Bringing together people with different perspectives and roles can sharpen an organization's vision. adventtr/iStock / Getty Images PlusThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell prepares for the end of the era of cheap money. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via APThe Federal Reserve on Nov.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been strangling corporate power.
Fishing in the Maldives. Shutterstock/tommybarbaSmall islands in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean or in the Pacific islands promise dream holidays and the fulfilment of bucket lists. And, for the islands themselves, tourism is a vital source of jobs, income and prosperity.
Women may be more team-oriented than men. Delmaine Donson/E+ via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
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Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of the national Feeding America anti-hunger network, meets with Jay Worrall, president of a Pennsylvania food bank.
It started as a development project in Kenya designed to help poor rural entrepreneurs without bank accounts. Now M-Pesa, a phone-based money transfer service, has millions of users across the country.
Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil and gas criss-cross the site. Heat radiates from inspection hatches in the furnaces in which the hydrocarbons are heated to 850°C to make the molecules crack. It’s easy to get lost in alleys of ducts and pipes, which to an untrained eye, all look the same.
Investors often seem to view their performance through pink-tinted glasses. AP Photo/Seth WenigThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
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Elon Musk is currently the world’s richest person.
