IU Expert: Online Retailers Losing Competitive Edge Over Traditional Stores This Holiday Season

With all of the talk about the growing success of Cyber Monday sales, an Indiana University retailing expert suggests that traditional retailers are closing the gap with online retailers such as Amazon.com.

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Research: Corporate Executives Hugely Overconfident

Corporate executives are astonishingly overconfident in their ability to forecast the stock market, a new study shows.

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Contraception Mandate Debate Leads to Worrisome ‘Corporate Conscience’ Concept

The controversy and legal battles surrounding the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act have led to a new – and worrisome – legal concept: the idea of a “corporate conscience,” warns Elizabeth Sepper, who teaches at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

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Keep Stricter Audit Committee Standards Flexible, Argues New Study

Independent, financially-literate audit committees lead to higher firm values and less diversion of resources by management, shows a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto. But the paper, which looked at small companies that voluntarily adopted standards required of larger companies, also says it’s important for regulators to stay flexible around rules requiring high-quality audit committees, particularly for smaller firms that may be hurt by expensive director compensation costs.

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Finance Expert at Lewis University

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IT Monitoring Effective in Deterring Restaurant Fraud

For many firms, losing significant revenue and profit to employee theft has been a cost of doing business. But a new study from Washington University in St. Louis finds that information technology monitoring is strikingly effective in reducing theft and fraud, especially in the restaurant industry.

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Creepy Credit – Using Social Media to Screen Customers

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Expert Offers Insight on History of Labor Day and How Workers Are Faring in Post-Recession Recovery

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Holding on to Your Job? Here’s How to Survive Career Limbo

The unemployment rate is in a holding pattern and so is your career. Will you be ready for the next move when the job market expands?

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Gender Bias a Consequence of Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s Financial Expert Rule?

In 2002, the federal government mandated that corporate boards of directors include at least one “audit committee financial expert” to help avert future accounting scandals. But the title and description of that position may have an unintended negative effect on the gender diversity of corporate boards, argues Seletha Butler, assistant professor of law and ethics at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.

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