After the 1996 telecom deregulation, American cable, broadband, and phone companies became highly strategic in their campaign finance strategy, using donations to state legislators to gain advantage with appointed regulators. And when their competitors started opening their wallets, companies and PACs became even more generous, according to new research
In the late 1990s, investor emotion played a significant role in inflating the dot-com bubble and ultimately, making a lot of people rich. Emotional excitement not only creates stock market bubble but research shows that the frenzy actually causes them to grow.
Fisher Center Chair Kenneth Rosen will deliver his annual real estate and economic forecast at UC Berkeley's 38th Annual Real Estate & Economics Symposium
The University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has become the 28th member of the Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of top business schools committed to educating global leaders. Berkeley-Haas is the second top U.S.-based business school to join the Global Network, and brings unique depth in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology as well as a close connection with Silicon Valley. Since its launch in 2012, the Global Network has added seven member schools. As the newest member school, Berkeley-Haas will gain full access to the Global Network’s innovative pedagogical initiatives that connect students and faculty with peers across a range of global economies, including both developed nations and fast-growing economies, such as Indonesia, Turkey, and Chile. Read an article in the Financial Times about the addition of the Haas School of Business to the Global Network for Advanced Management. Some of the most popular Global Network programs include
When Barracuda Network’s stock price tumbled almost 35 percent in one day last September, a new system developed by Berkeley-Haas researchers had already flagged the signs that led to the fall.The new crash-risk system, based on a study of 14 years of stock data, aims to help investors actively avoid price crashes.
The success of online networking sites such as LinkedIn illustrates the popularity of building a wide-ranging contact list. Yet when it comes to raising one's profile within the workplace, female employees stand much to gain from formal, face-to-face mentoring programs, according to a new study.
Study finds the “discount-frequently” pricing strategy allows retailers to charge high prices when demand is high and is flexible unlike an “every day low price” strategy or “static pricing.”
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has inaugurated a new center to promote the school’s thought leadership in the vibrant, complex field of intellectual capital management.
A new study finds in countries with strong legislation to prevent fraudulent corporate behavior, banking crises have a less severe impact on firms and the economy in general.
Marketers would love to get inside the consumer’s brain. And now they can. Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see if what people say about brands matches what they are actually thinking.
The Fisher CIO Leadership Program, Institute for Business Innovation, has awarded Rebecca Rhoads, Raytheon Company president of Global Business Services and chief information officer, with the fourth annual 2015 Fisher-Hopper Prize for Lifetime Achievement in CIO Leadership.
Through a randomized controlled trial of more than 30,000 households in Michigan – where one-quarter of the households were encouraged to make residential energy efficiency investments and received assistance – economists find that the costs to deploy the efficiency upgrades were about double the energy savings.
New research finds observing a white American engage in small nonverbal acts such as smiling more often, making eye contact for longer periods of time, and standing in closer proximity to a black American makes the observer less prone to racial biases.
new study finds that having a female manager doesn’t necessarily equate to higher salaries for female employees. In fact, women can sometimes take an earnings hit relative to their male colleagues when they go to work for a female manager.
The E2e Project (E2e), a joint initiative of the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago, has partnered with Lightapp Technologies to receive a $5 million research grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to conduct the largest demonstration and evaluation of an innovative energy monitoring system for industrial facilities.
Berkeley-Haas' Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics presents its annual real estate conference in San Francisco, CA
Not everyone may care about having an impressive job title or a big, fancy house but all human beings desire a high level of social status, according to a newly published study.
The demand for more “AC” will also cause consumers to use more electricity causing stress on energy prices, infrastructure, and environmental policy, according to a new study.
Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership have established CrowdBerkeley for the purpose of better understanding crowdfunding.
Forthcoming paper in Review of Financial Studies offers insights into the political economy of executive-compensation reform
New research forthcoming in Management Science determines that the “shelf life” of malaria-fighting drugs plays a significant role in how donors should subsidize the medicine in order to ensure better affordability for patients.
In the new pathbreaking book, The Other “F” Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure To Work, by John Danner and Mark Coopersmith, readers learn how to turn failure into a strategic resource –to accelerate growth, stimulate innovation, and unlock employee momentum.
