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The 50-Year Mortgage is a Terrible Deal. Here’s Why.

“To fully leverage the lower payments from a 50-year mortgage requires people to be really good with their money and fully anticipate the risks,” said Simon Blanchard, a…

November 19, 2025

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Black Friday Deals Won’t Be Good This Year, According to Experts — Here’s What to Know

Because retailers are discounting products during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, while partially absorbing the cost of tariffs, their profit margins are quite low. That will…

November 18, 2025

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The Math Behind Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Gambit: Lower Payments Now, but Almost Double the Long-Term Costs

Janet Gao, an associate professor of finance at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, said more choices in financial products are usually good news for consumers, who can…

November 17, 2025

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The Impact of the Government Shutdown on Air Travel

Once the government reopens, "it could take a little while to unwind and get things running properly again," says Shye Gilad, professor of the practice in management at'…

November 13, 2025

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How AB InBev Turned its 10-Year, $1B Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative into a Global Public Health Strategy

Explore the latest case study from Business for Impact on AB InBev, using a decade of data to explore how companies can use CSR to drive positive.…

November 13, 2025

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Why the Shutdown Ending Doesn’t Mean that Flights Would Go Back to Normal Immediately

“I think connecting passengers are potentially even more at risk, more likely to experience fare increases, less frequent flights, less options” and potentially much longer…

November 7, 2025

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Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Pay Package Tying Him to Tesla for a Decade

Rohan Williamson, professor of finance at Georgetown University, said Musk’s argument for commanding such a vast paycheck is largely unique to Tesla — though similar deals…

November 7, 2025

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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

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What ‘Wicked’ Teaches Us About How to Be a Good Leader

Ahead of the release of "Wicked: For Good," Bob Bies, professor of management, unpacks the leadership lessons from Elphaba and the hit musical-turned.…

October 30, 2025

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Layoffs Are Piling Up, Raising Worker Anxiety. Here Are Some Companies That Have Cut Jobs Recently

"It’s not so much AI directly taking jobs, but AI’s appetite for cash that might be taking jobs,” said Jason Schloetzer, associate professor at Georgetown University’s…

October 28, 2025