As the U.S. and European economies destabilize under the pressure of debt, the global economy is leaning heavily on China. “Consumers — historically and especially during times of economic decline — value price over quality,” says Karen Hogan, Ph.D., professor of finance at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. “China offers the U.S. and European economies cheap labor and affordable imports; we’re hooked on it.”
America is about to ditch the food pyramid. In its place, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will serve a plate-shaped symbol sliced into basic food groups. Beside the plate will rest a small cup of dairy (milk or yogurt). What does this mean for the kid on the playground, or the mom running in eight different directions?
As America’s collective waistline continues to expand, so does the number of food products parading themselves as healthy options. In light of growing concern over the nutritional value of the foods we put into our bodies, many food marketers have stepped up their advertising in an effort to stand out against their competitors.
April 12 marks the 150th anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, and signals the beginning of a multi-year commemoration of the United States Civil War (1861-1865). Many national Civil War parks and sites – like Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Pa., and Shiloh, Miss.– are ready to receive a bumper crop of visitors over the next four years, as our nation revisits this time from our history. But Civil War expert Randall Miller, Ph.D., professor of history at Saint Joseph's University thinks it's important that communities look beyond the battlefields to the home front.
Former IRS Agent Dennis Raible, M.B.A., C.P.A., an accounting professor at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, has recommendations for 2011 tax season. Above all, Raible advises to file on-time. “The penalty for failure-to-file is a real killer," he says.
As NCAA basketball fans begin to research ESPN for information that could prove useful for their brackets -- many on company time -- employers are voicing concerns that the madness surrounding bracketology will cause declines in productivity. But Claire Simmers Ph.D., chair and professor of management at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, believes that if handled correctly, office pools are useful for boosting morale, as long as productivity is balanced.
Plants under snow cover are exposed to fewer drastic temperature changes, which can be more damaging than continued cold, says botanist Karen Snetselaar, Ph.D., chair and professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. However, this year’s insulating snow cover may have come too late, Snetselaar notes.
Employers are tripping over legal hurdles as more companies and their workers use social media tools like Twitter and Facebook.
Observers of the recent suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport were surprised that despite the carnage, the airport remained open for business. While some claimed that this response was an example of Russian toughness and stoicism in the face of a crisis, Lisa Baglione, Ph.D., chair and professor of political science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, believes that something else was at work.
In his joint paper with Evan Offstein, Ph.D., “On the Virtues of Secrecy in Organizations,” Ronald Dufresne, Ph.D., an assistant professor of management at Saint Joseph' s University, argues that “secrets are necessary, if not essential, to organizational survival and competitiveness.”
China watchers are reporting another lifestyle shift in the world’s third largest country: the resurgence of organized religion. James Carter, Ph.D., an and expert in 20th century China and professor of history at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, offers insight into this cultural change.
No parent wants to learn that their child is being bullied. But it may be even harder to hear that their child is the bully. What does a parent do when they’re told?
No matter our religious or cultural background, we have all felt pressured during the winter holiday season to frame a picture-perfect experience. In this economy, when so many face celebrating the holidays on a tight or non-existent budget, Shawn Madison Krahmer, Ph.D., chair of theology and religious studies at Saint Joseph's University offers a different approach to the season for everyone.
Leadership is everywhere. Nowhere was this more evident than in the belly of the Chilean mine in the weeks and months following the Aug. 5 collapse. “Corporate America has a lot to learn from the Chilean miners,” says Ron Dufresne, Ph.D., assistant professor of management at Saint Joseph’s University who studies leadership.
Everyone knows this popular Halloween game: turn out the lights, pass around a dried apricot and it’s easy to believe it’s a human earlobe. Peel some grapes and in the dark they feel just like human eyeballs. It’s a game that tricks the senses and it’s something Saint Joseph’s University psychologist Alex Skolnick, Ph.D., has been doing in his lab for the last several years.
As the weather turns brisk and flu season begins, bad memories of last year’s H1N1pandemic may start surfacing. Luckily, microbiologist John Tudor, Ph.D., professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, anticipates a less violent outbreak of the virus this year.
According to the National Retail Federation, the average American will spend $66.28 on Halloween this year. Second only to costumes, candy eats up the largest chunk of this budget with American families spending an average of $22 each Halloween on confections. When trick-or-treating entered the American scene in the 1920s, neighbors gave children items like apples, pastries, breads and even money. So why, 40 years later, are there $1 billion in candy sales each Halloween? How has food marketing taken over this tradition?
As the Philadelphia Phillies get ready to play the San Francisco Giants for the National League Championship Series title, the team is already making baseball history.
Though the recent oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the BP/Deep Water Horizon oilrig explosion is no longer leading headlines, this fall, the disaster will be a major topic of conversation and study in environmental science classrooms around the country.
Young adult (y.a.) fiction is a huge market in the publishing industry. According to the Association of American Publishers, paperbound book sales in children’s and y.a. titles topped $1.5 billion in 2009. But while these books are usually written for readers between the ages of 14 and 21, they also have immense crossover appeal to older audiences, says April Lindner, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pa.
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