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Sitting in congestion costs local economies billions in lost productivity, and governments invest heavily in easing the gridlock. But what if we’re solving the wrong problem? Associate professor Victor Couture explains why accessibility and density might be worth the slowdown.

Tech companies claim they make acquisitions to bring in great people, but acquisitions also eliminate competitors that hire highly trained engineers, new research suggests.

"If AI didn’t offer such massive opportunities... we’d likely regulate it out of existence." On the latest episode of the Rotman Executive Summary podcast, professor Dan Trefler explores the double-edged sword of regulating artificial intelligence.

Climate change is causing an uptick in costs for firms around the world. But what do high temperatures do to organization productivity and profits? The latest Executive Summary podcast breaks it down.

Why are politicians freaking out over the future of downtowns? How can we make urban centres more inviting? And what's the point of an office anyways? Professor Richard Florida joins the latest Office Hours to provide the answers.

While there have been improvements to Indigenous economic well-being, gaps continue. How can policy-makers and businesses remove systemic barriers for success?

In the U.S., employees with a post-secondary degree make nearly twice as much as those without. It wasn't always this way, and a lack of labour laws may be to blame. What can Europe teach us?

When a member of the Black community is killed in a police incident, the local-area members of that group experience a significant change to their financial decision-making, negatively affecting their long-term wealth growth.