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Steven Globerman: ESG may be a lose-lose for both shareholders and stakeholders

In the roughly five decades following the publication of Milton Friedman’s iconic advocacy of profitability as the single normative goal of managers of public companies…

2023-07-24
Meet 2023's Outstanding Graduate Students 2023-07-24
2023 Outstanding Graduates: CBE 2023-06-28
Biden’s Turn Against Trade Makes It Hard to Win Friends

The danger of a major policy change is that, in correcting for past errors, governments commit the opposite ones. The Biden administration is in danger of doing just that with its ambitious new industrial policy. In particular, by rejecting the model of trade negotiations that the United States…

2023-06-26
Men Think They Are Strong Workplace Allies. Women Disagree

Headlines about workplace sexism regularly bring us men sharing social media posts and retweets with hashtags like #GenderEquality. Yet, many of their female colleagues read those…

2023-06-14
Deanna Kennedy Named the New Dean of Western’s College of Business and Economics 2023-06-08
Scholars Week 2023 set to launch May 15! 2023-05-10
Scholars Week 2023 Accepting Showcase Submissions April 24-28 2023-04-17
Federal banking rules make funding Md. cannabis industry tricky

“Businesses use bank accounts to hold their money to pay for things just like we do as individuals,” said Zoë Plakias, an agricultural economist and professor at Western Washington University and Ohio State University who has done research on cannabis industry banking. “It turns…

2023-04-05
Upcoming Internal Grant Application Deadlines for Faculty 2023-01-09
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