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How Much Risk Are We Willing to Take?

“It’s you who has to make the risk trade-off,” says [Robin] Dillon-Merrill, who teaches business at Georgetown. “What are the benefits, what are the risks, what is the…

April 24, 2020

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Whole Foods Secretly Upgrades Tech to Target and Squash Unionizing Efforts

Artificial intelligence has also been used to predict important employee actions. In a Harvard Business Review article last year, management professors Brooks Holtom of…

April 24, 2020

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Convalescent Plasma Treatment for Coronavirus

Peter Jaworski, ethics professor at Georgetown University, discusses possible convalescent plasma treatments for Coronavirus on TVN24's Wstajesz i Wiesz (in).…

April 23, 2020

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There Will Be More ‘Zoonotic’ Viruses Where COVID Came From

But against this backdrop, more urgent "first-response non-profits," are attracting the attention and money of many, says Leslie Crutchfield, executive director of Business for…

April 22, 2020

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Getting Decisions Right in a Crisis

An op-ed by Michael Czinkota, associate professor of international business and marketing: "A useful analysis requires the understanding of data and a belief both in the data and…

April 22, 2020

News Story

Office Hours: Catherine Tinsley Explains Why Social Distancing Is So Hard

As humans, the impulse to maintain human connection runs deep. With the growing COVID-19 crisis, it has never been more difficult to stay connected, while being physically apart.…

April 21, 2020

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The Pandemic Calls into Question the Model of Service Outsourcing

"Artificial intelligence does not go on strike, it can work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is less of a problem," said Michael Czinkota, professor of international trade…

April 21, 2020

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FT Business Book of the Year — a Lockdown Reading List

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli (shortlist 2005) [is recognized by the Financial Times as a business book of the year]. Subscription.…

April 19, 2020

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The Heat: Economic Impact of COVID-19

China faces the worst economic losses since 1979, after shutting down the country to fight COVID-19. [Watch] Arthur Dong, [who] is a teaching professor with the McDonough School…

April 18, 2020

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The Blood and Misery on Trump’s Hands

The administration’s dithering also did enormous damage to the economy. An analysis by Robert J. Shapiro—a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of…

April 17, 2020