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- In the News
How Do Cloud Service Outages Happen?
Tim DeStefano, associate research professor at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, simply summed up the risk that outages pose to cloud service providers in three: “…
November 24, 2025
- In the News
Layoffs Hit Amazon, UPS, Target, and More — but It Has Little to Do with AI
“If we take a look at Amazon, we know they hired very aggressively between 2017 and 2022, adding tons of workers during the pandemic, so I’m not surprised that there’s been…
November 3, 2025
- In the News
AWS Outage: You Thought Monday’s Internet Outage Was Bad? Just Wait
“If there’s an outage and you rely on AI to make your decisions and you can’t access it, that’s going to have an effect on performance,” said Tim DeStefano, associate…
October 22, 2025
- In the News
Policy or Cudgel? A Trade Economist on Trump’s Hardball Tariffs.
In 2005, the economist Pietra Rivoli followed the production of a T-shirt from a cotton farm to a Walgreens to understand global trade. Today, she sees a new system.…
July 14, 2025
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He Bet His Life Savings on Paper Straws. Trump May Destroy his Business.
“The president signed a seemingly narrow order to ban paper straw procurement by the federal government, but what consumers are internalizing is that paper straws are bad,…
March 5, 2025
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How D.C. Regulators Made 2024 the Year That Big Hollywood Deals Didn’t Happen
“This is a regime that was ideologically motivated to say big business is inherently suspect and that large companies present risks economically, politically and socially,”…
January 9, 2025
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Pro Take: Remote Work’s Persistence Helps Keep Housing Prices High Outside Big Cities
“In smaller cities, the willingness for people to pay more to be closer to the city center has returned to prepandemic levels,” said Ferdinando Monte, associate professor of…
January 6, 2025
- In the News
AI Politics and Big Tech Policy
Stephen Weymouth, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor and Dewey Awad Fellow, joined Fox 5 to discuss politics and.…
January 6, 2025
- In the News
Coca-Cola Causes Controversy with AI-Made Ad
Tim DeStefano, associate research professor at Georgetown McDonough's Center for Business and Public Policy, told NBC News that using AI technology means a significant drop in…
November 19, 2024
- Research and Insights
Extra Credit: How to Talk About Politics (Without Making Enemies)
Talking about politics can feel like navigating a minefield. But it doesn’t need to. In our new episode of Extra Credit, Catherine Tinsley, Raffini Family Professor of…
October 17, 2024