A new study of Japanese and American business students found striking differences in how students from the two countries approached a decision-making task, according to the Ohio State researchers.
A new book co-authored by a St. Lawrence University professor takes a look at the cultural contradictions found between advertising done by Nike and the company's actual practices.
The Conference Board, which produces the Leading Economic Indicators in the U.S., announced today an agreement with the Foundation for International Business and Economic Research to provide leading economic indexes for 25 countries.
Chief executives' confidence in the nation's economy increased for the second consecutive quarter, The Conference Board reports.
Small to mid-sized major cities seeking professional sports teams should look to the National Football League instead of the National Basketball Association. Student researchers at Centre College supervised by an economist found that the NFL's profit-sharing plan helps franchises succeed in smaller markets.
Your chances of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service are down, says a Ball State University tax expert.
Boston College Graduate School of Management' has created a tuition-free scholarship for business journalists who wish to deepen their understanding of finance.
Mentoring programs can help employees move up the corporate ladder, but such programs can also backfire, creating feelings of alienation, guilt, and disappointment, says a UC Santa Cruz psychologist.
Over the next 10 months, healthcare information technology (IT) professionals will race the clock to implement Year 2000 conversions. Triple the number of IT professionals cite this as their number one priority compared to a year ago, according to the Tenth Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey Sponsored by IBM.
A survey of human resource managers by Cornell University found that health, life and disability insurance costs rarely rise because of hiring employees with disabilities, but stereotypes about people with disabilities are still pervasive in the workplace, causing them to be hired less and fired more.
Cornell University Press has published the world's first book using paper carrying the Forestry Stewardship Council logo. The FSC logo in a book signifies that the owner of the timber used to make the book's pages has met strict criteria for sustainable timber management.
ESPS, Inc. announced at the IBC Common Technical Document/Electronic Submissions Conference the addition of the DAMOS Compiler(tm) module to its flagship compliance software product, CoreDossier(r).
African American men are only one-third as likely to own their own businesses as are white men, according to an analysis by an economist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
An in-depth review of emerging trends in China's energy sector and how these trends will impact future energy security in Asia is the focus of a year-long study to be released by Rice's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in April.
The nation's first distance-delivered executive MBA in agribusiness will be available beginning this fall from Purdue University.
Most home-based workers don't fit the popular image of a woman who provides child care or who sells crafts out of her house, new research co-authored at Ohio State suggests. In fact, a study of 899 home-based workers in 9 states found that 59 percent were male.
Indiana's economy is not creating professional positions in higher-skilled fields that have bolstered the nation's economy in recent years, warns a Ball State University study.
David Bohmer does not expect see the same level of price increases that followed the 1987 deregulation of the cable industry. Bohmer backs up his opinion with 17 years in cable television prior to his current position as director of the Center of Contemporary Media at DePauw University.
When it comes to poor customer service, expect more bad experiences in the airline industry, says a Ball State University marketing expert.
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.
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