Unethical behavior in the workplace is a fact of life today. Dishonesty is less of a problem at some colleges. Can corporations and government learn something from them? Yes, says the president of the New York Stock Exchange.
Increasingly, it takes more than a college degree to get the best jobs. New research by a Swarthmore College economist and a University of Wisconsin colleague shows that "functional literacy" separates the most successful college-educated workers from fellow graduates who take jobs for which a high school diploma used to be sufficient.
Responding to the growing need for executives able to bring sophisticated financial skills to the solution of global business problems, the Boston College Graduate School of Management has created a unique joint degree combining a globally oriented MBA program with an intensive graduate finance curriculum.
Two Johns Hopkins economists are available for comment on the Jan. 1 introduction of the euro, the European Union's new common currency.
The Texas Business School will begin testing of Office 2000 beta as part of the Microsoft Office 2000 Rapid Deployment Program. Students, staff, and faculty will put the software through the paces of typical office and educaitonal working environments.
Electronic commerce is rapidly changing the way cars are sold and redefining the dealer role. That's good news for consumers who are likely to enjoy lower prices and a haggle-free exchange. A joint student-faculty research effort at Stanford Business School explains how the auto industry is revolutionizing itself.
Stanford Business School marketing professor David Montgomery and his colleagues at the Marketing Science Institute have developed thought-provoking ideas about the effects of marketing's changing role.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced the awarding of a three-year grant of $475,000 to the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education to investigate the economic implications of "peer effects," or the notion that the quality of a student's education depends on the quality of fellow students.
A Stanford Business School economist and London School of Economics lecturer have developed a model that helps explain the forces that drive housing markets up and down. Their theory shows that changes in housing prices depend on the current income of young households.
Some startling research on Japanese overseas subsidiaries has found that the more Japanese nationals working in an overseas subsidiary, the less profitable it was, according to a Stanford University, Graduate School of Business study.
Christian teachings were potent weapons when working-class artisans faced the rapid changes brought on by early capitalism and mechanization in the 19th century.
MBAs win the Texas Moot Corp Competition with a plan to market UT Chemistry Department technology.
St. John's University School of Law is launching the first LL.M. (Master's of Laws) degree in Bankruptcy in the country, school officials announced today.
The U.S. economy has moved from "sinking sand to firmer ground" during the past three months, says the director of the Center for Economic Studies at Wake Forest University. Several recent developments should reduce the chances of a U.S. recession in 1999.
The U.S. economy will continue to sail through the economic minefield of lost Asian sales, recessionary tendencies in Brazil, and increasing credit constraints from money center banks in the United States, according to Georgia State University forecaster Dr. Donald Ratajczak.
No one likes to think about the dreaded "April 15," especially as we enter the holiday season. But as Millsaps Tax Accounting Instructor Sanford Warren advises, taking time to think about your taxes now can pay off four months from now and beyond.
A Purdue University retail expert says holiday shopping on the Internet may triple this year, but stores won't be any less crowded.
Two recent victories in Illinois arising from a coalition of labor and religious activists point to an effective new strategy for union organizing, a University of Illinois labor expert asserts.
DePaul University will hold its first-ever graduation outside of Chicago December 19 when it awards MBA diplomas to 18 employees of the International Bank of Asia in Hong Kong, the first class to graduate from DePaul's in-house MBA program offered at the bank. The program represents the growing trend of Western universities developing linkages with business and educational institutions in China to offer MBA education.
Georgia State University took top honors at the 1998 Arthur Andersen Tax Challenge National Competition, held recently in St. Charles, Ill. Georgia State's team in the graduate division presented the best overall tax solution for a fictitious client, earning the university some $20,000 in scholarship money.
Increased corporate value over the long term and an increasing rate of divestitures and spinoffs in the not-too-distant future are likely products of 1998's wave of mergers, according to two professors at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management.
Low-risk home births are cheaper and safer than deliveries in hospitals and birthing centers, according to a recent study by Centre College professor David Anderson. He and certified nurse midwife Rondi Anderson have written an article that will appear in the Jan.-Feb. issue of the Journal of Nurse-Midwifery.
Babson College in MA has announced three initiatives to reinforce the College's worldwide expertise in Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Company contributions to worthy causes rose to $2.51 billion in 1997, up 3% from the previous year, the Conference Board reports in its upcoming study. This year's study, which covers 211 large and mid-sized U.S. firms, marks the first time since 1994 that the rate of growth in contributions exceeded the growth rate in pre-tax income.
Europe could overtake the United States as the world's economic growth leader next year, according to a report released today by The Conference Board.
