Winners of Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership
Conference BoardAnheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., BankBoston Corporation, Cascade Engineering and Seafirst/Bank of America, were today named winners of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., BankBoston Corporation, Cascade Engineering and Seafirst/Bank of America, were today named winners of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.
Simon School Holds First Conference on Electronic Banking And Commerce. Partners With Citigroup and Internet Business Leaders to Develop Competitive Strategies for Banking Industry
Despite today's interest rate cut, Brazil's economic problems are likely to worsen, according to an analysis released today by The Conference Board.
Corn producers selecting a tillage system for poorly drained or high-clay soils in 1999 don't have to choose between conservation and profitability, says Purdue University agronomist Tony Vyn . Fall zone tillage can give them both.
Some critics of Social Security reform fear that a policy mandating individual retirement accounts would have a negative economic impact on women. That's not the case, says a North Carolina State University professor of economics and business management, who is helping policy makers defuse the emotionally charged debate with research-based information.
Controversy has surrounded programs like "Welfare-to-Work" since their inception. For years, experts have debated whether the programs would ever accomplish their goals. Recently, a study completed by a University of Missouri-Columbia professor described the impact these types of programs are having, and found that there is an increasing number of people who are getting off welfare and finding jobs.
Getting back to the basics of crop production can help turn pennies into profits. But the first step toward cutting the cost of putting out a crop is knowing the cost in the first place, according to a Purdue University corn specialist.
Mayo Clinic HealthQuest announced today that its new online program has begun service and will provide employees at companies throughout the U.S., with a daily updated health information resource.
It's happening in all sizes of businesses -- the workplace is becoming an important venue for employees to obtain information about how to stay healthy. That trend comes in part because companies are looking for ways to control healthcare costs by teaching good health habits.
Women who suffer from urinary incontinence will benefit from the invention that took the top prize in the 1999 Burton Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition at Purdue University. The "Femate," a biofeedback device for exercising the pelvic floor muscle, is the winner.
Austin's growing and influential high-tech community and the highly ranked information management program at the University of Texas Graduate School of Business combined to woo the 1999 Graduate Business Conference to town March 11th through the 14th.
For women leaving the welfare rolls nationwide as a result of recent reforms, the missing link between work and economic success is not just a job - it's skill, according to a new study by Educational Testing Service.
A Salisbury State University professor has research that provides a sure-fire way for managers to tell if they have good management skills: If the office runs smoother or production increases when you're not there, then you probably don't.
Age might be the single most reliable indicator of corporate loyalty, according to a Washington University researcher and author of a book on corporate loyalty, "The Old Dispensation."
If it's true that the devil's in the details, then there's plenty of Beelzebub in a new book about the destructive forces permeating U.S. academia.
The time is ripe to amend the New Deal law that prohibits farm workers from bargaining collectively with their employers, two University of Illinois experts write in the coming issue of the Emory Law Journal.
Nearly everything under the U.S. sun can be purchased online. But the Internet and World Wide Web can't get mukluks to Moscow, caviar to Kiev or vodka to Vladivostok.
It looks like a weak year ahead for Indiana farmers and their Corn Belt brethren, but that may qualify as good news to beleaguered hog producers and grain farmers, say Purdue University agricultural economists.
Mayo Clinic HealthQuest has formed a multi-company consortium to study, validate and quantify the effectiveness of online corporate wellness programs.
A recent MBA graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was headed for a promising career in finance at a Fortune 500 company, when she decided to forgo the big-time salary track to achieve a different type of "return" on her education investment, managing a nonprofit organization.
If you are what you eat, do you eat whatever's before you? Apparently so, at least when it comes to snack foods where size has become a major ingredient in marketing.
Global corporations are shrinking and reorganizing their headquarters operations to stay in front of the competition, according to a new report released by the Conference Board.
The European Monetary Union will increase price discipline among Union members, leading to wage moderation and a reduction of wage differentials among countries, according to a new report released today by The Conference Board.
St. John's University's 34th business conference, Global Competitiveness in the 21st Century, will be held Apr. 7, 1999, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the New York Hilton in Manhattan.
New research at Ohio State suggests that businesses and others who write rejection letters are better off delivering the bad news up front rather than placing it lower in the letter.
The 12th Annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition at Purdue University will pit student entrepreneurs against each other for a $20,000 first prize and the chance to get their business off the ground.
