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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Jun-2025 21:09 ET (16-Jun-2025 01:09 GMT/UTC)

New USF study: Why fake online reviews still fool consumers

University of South Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The research is among the first to examine how consumers make real or fake judgments of online reviews, according to co-author Dezhi Yin, an associate professor at the University of South Florida Muma College of Business.

Journal: Information Systems Research

Health care workforce recovery after the end of the COVID-19 emergency

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: Health care employment growth decreased amid the pandemic but fully recovered by 2024. This recovery contrasts with non–health care employment trends and may result from health care financing via insurance coverage shielding health care employment from macroeconomic fluctuations.

Journal: JAMA

The climate cost of mistrust: when environmental policy backfires in traditional communities

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A well-meaning environmental tax turned into a cultural flashpoint: a new study shows that Israel’s 2021 tax on single-use plastics caused a sharp and lasting drop in climate support among the ultra-Orthodox community. Driven by a deep sense of political victimization—not financial burden—many saw the tax as an attack on their way of life. Even years after the tax was repealed, the damage to environmental trust still lingers.

Journal: Policy Sciences

Top economist Michael Weber nominated to join ESMT Berlin with Humboldt professorship

ESMT Berlin
Grant and Award Announcement

Renowned economist Michael Weber has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, Germany’s most prestigious and generously endowed research award, and is planning to join ESMT Berlin. With this appointment, ESMT will become the first business school in Germany to receive this distinction, a significant milestone for the institution and for the field of business research.

A new mathematical model helps European regions set suitable targets to close gender gaps in education

Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A bi-objective model applies Data Envelopment Analysis to educational indicators, helping identify realistic, gender-balanced improvement targets.

Journal: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Funder: Research Council of Lithuania, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Generalitat Valenciana

Tech sector emissions, energy use grow with rise of AI

International Telecommunication Union
Reports and Proceedings

Tech sector carbon emissions continued their rise in recent years, fueled by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and data infrastructure, according to the ITU-WBA Greening Digital Companies 2025 report.

Survival of the greenest: Why world’s oldest organizations are surpassing young upstarts in environmental sustainability

Frontiers
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new article published in Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, Daria Haner, Dr Yilei Wang, Dr Deniz Ones, and Dr Stephan Dilchert, Dr Yagizhan Yazar, and Karn Kaura unveil surprising new findings: the world’s most sustainable businesses are the world’s most long-lived businesses, too. In this guest editorial, Ms Haner, Dr Ones, and Dr Dilchert explain their results, discuss the potential underlying reasons for their findings, and underline the importance of sustainability to the future of business.

Journal: Frontiers in Organizational Psychology

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