Business & Entrepreneurship
- Soft skills are getting a rebrand. Studies show today’s business leaders need increasing levels of empathy, humility and emotional intelligence to navigate a rapidly changing world.
- Consumers often put a premium on simplicity, but that strategy can backfire, found a new study co-authored by Professor Philip Fernbach.
- A new paper, coauthored by Associate Professor Andrew Philips, suggests partisan divide shrinks among governors who are responding to economic downturns.
- In a newly published book, “Disparate Measures,” CU economics alumna Susan Averett analyzes whether STEM fields offer an equal path to prosperity for all women.
- Global trends and federally mandated reformulated gas are two factors that may push gas prices up. Sanjai Bhagat, a finance professor in the Leeds School of Business, gives his take.
- CU researchers studied why investors buy into “blank check” companies that deliver few disclosures and often lackluster performance. One example of a SPAC is Donald Trump’s Truth Social, which went public in March.
- The campus’s commercialization arm, Venture Partners at CU «Ƶ, supports a groundbreaking pipeline translating research into real-world impact, as highlighted in its 2023 annual report.
- A recently published paper co-authored by Brian Cadena finds deep connections between the U.S. and Mexican economies.
- The Federal Trade Commission decision means employees would have more freedom to job hop while companies may invest less in training, according to a CU researcher.
- To contribute to the state’s economic prosperity and thriving business community, the Business Research Division makes a deliberate effort to provide every sector with the tools they need to be successful.