Hotel industry report: a year of uncertainty
Our State of the Industry Report last year began with this statement: “The outlook for the hotel industry for the rest of 2024 is, well, complicated.” Well, “complicated” applies even more to 2025. Between tariffs, stock market...
Taking a red pencil to corporate speak
Before becoming a professor at Bucknell’s Freeman College of Management, Kate Suslava worked as an auditor for accounting giant Ernst & Young (EY). It was a job that involved listening to plenty of companies’ quarterly earnings calls. Like her EY...
Alyssa Weinberg ’22 wrote an opera about climate change
Climate change is raising temperatures and sea levels around the world, but it’s also threatening the memories held by society and by nature itself. That’s the premise behind Drift, a forthcoming opera that composer Alyssa Weinberg *22 is developing with...
All aboard the Photo Ark
Joel Sartore (Eagle Class of 1977) is an overachiever. Like most concerned citizens, he wants to save the whales and the giant pandas. But he also wants to save the Florida grasshopper sparrow. And the Colombian spider monkey. And the hellbender. And even the...
What US trial sponsors should know about the GDPR
U.S. life sciences companies that conduct trials in Europe must deal with more than language nuances and time-zone differences. They must also comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This bedrock privacy regulation controls the use of all...
Cast in bronze: an artist’s legacy
The ongoing debate over whether to remove Confederate statues in the South (and beyond) demonstrates how public art highlights what a society finds significant. By that measure,Ed Hamilton was pretty insignificant when he was growing up black in the 1950s and...