Small manufacturing firms investing in advanced manufacturing technology will require signficantly more highly-skilled employees than their traditional technology counterparts. That's according to research by Tracy D. Rishel, associate professor of production and operations management at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove PA.
The use of on-board satellite communications systems in the trucking industry has grown in the last decade. Tracy D. Rishel, associate professor of production and operations management at Susquehanna University, is researching the benefits these systems may provide for both careeris and shippers. She co-authored a presentation on the topic.
Managers seldom view the maintenance function as a competitive factor in their firm's business strategy. Nevertheless, as the U.S. moves towards just-in-time (JIT) and computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) an effective maintenance management program becomes crucial to a firm's competitiveness. So says Tracy D. Rishel, associate professor of production and operations management at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA. She researches the impact of incorporating scheduled maintenance policies into manufacturing.
Do your Christmas shopping early this year because retailers throughout the country will be hit with a deluge of consumers greater than in any year since 1992. So predicts Anthony Liuzzo, associate professor of business and economics at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He analyzes retail trends and issues annual forecasts for the holiday shopping season. Liuzzo says every sector of the reatil economy should experience solid sales and profit growth.
Latin American markets are accurately characterized as being among the riskiest capital markets in the world, but Latin American markets have outperformed the Standard & Poor's over the last 20 years. That's according to research by two professors at Texas Christian University who have researched Latin American market's performance as compared with the S&P 500 over the last 20 years.
Some managing directors and financial analysts on Wall Street learned their jobs as undergraduate and MBA students at Texas Christian University while overseeing one of the largest student-managed funds in the U.S. The $1.5 million student-managed Educational Investment Fund at TCU is the second oldest student-managed fund in the U.S. and among the top 5 in portfolio size. It has been in existence for 25 years.
Fly ash is going from coal cars to racing cars thanks to new research from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The Wilkes University School of Science & Engineering , UGI Utilities Inc. and Falcon Racing Services Ltd, are developing components for the auto-racing industry manufactured from anthracite coal-fly ash, a by-product of coal combustion. Falcon Racing is already testing some of the products on their Formula Ford 2000 racing cars. The components: downdraft wings, nose cones and heat shields.
Twenty-six Vietnamese senior executives are in the U.S. to experience capitalism in action, thanks to a partnership with the world's oldest graduate school of business. The program participants include senior level executives from both state-owned and private Vietnamese corporations. The Amos Tuck School of Business partnered with the Hanoi School of Business so Vietnamese executives can learn U.S. management styles and market-based business skills.
Colleges and universities measure loyalty by alumni giving. Using that yardstick, alumni of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College are the most faithful of the nation's graduate business school degree recipients.
A summer program is helping minority students make their way into the business environment where 90 percent of U.S. managers are currently white. Now in its 17th year of operation, the Leadership Education and Development program, or LEAD, will soon begin teaching high school minority students how to become America's future executives.
Blacks are less likely than whites to "buy" excuses from co-workers who have wronged them on the job. That's one conclusion from research co-authored by Martin N. Davidson, assistant professor of business administration at Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.
Organizations use hazing because "induction-begets devotion." Research by Caroline Keating, professor of psychology at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, shows that severe treatment of initiates seems to enhance their commitment to the group. Her research shows that the harsher the hazing, the more attractive and competent group members seem to the initiates and the more initiates conform to the group.
The idea that problem drinkers can simply cut back instead of cutting themselves off is the premise behind, the Guided Self-Change Clinic at Nova Southeastern University.
Nova Southeastern University and the town of Davie have turned an abandoned sewer plant in Florida into the largest fish-breeding facility in the country, and one of only a few in the nation built from an old utility plant. They're breeding thousands of tilapia--a light, white fish that tastes similar to trout--at the Davie Aquaculture Research Center plant.
The human body has several mechanisms for getting rid of foreign chemicals. Stanford researchers have now shown that one of the first lines of defense -- a versatile pump in the lining of the gut, called P-glycoprotein -- may prevent the absorption of saquinavir, one of the new generation of anti-HIV drugs.
The federal government pumps more than a billion dollars in subsidies each year into developing cleaner-burning automotive fuels, but we might not be getting much environmental bang for the buck. That's according to research by Kevin N. Rask, associate professor of economics at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.
Men with dependent personalities are more likely to have a significantly higher grade-point average than men with non-dependent personalities. That's according to research on the topic by Robert F. Bornstein, professor of psychology at Gettysburg College, PA.
A red seaweed that wiped out native species as it proliferated in European and African waters has now taken root for the first time in the northeastern United States. The seaweed was discovered by two marine biologists in Rhode Island.
The new Intel Pentium MMX microprocessor may lure buyers because a new study shows a majority of current World Wide Web users have begun to experience hardware and software problems when attempting to test new innovations.
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