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Research Topic Ideas

Astronomy; Biology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Engineering; Geography, Planning, & Environment; Mathematics; Physics

Business Topics

  • Bank mergers
  • Bankruptcy
  • Big box stores
  • Brand awareness
  • Competitive intelligence
  • Consumer loyalty
  • Consumer risk
  • Copycat products
  • Corporate crime
  • Corporate culture
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Customer competencies
  • Data security
  • Downtown revitalization
  • Employee coaching
  • Franchises
  • Green products
  • Industry disruptor
  • Intellectual capital
  • Job sculpting
  • Marketing ethics
  • Mergers
  • Organigraphs
  • Outsourcing
  • Philanthropy
  • Quality circles
  • Regional planning
  • Risk management
  • Service initiatives
  • Shared services model
  • Short-term financing
  • Starbucks Effect
  • Strategic planning
  • Strikes
  • Subliminal advertising
  • Telemarketing
  • Underage workers
  • Underwriting
  • Undocumented workers
  • Unions
  • Whistle blowing
  • Work ethic
  • Work-life balance
  • Workplace diversity
  • Thompson Library Guides for Business & Management

Management and Administration Topics

  • Bias in promotions
  • Core competencies
  • Dress code
  • Downsizing
  • Employee benefit planning
  • Employment equity
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Glass ceiling
  • Harassment
  • Human resources
  • Knowledge management
  • Labor disputes
  • Mentoring
  • Public unions
  • Reverse performance evaluation
  • Sexual harassment
  • Strategic human resource management
  • Succession management
  • Team leadership
  • Telecommuting
  • Total quality management
  • Trans Pacific Partnership
  • Troubled employees
  • Workplace atmosphere
  • Workplace dating
  • Workplace violence
  • Thompson Library Guides for Business & Management

Economics Topics

  • Austerity measures
  • Bailout
  • Bitcoin
  • Coinage
  • Consumerism
  • Credit Crisis
  • Currency manipulation
  • Cyber Monday
  • Demonitisation
  • Depression
  • Econometrics
  • Economic stimulus approaches
  • Exchange rates
  • Farm subsidies
  • Federal interest rates
  • Flash crashes
  • Flat taxes
  • Forecasting
  • Foreign exchange
  • Great Recession
  • Green economy
  • Housing market crash
  • Informal economy
  • Interest rates
  • Minimum wage
  • National debt
  • Prevailing wage laws
  • Recession
  • Sharing economy
  • Shop local
  • Tariffs
  • Unemployment
  • United Kingdom leaving EU
  • Venezuela economic collapse
  • World economy
  • Thompson Library Guide for Economics