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.
WINTER 2025 ISSUE
In this issue
Management & Organization
Innovation and technology
‘Scaling deep’ to boost entrepreneurial ventures in impoverished communities
Professor Suntae Kim’s award-winning research demonstrates how rethinking traditional entrepreneurial strategies could help impoverished communities. Read more about community investment.
Economics
Business of health
Tribal casinos: A winning bet for reducing Native American mortality
Professor Emilia Simeonova’s research finds income generated from casinos can reduce the probability of mortality for Native American communities. Read more about the health of Native American communities.
Marketing
Social and Societal Impact
Professor Michael Luca examines the impact of Black-owned business labels used by many popular business review apps. Read more about business labeling.
Latest research
Estimation of Tax Benefit of US Nonprofit Hospitals—Ge Bai
Consumption Responses to an Unpopular Policy: Evidence from a Short-Lived Soda Tax—Andrew Ching
Using AI as Gatekeeper or Second Opinion: Designing Patient Pathways for AI-Augmented Healthcare—Tinglong Dai
A Macro-Finance Model of Mortgage Structure: Financial Stability & Risk Sharing—Vadim Elenev
Impact of Markdown Price Strategy on Returns: A Price Transparency and Valuation Uncertainty Story—Ozge Sahin
Carey research in the news
Associated Press, Unrivaled women’s basketball league is setting a new standard for salaries before it even tips off—Christina DePasquale
Financial Planning, With mortgage interest deduction up in the air, here's one reform idea—Michael Keane
Fortune, Artificial intelligence and the future of cities—Seydina Fall
Reuters, EM central banks cool on Treasuries, stoking bond yield heat—Alessandro Rebucci
The Hill, How making health insurance ‘insurance’ again will improve health care—Ge Bai
USA Today, Idaho health agency halts COVID vaccine program, joining backlash—Stacey Lee
U.S. News & World Report, Social Security Fairness Act: What it is and will it affect you—Yuval Bar-Or
Awards and recognition
Evgeny Kagan and Maqbool Dada received the 2024 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Service Management Special Interest Group Best Paper Award for their paper "The Gatekeepers Dilemma: ‘When Should I Transfer This Customer?’". The award-winning paper was published in the Operations Research.
Upcoming opportunities
Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Cherry Blossom Conference
March 22-23, 2025
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center
Washington, D.C.
Organizers: Ali Eshragh, Ali Fattahi, and Yuexing Li