Max Nisen

Chipotle prices have always varied quite a bit by geography. But they’re starting to differ for a wider variety of reasons.

A decision to go into academia is rarely financially motivated. But it’s still worth noting that there’s a huge amount of income variation, depending on the area of study.

Chipotle has had a disappointing year by its own high standards, lagging the market since warning in February that growth would be weaker than what investors have come to expect.

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US Marine officer candidates are doing worse and worse on an intelligence test that’s been around in some form since World War II, according to a new study of decades’ worth of scores.

Ah, the freedom of flexible work. Pick your own start and end times, and whether and how much you work at the office. It sounds pretty great in comparison to a regimented shift, or clocking in and out every day. It also indicates a level of trust by an employer.

A search for a plane ticket usually starts out as a quest for the lowest possible fare. But here’s a dirty little secret of the airline industry: The vast majority of people back away from choosing that option when faced with what it really entails, according to Delta.

A common piece of advice for potential business school applicants is to not bother if you don’t make it into a top-ranked school. While that might be true if you’re seeking a $150,000 plus salary right after graduation, it’s still a pretty fantastic job market for those with an MBA. Even students at less prestigious schools are being recruited more aggressively, according to a report (PDF) by the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance.

Applying for a job can feel like shouting into an abyss. And for good reason: Unless you know someone in the organization, you’re at a major statistical disadvantage. While this can feel unfair, new research shows employers are justified in this bias.

First, middle, and only children will probably never stop debating the merits of their birth order. But a few things are pretty well settled. Firstborns in developed countries tend to earn more, have higher IQs, and end up more educated. And there’s evidence parents are biased toward them. But there’s no clear advantage when it comes to health over the long run. It’s complicated, but in a lot of ways, it’s worse to be born first, according to a new NBER working paper (paywall).

Despite their usefulness, smartphones can be something of a scourge when it comes to getting things done. But it’s not just thumbing away on screens that eats away time. That itch you feel to reach for your pocket every time a phone buzzes or chirps is very real—and very damaging to our ability to pay attention to what we should be doing.

Over the past decade, Albertsons has gone from being a public company to a private equity asset, and from one of America’s biggest grocery conglomerates to having half the market share of Trader Joe’s. Now, after a whirlwind of acquisitions, it has filed to go public again as America’s second largest pure grocer, with 18 brands and 2,205 stores in 33 states.

At a time when law school applications are plummeting and legal job prospects are grim, law firms are consolidating at a rapid clip. There were 48 mergers or acquisitions among US law firms in the first two quarters of 2015, according to the Pennsylvania firm Altman Weil.

Controversy over the comedian Bill Cosby’s alleged repeated sexual assaults of women have reemerged after the Associated Press surfaced documents showing him admitting in a deposition to obtaining Quaaludes to give them to young women he wanted to have sex with.

For the third summer running, Starbucks is raising coffee drink prices in the US. The increases will vary market to market, but for the beverages affected, the price hike will be between $0.05 and $0.20, Starbucks spokesperson Sanja Gold told Quartz. For the most part, summer favorites like frappuccinos and iced coffee/tea are exempt. But Tall (Starbucks’s 12. oz size) and Venti (its 16 oz. size) brewed coffee are both jumping up $0.10 a piece in most stores.

As college gets more expensive and wages for computer programmers skyrocket, more people are turning to intense coding bootcamps and online course providers to improve their job prospects without getting buried under debt. And they might get some unexpected funding help soon: The Department of Education is planning to experiment with letting students use Pell Grants to pay for these alternative programs, according to to the Chronicle of Higher Education (paywall).

For years, when companies overstated earnings, many executives got to keep their bonuses based on the bogus numbers. But new rules from the US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed yesterday would broaden the circumstances under which companies have to claw back unearned compensation.

In their efforts to retain talent, American companies are getting more and more creative in the perks they offer employees. A survey of more than 400 companies (pdf) by the Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM) has found an increase in the variety of extra benefits on offer, which range from the nice but minor, like fitness trackers, to potentially very expensive, like paying off employees’ student loans:

Many parents go to great lengths to surround their children with the smartest peers possible, often relocating to a better school district or spending big bucks on private school. That strategy could do significant harm, new research found.

With the rise of flexible working schedules, the freelance economy, and video conferencing, more Americans are getting their jobs done without ever heading into an office, according to new data from the American Time Use Survey released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among all workers, 23% report spending all or part of their day working from home. That’s up from less than 19% in 2003, the first year for which there’s comparable data.

As is traditional for Americans feeling the sting of a policy change they find disappointing, there are a lot of unhappy people right now claiming they’re through with the US and moving to Canada. What has today’s crop of would-be emigrants plotting a relocation to their northern neighbor? The US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down state bans on gay marriage, of course.

After following Google’s lead and releasing diversity statistics last year, Facebook provided its first update today. The good: There’s been some improvement. The bad: It’s clear that changing hiring practices and becoming more diverse is going to be a long process in Silicon Valley.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen worries when he starts seeing too many business school grads around San Francisco.

For every extreme fitness trend that comes along, an equal and opposite trend is bound to follow. Such is the case with American gyms. Fitness junkies willing to pay for intense workouts and spa-like experiences have flocked to high-end chains like Equinox. Meanwhile, Planet Fitness has gone the opposite route, pitching itself as extremely accessible and accepting. The company calls its gyms ”Judgement Free Zones,” and potentially intimidating behavior like grunting or dropping heavy weights is discouraged with a wall alarm that staff can set off. Prices are low ($10 a month) because the gyms are bare bones: no group classes, no juice bars.