Research on when to boot toxic CEOs; the pay disparities hurting employees with disabilities, and corruption’s depressive effect on small businesses and economic development

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Booting Toxic founders and CEOS can help or hurt brand reputation An illustration of a sailing ship's crew cutting their ship in half to separate from their captain.

When good founders go bad

In the age of the celebrity CEO, a famous executive’s bad behavior can damage a corporate brand. However, research finds that booting a toxic CEO isn’t always enough to heal a brand’s image and can even damage it further. 

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Roadblock on the information superhighway

Digital tools such as online marketing and electronic bookkeeping allow small businesses to punch above their weight. But corruption in some developing economies forces them to forgo these advantages. 

Employees with disabilities negotiating salaries. An illustration with a anthropomorphized 87 cents walks with a cane and talks to an anthropomorphized $1 who wears a tie.

Everything’s negotiable, but not for everyone

Employees with disabilities earn only 87% percent of what similarly-qualified employees without disabilities earn. New research ties the disparity to tainted salary negotiations. 

Illustration of a pro stock trader working at a larger computer and a novice receiving tips from their cell phone.

Social media stock tips 

Online trading platforms and stock discussion forums can fuel meme stocks and risky day trading, but research shows that information sharing on social media is also helping to close the gap between seasoned and novice stock traders.

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