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Aston University teams up with eye care provider to reduce NHS patient backlog
Aston University and Eye Docs Ltd enter Knowledge Transfer Partnership to establish new shared-care regimes for eye care patients The new model will help patients ...
The Economics of Unionization
Last month, workers at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse voted to unionize. A remarkable victory for organized labor, workers across other firms backed by national ...
Corporate Social Responsibility Builds Investor Trust
There’s little doubt that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a good thing for businesses. Whether it’s taking positive action on society, communities, the ...
Economic benefits of hosting a sporting mega event are overestimated, new research finds
Experts from Aston University and New York University (NYU) studied how industrial firms in Beijing fared in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics Dr Johan Rewilak ...
Aston University cyber security experts shape government policy around resilience of supply chains
"Cyber security of any organisation, inclusive of its supply chain, should be promoted in conjunction with other organisational targets, such as profitability, productivity and financial/...
Why is the FDA funded in part by the companies it regulates?
In a recent piece published in The Conversation, C. Michael White, Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of ...
Optimizing the delivery speed promise can boost sales
After the coronavirus pandemic forced most of the country into lockdown, online shopping soared. According to CCInsights.org, by the end of April 2020 there was ...
Full speed ahead or time to pump the breaks when it comes to investing in ride-share companies?
There’s been a lot of talk and even some screaming from early investors about the state of ride-share stocks like Uber and Lyft. Since ...