Investors may be mistaking privilege for competence, rewarding privately educated CEOs with lower perceived risk despite no evidence they perform or behave differently. 

Children who grow up in disadvantaged households may receive fewer social benefits from their intelligence in adulthood than those raised in more advantaged environments, according to new research from the University of Bath.

People in low-performing organisations are more likely to look to others working elsewhere to access new knowledge and practices, a new study shows.

As the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Ida approaches later this summer, researchers across Penn show that flooding was not a statistical anomaly but the result of compounding forces—climate change, urbanization, and infrastructure—that are reshaping flood risk. By building a street-level model of the Schuylkill River, the team has identified a critical tipping point at which floods become uncontained, offering new insight into how urban rivers behave under extreme conditions.

New research finds newly hired leaders are more likely than their predecessors to improve motivation and organizational performance — but only if employees already believe change is needed. However, a change-oriented style is also more likely to backfire for a new leader than for their predecessor. That can happen if organization members are satisfied with the status quo under the previous leader.

A new study published in the May 2026 issue of the American Economic Review and authored by an international group of researchers gives a different perspective on how production and financial networks are at interplay. The research develops a framework that integrates two key dimensions of modern economies: the network of supply relationships among firms and the web of financial connections linking firms to banks. While these networks have traditionally been studied in isolation, the paper demonstrates that their interplay is essential to understanding how bank shocks affect the real economy. 

A new University of East London study argues that Africa’s young workforce and critical mineral reserves present a major global economic opportunity. The authors call for fairer international cooperation focused on investment, infrastructure, skills, and local industry, arguing that sustainable poverty reduction depends on partnership and shared economic growth, not aid alone.

A new study led by researchers at Trinity College Dublin in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, estimates the value-based prices of these medicines across 174 countries. The study shows that while disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) may offer substantially greater health benefits than usual care, their real-world impact will depend on whether they are priced in ways that health systems can afford.