Harry Markham, a pension fund investment advisor, is torn about whether to tell the board of trustees of the pension fund he is advising that he believes the value of their projected liabilities are actually much larger than what the actuaries say they are. Confronted by the differing viewpoints hel...
In early 2024, privately owned Checkr, a background check tech startup, was a leading voice in the fair chance hiring movement. Fair chance hiring, also known as second chance hiring, referred to the practice of offering fair and equal job opportunities to individuals with criminal records. In addit...
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In October 2000, with just a couple of weeks until the three-month-old car sharing startup closed on its first round of funding, Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase made an alarming discovery: the amount of revenue that Zipcars had generated for the month of September was half of what she estimated. After...
Phyllis Wallace took part in a landmark 1970s AT&T discrimination case and researched the working lives of young Black women.
A cost-benefit analysis demonstrates how minimum wage enforcement structures in the US and the UK incentivize noncompliance and quantify the policy changes needed to protect workers.
MIT Sloan research finds that on average 82% of data monetization returns come from improving work operations and customer experience versus 18% from selling information.
Agile was supposed to revolutionize how companies operate, but it’s fundamentally mismatched with the complex world of platform markets, says digital economy specialist Georg Rilinger.
Experts detail how ripple effects are impeding the flow of goods, creating catastrophic food shortages, and fueling dramatic cost increases and product shortages.
