Category: Finance

Have you ever hesitated at the register, uncomfortable as an employee watched you choose a tip? It’s not just you. The rise of digital tipping systems – from point-of-sale devices held by employees to countertop screens that clearly display your selection – is changing the dynamics of tipping, often in ways that make customers feel […]

Imagine going on a road trip and passing several seemingly identical McDonald’s restaurants. Despite their uniform appearance, their ownership may vary widely: One might be run by a family, another by an individual entrepreneur, and others owned directly by the corporation. This is possible because McDonald’s, like many other well-known fast-food restaurant chains, operates a […]

Energy Revolution Ventures (ERV), a venture capital firm focused on energy tech, has successfully raised $18 million for its seed and Series A fund aimed at advancing scalable climate technologies. The fund will primarily target deeptech companies working to address significant engineering and scientific challenges within the energy sector. The capital will be deployed into […]

Environmental issues were conspicuously absent from the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, but moves by President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration and his leadership picks for his next administration offer clues to what may be ahead. They point to a second Trump administration likely loosening regulations on industries, particularly oil, gas and petrochemicals, giving them wider permission […]

Investors can aim not only to make money but to benefit society while doing so. But few of those impact investors follow up on whether their strategy is having a positive impact, we found in a study published in the Journal of Business Ethics. Impact investing aims to generate financial returns while also creating positive […]

President-elect Donald Trump is again signaling his interest in Greenland through a series of provocative statements in which he’s mused about the prospect of the U.S. taking ownership – perhaps by force or economic coersion – of the world’s largest island by area. Talk of a takeover of Greenland may seem fanciful. But it wouldn’t […]

Donor-advised funds, or DAFs, are financial accounts funded by donors to support future charitable work. This kind of giving differs greatly from charitable giving as a whole because it’s much more likely to involve donations of assets like stock, real estate or cryptocurrencies that have gained in value. That’s what my co-author, Helen Flannery and […]

AI startup Anthropic, known for its generative AI chatbot Claude, is in late-stage negotiations to raise up to $2 billion in funding, bringing its valuation to an impressive $60 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter, as reported by CNBC. The company, founded by former OpenAI executives and heavily backed by Amazon, is positioning […]

Despite recent efforts to restrict them, diversity training programs have become as ubiquitous in American offices as the water cooler. They’re everywhere. But our recent update on the state of diversity training research confirms that these programs have different levels of effectiveness and widely varying results. In our prior work, published in 2016, we found […]

Argentina, a nation once ranked among the wealthiest in the world, has found itself grappling with severe economic challenges over the past 25 years. Then, one year ago, provocative libertarian economist Javier Milei was inaugurated as its new president. Known for his flamboyant persona and radical views, Milei is one of the most polarising figures […]