1. Home
  2. Business

Category: Business

My job is full of fossilised poop, but there’s nothing icky about ichnology

My job is full of fossilised poop, but there’s nothing icky about ichnology

If you had told 18-year-old me that I would, one day, be an ichnologist I wouldn’t have believed you – or even known what that was. But, more than 15 years later, I get to…

Read More
UK tax plan incentivizes oil, gas producers to pump more fossil fuels By Reuters

UK tax plan incentivizes oil, gas producers to pump more fossil fuels By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A section of the BP Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) oil platform is seen in the North Sea, around 100 miles east of Aberdeen in Scotland February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Andy Buchanan/pool/File…

Read More
3 in 4 fundraisers have experienced sexual harassment on the job – often because of inappropriate behavior from donors

3 in 4 fundraisers have experienced sexual harassment on the job – often because of inappropriate behavior from donors

While the #MeToo movement that raised public awareness of sexual harassment is making fewer headlines than it did in 2017 and 2018, this problem hasn’t gone away. It’s still an especially big problem for nonprofit…

Read More
Chinese authorities investigate senior PBoC official

Chinese authorities investigate senior PBoC official

The People’s Bank of China China’s anti-corruption agencies are investigating a now-dismissed senior central bank official, according to an official statement dated May 19. The statement says the agencies are proceeding against Sun Guofeng – until…

Read More
Rwandan researchers are finally being centred in scholarship about their own country

Rwandan researchers are finally being centred in scholarship about their own country

It is widely known that African researchers are dramatically underrepresented in academic journals. But it’s still astonishing to see this reality starkly represented in numbers. For the past eight years we have run the Research,…

Read More
Oil firms on tight supply though EU ban on Russian oil still uncertain By Reuters

Oil firms on tight supply though EU ban on Russian oil still uncertain By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A flame burns from a tower at Vankorskoye oil field owned by Rosneft company north of the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk March 25, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo By Sonali Paul…

Read More
Quantum physics offers insights about leadership in the 21st century

Quantum physics offers insights about leadership in the 21st century

It may seem strange to look to the discipline of quantum physics for lessons that will help to create future-fit leaders. But science has a lot to offer us. Like scientists, business leaders need to…

Read More
Artificial light may become a new weapon in the fight to control malaria

Artificial light may become a new weapon in the fight to control malaria

The world has not yet won the war against malaria. While the total number of cases has declined from about 81.1 cases per 1,000 population to 59 per 1,000 since 2000, there were still an…

Read More
Oil edges higher on tight supply, rising U.S. refining activity By Reuters

Oil edges higher on tight supply, rising U.S. refining activity By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks are seen at the Petroineos Ineos petrol refinery in Lavera, France, March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier By David Gaffen New York (Reuters) – Oil prices rose slightly on Wednesday,…

Read More
Foreign companies exiting Russia echo the pressure campaign against South Africa’s racist apartheid system

Foreign companies exiting Russia echo the pressure campaign against South Africa’s racist apartheid system

McDonald’s provided many Russians with their first taste of capitalism three decades ago. Now, the global fast-food giant is exiting the country. Starbucks is also on its way out. All told, about 1,000 companies have…

Read More