People too often settle for less, but viewing the rates that other borrowers receive can lead to better terms.

Whereas Americans have spent decades wrestling with the psychology of interrupted ascent, China is only beginning to awaken ...

Covid-era research sheds light on how policymakers can guide the economy and the public through future emergencies. Researchers: Scott R. Baker, Efraim Benmelech, Paola Sapienza, Angela Y. Lee, ...

The latest wave of AI excitement is focused on agents—computational assistants that can automate complex tasks with little or no human supervision. Already, today’s agents can help write code or ...

Despite dramatic shifts in U.S. climate and clean-energy policy and the rapid spread of energy-hungry data centers, the green-economy forecast isn’t all gloom and doom. Join Meghan Busse, an associate ...

But Filippo Mezzanotti, an associate professor of finance at Kellogg, and his colleagues wondered if more nuanced dynamics were at play. For instance, crises might prompt workers and firms to ...

But among the most important discussions newlyweds can have is whether and how to merge their finances. It can be a fraught conversation, as research shows that money is a leading cause of arguments ...

The settlement, which applies to the five biggest collegiate conferences, still needs to be approved by the judge—who has already asked the parties to revisit parts of the deal. But in broad terms, it ...

In theory, a corporation’s board of directors represents the interests of the shareholders. However, it is commonly believed that board members do not exercise sufficient control over self-interested ...

Since the 1970s, growth in “real wages” (that is, the value of the dollars paid to employees after being adjusted for inflation) has slowed compared to overall economic productivity. Previous economic ...

Until recently, nothing conclusive. Some scholars even suggested that mentorship had troublesome side effects, including favoritism and “cloning,” mentors’ tendency to push protégés toward career ...

His story is not unusual. If entry-level consulting or finance jobs have always been difficult to land, they’re even harder to get now. This generation grew up believing that developing key skills ...