Content Type: Quiz
The Behavior of Companies Straining to Meet Earnings Forecasts
Plus: home buyers after they collect big equity gains, math and gender, and who votes
All Alone in the Office? Take This Quiz
Alternative vaccination points, the curious case of improved sales forecasts and an overlooked stock-price predictor
Are Muni Bonds Perfectly Priced?
Also: Why some civilizations grew enormously, artificial intelligence and stock prices, and what moves home prices in Boise
Business Factoids Guaranteed to Impress Your Co-Workers
Investing on margin, a nudge to jump-start retirement savings, how ad agencies lost their 15% commission
Could Cash-for-Clunkers Work in the Airline Industry?
Also: add-on pharma patents and drug prices; government policy and university research
Don’t Worry — It’s Multiple-Choice
Using smartphones to track lockdown compliance, paying employers to keep workers on the payroll and gauging nursing home availability
Faces and Earnings Estimates — and Other Quirks of Business
The true meaning of a bailout, how pay transparency works and whether to take that meeting or not
Get All Five Correct and Move on to the Next Round
TV ad prices, workers who don’t offer productivity suggestions and startups that end up being acquired
Goodbye Plant and Equipment, Hello Software
Round-number bids, tailoring primary care incentives to the health of a state population, and one benefit of industry incumbency
Headed Back to Office? Test Your Business Acumen
Daydreaming and poverty, stock traders who divorce, and crowdfunding strategies
How Do Cashless Payment Systems Impact a Developing Economy?
Also: income tax refugees from California, where to find the next CEO and inviting older people into clinical trials
How Long Does a Humanitarian Crisis Last?
How to spot fake online reviews and the relationship between herding cultures and violence
Impress Friends and Family With Your Business Knowledge
Tax credits for angel investors, the spooky impact of workplace mind-body dissonance and a more effective model for surge pricing
Is Your Doctor Working Under a Noncompete Agreement?
Also: minimum wages and migration, Twitter visuals and stock prices, and penalties for failing to report clinical trial data
Loan and Deposit Pricing as Banks Go Increasingly Mobile
Plus: Food delivery apps and traffic collisions; COVID-19 treatments — new or old; what does voluntary disclosure say about overall greenhouse gas emissions?