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Monday, September 8, 2025 Media Contact: Hallie Hart | Communications Coordinator | 405-744-1050 | hallie.hart@okstate.edu Editor’s note: The Spears School of Business is releasing a series of feature stories to celebrate the 2025 Spears Business Hall of Fame inductees and Outstanding Young Alumni before their Oct. 10 ceremony. Previous profiles highlighted Craig Boelte, Dr. Lee Manzer, Suzanne Wade and Lucas Elwell. College students often hear the recommendation, “Sit in the front row of class to focus and stand out to your professors.” Spears School of Business graduate Aaron Sizemore has a different reason to believe in that advice. When he…
A group of investors and human rights advocates are urging the EU Commission and European Parliament to keep a financial review clause in the corporate sustainability due diligence directive (CSDDD). The clause requires the commission to review whether financial institutions should be legally required to assess their human rights and climate impact. But under the EU’s omnibus proposal, this clause would be removed. “This clause is modest in scope but highly significant in purpose,” the letter says. Signed by 30 groups, including ShareAction, Oxfam, Americans for Financial Reform and the European Environmental Bureau, it goes on to say that while…
Transforming investment landscapes Climate finance is navigated by various structural and market forces, reshaping how capital is allocated. A major trend is the push for sustainable urban development, as more than half of the global populace resides in cities. This shift emphasises greener, more resilient urban infrastructure, with private investments in urban sustainability increasing substantially. The clean energy transition is another significant force, propelled by decreased costs in renewables, energy storage, and smart grids. This evolution lowers entry barriers, leading to an increased allocation of private capital into energy infrastructure projects that facilitate a transition to net zero. Parallel, the transport sector…
There are both smart and risky ways to borrow money from your home this fall. alexkich/Getty Images Interest rates are elevated, and the cost of living keeps rising, so many homeowners are turning to their property for financial breathing room. Home prices are still high, and most homeowners have substantial home equity, about $313,000 on average, according to a March 2025 ICE Mortgage Monitor report. Understandably, many want to utilize it with a home equity loan or home equity line of credit (HELOC) for much-needed cash.Of course, there’s a benefit-risk ratio to consider with any loan product. On the one…
Americans’ confidence in finding a new job after losing one just hit its lowest level in more than a decade, according to a New York Fed survey published Monday. The metric fell 5.8 percentage points to 44.9% in August, the lowest reading since the start of the survey in June 2013. Additionally, mean expectations that the US unemployment rate will be higher one year from now ticked up nearly 2 percentage points to 39.1%. The data underscores how workers are feeling the effects of a dramatic slowdown in the labor market. The August jobs report released last week by the…
In February, after an endorsement by President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds announced he was running to be Florida’s next governor. Donations began pouring into the Friends of Byron Donalds PAC totaling more than $22 million. But donations for Byron Donalds for Congress didn’t stop. And the Federal Election Commission has an issue with the Donalds’ campaign soliciting and collecting money for both. Last month the FEC, which enforces and administers campaign finance laws, sent a letter to Bradley T. Crate, treasurer for both of Donalds’ campaigns. The letter, signed by a senior analyst at the FEC, stated that…
In February, after an endorsement by President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds announced he was running to be Florida’s next governor. Donations began pouring into the Friends of Byron Donalds PAC totaling more than $22 million. But donations for Byron Donalds for Congress didn’t stop. And the Federal Election Commission has an issue with the Donalds’ campaign soliciting and collecting money for both. Last month the FEC, which enforces and administers campaign finance laws, sent a letter to Bradley T. Crate, treasurer for both of Donalds’ campaigns. The letter, signed by a senior analyst at the FEC, stated that…
When Donald Trump flew to the UK in late July for meetings with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, it was the US president who played host: The sessions were held at Trump Turnberry, his golf course on Scotland’s southwestern coast.
Welcome back! Did you already get a lift in today? On Wall Street, chasing gains at the office is becoming the new norm. Here’s how gyms at five top firms stack up.In today’s big story, people are obsessed with reading into every corporate rebrand as the next big political statement. It’s not that serious.What’s on deck:Markets: The interview questions Wall Street hiring managers use to spot talent.Tech: Inside Silicon Valley’s “youthquake.”Business: Hyundai has for decades poured billions into America’s South. Then ICE rattled its biggest US project yet.But first, we’re switching things up.If this was forwarded to you, sign up…
ATLANTA – We already know a thing or two about heat here in Georgia. But if you really want to know about true, scorching heat — you go see Jim Duffy. What we know: Duffy is the owner of Refining Fire Chiles, a chile pepper retail and education business that features some of the hottest — and most unique — little pods on the planet. He became interested in chiles back in 2003, thanks to the homemade salsas and sauces of his coworkers; soon, he was growing dozens of varieties and winning over fans throughout California. In 2021, Duffy relocated…