A well-meaning environmental tax turned into a cultural flashpoint: a new study shows that Israel’s 2021 tax on single-use plastics caused a sharp and lasting drop in climate support among the ultra-Orthodox community. Driven by a deep sense of political victimization—not financial burden—many saw the tax as an attack on their way of life. Even years after the tax was repealed, the damage to environmental trust still lingers.

A bi-objective model applies Data Envelopment Analysis to educational indicators, helping identify realistic, gender-balanced improvement targets.

In a new article published in Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, Daria Haner, Dr Yilei Wang, Dr Deniz Ones, and Dr Stephan Dilchert, Dr Yagizhan Yazar, and Karn Kaura unveil surprising new findings: the world’s most sustainable businesses are the world’s most long-lived businesses, too. In this guest editorial, Ms Haner, Dr Ones, and Dr Dilchert explain their results, discuss the potential underlying reasons for their findings, and underline the importance of sustainability to the future of business.

The minor, featuring five specialized courses taught by leading AI faculty at Mays, combines hands-on experience with practical applications of artificial intelligence in business settings. The curriculum includes generative AI, business storytelling, machine learning, multimodal AI agents, and deep learning applications.

In a study of nearly 20,000 employees at public universities, researchers have found that workers are more concerned about whether their compensation is fair based on the work they’re doing, rather than simply whether they earn more or less than their peers.

The findings, published in the Strategic Management Society’s Strategic Management Journal, diminish some companies’ concerns that going public with salary information could lead to a decline in aggregate productivity. Instead, the authors discovered that small shifts in work output are highly individualized, and they may reflect workers’ responses to how closely they feel their efforts align with the pay they receive.