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Tuesday, July 01, 2025 4:41 AM ET

The Conversation - Business

Why community pharmacies are closing – and what to do if your neighborhood location shutters - Lucas A. Berenbrok, University of Pittsburgh; Michael Murphy, The Ohio State University, and Sophia Herbert, University of Pittsburgh

18 hours ago

Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis -- Skip York, Rice University

18 hours ago

When developing countries band together, lifesaving drugs become cheaper and easier to buy − with trade-offs -- Lucy Xiaolu Wang, UMass Amherst and Nahim Bin Zahur, Queen's University, Ontario

6 days ago

What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture -- Olivier Sterck, University of Oxford and Vittorio Bruni, University of Oxford

12 days ago

You're probably richer than you think because of the safety net – but you'd have more of that hidden wealth if you lived in Norway -- Robert Manduca, University of Michigan

13 days ago

The Middle East is a major flight hub. How do airlines keep passengers safe during conflict? -- Natasha Heap, University of Southern Queensland

13 days ago

Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy − making big cuts to such government spending unwise -- Andrew Fieldhouse, Texas A&M University

13 days ago

If you really want to close the US trade deficit, try boosting innovation in rural manufacturing -- Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology

1 month ago

Trump's attacks on central bank threaten its independence − and that isn't good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation) -- Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University and Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex

2 months ago

200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history's greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations -- Marlene L. Daut, Yale University

2 months ago

Tourists are cancelling trips to the US – here's how this could affect its economy -- Ross Bennett-Cook, Leeds Beckett University

2 months ago

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11 months ago

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5 months ago

No country for old business owners: Economic shifts create a growing challenge for America's aging entrepreneurs -- Nancy Forster-Holt, University of Rhode Island

6 days ago

Companies haven't stopped hiring, but they're more cautious, according to the 2025 College Hiring Outlook Report -- Murugan Anandarajan, Drexel University

13 days ago

Public health and private equity: What the Walgreens buyout could mean for the future of pharmacy care -- Patrick Aguilar, Washington University in St. Louis and Peter Boumgarden, Washington University in St. Louis

1 month ago

How emotions rule every stage of the entrepreneurial process -- Florencio Portocarrero, London School of Economics and Political Science

6 days ago

Young food entrepreneurs are changing the face of rural America -- Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University

1 month ago

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11 months ago

Gen Z is struggling to find work: 4 strategies to move forward -- Leda Stawnychko, Mount Royal University and Warren Boyd Ferguson, University of Calgary

18 hours ago

Observers of workplace mistreatment react as strongly as the victims − at times with a surprising amount of victim blaming -- Jason Colquitt, University of Notre Dame

13 days ago

Air traffic controller shortages partly reflect long, intense training − but university-based training programs are becoming part of the solution -- Melanie Dickman, The Ohio State University and Brian Strzempkowski, The Ohio State University

6 days ago

Work requirements are better at blocking benefits for low-income people than they are at helping those folks find jobs -- Anne Whitesell, Miami University

1 month ago

The one-size-fits-all diversity training model is broken – here's a better alternative -- Radostina Purvanova, Drake University

1 month ago

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11 months ago

I've studied faiths and cultures around the world. Here's how finance can be made more inclusive and sustainable -- Atul K. Shah, City St George's, University of London

6 days ago

Decentralized finance is booming − and so are the security risks. Here are the most common mistakes people make -- Mingyi Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology

6 days ago

African countries shouldn't have to borrow money to fix climate damage they never caused – economist -- Carlos Lopes, University of Cape Town

7 months ago

Rating agencies and Africa: the absence of people on the ground contributes to bias against the continent – analyst -- Misheck Mutize, University of Cape Town

9 months ago

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10 months ago

Charitable giving grew to $593B in 2024, buoyed by a strengthening U.S. economy and booming stock market -- Jon Bergdoll, Indiana University and Christina Daniken, Indiana University

6 days ago

Outsourcing cost of 'impact' data could mean 13% more bang for every charitable buck -- George E. Mitchell, Baruch College, CUNY

6 days ago

AmeriCorps is on the chopping block – despite research showing that it makes a difference in communities -- Pamela Paxton, The University of Texas at Austin

6 days ago

Nonprofit news media leaders are struggling to stop leaning on the foundations that say they should branch out more -- Katherine Fink, Pace University

1 month ago

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2 months ago

Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 − it pushed program underground and spurred Saddam Hussein's desire for nukes -- Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

5 days ago

I'm a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here's some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong -- Jake Scott, Stanford University

4 days ago

Iran emerged weakened and vulnerable after war with Israel − and that could mean trouble for country's ethnic minorities -- Shukriya Bradost, Virginia Tech

1 day ago

Uranium enrichment: A chemist explains how the surprisingly common element is processed to power reactors and weapons -- André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology

2 days ago

Supreme Court rules that states may deny people covered by Medicaid the freedom to choose Planned Parenthood as their health care provider -- Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia and Sonia Suter, George Washington University

6 hours ago

How do atoms form? A physicist explains where the atoms that make up everything around come from -- Stephen L. Levy, Binghamton University, State University of New York

6 days ago