Businesses need to become more aware of what is being said about them on the Internet, according to a consumer scientist. Electronic conversations on Internet discussion groups can reflect negatively on a business without managers even knowing what is happening.
A Colorado State University economic development project to grow barley in Colorado's San Luis Valley, build a small micromalting plant there and sell high-quality, fresh malt to the state's famed microbrewers is potentially so profitable that state development aid probably won't be needed, says economist Stephan Weiler.
"Meetings are one of the things many people hate most about organizational life," says a professor of management at the University of Missouri-Columbia. If he's right, people should be happy to hear about recent research, which shows that if you make one slight change to the conventional meeting format, meetings will be significantly shorter. The trick is to stand up.
A new study has found no statistical evidence that immigrants displace black-owned businesses in the United States. The study, coauthored by an economist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, used 1980 and 1990 Census data from 94 of the country's largest metropolitan areas to see if black self-employment levels are lower in areas with high immigrant populations. The authors found no evidence of a net loss of existing black-owned businesses.
The third edition of "Business Forecasting," coauthored by University of Notre Dame economist Barry Keating, recently became the first book on the subject to include a CD-ROM, making it possible to access all of the book's text and data sets without ever turning a page. Published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill and also available in Spanish, "Business Forecasting" is the best selling book in the field. It is both a trade and academic title, written for students as well as business professionals involved in market research, investments, auditing and sales.
Asia's return to strong growth depends on economic reforms that will increase competition, intensify the diffusion of foreign technology, and increase productivity, according to a report released today by The Conference Board.
Sale of Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is Evidence that Nuclear Energy is a Valuable Commodity in Competitive Electricity Market
Online education will come alive this fall for business students at the University of Iowa thanks to a first-of-its-kind educational technology center at the UI College of Business Administration. The college's New Media Center -- called COBALT (College of Business Advanced Learning Technologies) -- will provide business faculty, students and staff with instructional and technological support to create online lessons, assignments and other learning activities.
Workplace practices that help employees take care of family responsibilities benefit the employees affected, as well as co-workers and the company's bottom line, says the director of the Center for Families at Purdue University and of the Midwestern Work-Family Association.
Cornell University's new Master of Industrial and Labor Relations degree is hot: All 37 graduates of the program were hired months before commencement.
Educational Testing Service and Peterson's, both leaders in their worldwide market sectors, have launched their first joint venture.
If the credit problem in Japan's banks doesn't worsen, the Japanese economy will begin to recover in the third quarter of 1998, according to an analysis released today by The Conference Board.
Universities and corporations nationwide are uniting to create graduate programs to meet industries' special needs. One recent example comes from the heartland where United Airlines Inc. and Purdue University, a national leader in aviation education, have joined forces to develop a anagement-focused master's degree in technology specifically geared for people in the airline industry.
Duke Power Co. will submit an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking renewal of the operating licenses at the Oconee nuclear station for an additional 20 years.
The Kikkoman Corp. not only makes excellent traditional and naturally brewed soy sauce, it also has a winning recipe for phenomenal business success in today's global marketplace. So says the author of a new corporate biography of soy sauce's "quiet giant."
When in doubt, fudge. That was the pattern of at least one in five large publicly traded companies when asked in 1993 to justify the paychecks of their chief executives based on company performance, a team of University of Illinois researchers has found.
The United Auto Workers strike against GM is beginning to affect some states and continued economic problems in Asia have slowed growth in others in the Mid-American region, Creighton University Professor of Economics Dr. Ernie Goss said today.
In the world of personal finances, old dogs are eager to learn. "Somewhere around age 45 it starts to hit people in the face that they need to manage their money," says Janet Bechman, Purdue University Extension specialist in consumer sciences. "In fact, in our review of financial management education, we found that the older the participant, the greater the likelihood that he or she would adopt the practices learned."
A new collaborative research center at Mississippi State University is working to reduce the personal and financial loss associated with worker injuries by applying ergonomic design principles to the workplace.
Corporate merger mania may pad shareholders' expectations more than their pockets, a Purdue University study finds.
Nothing can save 40-something Baby Boomers from getting a raw deal at retirement because they're mired at the bottom of a massive pyramid or Ponzi scheme, according to a University of Delaware economist whose analysis of the Social Security system appears in the new issue of Humanomics, an international social science journal.
Major companies are aggressively rebuilding their brands to boost their images, stand out from the corporate pack and attract investors, according to a Conference Board study released today.
U.S. institutional investors continue to amass unparalleled amounts of financial assets across America, The Conference Board reports today in its Institutional Investment Report, widely regarded as the definitive source of information on U.S. institutional investor ownership and control.
A Purdue University research team has had to overcome politicians, horrible droughts and bizarre parasitic plants, in an effort to fight famine. However, the improved crops have been so successful in Africa, that some farmers have smuggled the seeds across hostile borders. People take such risks because sorghum is the primary food source for 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
The temporary staffing industry provides a vital link to permanent, full-time employment for people with disabilities, according to a new, initial study of the nation's largest temporary staffing company conducted by a University of Iowa researcher and expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
North America - the U.S., Canada, and Mexico -- will grow 3.5% in 1998 and 2.7% in 1999, according to a three-nation study released today by The Conference Board, Inc., The Conference Board of Canada and Centro de Estudios Economicos del Sector Privado A.C. of Mexico.
