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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Boston University Questrom School of Business. The Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets and Society — funded by Mehrotra last year — was founded with the goal to examine the role business and markets play in solving global issues. ZARA MEGGETT/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute seeks to use business and markets for good

Charlie Dippolito February 9, 2024
Questrom recently announced the founding of the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets and Society with the goal of examining the role businesses and markets play in solving global issues.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

History and authenticity can only be claimed by Boston’s little Italy

Amanda Brecher October 22, 2023
I can’t say that Eataly doesn’t have a good mission, and I won’t say that I haven’t explored its markets with wide eyes and an open stomach –– but my main concern is its place in Boston.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Modern Toolbox: Crypto’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war

Jaeyoung Choi March 15, 2022
The Russia-Ukraine conflict clearly demonstrates exactly where cryptocurrencies fit in the modern landscape. Accessible, quick, and reliable is exactly what a revolutionary form of currency needs to be, and the conflict has proven it is exactly those things.
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White Massachusetts residents more than twice as likely to own a business than Black, Latinx residents

Anna Stjernquist March 31, 2021
Less than half a percent of Boston’s 2014-2019 contract spending went to Black-owned business.
Purdue Pharma L.P. pleaded guilty on Oct. 21 to criminal charges for the company's marketing and selling of opioids, which led to a nationwide opioid crisis. NICOLAS TEPPER/DFP FILE

BU professors analyze Purdue Pharma shutdown, aftermath

Kyla Denisevich November 6, 2020
Around 450,000 people have died from opioids since the turn of the century, and many companies are to blame for the drug's overprescription and misuse.
JOHNSTON: Trump’s economic foreshadow

JOHNSTON: Trump’s economic foreshadow

Andrew Johnston February 3, 2017

One would hope that business guru President Donald Trump, as a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economics, would have a strategic approach to fixing our ailing economy. Indeed,...

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