The Business Record hosted a virtual economic panel discussion Thursday, a day after a new report showed inflation at 9.1% compared with a year ago. Participating in the conversation were Peter Orazem, a professor of economics at Iowa State University, and Anne Villamil, an economics professor at the University of Iowa.

A University of Iowa study finds businesses that take public stands on political issues may drive away potential job applicants who don’t share the same views.

Consumers crave authenticity, but what, exactly, makes something authentic? A new study from the Tippie College of Business finds that consumers ultimately define a product’s authenticity and value by its essence, an abstract, unobservable quality that makes a thing what it is.

Working part-time would give workers more flexibility, but many employers are reluctant to offer it. Jennifer Nahrgang, professor of management and entrepreneurship, says too many organizations see part-timers as not fully committed. “It’s not necessarily fair and it’s not right, but there’s a stigma,” she says.

A Common Good report found that multiple types of working Iowa households are struggling to make ends meet. The most basic budget is not attainable for some in the state because of low wages and high living expenses.

Burnout is bad for individuals and for the companies they work for and it seems to be at an all-time high right now. In this edition of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe talks with Tippie researchers to learn about burnout, some of the organizational problems that lead to burnout and how organizations can do better.

"At the core of the issues is people losing their jobs at the start of the pandemic," Nuray Akin said, a visiting associate professor of economics at the University of Iowa. Akin says while the pandemic started over two years ago, it is still affecting companies worldwide. Firms ratcheted down their production in 2020, anticipating lower demand. Now the wheels of restarting normal levels of supply...

Leaving the S&P 400 index for the S&P 500 has been bad news for a firm’s stock value in recent years, according to a new study from the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, while leaving the 500 for the 400 has been good.

Bad news for companies: Your best employees will not stand for your crap. Even worse news for companies: Your worst employees absolutely will stand for your crap. That’s basically the takeaway from an interesting new study out of the University of Iowa, and it has implications for every organization and its workers.

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business is launching an online master’s degree program in business analytics that will begin accepting students in Fall 2022.