“A simple personality conflict, it does not disqualify an offer,” says Drew Pascarella, senior lecturer of finance. “But if they are tying Elon’s personality traits to the likelihood of the deal happening — can you come up with the cash, and will the deal actually close — then that can very much be taken into consideration.”
“Since the 1980s, management’s perspective was that unions are the devil,” says Harry Katz, professor in the ILR School. “There is a belief that management has private property rights to control what occurs in the workplace, and that unions are an outside third party. This adversarial ideology is deeply rooted in the ideology of management.”
“I think it’s going to lead to more [organizing] but I don’t think it’s yet an indication of a massive turnaround,” says Harry Katz, professor in the ILR School. “We need more Amazons, we need a lot of the Starbucks to get organized. And then we need more signs [of increased unionizing] in the more traditional sectors.”
Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology, says, “the general thought was, this is going to be a really boring election, and Macron is going to win… I’ve never seen an election change as quickly as this one has.”
“We’re in kind of a unique time where housing prices are rising disconnected from household income and part of that is because of the incredible amount of money, of finance involved in housing,” says Suzanne Lanyi Charles, associate professor of city & regional planning.
Jura Liaukonyte, associate professor of applied economics and management, writes this opinion piece about multinational companies continuing business operations in Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine.
“We’re seeing much more churn than we’ve had before,” says Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor who formerly headed the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor of government, says that Elon Musk may use his new stake in Twitter “to try to influence Twitter practices” and for a “more active play in the social media eco-system”.
Miguel Gómez, professor of applied economics and policy, says that branded fruits require heavy marketing investment as well as intellectual property trademark protections.
“The AFL-CIO, the Teamsters, the UFCW, SEIU – all those unions who have been claiming that they were going to organize Amazon – now they're going to pay attention,” says Patricia Campos-Medina, director of the Worker Institute.
NASA recently announced that it had detected more than 5,000 exoplanets. Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy, says, “Wouldn’t it be incredible to find more than one habitable world around one star?”