Four leading engineering, technology and marketing organizations have signed an agreement to jointly support research and commercialize the results in a new generation of advanced FRP/engineered wood composite materials that combine wood and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites.
On July 24, 54 University of Maryland liberal arts students will be among the first to take a new practical exam that will test computer literacy and information technology skills most desired by employers in today's competitive workforce.
In a three-year study of IPO companies, Theresa Welbourne, a professor at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, showed that stock performance appears to improve when more women are part of the top management team.
Metropolitan regions with highly educated workforces fare significantly better in income growth than do regions with fewer educated workers, and the gap between the two is growing wider, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University's Center for Regional Economic Issues.
As the earnings reporting season heats up, a new study of how companies announce earnings found that investment managers in the United States are more likely to surprise financial analysts with earnings announcements than managers in other countries.
According to a research report to be published in the journal, Industrial Relations, males who place a high priority on marriage and family before entering the labor market earn more than those who do not, and females with the same emphasis on family do not appear to suffer in terms of subsequent earnings, contrary to most previous research.
A new study of the way individuals respond to advertisements shows how advertisers, through careful use of the individuals pictured in their ads as well as other visual cues, can appeal to minorities and non-minorities in the same ad.
Taxing agricultural inputs such as pesticides and fertilizer is often mentioned as a way to control the amount that farmers use. But agricultural economists at Purdue University have found little correlation when they investigated how much taxation was needed to actually change farmers' habits.
A study has found that people usually are more honest, and distort bad news less, when delivering bad news via e-mail than through other methods, such as by telephone or in person.
Harrison A. (Skip) Hartman, Jr., vice president and managing director for Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. and regional vice president of Loews Hotels, will receive the 1999 Hospitality Executive of the Year Award from Penn State.
Job satisfaction can change with the time of the day. That is one reason why typical measures of job satisfaction -- such as surveys and polls -- are not very useful, says a Purdue University expert on organizational psychology.
The first-ever analysis of biotechnology's impact on crop protection and benefits to farm production will be released Tuesday by the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP).
While "leadership" has become a hot corporate issue, most U.S. and European companies can be considered novices in leadership development, according to a report released today by The Conference Board.
Chief executives' confidence in the nation's economy increased for the third consecutive quarter, The Conference Board reports today.
Computer science and engineering students at UC San Diego will study computer science, software engineering, multimedia Web design, and database design this Fall using a newly outfitted Microsoft Windows NT Laboratory.
Managers who are fired tend to overestimate their abilities. By contrast, self-objectivity could be essential to their success or recovery.
The decision by manufacturers to raise the price of cigarettes last year will have a significant impact on whether young people take up smoking and how much tobacco farmers grow in the future, according to a Virginia Tech study released this week.
The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration will offer a new M.B.A. concentration in electronic commerce starting in Fall 1999.
Researchers at Texas Tech University are touting a longer staple cotton that could open new markets for the Texas crop. The new breed may allow cotton farmers to broaden their demand base and markets for the crops before they are ever produced.
Regardless of how you roll the dice, casino gambling is a loser when it comes to crime, a University of Illinois economist says.
Good managers intuitively know that different things motivate different employees, says a Purdue University human resource expert, but putting a tailored plan into action is not as easy as it sounds.
Women in midlife and older are finding help honing their financial knowledge and decision-making skills by taking a University of Illinois Extension program, according to a survey of those who completed the eight-week course in its first four years.
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Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have worked with companies and community colleges across the country to help teach current and future workers the skills they will need and to document knowledge and skill in a "career transcript" that will follow the student throughout his or her working life.
Driven by robust consumer spending, the U.S. economy will grow even more strongly this year and into 2000 than previously projected, according to a Conference Board analysis.
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index rose again in June, scoring its eighth consecutive monthly gain.
The vast majority of today's employers have benefited economically and employees have increased their skills through workplace education programs, according to a report released by The Conference Board and The Conference Board of Canada.