University of Michigan study shows that the total energy used during the life of a typical home in the U.S. heartland could be reduced by 65 percent while also reducing the home's long-term cost by approximately $52,000
The Boston College Graduate School of Management and the Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg, France, have begun offering an international dual degree.
The head of Boston College's Center for Retirement Research, one of the nation's leading experts on retirement issues, is available for media interviews in advance of the White House Conference on Social Security, which will be held December 8 - 9.
Boston College's Graduate School of Management has launched "Kid's Capital Management," a first-of-its-kind academic enrichment program in which MBA students help disadvantaged middle school children learn about the stock market and money management.
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Major League Baseball teams in pursuit of Randy Johnson, Bernie Williams, Kevin Brown and other marquee free agents should avoid paying these stars significantly more than other players, according to a new study by a Notre Dame researcher.
Consumers and stockholders stand to be on the winning end of the on-line business phenomenon, says a Purdue University marketing and e-commerce expert. "The efficiency of e-business is starting to bring down the cost of manufacturing goods and marketing services of all kinds," he says.
A warning to New York farmers about the economic consequences to their livelihoods from what he claims are impending climate shifts will be issued by a Cornell University professor speaking to a group of policy-makers and concerned citizens in Albany, N.Y., on Friday.
Just in time for holiday shopping, a new study by the University of Arkansas department of psychology shows that the amount of thought consumers put into a purchase can determine whether sales gimmicks sway their decision to buy.
A study conducted by the Center for Urban Real Estate at the University of Illinois at Chicago shows a downtown real estate marketplace with a growing problem: premier office space is shrinking in one of the nation's tightest real estate markets.
Our nation's poorest communities are poised for growth, but planting seeds to cultivate successful businesses in these areas is difficult without access to capital and management expertise.
Despite global financial uncertainty, top executive compensation topped $1 million in five major industries in 1997, The Conference Board reports today in its annual executive compensation report.
Sandia Labs and Compaq Computers together sorted information three times faster than previous record-- important to $15 billion data warehousing industry; better able to detect threats to on-line banking, communications; medical fraud.
While economic weakness in Asia and Latin America are chipping away at U.S. export growth, burgeoning markets in other areas are cushioning the blow, The Conference Board reports today in its latest Regional Economies and Markets report.
Breaking research from Virginia Tech sheds an alarming light on the impact of financial stresses on worker productivity--and the big bucks employers are losing each year due to the lack of investing in personal finance education for their employees.
A new study of the nonprofit sector worldwide, conducted by Johns Hopkins University, finds it is huge and growing, the equivalent of the eighth largest economy in the world. Other surprising findings: The U.S. is not the world leader in nonprofit activity, ranking behind countries such as the Netherlands, Ireland and Israel.
Research found strong evidence that workplace financial education is extremely effective because it results in better financial wellness for workers.
The stress of personal money problems and the failure to save for retirement is taking its toll on American workers. Research shows that one-half of all workers have money problems and providing personal financial education could save billions of dollars. These findings and others will be the focus of the third national Personal Finance Employee Education (PFEE) conference which will be held in Roanoke, Va., on Nov.10 -11 at the Hotel Roanoke.
New and improved food science graduates won't be the only product coming out of the new food science complex at Purdue University. The new $28 million facility, dedicated this fall, offers opportunities for food and fiber companies that wont to augment internal research and development efforts with expanded sponsored research projects.
In the wake of international pressure, the World Bank declared itself a leading force for "environmentally sustainable development." But has the World Bank really changed the way it does business? A new book looks at the bank's performance in the wake of its own reform efforts.
Stanford Business School finance professors have developed a model that would help assess the need for disclosure regulations for financial information firms. While their work reveals that there are good reasons for regulation, they find that the regulation must be finetuned to work effectively.
The rapid globalization of securities markets has forced regulators around the world to take a hard look at their accounting standards, which vary significantly from country to country, according to a professor of accounting at Stanford Business School.
Contrary to popular perception and government statistics on corporate bankruptcies, more large public companies are filing for bankruptcy this year than in any year in history, except the "boom" years of 1990 to 1993. Data culled from a Cornell Law School professor's Bankruptcy Research Database also show that large public companies are filing for bankruptcy this year at a rate 57 percent higher than in 1997.
The only sure thing about the future of electricity in Illinois is propulsive change, according to a UI study.
Many U.S. companies face possible legal troubles and disruption of their business overseas because of a tough new European privacy law, according to a new book co-authored by an Ohio State University law professor.
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