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Fighting Poverty With Direct Cash Payments
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
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Chuka Ikokwu, co-founder & CEO, Divercity, a DotCom Magazine interview
Chuka Ikokwu (MBA '09) discusses his company, Divercity (divercity.io), and the positive correlation between bottom line and inclusion.
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Why Taiwan matters
"All cultures... should be viewed as highly adaptable to changing circumstances. Political regimes can rest on many cultural frames."
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Democrats eye a major shift in how corporations are taxed
"The potential politicization of the FASB will likely lead to lower-quality financial accounting standards and ... earnings.”
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Anna Stansbury on how to boost worker bargaining power
"Being a member of a union that bargains over your compensation enables you to share to some extent more in the profits of your firm."
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COVID risk on planes was 1 in 1,000 on a 2-hour flight at the beginning of the pandemic – and is probably higher now, research suggests
Prof. Arnold Barnett said infection risk on planes is likely higher now than earlier in the pandemic.
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Russia's looming defeat in Ukraine
"The pre-invasion Russian economy was based on energy exports supported by foreign direct investment. ... All of this is fading fast."
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Wikipedia articles sway some legal judgments
"As you get to more specialized knowledge, it becomes more and more important to have someone who really has a deep understanding."
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An MIT professor's rare disease quest ripples throughout biotech
"We all want to have impact. But very few economists are able to do anything that would actually affect patient lives."
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U.S. oil refiners are doing well, even though gasoline prices are down
"Increases in the crack spread [the difference between the cost of oil and the cost to refine it] recently has been just supply and demand."