An analysis of a new drug’s journey to market, published this week in the BMJ, shines a light on financial practices that see some major pharmaceutical companies relying on a cycle of acquisitions, […]
Financial Cycles Of Acquisitions And ‘Buybacks’ Threaten Public Access To Breakthrough Drugs
Countries With The World’s Richest One Per Cent (Oxford University Study)
A new study has examined the varying fortunes of the world’s richest people between 1988 and 2012 to identify which parts of the world the top 1% come from. It finds that […]
Blood Of Belgian King Albert I Identified After 80 Years
The death of King Albert I of Belgium in 1934 – officially a climbing accident – still fuels speculation. Forensic geneticist Maarten Larmuseau and his colleagues at KU Leuven have now compared […]
September 15, 2016: Education Conference (“Ons Onderwijs”)
Save the date: 15/9/2016 Education Conference with Professor Wouter Duyck Venue: Antwerp, Wijnhandel Despert, Zagerijstraat 25, 2960 Sint Job in ‘t Goor Timing: 19.30h Public: The conference is for everybody interested in education in […]
Biologists Home In On Paleo Gut For Clues To Our Evolutionary History
For all the anxiety today about the bacteria in our gut being under constant assault by antibiotics, stress and bad diets, it turns out that a lot of the bacteria in our […]
September 7, 2016: Cecil Summit + FLI Lunch
The Future Leadership Institute Seminar Program Oxford: Lunch program: Table discussion “Global Legalization Trial Escalates Elephant Poaching” Date: 7 Sep 2016 Lunch: 13 – 16 h Party: 3 Venue: The Oxford Kitchen (TBC) * […]
The Performance Of Large EU Banks In The Wake Of The Financial Crisis
A Vlerick Business School policy paper attempts to provide an overview of the performance of 50 large EU banks in the wake of the financial crisis. Several questions are addressed for this purpose: […]
When Judging Others, We Are Faster To Diagnose Moral Decline Than Moral Improvement
It’s easier to get a reputation as a gossip than to get rid of it. That is one of the lessons drawn from new research at the University of Chicago Booth School […]
Why Americans Waste So Much Food
Most people feel guilty about discarding food, but say it would be hard to stop Even though American consumers throw away about 80 billion pounds of food a year, only about half […]
Rio Olympics Set To Incur $1.6 Billion Cost Overrun
Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Games are on track to incur a cost overun of USD 1.6 billion, or 51% in […]
Biodiversity Should Be Focus Of Businesses’ Efforts To Mitigate Their Environmental Impact, Says New Report
Biodiversity, the variety of plant and animal life in the world, is a fundamental component of ‘natural capital’ that businesses are dependent upon but which often gets overlooked in assessments of their […]
Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant In Game Theory And Decision Analysis, Dies At 92
Howard Raiffa, Harvard University’s Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus (a joint endowed chair at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School), who was for decades a pioneering, extraordinarily influential, […]
Doing The Right Thing?
A complex mix of culture, compensation, and relative moral standards makes it difficult for individuals in the financial sector to identify ethically right actions. Imagine you are working as a relatively junior […]
Molecule Required For Pain Also Helps Regulate Body Weight
A molecule best known for its involvement in pain perception also plays an important role in regulating body weight, according to new studies in mice by scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical […]
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