Research

In the event of a disease outbreak or bioterrorist attack, public health officials must make decisions about how to allocate finite medical resources — decisions that impact the spread of the disease and the number of lives lost.

According to IRS estimates, there is a $345 billion gross "tax gap" for 2001. The tax gap is the difference between taxes the IRS thinks should have been paid and taxes that actually were paid.

The illegal immigration debate is a example of the old saw about econometrics: the discussion is often a crooked line from an unproved assumption to a foregone conclusion.

Reaction to Rupert Murdoch's $5.6 billion takeover of the Dow Jones Co. and The Wall Street Journal is a reminder of how highly businesspeople value the venerable news organization.

Media titan Rupert Murdoch has finally succeeded in buying the company that owns the venerable Wall Street Journal. Now media experts are wondering what's next, not only for the Journal, but also for newspapers in general.

Self-confidence, persistence, flexibility, and an affinity for success are the hallmarks of an entrepreneur: A person who'll take an idea and run with it — frequently to the bank.

Telecom giant Sprint-Nextel recently decided about a thousand of its customers were just a little bit too demanding, so it went ahead and fired them. The remarkable move made headlines nationwide and since has left business analysts to ponder two questions. First, was Sprint justified?

From the light bulb to the Google algorithm, new ideas have changed the way we live and have created great wealth for those who bring them to market. Many of the old ideas we have about innovation are false, however.

If a million dollars sounds like a lot of money to you … if you think "household manager" is a synonym for Mom … if your idea of a cool set of wheels is a Mercedes-Benz convertible … then you probably don't live in Richistan.

Dual-career marriages account for about 65 percent of the workforce, according to the Clayman Institute for Gender Studies in Stanford, California. How do these couples balance the demands of work and family?