Childhood Vows: How Love Gave Alice Tsang the Stamina to Escape Poverty

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Gordon, The Bell interviewed Professor in the Practice of Economics and Business Alice Tsang who has taught at Gordon for over a decade. This is her story.

Economist Embraces Life’s Imperfections and Subtleties

Last week, Associate Professor of Economics and Business Dr. Kristen Cooper ’06 gave the annual John Mason lecture, in which she advocated for a non-marginal way of thinking about life that embraces life’s ups and downs.

Get to Know Gordon’s Newest Professors

Three new professors are bringing their unique field expertise and perspectives to Gordon’s faculty this fall. Hang-Wei (Henry) Hao and Todd Palmer join the Department of Economics and Business, and Tout Wang joins the Department of Physics.

Examining Well-being Through Economics

This summer, research assistants Jenn Meakem ’19 and Mike D’Antuono ’18 (pictured right) helped Dr. Kristen Cooper (economics) and her co-authors, Professors Daniel Benjamin (University of Southern California), Ori Heffetz (Cornell University) and Miles Kimball (University of Colorado),… Read More

Globalization, Technology and Inequality in the World of Business

“It may be helpful to put where we are today in a historical perspective,” said Dr. Joseph McKinney in an address to Gordon faculty, staff and students. “It is said that if we had a time machine that… Read More