Business

Michael Delli Carpini of the Annenberg School for Communication said large companies like Facebook have a responsibility to screen ads for misleading content. “One person’s inaccuracy is another person’s speculation hat. What is and is not true is not easily determined a lot of times,” he said.

The Wharton School’s Lindsey Cameron comments on her work studying the impact of mediation on the workplace.

Witold Henisz of the Wharton School comments on the need for sports companies to have a political strategy.

A study led by Britta Glennon of the Wharton School explores “how decreased access to visas for skilled workers could lead multinational firms to offshore more jobs.”

Sudev Sheth of the Lauder Institute and School of Arts and Sciences co-authored a piece about Gandhi’s views on business. “Gandhi’s views were constantly evolving in dialogue with the business community, and this is one reason why they remain so relevant today,” he wrote.

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School commented on research that found banks are shielding themselves from climate change related risks by shifting some mortgages, such as those in flood-prone regions, back to the federal government. “The problem they’ve discovered is likely to grow in magnitude and is clearly important, because the taxpayer is on the hook,” she said.

Adam Grant of the Wharton School weighed in on the lack of evidence behind personality tests like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Myers-Briggs and analogs create “the illusion of expertise about psychology,” he said.

PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp commented on states’ involvement in antitrust lawsuits against tech giants. “It’s ... not because the federal government isn’t doing enough,” he said. The states “want to get in the action, too.”