Business and Finance

Business and Finance

Study Finds National Debt ‘Tipping Point’ That Slows Economic Growth

“If a country’s public debt reaches 77 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), bad things start to happen,” says Dr. Mehmet Caner, professor of economics…

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Whitman Partners with New York State for New ‘Africa Business Center’ to Promote International Trade

By leveraging the academic and institutional knowledge at the University and combining it with the assets deployed around the world by ESD, the center promotes…

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Market Changes Shift Investor Risk Tolerance, MU Study Reveals

As the U.S. economy continues to lag, many investors remain wary about taking risks with the stock market. Now, researchers at MU have concluded that this…

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Innovative Ways to Market Your Community

The report, “Innovative Ways to Market Your Community,” by Ross Ament, president of Ament Associates Inc., presents several basic implementation strategies and…

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Navigating the ‘New Normal’ Economy at Olin with New Executive Education Courses

Taught by Olin’s renowned world-class faculty, these timely deep dives in finance, leadership and supply chain management are geared for busy professionals who…

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Women-Owned Franchises Are Scarce

As a consumer insights analyst for Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp., the nation’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants, Kim Mathe looked at the number of…

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Businesses Hoarding Cash: Insights from Finance Scholar

Finance professor Heitor Almeida says the fact that businesses are stuffing corporate piggy banks with spare cash for the proverbial “rainy day” is unrelated…

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Small Business Workers to Gain ACA Tax Credit Benefits

16.6 million small business employees work in firms that will be eligible for tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new Commonwealth…

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Study Calls for Elimination of Credit Rating-Contingent Regulation by Governments

“If the government didn’t have these rating-contingent regulations, I believe the ratings would automatically become more informative,” says Opp, describing…

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Hourly Workforce Struggles Amid Economic Slowdown

The United States workforce, battered by an economic slowdown, now includes a record number of workers who are involuntarily working part-time due to reduced…

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Uninsured Californians Rise as Recession Impacts Counties

Following on a statewide estimate published earlier this year, the new analysis finds that the number of Californians without health insurance grew in all…

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Rural Illinois Perspectives: Investment in an Innovative Approach to Entrepreneurship

According to the report's author, Greg Wise, professor and community development specialist and director for the Center for Community and Economic Development…

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Boost Employee Engagement Through Consistent Leadership

A doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg shows that in order to build a business with a high degree of employee engagement, managers not only need…

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Outsourcing May Lead to Failure in Tough Times and Good

The latest study by Bigelow and her team on the importance of vertical integration – or the in-house manufacture of products – appears in the current issue of…

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Foreclosure reduces a home's sale price by 27 percent on average

Foreclosure reduces the eventual sale price of a home by an average 27 percent, compared to the prices paid for similar properties nearby. Those nearby homes,…

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The Impact of Owners in Mergers & Acquisitions

In the U.S. alone, deals announced in the last decade amount to more than $10 trillion. Yet analysis of M&A research concludes that — on average — mergers and…

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