"Once upon a time in a faraway land..." begins a chapter in the newest book by Larry Seidman, University of Delaware professor of economics. But this book is not a fairy tale for children. Instead, "Economics Parables and Policies," published by M.E. Sharpe, is a book of lighthearted and fanciful econo-tales for adults who might not normally read a book by an economist.
Effective senior management teams play a greater role in company success than charismatic CEOs, according to a new study by Randall S. Peterson of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. In successful companies, the study found, the CEO fosters healthy group dynamics among his immediate subordinates.
Well maintained farmsteads speak for themselves, but farmers are finding that's not enough when they're trying to impress a potential landlord who lives miles away. Farmers in that position probably need to write resumes, says a Purdue University agricultural economist.
Statement by Joe Colvin, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, in response to Tuesday's vote in the U.S. Senate on the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1998, H.R. 1270.
The large growth experienced in the U.S. economy may be too much of a good thing. Folllowing the 3.8 percent rate of growth in GDP during 1997, the economy should sustain a blistering gain of 3.4 percent in 1998, before moderating to a more sustainalbe 2.5 percent gain in 1999.
Affirmative action and similar efforts have lost favor in recent years with politicians and the public, but many corporations are only working harder to promote and manage diversity in their workforces, says a University of Illinois researcher.
America's banking industry is shrinking and may get even smaller due to further consolidation, says a Ball State University financial industry expert.
Organic farming, long a niche activity in the nation's agricultural system, is garnering second looks from traditional farmers. The reason for the change in attitude is simple: high prices, which are the result of strong demand for organic foods.
William H. Meckling, dean emeritus of the University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, died Friday, May 15, at his home in Rancho Sante Fe, California, after an extended illness. He was 76.
Abraham Seidmann, Xerox Professor of Computers and Information Systems and Operations Management at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, has been named a member of the Texas Tech University Academy of Industrial Engineers. The Academy was established by the University's Department of Industrial Engineering in 1991 to recognize individuals who have distinguished themselves in the IE field.
The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration will hold its commencement ceremonies on Sunday, June 14, 1998, at 10:00 a.m. in the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York. University of Rochester President Thomas H. Jackson will preside. Charles I. Plosser, dean of the Simon School, will deliver the Salutation to the Class of 1998. James S. Gleason '68, chairman and president of Gleason Corporation, will deliver the commencement address and receive the David T. Kearns Medal of Distinction, which recognizes "significant achievements in business, public service and education." Paul A. Brands '66, chairman and CEO of American Management Systems, Inc., will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
An Ohio State University study indicates that there may often be good reasons for the fact that women are usually more conservative investors than are men.
How employees are treated when they are fired or laid off can play a major role in determining whether they sue their former employers, new research has found.
The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester has received a major contribution from Frontier Corporation to endow the Ronald L. Bittner Professorship in Business Administration. The gift was made in honor of Ronald L. Bittner, former chairman and chief executive officer of Frontier Corporation, who died on August 31, 1997.
When it comes to working in teams, college-age males and females have different perspectives on their roles, says a Ball State University study.
Virginia Tech enters joint venture to form Virtual Prototyping and Simulation Technologies, Inc. (VPST), which will use virtual environments and simulation for training and for scientific or business visualization applications. The Virginia Tech CAVE, a 3-D virtual environment, will be a key element of the company's training and R&D tools.
Managers are far more likely to report profits that meet or slightly beat analysts' earnings estimates than they used to, according to a recent study by Dr. Lawrence Brown, Controllers RoundTable Research Professor in the College of Business Administration at Georgia State University. "Although there has been recent media speculation that managers are reporting profits that meet or exceed analysts' expectations, there has been no hard evidence that supports this notion until now," Brown said.
The days of a simple overhead projector to liven up a presentation are over. Business people want all the bells and whistles when it comes to meetings, says a Ball State University professor.
Central Michigan University is one of five universities that are taking a national lead in preparing students to use one of the newest and most sophisticated business software products in the world: SAP.
Contrary to widely accepted theory, less-informed investors consistently tend to "buy high and sell low," systematically transferring their wealth to better-informed traders through overly aggressive trading, according to a ground-breaking study at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
With Memorial Day weekend marking the unofficial start of the summer tourism season, a report prepared by the National Sea Grant College Program for NOAA and next month's National Conference on the Ocean, says the United States "lacks appreciation for the economic importance of coastal tourism" and that poor coordination of a variety of federal, state and local programs hampers the growth of that economic sector.
Regulating child-staff ratios, group sizes and caregiver qualifications "is too blunt an instrument" for improving the overall quality of U.S. child care, UD researchers report in the new "Economics of Education Review."
Contrary to widely accepted efficient markets theory, less-informed investors consistently tend to "buy high and sell low," systematically transferring their wealth to better-informed traders through overly aggressive trading, according to a ground-breaking study of investor confidence and knowledge by three professors at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The researchs used laboratory experiements to test investor behavior.
A recommendation to delay the retirement age to 70 in an effort to strengthen the Social Security system is not likely to succeed, according to a University of Wyoming professor who has studied careers of older workers.
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