Credibility of the source is the most important factor when organizations select and distribute wellness materials to their employees, a survey conducted by Mayo Clinic HealthQuest reveals.
A new study by a Brigham Young University researcher reported in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review reveals that one out of four workers who completes an international assignment returns home only to leave and join a competing firm.
More than 400 securities firms will work with the securities markets and utilities to test, starting in early March, a full trading and settlement cycle using computers converted to simulate five days between 1999's end and 2000's beginning.
International business students represent real companies in new foreign markets. Generated $10 million in real sales in last two years. Expanding statewide (FL) other colleges want to take part.
While overt discrimination against female professors has diminished in U.S. colleges and universities, subtle forms of bias persist in promotion and tenure, causing a persistent gap in the proportion of male and female faculty members who reach senior rank, according to a University of Illinois study.
The Cornell University Work and Environment Initiative and the Town of Londonderry, N.H are conducting a national design competition for a site design of an eco-industrial park and its 25,000-square-foot flexible industrial building.
"My client's brother was about to commit suicide because of his financial troubles. That's what made me realize that my clients are real people dealing with serious issues and confirmed for me that I'm on the right career path," said Trisha Yancy, a consumer and family economics student at the University of Missouri-Columbia working as a phone counselor for the Consumer Credit Counseling Service Calling Center in Columbia, Mo.
The Terry College of Business has the most productive researchers in one of the hottest careers in business ñ management information systems. The MIS faculty at the University of Georgia ranked first in research productivity, according to an analysis of the two leading MIS research journals.
At Exhibitor Show 99, February 15, Research Triangle Institute (RTI) will debut virtual humans who perform as sales staff in trade show booths. This new product is an interactive kiosk that provides electronic staffing for tradeshows and other promotional events.
Corporations spend a lot of money on leadership training for their executives and middle managers, and University of Illinois research has proven the benefits.
Uneven growth is forecast for the Illinois economy in 1999, University of Illinois economists say in their annual outlook.
Advanced practice nurses are taking on new roles that put them on the front line of primary and preventative health care. Financial beneficiaries of the nurse-practitioner trend include the health care organization, and indirectly, consumers.
Before you get your sweetheart's name tattooed you-know-where this Valentine's Day, heed the studies of a University of Arkansas researcher who says you may be succumbing to a needle-friendly social fad.
Americans' preoccupation with present day concerns will always overshadow their need to save adequately or plan for retirement, according to an economist and visiting scholar at the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research
An overwhelming majority of senior environmental, health and safety executives - nearly 80 percent - say their companies' global EH&S reputation among stakeholders will become more crucial to companies' bottom lines and future success in the next five years.
The University of Iowa announced today that it has received biotechnology patents valued at $35 million from DuPont. The gift puts Iowa at the forefront of a new trend in technology transfer in which industry donates intellectual property to universities.
A $23 million gift-in-kind announced by DuPont is the largest single donation ever received by Virginia Tech and will aid the university's researchers in developing recyclable automotive parts, low-cost aircraft parts, and composite bridge beams.
There is a significant correlation between the job satisfaction of psychiatrists and organizational commitment in a community mental-health system. That's one of the findings in a recent study which examines the high turnover in the profession.
The link between corporate citizenship activities and corporate financial performance is growing stronger, according to a report released today by the Conference Board's Global Corporate Citizenship research program.
Moviegoers these days may leave the theater with something more than a few smiles and a plot line to rehash. A Purdue University consumer behavior expert says advertising by product placement on the big screen is hotter than ever and can influence consumers without them even realizing it.
The Center for Research in Electronic Commmerce at the University of Texas at Austin today issued a report, "Research Priorities in Electronic Commerce," that examines economic and business implications of Internet- driven firms and markets, identifying areas of critical research need.
Raising the federal excise tax on cigarettes - as proposed by President Clinton - won't encourage young cigarette smokers to use marijuana instead, an economist from the University of Illinois at Chicago predicts in a new study.
For students wondering if they'll succeed in the working world, University of Virginia officials have a helpful piece of advice: UCAN. Students can gain tips on job searches, career paths or internships through the University Career Assistance Network, which offers 15,000 alumni nationwide willing to offer advice.
The Information Age is over and is being replaced by the Bio-Materials Age, says a professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management and a former telecommunications executive