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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

Posted On : January 24, 2023 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : November 21, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : November 18, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : November 14, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : November 10, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : November 1, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : October 26, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : April 26, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : April 25, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : April 1, 2022 Published By : BER staff

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