Wim Wiewel, dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago was named dean of the business school, Provost Elizabeth Hoffman has announced.
Beginning this fall, the University of Illinois at Chicago's Great Cities Institute will offer an online professional certificate management program to nonprofit professionals across the country.
Purdue University is solving its problem of filling the growing number of computer-related positions on campus by "developing its own" in an unusual program that has captured national attention.
A University of Missouri-Rolla professor has come up with a cool idea for the future of rapid prototyping: ice. He calls his system "Rapid Freeze Prototyping."
The first systematic study of male and female pay at the uppermost levels of corporate America lends evidence to both sides of the hotly debated question of whether women are paid less than men.
The trend toward global alliances among airlines has led to lower ticket fares for passengers traveling abroad, according to a study by a University of Illinois economist.
To fulfill the steadily increasing demand within the hospitality and tourism management industry, Purdue offers associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees in this field, as well as a doctoral degree in consumer science and retailing.
The Associated General Contractors of America just this week released A Platform for Building America: Major Issues Affecting the Construction Industry to national political, business and industry leaders.
A purchase agreement that voids a consumer's right to legal recourse could be expensive in the long run, says the director of UAB's Center for Labor Education and Research.
The concept of group-think has spread from schools to businesses. One researcher has answered the question, "What is it about talking with peers that makes working in groups so effective?" Talk makes the students' thinking visible and helps teachers find out why they're making a particular decision and whether they're getting it.
Proponents of personal digital assistants say that it will be one of these handheld units that tie the on-the-go executive of the future to the wireless Internet.
A new study by a nationally known expert on jury behavior finds that potential jurors are skeptical of people who file whiplash lawsuits (Tennessee Law Review and Trial).
The Community Renewal Act of 2000 will provide relief in the form of zero capital gains rates, increased expensing for small business, employment wage credits, expensing of certain environmental remediation costs, and deductions for commercial revitalization of buildings.
Corporate governance issues can have a significant influence on cross-border mergers, according to a report released July 24 by The Conference Board.
A bacterium that may hold a partial key to controlling wine fermentation and spoilage rates without the use of sulfite chemicals has been discovered by a Washington State University researcher.
Many people have the wrong idea about Internet security, according to a UAB Computer and Information Science Professor; he says information traveling via the Internet is very secure -- it is the server holding the information that may not be.
In its own quiet way, IR has been a leader in implementing new manufacturing processes and management systems, says a professor of management at Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management.
Marketing Research Association announces the launching of an Online bookstore as part of the Amazon.com Associates Program.
Industry and government can expect more reliable social-analysis research data from the first statistically valid method for doing surveys via Internet. Web-enabled surveys provide up-to-the-minute information on vital topics related to health, nutrition, and the environment.
Businesses have invested huge amounts of money in computer technology, but they have not seen similar gains in productivity, says University of Arkansas professor Fred Davis. He has identified strategies to improve employee acceptance and use of computer technologies.
The B2B workplace on the web for science & engineering has launched a new web site to bring more resources to scientists and engineers. With its new Webforia platform, ScienceWise.com now offers expanded collaboration tools, additional partners, and more member benefits.
Mall developers and shopkeepers are nervous about Internet sales, and local governments that depend on sales taxes know just how they feel; for decades local governments have looked to retail development to boost their tax bases.
One of the fastest growing trends in the field of pharmacy is the third-party payment plan, where insurance companies sign contracts with drug companies to provide certain medications at a set price with a small professional fee provided for the pharmacist.
Baby boomers have already accumulated more wealth than their parents did at similar ages, concludes an Ohio State study of wealth in the U.S. The results may ease concerns that the Social Security system will fail as baby boomers leave the workforce.
Seventy-seven percent of the nearly 750 companies polled in a recent nationwide U.S. seafood industry survey said they would not have been able to develop a plan to comply with new U.S. Food and Drug Administration seafood processing safety regulations without the in-depth training courses conducted nationwide under the auspices of the National Sea Grant College Program and the National Seafood HACCP Alliance.
