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 ...

Summary The difference between the value of the U.S. and European stock markets has widened sharply in recent years, ...

Remote job postings demand more skills and experience than similar in-person positions, which could limit opportunities for early-career workers. That’s the pattern that Letian Zhang, an associate ...

Griner’s case is a textbook example of hostage diplomacy. A government arrests or detains a foreign national under the guise of ordinary law enforcement, secures a conviction, and then uses the ...

But for every Edison, there have been countless others whose names didn’t become synonymous with an industry. To better understand why certain people become such influential figures—a “person ...

A $3 trillion gap in 2008 grew to a $34 trillion gap in 2023. Economists found a secret ingredient.

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 ...

In 2004, when the tennis star faced Jennifer Capriati at the U.S. Open, a series of controversial calls plagued her in the final set. Williams lost the match and afterward complained that an ...

Behavioral psychology sheds light on a longstanding economic puzzle. While there are some explanations for rockets and feathers, none are very satisfying, says Sergio Rebelo, a professor of finance at ...

But where is this “free” money really coming from, and why are credit-card companies so eager to dole it out? These are two of the questions Lulu Wang, an assistant professor of finance at Kellogg, ...

A new body of research by Lauren Rivera, an associate professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School, suggests applicants’ socioeconomic backgrounds play a large role in the hiring ...