What’s the Next Chapter for Barnes & Noble?

A hedge fund wants to buy the bookstore chain for $683 million, including debt. Will the deal work? Experts from Wharton and elsewhere share their insights.

Finance

Despite great strides in financial technologies, billions of people globally remain financially excluded and underserved, write Amit Sharma and William Mayville. Can meaningful financial inclusion be achieved without sacrificing safety, soundness, and financial system integrity?

Fostering Economic Resilience Through Financial Inclusion

How Financial Regulators Can Better Protect Consumers
Why the Fed Has a Hidden Influence on Foreign Affairs
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Management

High-deductible employer health plans are cheaper for businesses and may also be cheaper for employees. But are they too much of a gamble?

With High-deductible Employer Health Plans, Who Wins?

How to Curb Workplace Incivility
How You Can Use Conflict to Build a Better Team
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Public Policy

Having more than one fuel efficiency standard in the U.S. puts automakers in a bad position in terms of planning investments and adopting new technologies. Is there a middle ground that will work for regulators and auto companies alike?

Why Automakers Are Driving for Uniform Fuel Efficiency Standards

Feeding the World Along the New Silk Roads
Private Mortgage Insurance Protection: Are We Any Safer Today?
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Social Impact

Impact investing in conflict-affected regions delivers greater returns when women are empowered, say experts.

How Gender Equality Can Help Build Sustainable Peace

Bullhorns for Humanity: The Rise of CEOs as Social Activists
Empowering the Developing World, One Bicycle at a Time
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Innovation

Johnson & Johnson has partnered with Apple to research whether the tech company’s smartwatch can be used to help with early detection of atrial fibrillation, a dangerous heart condition.

Can Wearables Convince Patients to Be More Proactive?

When and How Entrepreneurs Pivot
How Insurance Companies Are Coping with Digital Transformation
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Technology

Big Tech firms like Facebook, Amazon and Google have unorthodox business models, and the law has to catch up to protect consumers and small businesses, say experts.

Regulating Big Tech: Is a Day of Reckoning Coming?

Why We Need a People-first AI Strategy
Game-changer to Digital Dustbin: Why iTunes Is Shutting Down
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Leadership

As the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches in July, big business is taking space more seriously — and interest is quickly moving from the fringe to the mainstream.

Why Big Business Is Making a Giant Leap into Space

How Modern Monarchies Are Evolving
What CEOs Can Learn from Roman Emperors
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Marketing

Amazon’s runaway growth has prompted questions about whether it has become a massive monopoly that is unfairly edging out smaller competitors.

Is Amazon Getting Too Big?

User-generated Content: The Medium Impacts the Message
What We Can Learn from the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play Recall
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