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By Sherry Thatcher, Regal Distinguished Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Tennessee
Emily Rosado-Solomon, Assistant Professor of Management, Babson College
Employers that don’t support employees with mental illness risk missing out on the talents and skills that such employees can provide.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Fred D. Ledley, Director, Center for Integration of Science and Industry, Bentley University
The agency’s budget has grown steadily since the 1960s, fueling an industry that creates lifesaving medicines and attracts billions of dollars in investment.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Valerie Morkevicius, Associate Professor, Political Science, Colgate University
Just war theory, a centuries-old field of ethics, deals with how and when to start conflicts. It can also guide decisions about how and when to end them.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Ali Besharat, Professor of Marketing, University of Denver
The holiday season sparks a significant increase in consumer spending. This year, Black Friday alone saw consumers shell out a record US$11.8 billion. It’s the time of year when many Americans make purchases to decorate for the holidays — lights, ornaments and Christmas trees.

If you bought a Christmas tree in Denver this year, you may have noticed a pretty steep price tag. It turns out that all festive…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Stewart Ulrich, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sam Houston State University
Trump and Biden have issued pardons at a faster clip than their predecessors. Many of their decisions appear to have been political or personal in nature.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Niral Shah, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development, University of Washington
AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.The Conversation (Full Story)
By Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
As a landmark study of the 2024 election is published, The Conversation asked Tim Bale, who co-authored with Rob Ford, Will Jennings and Paula Surridge, to reveal the ten most surprising facts to come out of their analysis.

1. Labour lost the campaign

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By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
We officially started watching Christmas films this weekend gone (alright, three weekends ago). One of them was the hilariously awful Jingle All the Way, starring Schwarzenegger, Sinbad (the comedian, not the sailor) and that kid who played Darth Vader.

Like many festive films, it has become a relatable cult classic. Two dads scrambling for a sold-out superhero toy on Christmas Eve, having failed to get their act together earlier.

It is an ordeal many parents know all too well, including my own.…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, Professor of Musicology, University of Sheffield
Revisiting Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus is no small feat. Joe Barton, the writer behind Netflix’s Black Doves, has taken on the challenge of reworking Shaffer’s dense account of Mozart’s life and legend into a five-episode series for Sky Atlantic. It’s a bold move: the original play – and the 1984 film adaptation – already felt exhaustive, sometimes overwhelmingly so.

Yet Barton manages something unexpected. Shaffer’s monologue-laden tale of Mozart’s rival Antonio Salieri’s guilt becomes…The Conversation (Full Story)

By Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
The loss of the central role of people in today’s complex global systems is the greatest danger of all. In Kenya and Amdo Tibet, it can be rediscovered.The Conversation (Full Story)
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