As students return to school in the coming weeks, there will be close attention to their mental health. Many problems will be attributed to the Covid pandemic, but in fact we need to look back further ...
Safety is good, of course, and keeping others safe from harm is virtuous, but virtues can become vices when carried to extremes. By Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff Something is going badly wrong for ...
A new paper from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights outlines how to improve measurement of companies’ social performance Until recently, sustainable investing was a niche in the ...
I came late to a career as a business-school professor—I’m now in my fourth year. When I first stepped into the classroom, I didn’t expect that my research would soon agitate nearly everyone. It ...
Although PE ownership can maximize profits for a newspaper, there are significant tradeoffs to this strategy, specifically as it relates to publishing local governance content. In “Local Journalism ...
Conglomerates — companies with entities operating in different industries or lines of business ― were in vogue for most of the 20th century. History buffs are surely familiar with the large ...
The 2023 Sustainable Market Share Index™ shows CPG products with sustainable attributes had the largest single-year increase in dollar market share– more than private label and conventional brands.
We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, ...
We are entering a brave new world, thanks to AI. We must shape this future to the advantage of everyone, and not just a select few.
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling ...
In September 2016 I gave a lecture at Duke University: “Two Incompatible Sacred Values in American Universities.” I suggested that the ancient Greek word telos was helpful for understanding the rapid ...
Overview: In “Biodiversity Risk,” NYU Stern Professors Theresa Kuchler and Johannes Stroebel, PhD student Xuran Zeng, and Stefano Giglio (Yale) develop multiple measures of biodiversity risk and work ...