economics

From a Furman national title to unlikely friendships, you’ll want to hear these stories

Bobby Daugherty '90, an economics major and member of the NCAA Division I-AA Furman Football squad that won the national championship in 1988, will be among the speakers in the Storytellers Project show on March...

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Pontari named interim vice president for academic affairs and provost

Beth Pontari, who has led Furman University’s engaged learning efforts as associate provost since 2017, will serve as interim vice president for academic affairs and provost, beginning July 1, Furman President Elizabeth Davis announced Wednesday....

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Bonds 101: Students participate in live capital finance project

Finance-savvy students might geek out at the prospect of sitting in class learning about debt instruments and how institutions use them for funding large capital expenditures. Others might not be so interested. But likely all...

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Have we gotten student success completely backward?

In an article appearing in The Chronicle of Education, Aaron Basko, associate vice president for enrollment management at the University of Lynchburg, in Virginia, cites the Gallup-Purdue Index, which lays out “The Big 6 for...

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Professional women are starting to reap benefits of marriage

Lindsay Diehl '22 and Cabot Fowler '23 were trawling for an interesting research project last summer when their economics professor suggested they peruse a national survey of youth. Created by the U.S Bureau of Labor...

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S.C. schools usher in innovation centers

Furman University's Anthony Herrera, executive director of The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, goes on record in a SC Biz News story about the growing presence of business incubators on campuses in the state....

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Ghosts, monsters and fiscal cliffs

In an op-ed for The Greenville News, Furman professors Jason Jones (Economics) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) address the issue of America’s looming fiscal cliff.  They write that the nation’s elected officials must, through...

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Averting ghosts, monsters and fiscal cliffs

In an op-ed for The Greenville News, Furman professors Jason Jones (Economics) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) address the issue of America’s looming fiscal cliff. They write that the nation’s elected officials must, through leadership...

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SC entrepreneurial insights from John Warner

John Warner, founder of Innoventure and self-described "serial entrepreneur," joined Mike Switzer, host of public radio program "South Carolina Business Review." Warner spoke about the latest infusion of endowment funds for Furman University's Hill Institute...

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Demand for workers pushes wages higher

For a story about the worker shortage and increasing wages in the United States, Ross Norton of SC Biz News turns to two Furman University professors in the Department of Economics, Kailash Khandke and Jeffrey...

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Greenville think tank CEO named Ascend Fellow

The Post and Courier reports on Greenville native and 2005 Furman University history graduate Joe Waters, who has been named to the 2021-22 cohort of Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows. Over the course of 18 months,...

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Greenville’s Best and Brightest 35 and Under

Celebrating "rising stars" in the business community, Greenville Business Magazine has published its annual Best & Brightest 35 and Under issue. Now in its 27th year of the special issue, the magazine again includes a...

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