Economic uncertainty affects consumption, credit and investment choices – and varies significantly across American households.
Professor Elad Sherf’s research helps answer why unfair treatment of employees persists.
Professor Katrijn Gielens studied the effects of the retailer’s entry into U.S. markets.
Improving schedule stability in the retail sector means better sleep for sales associates, according to a study on improving scheduling practices in hourly...
The plight of retail workers subject to unpredictable scheduling has caught the attention of both the media and lawmakers around the U.S. In some cases, wo...
“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...
Federal prosecutors made headlines when they charged six accountants with conspiracy and other charges in January 2018. They said five accountants conspire...
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...
