“Your ideas were good — for an intern.” “You are good looking — for your size.” “For a young woman, your speech was great.” We’ve all heard backhanded comm...
Bad things sometimes happen to brands. In 2010, for example, some Chinese drywall manufacturers received unpleasant news when U.S. testing showed their pro...
The U.S. grocery market is the biggest in the world and it’s under competitive threat from “hard discounters” like Aldi, Trader Joe’s and Lidl. Hard discou...
UNC’s research magazine Endeavors featured Angelica Leigh (PhD candidate). Asked to define her research in just five words, she responded: “Diversity’s dyn...
Two days before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Shimul Melwani sat in her office with PhD student Angelica Leigh discussing the two paths diverging be...
Want to know how much you’ll pay for a share of stock? That’s easy – just look up its price on any of the hundreds of websites that provide stock prices i...
You might call it “the one that got away syndrome.” When J.K. Rowling’s literary agent was shopping around her first Harry Potter novel, he received a doze...
There’s a perception in the U.S. and around the world that some companies don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. Tempers can flare and protests ensue when ...
Contrary to the widely held assumption that schedule instability for employees is an inevitable outcome of the volatile retail business, a new study demons...
Living abroad can clarify your sense of self, according to new research by a team of business professors. They found living abroad increases “self-concept ...
Examples of extraordinarily successful and creative individuals who, early in their lives, cultivated relationships with people from other cultures are eas...
What happens when your boss tells a joke? Does it break the ice – or make you uncomfortable? Joking around can be helpful, but too much or the wrong kinds ...
Deregulation has had a major influence on the characteristics and values of the chief executives who run America’s banks, according to research by Robert B...
You’ve heard the stories about young workers who take risky, low-paying jobs at high-tech startups and then strike it rich when the companies go public. Yo...
Next time you dig into a 10-K from a company led by its founder, you might want to take it with an extra grain of salt. Founder-led firms tend to be overl...
