A new USC-led study provides the first nationwide picture of who knows about, carries, and uses naloxone to reverse deadly opioid overdoses. Mireille Jacobson, professor of gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, said the study was conducted to address the lack of comprehensive data on access to the lifesaving medication and eventually to support work on how it affects the number of deaths attributed to opioid overdoses in the U.S.

The Future of Management Education (FOME) alliance has successfully launched its first co-developed virtual reality (VR) module, marking a significant step forward in the evolution of immersive learning in business education. The project focused on leadership and crisis management and brought together a coalition of leading business schools from across the globe: EDHEC, ESMT Berlin, HKUST, Imperial College Business School, Ivey Business School, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Luiss Business School, and Vlerick Business School.

BALTIMORE, MD, February 27, 2025 – A new study published in the INFORMS journal Management Science reveals that unlimited mobile data plans may be a key solution to reducing digital inequality. The research shows that low-income and rural households benefit the most when data caps are removed – particularly in their ability to access educational content.

Harsh Ketkar, assistant professor of management, finds AI can enhance the speed, quality, and scale of strategic analysis. In matchups against human creators and evaluators of business plans — conducted with Felipe Csaszar from the University of Michigan and Hyunjin Kim from INSEAD — AI equaled or bested its challengers.

Besides writing plans, he finds AI can critique existing strategies and suggest others.

Primary care practices that employ nurse practitioners (NPs) are more likely to serve socioeconomically disadvantaged communities than practices with no NPs on staff, Columbia University School of Nursing researchers report in JAMA Network Open.