Changing Business
Research news from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Changing Business is the research newsletter of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School faculty. Each quarterly issue explores impactful, cutting-edge research that shapes business, policy, and society.
Carey is the business school of Johns Hopkins University, America’s first academic research institution. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carey's faculty seeks to address the world's most pressing problems by applying a diversity of expertise in analytics, leadership, finance, marketing, and strategy to numerous topics including the business of health.
SPRING 2025 ISSUE
In this issue
Economics
Changes to tax policy could make homeownership a reality for many Americans
Professor Michael Keane uses a new dynamic lifecycle model to analyze housing demand and various tax policies to predict the impact on the economy. Read more about housing tax policies.
Management & Organizations
Women’s economic empowerment and the risk for intimate partner violence
Associate Professor Colleen Stuart identifies conditions when improving economic empowerment for women can increase the risk of intimate partner violence. Read more about guidance to mitigate potential harm.
Operations Management & Business Analytics
The unintended consequences of green ride-hailing
Assistant Professor Yuexing Li explores the unintended consequences of adding more environmentally friending ride-sharing vehicles to the roads. Read more about conditions where increasing the number of green ride-hailing vehicles could emissions worse.
Latest research
The Multitier Discount Effect—Haiyang Yang
Manipulation in Organizational Research: On Executing and Interpreting Designs from Treatments to Primes—Chris Myers
Sustainable Investing and Market Governance—Deeksha Gupta
Algorithmic Bias and Physician Liability—Shubhranshu Singh and Tinglong Dai
Learning from Inconsistent Performance Feedback—Cassandra Chambers and Pete Aceves
Marketplace Trust—Itay Fainmesser
Carey research in the news
Baltimore Sun, Maryland is hiring despite a budget deficit. Former federal workers are rushing to the job fairs—Alessandro Rebucci
Business Insider, Why you should be careful about copying Trump's take-no-prisoners leadership style—Erik Helzer
Business Insider, Doctors in the C-suite—Christopher Myers
CNBC, The overseas Apple iPhone encryption battle that could be headed to the U.S. next—Javad Abed
Fortune, Tax season 2025 scorecard: Americans are waiting longer to file and are receiving bigger refunds—Jordan Rippy
Inc., Identifying brands as Black-owned can pay off for businesses—Mike Luca
Marketplace, There’s a conflict brewing in the world of B Corps—Suntae Kim
The Economist, How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill—Ge Bai
USA Today, Health companies return $2.6 trillion to shareholders over time amid rising medical costs—Ge Bai
Wall Street Journal, Want to Invest in a Private Company? All It Takes Is $5,000—Jeff Hooke
Awards and recognition
Steven Cohen and Daniel Sheats received a 2025 Innovations That Inspire award from AACSB for developing an innovative experiential learning course in business communication. The course pairs students with start-up companies sourced from JHU’s Pava Center. Students work with companies facing real business communications challenges, serving as a foundation for the MBA experiential curriculum.
Recent Books
Understanding Bank Crises and Contagion
by Kathleen Day
What causes a bank to fail? The most basic explanation is simply that it runs out of money. But there are a lot of ways for banks to lose money and understanding what causes these institutional failures can help you get a clearer picture of economic perils in our current moment.