Erik Sherman

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  • Agnes College graduates participate in 2022 Agnes College Commencement at Agnes Scott College, as seen in May 2022 in Decatur, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)Education Articles

    Corporate executives are desperate for MBA grads to finally learn these 5 things

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  • Students during a class at Gleason Hall of the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, as seen in September 2021. (Photographer: Libby March—Bloomberg/Getty Images)Education Articles

    Want diversity in your company? Here’s what leading B-school experts say you really need to do

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  • Stacks of cardboard at a Visy Industries Australia Pty factory in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. As Covid-19 forced people to stay home, more online shopping led to increased demand for packaging. Sales jumped 30% to more than $4 billion, according to the Visy. Carla Gottgens—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesTech

    Online retailers get boxed in by higher cardboard prices

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  • NFTs and tokenization are making inroads in real estate.Tech

    How crypto and NFTs could help regular people become real estate tycoons

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  • Quarterly Investment Guide 2021-8yellow_articleFinance

    Why some investors are betting on the most staid investment of all: Cash

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  • Sketchpad Downward GraphFinance

    The Russell 2000 may have predicted the stock market crash—and could foreshadow the next bull market

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  • Starbucks Sustainability Commitment Coffee Trees.Environment

    The tangled web of companies buying and selling ‘credit’ to reduce carbon emissions

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  • Will history repeat itself? Some of the 225 unemployed men who were fed and housed at a hostel in the gymnasium of St. Mark’s Chapel in New York, circa 1935.Finance

    Are we headed for a depression? Economists weigh in

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  • 1987 Stock MarketFinance

    ‘The common theme is fear and panic’: These are the lessons learned from the past 3 bear markets

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  • A few traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 18, 2020 in New York City. The NYSE will take the rare step of closing Monday as a precaution against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wire photography: Spencer Platt—Getty ImagesFinance

    In a first, NYSE will close its trading floor and conduct remote trading amid coronavirus pandemic

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  • Food stores remain open—like this one near Las Vegas—but across the country business has ground to a halt.Finance

    Goldman Sachs just made the grimmest prediction yet about the economy in Q2

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  • NYSE GDP PredictionsFinance

    Most second quarter GDP forecasts now range from horrible (-8%) to catastrophic (-15%)

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  • The WTI futures price sunk below zero for the first time in history. An oil rig in Reeves County, Texas. The oil sector as a whole has been hard-hit by the coronavirus demand shock.

    ‘It’s mind blowing’: As oil slides on coronavirus and price war, the market seeks a new normal

    By Katherine Dunn and Erik Sherman
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    The Dow’s gains under Trump have been wiped out by coronavirus

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  • Finance

    Stocks swing upward on coronavirus stimulus package hopes

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