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MFE student and teammates win $100K grand prize at prestigious Data Open Championship

The winning Citadel Data Open Team: (from bottom left, clockwise) Dmitry Silantyev, MFE 22; Jennifer Kampe and David Buch, PhD students from Duke University; and undergraduate Julian LaNeve of ...
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Is training AI on copyrighted works fair use? Scholars say “market dilution” theory still lacks evidence

An author may take years to write a book, while an AI system can produce a novel in a fraction of that time, raising concerns ...
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How hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street—and Main Street

While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars ...
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Study: Ranked-choice voting reduces pull of “electability,” boosts women and minority candidates

When voters in Alaska and Maine head to the polls for the midterms, they’ll cast their ballots using ranked-choice voting—a ...
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Too dirty, too late? Why the economics of Venezuela’s oil don’t pencil out

View of the El Palito refinery of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in Puerto Cabello. Photo by: Jesus Vargas/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Venezuela holds the ...
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When everyone works remotely, communication and collaboration suffer, study finds

As companies debate the impact of large-scale remote work, a new study of over 61,000 Microsoft employees found that working from home caused workers to become more siloed in how they communicate, ...
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Women portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias

In a sweeping study published today in Nature, researchers at UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford/Autonomy University documented extensive age and gender distortion across online media—and found ...
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Research reveals the key to an irresistible online dating profile

In writing a good online dating profile, the average love-seeker is likely to fill it up with all the appealing qualities and interests that make them special. They paraglide and do hot yoga on the ...
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How Woodrow Wilson’s racist policies eroded the Black civil service

In this March 4, 1913 file photo, Woodrow Wilson takes the oath of office in Washington, D.C. for his first term of the presidency. (AP Photo/File) Before the election of President Woodrow Wilson, ...
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Polling Truth

Public confidence in election polls plummeted after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite trailing her in the polls. Even so, horse race-style coverage of the latest polls continues to ...
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AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley Haas researchers found the opposite.

While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What ...
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UC Berkeley Haas MBA ranked #3 by Bloomberg Businessweek

UC Berkeley Haas ranked No. 3 in the U.S. in Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Best Business School Rankings 2025-26.” The annual ranking, published today, is based on input from recent full-time MBA ...