Constantly rising gas prices have consumers frustrated and confused, says UAB economist Henry McCarl, Ph.D.
When an investment bank is the lead underwriter of an initial public offering, its own analysts are biased in favor of the IPO, says a study by a Johnson School associate professor and a Dartmouth colleague (Review of Financial Studies).
Emerson Tiller at the McCombs School of Business is an expert in Internet Law and Governance and can comment on this week's vote by ICANN on adding new domain names.
Most companies in the U.S. and Europe report only moderate success with initiatives designed to accelerate speed in their organizations, according to a new study from The Conference Board.
For the seventh year in a row, salary increases in the U.S. will average 4 percent in 2000 and are predicted to remain at this level through 2001 for most employee and industry groups, according to The Conference Board's annual salary survey.
Consumers overwhelmingly think food service has crept to an all-time low. There is an alternative to shoddy service, say three Purdue University professors who recently completed an extensive survey of food-service managers.
Capital market economies came suddenly to the countries of the former Soviet Union, but understanding of capital markets is coming more slowly. A University of Arkansas economics professor is working to change that.
Five Purdue University experts are listed who can discuss various aspects of biofuel production.
Too few women are registering as voting members of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- the organization empowered to run the infrastructure of the worldwide web -- according to a UT Business Law professor.
The Grove City College Institute on Market Economics and Religious Faith will be helping 25,000 members of the nation's clergy provide answers to hard questions by sending them a monograph titled "Is Capitalism Bankrupt? -- Living as Christians in a Material World."
The prices-paid index was down for the third straight month in June according to the Mid-America Business Conditions survey.
Despite America's record-breaking economic boom, poverty among full-time workers has increased, according to a Conference Board study released in June.
Congress is on the brink of passing a bankruptcy reform bill that would increase the inconsistencies and unfairness of the present system, a University of Illinois law professor says.
Although U.S. presidents often are credited for economic progress and blamed for economic failures, the fact is that in this realm, to a large extent, they are bystanders, says a veteran economic observer at the University of Illinois.
Building a new airport at Peotone, rather than expanding O'Hare Airport, could save travelers $500 million a year and spur economic development in the state, a University of Illinois economist says.
The question is not whether the rough draft of the human genetic code should be used commercially, but whether or not its use in research should be restricted to the patent holder, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham medical ethicist.
Trade agreements between countries don't just benefit the members economically - a new study at Ohio State suggests these pacts make military conflicts less likely.
Top Chamber officials around the country favor using the Federal budget surplus to stabilize and fund the Social Security and Medicare programs, according to the most recent poll of chamber of commerce officials.
Contrary to common business wisdom, a new Ohio State study found that American companies don't reduce their financial risks when they expand operations outside the United States or when they establish joint ventures with foreign firms.
Cornell students took top honors in a national collegiate competition at the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business for their proposal to create a winegrowers' cooperative and winery in Virginia that will help farmers there replace their tobacco crops with biodynamically grown grapes.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Aventis Pharma signed agreements covering the joint development and commercialization of inflammatory disease drugs; joint development of new drug discovery technologies; transfer of elements of Millennium's technology to Aventis; and purchase of an equity interest in Millennium by Aventis.
Purdue University, IBM and Dassault Systemes announced Friday (6-23) a collaborative alliance to create a digital enterprise applied-research center in the School of Technology on the university's West Lafayette campus.
Today's food producer is more likely to drive a microprocessor than a tractor. Purdue University's School of Agriculture and the Krannert Graduate School of Management a year ago began offering a largely Internet-based MBA in food and agribusiness.
Contrary to many opinions, the influence of environmental regulations on prices of new housing is only negligible, concludes a Cornell University housing study (Earth Day 2000 issue of the Electronic Green Journal).
The New York Botanical Garden has entered into a licensing agreement with San-Mar Laboratories, Inc., to develop botanical-based consumer products that promote environmental awareness and support conservation programs of the Garden.
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