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Bubble Mentality: What Colleges Can Learn From the NBA Bubble

The Los Angeles Lakers’ victory over the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals marked the end of the longest and most tumultuous season in the NBA’s 74 year history. Yet by all accounts, this past season was a success. In what has been a year of chaos, the NBA formulated one of the most successful initiatives taken during the COVID-19 pandemic–The NBA Bubble.

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Fintech Suffers From Gender Gap

The fintech industry is heavily dominated by males, with less than 30% employed identifying as female. This trend not only hurts companies and gender equality, but also the product development and democratization of services delivered by these businesses. A quick gender fix is said to bring as much as 20% more profit and increase dividend payouts by as much as half of the current value.

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Students Speak: Scrutinizing the Healthcare Sector in Australia and the US - Part 2

Optimizing quality, cost, and accessibility of healthcare may be a three-pronged scenario, but there remains room for improvement in both Australia and the US. Business Today spoke to Anjana Sreedhar, author of “Healthcare of a Thousand Slights”, and Charles Fedor, an economics student at the University of Western Australia, about perceived gaps and possible solutions for the Australian and American health insurance and healthcare spaces.

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Will Chinese Game Developers Become the Next Big Players in the Industry?

China is not commonly seen as a powerhouse in game development in much of the Western world, despite its tremendous game-making potential. However, the global surge of mobile gaming, growing acceptance of microtransactions, and increasing influence of Chinese companies in game development might just mean the country will start finding a bit more international success with its releases.

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Approaching Death’s Door: Health Insurance Dilemmas in Australia and the US - Part 1

As regulation of private and public health coverage continues to be debated in the political arena, a comparison between Australian and American health systems illustrates the benefits and shortfalls of each. 2020 Summer Journalism Fellow Millie Muroi speaks to Anjana Sreedhar, author of Healthcare of a Thousand Sights, about the unique problems faced by the Australian and American healthcare spaces.

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Making the Cut: The Future Generation of American Culinary Arts

The Foodservice industry might employ the most minorities, but that diversity is not reaching the top ranks in the kitchen. In particular, the strong focus on the European system has caused a lack of representation of culinary traditions from other parts of the world. Grace Chung analyzes how there is heavy cultural bias towards cooking in the French style among restaurateurs and how the culinary curriculum as a whole disregards the traditions and importance of other global cuisines.

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Higher Standards for Hire: Algorithmic Bias in the Job Application Process

Despite the promise of objectivity in AI algorithms used in hiring, the technologies that are meant to prevent bias and increase diversity in the workforce are actually introducing more of it. In this research-based approach, Business Today writer Antonio Simental analyzes how this systematic issue stems from flawed datasets.

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Accelerating the Future Talent: Workspace Temporalities

The booming startup scene has also introduced concepts of interconnected work-life management that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. While part of this evolution is undoubtedly part of the regular adaptation of the workplace to modern expectations and technological advances, a different component and its place in the workspace has changed profoundly: time.

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Mission Possible? The Power (and Purpose) of the Mission Statement

Mission statements can either be inspiring and guiding, or they can be a collection of words put on the ‘About Us’ section of the website that are never referred to again. However, a company’s explicit assertion of their goals can actually help guide them directly towards sustainable, responsible practices.

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2nd Place Winner of the Writing Competition: "Let It Be Known" by Harrison Wang

In the decades leading up to the recognition of CSR as a central pillar of business, CSR was typically viewed as an extraneous project of minor importance for businesses during a time where consumers placed a greater emphasis on the quality of a product rather than the quality of a company. However, as technology and information have become readily available and accessible to more and more of the world population, people have evolved in their consumption calculus by evaluating every aspect of the product that makes it what it is.

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We Must Fight against Greenwashing

In recent times, consumers and investors have started to pay a lot more attention to the sustainability of the products they buy and the companies they decide to support. While this is a good thing, it gives rise to something dangerous. Greenwashing can distract people and mislead them into thinking that climate goals and sustainability targets are being met, and so we must be up on our guard to recognize greenwashing and how companies can avoid it.

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It’s Time to Put the Discussion on Electric Cars to Rest

Electric vehicles have been experiencing unprecedented growth, yet their promise of revolutionary change has drawn skepticism from many who argue they are not only less climate friendly than touted but also pose a danger to the livelihoods of workers. Despite this, Summer Journalism Fellow Dean Lee Sammanthan argues, we should embrace this transition for an enriching quality of life.

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The Art Market: What the Numbers Say About American Ideals

Throughout the years, an increasing number of Black artists have entered the space of fine art, pushing boundaries of aestheticism and, in turn, claiming a stake in the white-dominated market. Though as the mainstream prominence of Black art remains disparate from its white counterparts, evident through market value and representation in galleries across the country, another facet of the industry must be examined to understand why: the Black curator.

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Designing a Conference: A Student's Reflection on the DN 2020 Virtual Experience

Alyssa Sheeres, a junior from Seattle Pacific University and attendee of our 2020 Design Nation Conference, reflects on her initial reaction to the conference going online due to COVID-19 and the surprising insights about the power of design beyond the visual aspects and aesthetics that she derived from her virtual experience.

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Second Place Winner of the Writing Competition: Blockchain: Long Live Globalization: by Tanner Wegrowski

With stories like BREXIT, trade wars, and the rise of nationalism inundating the daily news, it’s hard not to ask the question: is globalization dead? The rapid decline of global foreign direct investment, nationalist parties roiling politics in the European Union, and the weakening of global trade for the first time since the Great Recession intimate that this could be the end of an era. Yet all the while, blockchain is sending us an entirely different signal: hang on, because globalization is very much alive and well.

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Winner of the Writing Competition: The Child Consumer by Grace Chuan

It is commonly said that the world is becoming a “smaller place” as communicative technologies become increasingly more accessible. While the world itself is not actually shrinking, it feels as if the practical barriers of traveling, retrieving information, and consuming entertainment are minimizing for everyone—including children. Children are now, more than ever, an increasingly reachable audience for digital services. A growing number of online businesses and industries are creating platforms that specifically target younger audiences to capitalize on their growing profitability. 

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