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Investments and savings expert Zvi Bodie on how the coronavirus crisis exposed long-standing faults in our retirement system—and how to...

Data from managers across the world about how they are coping with COVID-19 found a lack of clarity, fading connections,...

While open collaboration platforms like Wikipedia have dramatically increased the world’s access to educational information, enormous gaps remain that may...

Questrom's Gregory Stoller on repairing relations between China and the United States and how international trade might change after COVID.

When it comes to the best pitches and persuading an audience, there are some common threads, says Gregory Stoller, senior...

AI continues to enhance the consumer shopping experience. Chiara Longoni, Assistant Professor of Marketing, recently discussed her article published in...

In a new op-ed published by CNN Business, Questrom’s Jay Zagorsky warns that despite a COVID-19 induced coin shortage,  a...

Charles Tharp, a professor of the practice and former head of HR at Bristol Myers Squibb, on starting, maintaining, or...

What’s your tactic for enduring boring meetings? Whether you write your shopping list, play buzzword bingo, or just zone out,...

While we might not know when we’re going back to the workplace, it’s imperative to plan—and Professor Fred Foulkes posits...

Questrom’s Catherine Fazio presents new research that shows new business formation is beginning to decline in a dramatic and worrisome...

In a new piece in Psychology Today, organizational psychologist and Questrom Professor Bill Kahn dives into what that stress means,...

In a recent article published on the Harvard Business Review website, Dean Emeritus Ken Freeman reflects on how best to...

Questrom Professor’s op-ed illuminates weak points in the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

New research from BU Questrom's Rena Conti delves into the Affordable Care Act's effect on prescription drugs and what might...

Smokers’ cravings for cigarettes are strong on their own, but work by Questrom and Harvard researchers suggests one emotion can...

New research found that consumers’ actions indicate that they don’t value online privacy nearly as much as they say, that...

New research from Andrei Hagiu challenges the assumption that it’s possible to use customer data to gain an unbeatable competitive...

How to get consumers to buy now, not later — and love it

New research by Questrom’s Sanaz Mobasseri suggests that spikes in violent crime in an employer’s neighborhood can lead to still...

Even though medical AI can perform with expert-level accuracy and deliver cost-effective care at scale, why do patients overwhelmingly prefer...

First-of-its-kind study shows that cuts in federal funding for science might hinder the economy by halting innovation.

You probably don’t know if your bank files its taxes as an S corporation or a C corporation, but your...

As the marketplace for service-based employment increases, firms must carefully decide how to allocate control and employment status to those...