Thanksgiving has traditionally been a day for family, turkey and football, but increasingly retailers are viewing the holiday as a chance to kick the Christmas shopping season into high gear.
This year, stores including Best …
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A version of the article below was originally published at knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu.
Few toys have caught the imagination of children everywhere more than LEGOs — the …
This article was adapted from the testimony of Erwann Michel-Kerjan, managing director of Wharton’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, before the U.S. Congress, House Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity’s Committee on Financial Services in 2012.
Given the series of unprecedented disasters and …
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A version of the article below was originally published at knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu.
Making restaurant reservations is a way of life — but, for many consumers, so is …
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The article below was originally published at knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu.
Smokers need not apply — or need to quit — if they want to be hired at a southern Delaware …
Do you know how much energy you consume every 15 minutes? Most would say that’s a hard — if not impossible — question to answer, but San Francisco-based utility provider Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) now has access to that information for 30,000 of its residential customers, thanks to its “SmartMeter” program. PG&E’s …
At a time when issues like gender inequality in the boardroom and the dearth of women in corporate America continue to make headlines, it is worth asking: How important is the role of a supportive spouse in the lives of …
The 2012 farming season may be in its waning days, but the consequences of this year’s drought, the worst of its kind in 25 years, are yet to be known.
The taste of soda may be sweet, but the potential consequences of those empty calories — obesity, diabetes, higher mortality, and skyrocketing health care costs — are not. In response, many states and cities in recent years …
