Washington University Olin Business School

A free mentorship program is giving entrepreneurs feedback on their grant applications.

The grocery store chain unraveled this year as St. Louis-area locations closed and it faced a lawsuit over late taxes and unpaid rent. Its owner had envisioned the store bringing high-quality products to food deserts.

Author Ibram X. Kendi and St. Louis artist Cbabi Bayoc discuss their recent collaboration on the children’s book “Goodnight Racism.”

Research shows women who started businesses in 2021 received 2% of venture capitalist funding, and Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs received less than 2% of funding.

Consumer prices are soaring at a rate not seen since Ronald Reagan was President. Economists are trying to figure out if it's an economic hiccup or whether higher costs are here to stay.

In the month leading up to Election Day, most public opinion polls showed former Vice President Joe Biden leading by a sizable margin, yet his margin of victory was much closer than many pollsters predicted. As Washington University professor Liberty Vittert writes in a recent editorial, “How were all the pollsters so wrong, again, even after the soul searching and methodological recalibrating that followed 2016?”

Voting participation correlates with social distancing compliance, according to a new study in the Journal of Public Economics. Washington University Olin Business School professor John Barrios discussed the study on "St. Louis on the Air."

Alivia Kaplan had big summer plans. She was set to fly home to Hawaii after her sophomore year at Washington University’s Olin Business School in St.…