2020 Took No Prisoners; Didn’t Even Spare Clearance Sales
COVID has sweeping effects on retail, leading to questions about why we spend time in stores like Marshalls in the first place.
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Indoor Air Quality and COVID
Green building is increasingly focusing less on hi-tech lightbulbs alone and more on a holistic building that is not only
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How Losers Still Get Paid: Why Bankruptcy Can’t Rein In Executive Compensation
IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE BILLIONS OF ONLOOKERS OBSERVING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, you might be wondering: what’s
Read moreCOVID19 Has Birthed The Ultimate Frankenstinian Monster of Corporate Austerity
We are experiencing unusually high call volume. Your call is very important to us and will be answered in the
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Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy
Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?
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Conquering COVIDbrain: Things Blocking Your Productivity and How To Fix Them
Evan writes about some strategies for tackling hindrances to your own productivity as we all face challenging times.
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Anecdotes from The Alleged Retail Apocalypse
Is retail dead? Probably not. Big box retail, though, may need to rethink some things.
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Supply Chains in the COVID Era and the Case for Economic Resiliency
As supply chains get disrupted and Americans lose access to coveted necessities like Wendy’s beef, COVID offers us some opportunities to ask some timely questions about how we can shift toward smaller-scale production as a question of sustainability and economic resiliency and prosperity.
Read moreSo, How Flat IS That Curve, Anyway?
At the same time various states reopen their economies following a coronavirus-induced shutdown, all of our evidence suggests that the rate of infection isn’t actually slowing.
Read moreThe Fine Line Between Entrepreneurship and Price Gouging
A large portion of my academic research is split between the questions of what it would look like to make
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