Angel investors committed fewer dollars in more deals in the first half of 2010, with seed and start-up stage investing declining to its lowest level in several years, a trend that soon could impact new ventures and job creation, according to the Angel Market Analysis for the first and second quarters of 2010 released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
Emotional intelligence is a strong predictor of job performance, according to a new study conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University that helps settle the ongoing debate in a much-disputed area of research.
General intelligence is not enough. Practical intelligence can mean the difference between entrepreneurial success or failure.
A professor of business information technology is working on developing new approaches for modeling disaster resilience that will enable decision makers to gain a better understanding of the tradeoffs inherent in managing supply chain operations during a disaster.
A new study by a professor of marketing at Virginia Tech sheds new light on consumer responses to rewards programs, used by airlines, credit-card companies, hotels, retailers, and other businesses to promote customer allegiance.
Study reveals the secrets to negotiating a higher salary.
Brother and sister Tom and Dian Griesel, the co-founders of The Business School of Happiness have studied the various ways people can improve satisfaction with their lives including their hours on the job.
For a number of years, gas prices in the United States have been fluctuating—at times reaching more than $4—and this fluctuation has significantly affected American’s disposable income. Dinesh Gauri, an assistant professor of marketing in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, recently studied approximately 1,000 households to determine how consumers modify their shopping behaviors when higher gas prices put pressure on their budgets.
A new Iowa State University study of 69 companies found that having a clear strategy is far more valuable than either availability of resources or management support when it comes to perceived supply chain security by managers.
With the concept of a store-within-a-store growing across the country, a Kansas State University researcher's work shows the increasing importance of brand reputation and its strong role in governing decisions.
Nanotechnology advances at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock creates two new businesses to market a solution to a $600 billion global business problem -- counterfeit products.
Whether or not a company’s CEO holds a college degree from a top school has no bearing on the firm’s long-term performance. And when it comes to getting canned for poor performance, CEOs with degrees from the nation’s most prestigious schools are no safer than the average CEO, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire.
Emotional intelligence plays an important role in coping with organizational politics; a high level of emotional intelligence makes for more dedicated and satisfied employees. This is revealed in a new study from the University of Haifa.
Lack of flexibility that interferes with family balance is major factor why relatively few women own quick service food franchises.
The United States workforce, battered by an economic slowdown, now includes a record number of workers who are involuntarily working part-time due to reduced hours or the inability to find a full-time job. Hourly workers are especially susceptible to reduced, irregular and fluctuating hours, and the myriad of challenges associated with them.
A paycheck brings a familiar sense of freedom, albeit one that dwindles in lockstep with the balance in one's checking account. But, it’s not the checking account size that influences consumer behavior; rather, it’s the time that has elapsed since payday.
CEOs often blame something other than their own performance when companies go out of business, but a new study by a University of Iowa researcher suggests they are more responsible than they like to think.
In tough times, many companies slash staff and turn to outsourcing, yet that may doom their products; in good times, as with Toyota, losing control over key components can contribute to failure, says Lyda Bigelow, a University of Utah business-strategy professor.
Overturning more than 40 years of accepted practice, new research proves that the tools used to check tests of "general mental ability" for bias are themselves flawed. This key finding from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business challenges reliance on such exams to make objective decisions for employment or academic admissions even in the face of well-documented gaps between mean scores of white and minority populations.
Intrigued by the question of why managers pursue such deals even when they do not improve shareholder wealth, Dharwadkar, Brandes, and Goranova examined the implications of ownership from a novel perspective. In their paper “Owners on Both Sides of the Deal: M&A and Overlapping Institutional Ownership,” forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal, they investigated the consequences of “overlapping” institutional ownership — whereby owners may have simultaneous stakes in both the acquirer and the target to an M&A deal.
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