2025 Proxy Season Review: From Escalation to Recalibration Summary The 2025 proxy season saw a clear pullback from the high activity of 2024: fewer shareholder proposals overall, sharper investor selectivity, and increased use of SEC procedural tools by issuers. Environmental, social and human capital proposals fell most sharply, while governance items remained the most numerous […]
Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance Summary This paper, by Kai Li and co-authors and forthcoming in Management Science, shows that female sell-side equity analysts play a measurable, causal role in improving corporate environmental and social (E&S) performance. The authors hand-collect analyst gender data, develop specialised text-classification models (FinBERT fine-tuned with an […]
China’s military threats grow. So does Taiwan’s civilian training. Summary Kuma Academy, a Taipei-based nonprofit founded in 2021, is training civilians in first aid, evacuation planning, disinformation resilience and basic wartime readiness as tensions with China rise. The group says it has trained around 80,000 people, about 70% of whom are women, many of them […]
Worst-dressed celebrities at the 2025 Emmys Summary The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre produced plenty of standout looks — some hits, some misses. Business Insider rounds up the evening’s most questionable fashion choices, critiquing styling, fit and accessory choices across red-carpet appearances by the likes of Parker Posey, Sarah Paulson, Lainey Wilson […]
Another NATO state says it deployed F-16s to intercept a Russian drone Summary Romania says it scrambled two F-16s to intercept a Russian drone that lingered in its airspace for about 50 minutes. Officials said the jets were authorised to shoot the drone down and were “very close” to doing so before the unmanned aircraft […]
How Modern Education Is Reshaping Career Paths Summary Careers today are far less linear than they were for previous generations. Rapid technological change, evolving employer priorities and the rise of flexible online learning mean professionals are changing fields multiple times across a working life. Traditional four-year degrees are no longer the only — or always […]
We moved from NYC to a coastal town on the East Coast; life is better Summary Alexa Mellardo recounts leaving her cramped New York City apartment in her late 20s and moving with her partner to Greenwich, Connecticut. They bought a three-bedroom, two-bath fixer-upper about 40 minutes by train from NYC and spent a year […]
Why airports are so expensive Summary Airports increasingly depend on retail and food sales inside terminals to fund operations. In 2024 US airports made over $1 billion from travellers buying items such as $6 bottled water, $27 beers, and $10 snack mixes. Where once some airports capped on-terminal prices to match the high street, many […]
Why airports are so expensive Summary Airports increasingly rely on non-aeronautical revenue from shops, bars and food outlets inside terminals. In 2024 US airports alone generated more than $1 billion from such purchases — think expensive bottled water, beers and snacks — and many airports have relaxed earlier price-matching rules. With limited competition and a […]
The CEO’s Guide to Hiring and Onboarding Summary This guide explains why talent is now the single most decisive factor in organisational performance in 2025, and it separates recruiting from onboarding so leaders can treat each stage correctly. It presents the proven “5 C’s” of onboarding — Compliance, Clarification, Culture, Connection and Check-ins — and […]
