Dartmouth Business Journal

09/27/2017

First drafts are due today!

09/27/2017

Don't forget to submit your first drafts by tomorrow for 17F!!

08/31/2017

Will Exxon ever go green? Jason Wei explores...

Environmentalists have long been pushing for a transition from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energies. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has said that people are running “the dumbest experiment in history” by continuing to burn oil, coal and gas. He argues that even if we find new ways to ex...

08/26/2017

Is passive investing the future? Eric Sun explores.

The stock market has always been about using your knowledge and skills to accomplish returns. You buy stocks that you think are undervalued and you short stocks that you think are overvalued, and you either make money if you are right or lose money if you are wrong. However, since the 1990s, a new m...

04/05/2017

Hey everyone!

In case you missed tonight's meeting, our basic schedule for 17S will look like this:

4/9: Proposal & Outline Due
4/16: First Draft Due
4/23: Second drafts due
4/25: Copyediting Session
4/29: Final Drafts Due
5/23: Design Session

More specifics will come later about time and location for our coming meetings. In the mean time, you will find the link to submit your article topic idea below, due by April 9th at 5pm. If you want to talk about article ideas, please send us an email.

https://goo.gl/forms/b74V4n6hfIuUlVjl1

03/10/2017

The 17W edition of the DBJ is out now! Pick up your copy for the Coach or flight home from newsstands across campus. Thanks to our writers, designers, and editors for another great term, and good luck on finals!

02/20/2017

"Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than he**in, 100 times stronger than morphine and has been linked to 9,600 cases of fatal overdoses since 2013." Where is all this fentanyl coming from, and how can it be stopped? Amber Liu '20 investigates.
http://dartmouthbusinessjournal.com/2016/12/06/2366/

America has an addiction problem. The number of lethal drug overdoses has increased at an alarming rate, with a two-fold increase in opioid related mortalities since 2000. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there were over 47,000 fatal drug overdoses in 2014, 62 percent of w...

02/16/2017

It has been over a year since news of "Dieselgate" first broke, but has Volkswagen recovered in reputation and revenue? Hayley Winter '18 takes a look. http://dartmouthbusinessjournal.com/2016/12/06/dieselgate-scandal-one-year-later-can-volkswagen-recover/

The repercussions of the alleged “diesel dupe” from last September are still evident in the global market economy, now that information is revealing just how short Volkswagen fell of its promised objectives from last autumn to completely repair all of its vehicles affected by the emissions scandal.…

02/13/2017

As global oil prices start rising again, American energy companies are beginning to take action. What will the market look like, and how should investors respond? Jackson Baur '20 offers this perspective. http://dartmouthbusinessjournal.com/2016/12/06/crude-drilling-south-barreling-north/

Since late 2014, the United States domestic energy market has been in the midst of the worst industry downturn in nearly half a century. But investors are lying in wait, looking for the opportunity to jump back in. Optimal timing remains the only factor holding back reinvestment. With crude oil’s re...

02/09/2017

Venezuela's crippling depression has been in the news for months now, but it is difficult to understand how it came to be in the first place since the country is rich in oil. More importantly, is there any way out? Shashwat Chaturvedi '18 explains. http://dartmouthbusinessjournal.com/2016/12/06/worlds-largest-oil-reserves-couldnt-save-economy/

02/06/2017

As Europe's economy continues to struggle, cries to dissolve the European Economic and Monetary Union have only grown louder. Are currency unions just a bad idea in general, and if so, are there alternatives? Kun Li '19 explains. http://dartmouthbusinessjournal.com/2016/12/06/fiscal-transfer-mechanism-rescue/

The economies of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) have continued to recover since the financial crisis, albeit at an acutely slow rate. According to Eurostat, EMU’s GDP during the second quarter of 2016 rose by 0.3 percent relative to the previous quarter. Compared to a year ago, EMU’s...

02/06/2017

"Hedge fund" is often synonymous with "high profit", but recently hedge funds haven't been doing so well. Max Frankel '19 explains how market volatility and the Fed have played a part in this. http://dartmouthbusinessjournal.com/2016/12/06/volatility-compression-federal-reserve-dulling-markets-price-discovery-mechanism/

Hedge funds have been struggling recently. According to CNBC, hedge fund outflows reached $60 billion in June, with the rate of withdrawals increasing. Although the average American might not feel much sympathy for the typical hedge fund manager, the struggling hedge fund industry points to a real p...