Thanksgiving has traditionally been a day for family, turkey and football, but increasingly retailers are viewing the holiday as a chance to kick the Christmas shopping season into high gear. Thi...
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A version of the article below was o...
This article was adapted from the testimony of Erwann Michel-Kerjan, managing director of Wharton’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, before the U.S. Congress, House Subcommittee...
https://business.time.com/2013/07/09/viewpoint-the-case-for-government-backed-terrorism-insurance/
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A version of the article below was o...
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The article below was originally pub...
https://business.time.com/2012/12/27/windows-8-will-microsofts-latest-big-bet-pay-off/
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The article below was originally pub...
https://business.time.com/2012/12/24/smoking-a-drag-for-job-applicants/
Do you know how much energy you consume every 15 minutes? Most would say that’s a hard — if not impossible — question to answer, but San Francisco-based utility provider Pacific Gas and Ele...
https://business.time.com/2012/11/16/can-energy-consumption-data-change-consumer-behavior/
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The article below was originally pub...
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The article below was originally pub...
https://business.time.com/2012/10/26/the-cost-and-consequences-of-the-u-s-drought/
Some observers argue that we are in the twilight of the public corporation, as companies try to avoid the expense and hassle of answering to shareholders and look elsewhere for capital.
https://business.time.com/2012/10/12/a-premature-eulogy-for-public-companies/
James Burke received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000 and was named one of history’s 10 greatest CEOs by Fortune magazine in 2003. But it was for his handling of the Tylenol tragedy ba...
https://business.time.com/2012/10/05/tylenol-and-the-legacy-of-jjs-james-burke/
The taste of soda may be sweet, but the potential consequences of those empty calories — obesity, diabetes, higher mortality, and skyrocketing health care costs — are not. In response, many s...
https://business.time.com/2012/09/25/will-banning-or-taxing-soda-really-make-us-healthier/
Recent history is littered with high-profile people -- actors, athletes and politicians -- who have not only survived scandals, but thrived beyond them.
When Wharton operations and information management professor Katherine L. Milkman was earning her doctorate at Harvard University in business and computer science, it became clear that she woul...
In a paper recently published in the British Journal of Psychology,Elliroma Gardner, an organizational psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, found that employees ...
Imagine riding from Philadelphia to New York in only 37 minutes, or from Boston to Washington, D.C., in just three hours on a cutting-edge, high-speed transportation network linking every major c...
https://business.time.com/2012/08/27/high-speed-railways-worth-their-hefty-price-tag/
Ambitious and talented, the next generation of Arab entrepreneurs is readily seeking out opportunities to develop and grow, testing ideas in venues such as MIT Enterprise Forum's competition. Dis...
In April, when JPMorgan’s so-called “London Whale” derivative trading scandal broke, CEO Jamie Dimon seemed to know little about the errant trades, praising the chief investment officer in...
https://business.time.com/2012/08/21/whats-in-a-title-overcoming-a-crisis-of-ceo-credibility/
The bossless office: Is it the wave of the future or an idea that will always be a utopian dream, given the inevitable intrusion of human nature? Recent articles in the business press have extoll...
https://business.time.com/2012/08/09/going-boss-free-utopia-or-lord-of-the-flies/
It was 2003, exactly 56 years after Ole Kirk Christiansen bought the first plastic-injection molding machine in Denmark to start manufacturing plastic bricks for building-block toys. On the surfa...