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Nurse and patient in ICU
Q+A
COVID-19 has slowed surgical innovations, study shows
Published May 21, 2021
Pandemic-related shutdowns and remote work have changed how health care workers interact and slowed the pipeline of innovation and discovery
A masked woman presents in a business meeting
Q+A
Seeing colleagues succeed may make us feel more motivated
Published May 7, 2021
Carey Business School's Christopher Myers discusses new findings that exceptional success—like failures—inspire us to learn from others' experiences
Three generations of craftsmen stand in their workshop
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Relative concerns: A scholarly look at family-run businesses
Published April 27, 2021
Carey Business School Professor Phillip Phan discusses the dynamics of family-run businesses and the similarities and differences of mom-and-pop operations around the world
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Finance
Study shows new real-time method for identifying stock bubbles like GameStop's
Published March 16, 2021
Model developed by finance expert Nicola Fusari uses stock options to determine whether a spike in the price of a particular asset reflects real underlying value or is only a bubble
Dice roll
Marketing
How probability forecasts are phrased affects how people make predictions
Published Jan 8, 2021
Seeing multiple probability forecasts in verbal rather than numerical form—"likely" vs. "55%"—causes people to make more confident predictions
Covid vaccine vial
Q+A
Making sense of the lagging U.S. COVID-19 vaccination effort
Published Jan 8, 2021
COVID-19 vaccines have been the subject of speculation and anticipation for months—so why hasn't the U.S. made more progress on vaccination?
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Graduate education
Carey and SAIS offer dual degree
Published Jan 4, 2021
The Master of Business Administration/Master of Arts in International Relations degree will provide graduate students with expertise in global problem-solving, leadership, and research methods
Airplane takes off
Q+A
Pandemic sends airline revenues plummeting
Published Dec 28, 2020
Johns Hopkins Lecturer Terry Leitch, former senior director of risk management for Boeing Capital, offers insights into how the airline industry might recover from the economic toll of the pandemic
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Small businesses
A closer look at the Paycheck Protection Program
Published Dec 9, 2020
Nagpurnanand Prabhala, an expert in corporate finance, examines the flaws and advantages of how the small business loan program was administered and its effects on company value
Vaccine vial labeled
Q+A
The business of delivering a pandemic vaccine
Published Dec 4, 2020
'COVID-19 vaccination will present one of the greatest logistics challenges in human history,' says Tinglong Dai, an expert in health care industry operations management and business analytics