America's growing use of depression-treating drugs like Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil made antidepressants the biggest contributors to a record-setting pharmacy benefit cost increase of 16.8 percent last year, according to a study by the country's largest independent pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, Inc.
As a federal commission begins discussing possibly taxing online commerce, a Texas A&M University marketing professor cautions against rushing to regulate Internet-based business.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it is proposing to recognize regions in the European Union as free of hog cholera, foot-and-mouth disease, and swine vesicular disease.
A travel advice Web site designed by a company headquartered at the Purdue Research Park is now easily accessible to American On Line's 17 million customers.
Minimum wage hardly helps poor workers; instead, we should expand the Earned Income Tax Credits that targets workers with low family incomes, says a Cornell University professor who testified on minimum wage policy before a U.S. House of Representatives Committee.
Green watermelons--a serious economic threat to farmers and a disappointment for consumers--may be quickly and automatically rejected by a new machine invented by four University of Delaware engineering students. The computer-controlled ripeness sensor ultimately could result in huge savings for the global watermelon industry.
Purdue University students are cashing in on a course that teaches them the ins and outs of investing, particularly on-line investing, at an early age.
Six years ago, an economics journal suggested that milk producers who pay "check-off" allocations may be better served spending that money on research, rather than on milk promotion and marketing. Now, Cornell University agricultural economists say that the mathematical model used in that study may be incorrect due to erroneous assumptions, and in some cases money spent on consumer promotion will pay off better.
Nearing the June 18 release date for the final report of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, a new, non-sponsored university study concludes that counties with casino gambling have an 8 percent higher crime rate on average than counties without casinos. The study found that higher crime rates donÃt occur immediately, but typically begin emerging in the third year after a casino opens in a community.
St. John's University announced today that it is joining forces with two major organizations established to combat sweatshops and the exploitation of apparel workers worldwide, committing funds to support this cause at levels exceeding any other college or university in the country.
Research and development (R&D) spending in the United States reached an estimated $220.6 billion in 1998, says a new National Science Foundation (NSF) report.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating 30 price-fixing cases, and many involve food additives, feed supplements and vitamins, says Purdue University ag econ professor John Connor, an expert on price-fixing cartels. He says news about agribusiness price-fixing scandals will become more common in coming months.
The University of Maine's Bureau of Labor Education has released "A National Guide to Employment Law," a user-friendly guide to the multitude of laws that cover American workplaces.
Richard A. Cosier, dean of the business school at the University of Oklahoma, will be the next dean of the Purdue University School of Management and the Krannert Graduate School of Management.
American consumers remained on a buying binge while maintaining a record-low savings rate during 1999's first quarter, says the director of Wake Forest University's Center for Economic Studies.
Some of the talk about making people and organizations more accountable may amount to just that -- talk with little real payoff, a Carnegie Mellon University study shows.
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration is one of only 370 U.S. colleges and universities to have earned accreditation from the AACSB, the International Association for Management Education.
Scholars and industry leaders will explore the implications of the digital age at a Bell Atlantic-Temple University Conference June 3-5 at Temple's SugarLoaf Conference Center in Philadelphia.
An innovative program that operates community pharmacies jointly through the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Tops Markets, Inc. has resulted in better care for patients and better use of pharmacists'skills, and in some cases, a significant increase in business in the pharmacies.
As business organizations become "flatter" in structure, an employee's ability to work with others is increasingly critical to job success, says a University of Illinois scholar who has developed a scale to measure an employee's interpersonal savvy.
Wanting to protect the family's financial health, but unsure what to do? A big chunk of the puzzle is identifying and managing risks, and many middle-of-the-road wage earners don't understand the game, says a University of Illinois Extension educator.
How can privacy be protected in the digital age? Who should regulate the Internet? What are the ethics of business in cyberspace? These and other timely topics are the focus of a multidisciplinary conference on ethics and technology to be held at Boston College June 4-5.
As hot as business courses are in college, college-bound high-schoolers still take college prep courses, and the "business track" remains associated with low achievement--but not at the Talented and Gifted Business Administration Summer Institute at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
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