BALTIMORE, MD, February 27, 2025 – A new study published in the INFORMS journal Management Science reveals that unlimited mobile data plans may be a key solution to reducing digital inequality. The research shows that low-income and rural households benefit the most when data caps are removed – particularly in their ability to access educational content.

Harsh Ketkar, assistant professor of management, finds AI can enhance the speed, quality, and scale of strategic analysis. In matchups against human creators and evaluators of business plans — conducted with Felipe Csaszar from the University of Michigan and Hyunjin Kim from INSEAD — AI equaled or bested its challengers.

Besides writing plans, he finds AI can critique existing strategies and suggest others.

Primary care practices that employ nurse practitioners (NPs) are more likely to serve socioeconomically disadvantaged communities than practices with no NPs on staff, Columbia University School of Nursing researchers report in JAMA Network Open.

When people go along with opinions that go against their own, they feel more culpable for the decision if things go wrong than if they hadn’t received another opinion, Cornell University researchers have found.

The American Heart Association’s Heart of Innovation HBCU Challenge invests in the next generation of entrepreneurs addressing health inequities

About The Study: In this study, differences in out-of-pocket maternity spending among the commercially insured were associated with differences in coinsurance rates. These costs could lead people to forgo needed health care or other basic needs that support health (e.g., food or housing). Changes to health plan benefit design could improve equity in out-of-pocket maternity spending and its consequences.