Chinese manufacturers have moved up the quality-spectrum and are gaining global market share. Producers of lower quality products actually have better prospects for gaining market share and improving their bottom line. American must be ready for to compete against potent, Chinese manufacturers.
By swapping short term, flexible interest rates for long-term, fixed contracts, or vice-versa, firms may be more likely to meet analysts' forecasts. Washington University in St. Louis professors' findings explain why non-financial firms time the interest rate market.
Two surgeons at the same hospital could perform the same operations on patients with similar medical histories but their costs to the hospital could be difference as high as 45 percent. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis say the findings could address rising health care costs.
A business professor at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a way to measure a company's IQ based on how effective it is at innovating. Using data from SEC filings, the Olin School of Business professor computed the IQs of all the publicly traded US firms that engaged in R&D.
Employees get cynical when they endure multiple changes in company strategy and when they are overworked. As a result, they play it fast and loose with the rules. The drive to get things done is so strong that workers start thinking only of short-term gains and ignoring long-term consequences.
Successful strategies combine resources or businesses in unique or complex ways that other firms may fail to recognize. Yet the market tends to undervalue companies with complex or unique strategies. The reason: they receive less analyst coverage.
Washington University business professor has little sympathy for the difficulties American carmakers are experiencing. She says the financial problems from pensions and benefits could have been settled years ago when they had the resources to do so.
The Bush administration's call for health savings accounts is unlikely to lower healthcare costs, says a business professor at Washington University. H.S.A.'s could be useful if the relationship between most doctors and patients changes, and if there were a more flexible definition of healthcare.
A fairer system of governance may not enhance trust when returns do not meet investors' expectations. This is sobering news for businesses that have spent countless hours and large amounts of money complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in hopes of of building stronger corporate governance.
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."
Approximately one out of every five American children will experiment with inhalants before they complete eighth grade, said Matthew Howard, author of two recently published studies on inhalant abuse among children.
Although researchers know that half of all folks who take up exercise quit during the first six months, they have failed to ask how peopleÃs thoughts and feelings during workouts affect their decision to drop out.
In the first major twin study to compare genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the risk of alcoholism in both sexes, researchers have found that genetics plays an important role in determining alcohol dependence in women as well as in men. The study contradicts the long-held assumption that a womanÃs environment is more likely to influence whether she becomes dependent on alcohol.
Your employer unjustly accuses you of stealing $50 from the office coffee fund. You are able to prove your innocence, but your employer fires you anyway. Can your boss legally do this? If, like most non-union employees, you do not have a specific ìjust-causeî employment contract, the answer is: Yes. A survey conducted by a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis uncovered that an overwhelming majority of employees erroneously believe they are legally protected against being unjustly or arbitrarily discharged.
Women's groups claim Super Bowl Sunday is the "biggest day of the year for violence against women." Brett Drake of Washington University co-authored a study which found no correlation between reported cases of child abuse and the broadcast of national playoff games for baseball, basketball or football.
Washington University computer scientists have patented two major inventions that should make Internet applications like e-mail, the World Wide Web and electronic commerce 10 times faster than they are now.
World-wide financial crises--like the ongoing one Asia--will recur until the G-7 nations throw "sand in the gears" of globalized financial markets. So says Dr. David Felix, an economist at Washington University, in two papers he wrote well before the latest crisis.
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