Author: Sara Savat

Something shocking has happened in the US economy in recent years: average workers have started to move forward. But when the period of low unemployment and rising workers’ power ends, without further legal support, workers’ bargaining chips are likely to disappear with it.

Radhakrishnan Gopalan, a longtime, beloved professor of finance at Olin Business School, died Dec. 6, 2022, of cancer. He was 50.

Recent Chinese protests over COVID-19 restrictions provided a blueprint for future activism to prevent government from infringing on civil liberties, says Zhao Ma, associate professor of modern Chinese history and culture in Arts & Sciences. That could spell trouble for President Xi’s administration.

Cindy Brantmeier, a professor of applied linguistics and of global studies in Arts & Sciences, shared her research, which examined the challenges of functional health literacy for language-diverse patients across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With so much uncertainty, how can businesses gain a competitive edge going into the new year and beyond — better anticipating threats created by competitors, the economy, suppliers, politicians and more? One way is through the process of “war gaming,” says John Horn, a competitive strategy expert at Olin Business School.

In a new book, “Voicing Politics,” Arts & Sciences’ Margit Tavits uncovers the many ways in which linguistic peculiarities of different languages can have meaningful consequences for political attitudes and beliefs around the world.

Using advanced geochemical analyses, a team of scientists, including Michael Frachetti, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences, have uncovered new answers to decades-old questions about trade of tin throughout Eurasia during the Late Bronze Age.

In the rapidly changing conflict in Ukraine, Russian national narratives offer insight into President Vladimir Putin’s next move, says James Wertsch, an expert on Russia and international affairs.

If changes at Twitter conflict with businesses’ values, it’s time for companies to re-evaluate use of the social media platform, said Olin Business School marketing expert Michael Wall.

Using data from the newly released Uniform Appraisal Dataset, which includes 47.3 million home appraisals conducted over the last decade, WashU’s Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Junia Howell of the University of Illinois Chicago demonstrate stark inequalities in appraisal values between homes in white neighborhoods and communities of color.