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The Boston Globe reported on the course Field Projects in Real Estate, taught by Edward Chazen, senior lecturer in business law and society. An initiative of the Joseph E. Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action, Chazen’s course has student teams study sites across the Boston area and pitch development proposals for real clients.
Many career changers over age 50 enjoy their second act, and will probably work longer as a result, according to research by the Center for Retirement Research that was cited in Moneywatch. Meanwhile, a Time “Money” report cited center research suggesting that “More Than 40% of Americans Are Wrong About Their Retirement Preparedness.”
Either Ivanka Trump was dishonest during her father’s campaign or she has no influence in the White House, concluded Lauren Stiller Rikleen in Fortune. A visiting scholar at the Center for Work & Family, Rikleen said it was “a crushing blow” when the First Daughter publicly supported “her father’s latest effort to cement inequality in the workplace.” In addition, the center’s research was cited in a Washington Post op-ed piece by a rock quarry superintendent whose co-workers ridiculed him for taking a three-month parental leave. And CBS Moneywatch quoted Brad Harrington, the center’s director, in its report “Don’t Get Too Comfortable in Your Home Office.”
Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian decried the subsidies that Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have allegedly given to favored airlines, violating the U.S. Open Skies Agreement. The Boston Herald and Boston Business Journal reported on Bastian’s remarks at a gathering of the Chief Executives Club.
Jeb Bush doesn’t think Donald Trump obstructed justice, he told a Boston College audience member, adding: “But who cares what I think?” U.S. News & World Report and the Boston Herald reported on the former Florida governor’s comments at the Carroll School of Management's Finance Conference, which also featured former diplomat Nicholas Burns, Honest Dollar founder and CEO William Hurley, and Goldman Sachs Partner and Head of Digital Strategy Larry Restieri, among others.
The New York Times tapped the expertise of Professor of Finance Edward Kane for an article about the collapse of Banco Popular.
The Finance Department’s associate professor of the practice, Richard McGowan, S.J., was quoted on the likely mixed results of retributive tariffs in “Trump and Trade: A Catholic Take,” in the National Catholic Register. McGowan also spoke with Marketplace about the evolving business model of Churchill Downs, the parent company of the Kentucky Derby; and with the Boston Globe about the shrinking space for retailers at the under-construction Wynn Casino in Everett.
The Google engineer fired for writing a memo on gender differences could invoke the section of the National Labor Relations Act on “protected, concerted activity” in a legal case against his former employer, Professor of Business Law and Society Christine O’Brien told Yahoo! Finance.
Research by Professor Jeffrey Pontiff, the James F. Cleary Chair in Finance, was cited in a New York Times op-ed on the risks of trying to emulate an “Einstein” investor such as Warren Buffett.
Stephanie Greene, Christine O'Brien, and Margo Reder, of the Business Law and Society Department, rank in the top 10 percent of authors downloaded on the Social Science Research Network.
The degree of an object’s color saturation affects observers’ perception of the object’s size, reported Henrik Hagtvedt and S. Adam Brasel, associate professors of marketing. “The findings have obvious applications in marketing and packaging, as well as in website design and other commercial fields,” according to a report in Discover.