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1 month ago | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
Prior to the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines, surveillance testing, meaning the testing of asymptomatic individuals for signs of COVID-19, was a key prevention strategy. Struggling to keep doors open as outbreaks forced temporary closures everywhere, many universities, health care facilities and airports swabbed every nose that came inside their facilities for signs of disease.
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2 months ago | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
The 2020-21 GameStop short squeeze helped teach Wall Street’s heavy hitters that even online nobodies can turn a market upside down. And since then, professional investors have realized there’s a lot of money to be made — and, just as importantly, losses to be avoided — by recognizing when ordinary online chatter is turning into a market moving revolution. In a working paper, UCLA Anderson’s Thomas Ash offers a tool that might be used to spot such asset bubbles as they develop.
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2 months ago | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
In the short time since artificial intelligence went mainstream, the world of finance has experienced huge layoffs, massive market payoffs and a giant demand for job experience that few people possess. The super quick adoption of AI across finance offers a real-time view of benefits and consequences likely to spread throughout the economy as more and more industries follow suit.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
A working paper suggests we have grossly underestimated how many workers lose income when jobs are automated. Automation, the study documents, has reduced the average amount of money workers can expect to earn in a multitude of careers, including those in industries with little or nothing automated. Especially in parts of the country with a lot of robots, expected wage growth slowed for low and high-skilled workers across hundreds of occupations.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
For professionals charged with economic development, luring a promising tech startup to the proverbial backyard is a pretty definitive win. These companies bring well-paid and often younger employees who spend their wealth throughout the community on everything from lattes and sandwiches to nannies, homes and the renovation thereof. Other businesses pop up to cater to the newcomers’ tastes, oftentimes occupying vacant storefronts and bringing new life to an area.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
Long before “anti-woke” became a campaign slogan, or the Supreme Court shot down affirmative action initiatives at universities, progress toward hiring more Black lawyers into U.S. law firms had largely stalled. The demographic made up 3% of all firm lawyers in 2010, hovered lower for most of the following decade and ended 2019 at 3.31%, according to research by the National Association for Law Placement. By contrast, representation of LGBTQ lawyers rose to 2.99% from 1.88% in the same period.
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May 22, 2024 | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
No matter where you stand on America’s political spectrum, you probably think of yourself as a rational human being. You base your opinions on facts, not unverified anecdotes, or the dictates of wannabe leaders. When credible evidence proves your “facts” to be wrong, of course you adjust your beliefs accordingly. Only there’s a very good chance you don’t, according to a working paper by Duke’s Matthew Lilley and UCLA Anderson’s Brian Wheaton.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
Pharmaceutical companies gain an average three years in monopoly protections on branded drugs by filing multiple secondary patents, throughout and beyond the development process, a study by UCLA Anderson’s Charu Gupta indicates. Unlike primary patents, which apply to a drug’s active ingredient, secondary patents can cover things like how the drug is administered, what disease it will treat and dosing.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
The vast majority of nursing homes are covertly extracting profits for investors while reporting relatively weak financials to industry regulators, according to a working paper by UCLA Anderson’s Ashvin Gandhi and Lehigh University’s Andrew Olenski. Their work suggests that some two-thirds of the industry’s profits are hidden from regulators and lawmakers. The practice, dubbed “tunneling,” involves making inflated payments for goods and services to another firm with common ownership.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
anderson-review.ucla.edu | Dee Gill
Silicon Valley is home to some of the most successful startups in the world, including a handful of foreign-born unicorns like Waze and Grammarly that arrived in their early years. Ostensibly, the region’s large talent pools and access to a giant customer base (the U.S.) attract droves of young, serious firms from around the world. But one study shakes up assumptions about why startups emigrate, where they go and how they fare.
