Business & Entrepreneurship
- CU Boulder graduate Nick Romeo’s “The Alternative” uses real-world examples to push back on “unempirical dogmas” of modern economics.
- The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new climate risk disclosure rules, requiring some of the country’s biggest companies to report emissions data and other climate-related risks. Asaf Bernstein, a former adviser to the SEC, gives his take.
- New research shows low-income households bridge cash needs and avoid payday loans by selling plasma, but there has been little study on the health effects of high-frequency donations.
- People support misinformation from political candidates despite knowing it’s false because it hits on a “deeper truth,” new research shows.
- A recent study from the Leeds School of Business has found that widely popular Kickstarter campaigns have a positive spillover effect on other projects.
- The case is a “structural threat” to the income tax system as we know it, according to a CU law professor and tax specialist. Sloan Speck gives his take on Moore v. U.S.
- A recent Embark Showcase was the pinnacle of the program’s first year working with selected entrepreneurs to provide IP rights, salary support, grant funds and investor introductions to launch startups with real-world impact.
- LiteWave Technologies, the CU Boulder spinout and Orion Space Solutions subsidiary that revolutionized LiDAR, has been acquired by Arcfield, a leading government technology and mission support provider.
- Beneficiaries with incomes above $150,000 received 28% more support than those with incomes below $75,000, CU researchers find.
- While some people struggle with singledom, many others are thriving. Author and CU Professor Peter McGraw’s new book, “Solo,” toasts the rise and reinvention of singles.