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As anti-DEI activists target businesses, HARPER, Provost Professor of Management and Organization, explains to USA Today that companies must be more transparent about their efforts to make their workforce and leadership better reflect the customers they serve.

Harper, Provost Professor of Management and Organization, was a guest on 1A discussing the challenges and realities behind the significant declining enrollment in colleges among men, particularly men of color. 

TOWNSEND, vice dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and BERRY, assistant professor of management and organization, chatted with P&Q about the importance of The Tenure Project conference, which Marshall recently hosted.

HARPER, Provost Professor of Management and Organization, tells WRAL-TV that hyper scrutiny against female Secret Service agents is unwarranted until further investigation is conducted into the attempted assassination plot of a former president.

HARPER, Provost Professor of Management and Organization, tells WQAD-TV that DEI strategies are good for business but companies like John Deere who walk back initiatives will see a mass exit of diverse employees.

ZHANG, assistant professor of finance and business economics, writes in Fortune how a model driven by real-world data can help weigh the benefits against the costs of regulations stunting mid-sized companies.

BERRY, assistant professor in management and organization, writes in Nature how close friends can successfully support each other even when competing for the same academic positions.

Based on his research, MATSUSAKA, professor of finance and business economics, writes for P&I how engagement among green investors is more effective than divestment from fossil fuel companies. [Paywall]

Iyer, managing director of the Neely Center, writes in The Boston Globe that Minnesota' s new law, based on select Neely Center Design Codes, is an important step to begin holding social media companies accountable.

HARRIS, Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance, writes for MarketWatch that GameStop's recent $2.1 billion stock sale is a tax on all the other traders because its market value is still well above its fundamental value.

ZHANG, assistant professor of finance and business economics, writes in Fortune how a model driven by real-world data can help weigh the benefits against the costs of regulations stunting mid-sized companies.

As bankruptcies are on the rise in Ohio, PROSERPIO, associate professor of marketing, tells CBS Local 12 there's a clear causal relationship between declining personal finances and the rise in online sports gambling.

Parkhomenko, assistant professor of finance and business economics, shares his research findings with The Hindu how transit-oriented development (TOD) can improve within-city mobility and wider economic benefits.

Research by PROSERPIO, associate professor of marketing, was referenced in the New York Times citing how increased access to online sports gambling has increased the likelihood of bankruptcy by 28%.

MATSUSAKA, Charles F. Sexton Chair in American Enterprise, spoke with USC Today about upcoming California ballot propositions focusing on rent control, minimum wage, bond issues and referendum laws themselves.