It’s not much harder or more expensive to send a tweet or a Facebook post to hundreds or even thousands of people than to just a handful. So you’d think that the ease of communicating with lots of people via social networks would result in more and more people sharing their thoughts, political views, and cat videos. But that’s not the case, says Associate Professor Zsolt Katona at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
At Berkeley-Haas since 2010, Marketing Prof. Clayton Critcher continues to build his career by studying how people navigate life as economic, political, and moral beings and by shedding light on consumer behavior. In recognition of his body of research, Prof. Critcher has received a 2015 SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology (FPSP).
Encouraging adversaries to have more interpersonal contact to find common ground may work on occasion, but not necessarily in the U.S. Senate, according to new research.
Study concludes that Chez Panisse restaurant's open innovation strategies made owner Alice Waters a cultural entrepreneur and created an “ever-growing global ecosystem” in the world of slow, sustainable food.
Analysis of cap-and-trade finds that a change in the cost of selling gasoline, up or down, is quickly and fully passed through to consumers.
In their paper, “The Economics of Network Neutrality,” Ben Hermalin, Haas Economics Analysis and Policy Group,and Nicholas Economides, Berkeley-Haas visiting professor from NYU'S Stern School of Business, find that if Internet Service Providers known as ISPs initiate price discrimination in their pricing, a “recongestion effect” will occur. In other words, online delivery channels that are less congested at the onset of new pricing tiers will eventually become recongested when consumer behavior adjusts.
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is constructing a new six-story academic building devoted entirely to student learning and interaction, Haas School Dean Rich Lyons announced today. The $60 million structure will be funded with private donations from alumni and friends of the school.
People may associate political correctness with conformity but new research finds it also correlates with creativity in work settings. Imposing a norm that sets clear expectations of how women and men should interact with each other into a work environment unexpectedly encourages creativity among mixed-sex work groups by reducing uncertainty in relationships. The study highlights a paradoxical consequence of the political correctness (PC) norm.
Berkeley-Haas’ Center for Responsible Business has awarded its 2014 Moskowitz Prize to the authors of a study suggesting good corporate governance correlates with higher CSR initiatives. And in turn, these increased CSR practices contribute to shareholder wealth. Presented by the Center for Responsible Business, the Moskowitz Prize is the only global award that recognizes outstanding quantitative research in socially responsible investing.
Entirely student-run by a team of dedicated volunteers, >play is one of the flagship conferences in the Bay Area. The day features memorable keynotes from industry titans, panels on the latest trends, a product expo and rocket pitch, and a career fair. Throughout the conference, attendees stay connected through interactive elements as they build connections that may help them with their own big ideas.
The I-Corps @ NIH program to help commercialize life science innovations, a process known as translational medicine, launched Oct. 6 in Bethesda, Md. in association with UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Leaving one’s job to become an entrepreneur is inarguably risky. But it may not be the fear of risk that makes entrepreneurs more determined to succeed. A new study finds entrepreneurs are also concerned about what they might lose in the transition from steady employment to startup.
California’s landmark cap-and-trade system for regulating greenhouse gases could be vulnerable to price spikes and market manipulation, according to a study released today by scholars affiliated with the Energy Institute at Haas. But the state’s air-quality regulators can prevent that outcome with three straightforward reforms, the study says.
African-Americans such as Brown University President Ruth Simmons, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, and of course President Barack Obama have reached the pinnacle of success in historically white domains. But a new study finds there is a downside to African-American success stories: these positive examples prompt white Americans to think less successful African-Americans simply need to apply more effort to achieve their own success.
In the Friday (May 30) edition of the journal Science, researchers find that early childhood development programs are particularly important for disadvantaged children in Jamaica and can greatly impact an individual’s ability to earn more money as an adult.
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business will provide an executive-level program that will present a Silicon Valley perspective on business, innovation, and leadership topics to top Chinese leaders. The program will be taught by Berkeley-Haas faculty starting May 6, 2014.
Hot topics like Big Data and land-use conflicts and development in San Francisco, Calif. will be among the subjects discussed at the 19th Annual Fisher Center Real Estate Conference, presented by the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
When it comes to detecting deceit, your unconscious instincts may be more accurate than conscious thought when making judgments about others, according to research by Leanne ten Brinke, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
The 2014 Women in Leadership Conference’s theme is “Design Your Future” – a day of thoughtful conversations and collaborations, from panel discussions to hands-on workshops, about how design thinking can produce innovations in products, services, and personal challenges … life!
Business of Healthcare Conference Friday, February 28, 2014 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hotel Nikko, San Francisco http://haashealthcareconference.org/2014/
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