Business & Economics

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25-Sep-2025

Understanding problems tougher than solving them

University of Miami

Miami Herbert economist’s mobile app reveals insight into how people approach challenges.

Journal

Games and Economic Behavior

25-Sep-2025

New survey reveals that in response to high beef prices, 60% of shoppers are buying less beef or rejecting beef altogether

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

A new survey by Morning Consult and the nonprofit Physicians Committee finds that in response to current high beef prices, 60% of shoppers are buying less beef or skipping buying beef altogether.

25-Sep-2025

Robot or human? It depends on the situation, a large study shows

Aalborg University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Although many of us are still skeptical of chatbots, algorithms, and robots, the artificial agents actually do well dealing with customers. Sometimes even better than humans.

Journal

Journal of Marketing

25-Sep-2025

How the fraud protection system is wrongly brandishing thousands of innocent banking customers

Taylor & Francis Group
Book Announcement

Hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting banking customers could be unknowingly slapped with a fraud marker without even knowing about it.

24-Sep-2025

INSEAD launches Master in Finance: a global launchpad for the next generation of financial leaders

INSEAD Asia Campus
Business Announcement

Innovative 14-16-month programme blends academic excellence, technical rigour, AI-driven learning, and unmatched employer connectivity across INSEAD’s campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

24-Sep-2025

Wilkes Center awards $250,000 Climate Launch Prize to Build up Nepal

University of Utah
Grant and Award Announcement

The Kathmandu-based company is transforming the construction industry in South Asia by replacing polluting coal-fired bricks with eco-brick technology that reduces CO₂ emissions and makes homes safer while cutting construction costs.

24-Sep-2025

Raising money for a charity? Don't bark up the wrong tree.

Dartmouth College
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new Dartmouth study finds that cat owners donate slightly more than dog owners, and also donate more often and more diversely. However, people without pets donate the most. The findings are published in the journal Anthrozoӧs.

Journal

Anthrozoös