A new study coauthored by a University of Notre Dame marketing professor provides the first comprehensive academic analysis of "slotting fees" -- the controversial practice of retailers and wholesalers requiring a payment from manufacturers before agreeing to allocate shelf or warehouse space to the manufacturers' product.
With Saturday's National Basketball Association draft lottery looming, two Baylor University economists have released their findings on tournament incentives in pro basketball, specifically the time-honored notion that teams "lose to win."
Stanford Business School faculty members have taken technology as a teaching aid to a new level. They have developed a "virtual factory," which students manage 24 hours a day by computer to learn operations concepts such as capacity planning and inventory management.
The Isenberg School of Management and the department of computer science at the University of Massachusetts join forces in an academic center to study and teach about electronic commerce. A conference in Boston in June launches the effort.
When there's a crisis in the cockpit, why do some flight crews think on their feet and react swiftly, while other crews make potentially fatal mistakes?
An innovative software program that will save semiconductor manufacturers billions of dollars is the winner of a business plan competition held this past weekend at the University of California, Berkeley' business school.
In a study of the U.S. and Canadian labor markets, a Stanford Business School economist argues that education--with a focus on supplying better-educated labor--is the key to undoing income inequality.
A Vanderbilt graduate, a former minor league baseball player, applied real world experience to an academic environment. The result: Baseball Stat Man, software with a very practical real world application.
Cox MBAs develop marketing plans implemented by Pizza Hut, Johnson & Johnson Medical, the Dallas Mavericks, and Fiber Seal. This new marketing class offered at the Cox School of Business prepares students "to do the real thing."
The majority of today's companies are using knowledge management programs and almost all say they will increase these efforts over the next five years, according to a new study by The Conference Board.
In a survey of more than 1,000 online consumers with an interest in health-related topics, 54% reported that within the last six months they have visited a Web site operated by a pharmaceutical firm for the purpose of learning more about a specific prescription drug.
The University of California, San Diego management team today won the Rochester Institute of Technology/USA TODAY Quality Cup award for its innovative approach to cutting costs, solving problems and increasing efficiency.
U.S. institutional investments dominate those for all other countries, giving the corporate governance activism in the U.S. great potential influence over global investments, The Conference Board reports today in its Institutional Investment Report.
Two Old Dominion University economics professors have price adjusted real per capita income to compare the relative standard of living - or buying power - among 212 United States metropolitan areas for 1996. They have also estimated real per capita income for the United States.
Purdue University Press has just released a second edition of its popular "Wake Up Your Call Center: How to Be a Better Call Center Agent," by Rosanne D'Ausilio.
Global business, retail innovations, and advances in technology are driving retailers and suppliers to share more information. Two Stanford Business School professors have assessed this trend as well as what data should be shared and what should be kept secret.
Give no credit to memories of a debt-free past! A new book on consumer borrowing not only shows that its place in American history pre-dates the Mayflower, but argues that credit cards and other debts can also have a positive influence on consumers.
The first-ever Business Plan Competition at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley has generated winners even before contest finals begin this weekend.
In her latest research, a Stanford Business School's researcher who has studied the accuracy and bias of securities analysts, looks at what would happen if investors strictly followed analysts' advice, buying stocks they recommended and shorting issues they shunned.
Record low unemployment is fueling a business trend to help employees balance home and work responsibilities, says a Purdue University work-life expert. U.S. companies are offering creative services from on-site dry cleaning to cafeteria take-home meals to help boost employee job satisfaction and overall wellness, says David Thompson, WorkLife program coordinator at Purdue.
To speed up the recovery process of surgery patients and, therefore, decrease staffing costs, many hospitals have embraced fast-tracking -- keeping patients in a lighter anesthetized state so they regain consciousness sooner. However, a University of Iowa researcher has found the new strategy's may or may not save an institution money.
A study by an assistant professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, shows when consensus decision-making will work and when not to use it.
The frenzy for Internet stocks has driven prices into the stratosphere. A recent Stanford Business School study describes how Internet stocks are valued and details how analysts, retail investors, and the Internet companies themselves influence prices.
Agricultural economics researchers at Texas Tech University recently completed a study to evaluate the demand for cotton gin waste as a roughage ingredient to cattle feed at feedlots. The study shows that use of gin trash in cattle feed can reduce the cost of the feed as much as 5 percent.
Preliminary results of a study conducted by Texas Tech University, of how electrical power deregulation may affect the Texas High Plains economy, show there could be a negative impact on agriculture and related businesses.
To better understand the mechanics of emerging market finance, a Stanford Business School economist has analyzed the effect of stock market liberalization on stock prices. He found that a country's first market reform caused an average 38 percent increase in stock market value.
How much is a good retail location worth? Whatever the price, it may be plummeting if retail center owners and retail stores are not successful in capturing some percentage of catalog or "E" Commerce sales, according to a study by a UNT Professor.
The U.S. economic expansion resembles a lively party in full swing, with a policeman standing quietly in the corner of the room, says a Ball State University economic analyst.
Insurance companies could save money and make the lives of doctors and their adult acne patients easier by reducing or eliminating the restrictions for dispensing the acne drug tretinoin, according to dermatologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
More and more businesses are offering the equivalent of "open-mike night," sometimes for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "Consumers have an open mike for making their complaints and compliments known when they contact a business call center," says a Purdue expert.
The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania offer peace and glimmers of prosperity nearly a decade after their independence from the former Soviet Union, according to a University of Idaho geographer.
Society has enjoyed important benefits from mathematical models developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology that simulate the performance of electronic components called insulated-gate bipolar transistors. The payoff to U.S. industry has been estimated at $23 benefits generated for every $1 spent.
In the automotive industry alone, estimates a just-released study commissioned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "interoperability problems" when sharing product and engineering data impose annual costs totaling about $1 billion.
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.
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