Science

In almost every profession, feedback is fraught. Some managers dread giving it. Employees brace for it. Across industries, feedback often lands as cruel rather than constructive.

New research published in the Global Business and Economics Review suggests that we could and should be encouraging green shoots to grow in preschool-aged children regarding environmental matters.

Companies that are more sensitive to temperature changes are consistently overvalued and deliver lower-than-expected returns.

Temperatures across Europe are rising at twice the global average. This alarming trend is leading to more frequent and intense heat waves, droughts, floods and storms.

In the early days of the pandemic, “solidarity” became a buzzword. As COVID-19 appeared to directly threaten us all, the UK celebrated its key workers who were keeping the country running.

The education of children with disabilities is a complex issue more than 30 years after “inclusive education” appeared for the first time in an important 1994 United Nations statement.

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When we talk about diversity in business, it’s usually in moral or social terms—fairness, inclusion and representation. But our new research suggests diversity also pays off in a very practical way: helping companies make better financial and investment decisions.

It’s an almost universally accepted truth that walking in well-lit areas is safer. But Aaron Chalfin, associate professor of criminology in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences; John MacDonald, criminology professor and director of the Master of Science in Criminology,…

“The Russians and the Chinese are demonstrating more sophisticated orbital maneuvering abilities. There’s no denying that,”