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Terror Pushes Our Fiscal Buttons

Terror Pushes Our Fiscal Buttons

Emotion, fear override rational investment plans A mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert kills 58. Twenty-two people die in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. A church shooting here. Another mall shooting there. Terror strikes fear into our hearts and signals caution...
Sensing a Better Way to Work

Sensing a Better Way to Work

An American is injured on the job every seven seconds. Whether it’s loading freight onto trucks, stocking warehouse shelves, or even back strain from an office chair, an average of 12,600 workers are hurt each day—costing industry millions in dollars and production...
Delving Deep

Delving Deep

Doctoral students push serious research Katherine Alexander Disagreeable employees are an issue for managers. How do these disagreeable individuals react to negative social exchange relationships with their superiors? Second-year Ph.D. student Katie Alexander...
How the buildings we shape then shape us

How the buildings we shape then shape us

In 1943, shortly after the German Blitzkrieg destroyed the Common Chamber of Parliament, Winston Churchill said, “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us.” Churchill was referring to the U-shaped layout of the Chamber, which enables parliamentary...
Student fund pursues steady growth

Student fund pursues steady growth

“We aren’t turning into a global marketplace—we have been one,” says Auburn Student Investment Fund (ASIF) vice president Jimmy Brewster. The junior in finance from Atlanta is one of 26 students in the Harbert College-sponsored organization that buys and sells stocks,...