OCTOBER 26, 2022 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS Prior to COVID’s unprecedented shock to the labor market, Unions, sectoral bargaining, strikes, and worker solidarity around the world had been Continue Reading
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Bookstores
PALLAVI MURTHY – APRIL 26, 2022 EDITOR: LARRY LIN In 2011, Borders Bookstores laid off 11,000 of its employees and shut down all its 400 stores. This was seen as Continue Reading
Salience Bias: The 24-Hour News Cycle Is a Market Failure
SARA BETTS – APRIL 25TH, 2022 EDITOR: ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH If you are a regular news consumer like I am, it can feel impossible not to be overwhelmed by the perceived Continue Reading
Hijacking Healthcare
Kunal Kumar – April 1, 2022 Editor: Katherine McKernan Introduction Legislation, activism, and policy reform. None of these forces have been strong enough to slow down the inevitable manipulation and Continue Reading