A grass-roots movement to revivie businesses in the depressed regions of Madison County, NY, is enjoying great success and serves as an example of what can be done in other depressed rural areas of the country to revive industries.
Stanford Business School "”Economist Robert Wilson has a knack for turning abstract theory into practical solutions. When California takes the bold step of deregulating its electric power industry in January, it will be Wilson's carefully crafted auction rules that will govern the way consumers get their power.
The robust economy that created 2.3 million new jobs* over the past year is sending corporate recruiters to business school campuses with a vigor that exceeds the M.B.A. frenzy of the '80s. According to the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, the continued strong demand for M.B.A. graduates lifted recruitment activity on its campus
Charles I. Plosser, dean and John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, presented his outlook for the 1998 U.S. economy on Tuesday, December 4, 1997, at the 19th annual Economic Outlook in Rochester, N.Y. He took issue with what he called the "new gloom-and-doom mantra"--a worldwide glut in industrial capacity creating the risk of a devastating deflation.
Stanford Business School--Of the many voices that compete for the chief executive's ear, one key source of influence is the board of directors, whose members also often sit on other company boards. These interlocking directors have firsthand, practical experience that can sway a CEO's strategic choices. But their influence wanes in the face of competing information.
Electric utility customers will soon pick their power company, just as they now choose long-distance phone service. Two Johns Hopkins University researchers have studied the economic and environmental impact of utility deregulation and serve as consultants on the issue to such agencies as the World Bank and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They are available to reporters for internviews on utility deregulation.
The predecessor of the Avon lady was a man, notes a University of Delaware historian currently completing a doctoral dissertation titled, "Avon Ladies and Fuller Brush Men: The Gendered Construction of Door-to-Door Selling, 1886-1970." Farm boy D.H. McConnell began his career in 1877 selling books door-to-door and giving away perfume samples as part of his sales pitch, reports Katina Manko, a graduate student in the University of Delaware-Hagley Museum Program.
Research Triangle Institute has developed a new Internet-based assessment tool to help companies improve how they practice technology innovation. Innovation InsightsTM quantitatively measures how well the technical staff and management: a) listen to customers, b) share ideas & know-how within the company, and c) use outside technology to leverage R&D.
When you trade stock, will it be on the NASDAQ, the NYSE, or the American Stock Exchange? Will it be in New York, London, Tokyo, or perhaps Bangkok or Paris? Electronic market access has made buying and selling the same security in more than one market an increasingly widespread practice both within and across countries, raising the issue of how markets should be regulated as stocks are traded around the clock and around the globe.
In the early 1990s, investors began pouring money into emerging stock markets such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Chile. Market watchers dubbed stocks in these burgeoning markets a "free lunch" because they offered both robust returns and a means to diversify and reduce risk in stock portfolios. These tiny emerging markets did not ride the waves of bourses in developed countries, thereby providing a hedge against drops in larger markets. But the recent dives in Asian stock markets beg the question: Is there ever really a free lunch? Finance professor Geert Bekaert thinks not"”at least not any more.
Nine teams of three to six students each from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson Colleghe will showcase their product innovations at the College's Third Annual Product Design Fair. Three of last year's designs resulted in a marketable product for the sponsoring company. One of these three designs has also received a patent.
Kentucky's economy is expected to grow by more than 2 percent in 1998, reflecting "steady, moderate to strong will exceed the national economy's performance, a University of Kentucky economist forecasts.
Improved economic opportunities for women will decrease the level of violence in abusive relationships.So say the results of a recent study, "An Economic Analysis of Domestic Violence," co- authored by Jill Tiefenthaler of Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.
After six years of witnessing remarkable growth in the stock market, investors should be prepared for a weakening market during 1998, University of Kentucky economist Donald J. Mullineaux warned Monday.
Leif Edvinsson, the first ever director of Intellectual Capital (at Skandia AFS in Stockholm, Sweden) and the world's leading expert on Intellectual Capital says there are applications for Intellectual Capital beyond business. He is meeting with MBA students at Fairfield University to discuss how Intellectual Capital can be used to improve the communities in which we live.
When business and pleasure combine at the annual holiday office party, how should bosses and workers interact? "Office parties can cause some people to feel stress and anxiety. People aren't sure how to act when some of the formal relationships break down," said Joel Whalen, a DePaul University associate professor of marketing who is an expert and author on persuasive business communication. If you can get overcome the nervousness, office parties offer an excellent opportunity for bosses and workers to communicate important messages, Whalen added. How do you make the most of your holiday office party? Whalen offers advice.
Lucent Technologies today announced a new business venture that will offer a unique software product that uncovers and displays trends and patterns often buried in large amount of data. Called Visual Insights, the venture will use Bell labs software to help businesses make faster, better decisions.
It sounded like a neat idea. Introduce sun ovens to poor villages in Haiti and help the people there become less dependent on charcoal, an expensive form of energy that is stripping the island of its tropical rain forest and destroying the enviroment. But business and environmental students at Fairfield University are finding out that theory is easier than practice.
Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, has just established an insurance agency to generate profits while will fund student scholarships.
Here are 10 tips which can help you save money on your 1997 income returns from Richard Davis, assistant professor of accounting at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA.
Five new papers supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) present findings and suggestions that could be used to improve the quality of medical care.
Research on women in management positions suggests that women are cracking, but still rarely breaking through, the corporate "glass ceiling." The study, co-authored by Jodi S. Goodman, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management, notes that only 3 percent to 5 percent of top managers are women.
The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) has established a program to conduct research and demonstrate technologies related to fine particle matter, an air pollutant that affects human health and the environment.
At the December 1ñ10 Kyoto conference on global warming, the economic consequences of imposing carbon dioxide limits versus environmental safety will be hotly debated. To help the media provide perspective on the business, scientific, political, and economic aspects of this story, we have compiled a list of experts who can address various aspects of these issues.
The University of Delaware's rapidly rising College of Business and Economics has been invited to host an MBA Forum on Saturday, Dec. 6, in Philadelphia, providing would-be master of business administration students with a rare opportunity to meet admissions professionals from more than 100 of the world's leading graduate business schools.
Proposed legislation to expand the services offered by American banks will be difficult to push through Congress because the industry is divided over the issue, according to Sherrill Shaffer, who heads the University of Wyoming's new program in banking and financial services.
The bankruptcy system in the United States functions as unlimited insurance for financially troubled consumers, with the rest of us paying the premiums. That's the conclusion of a joint study released recently from Purdue University and the Credit Research Center at Georgetown University.
You may start your own company but that doesn't mean you get to keep it. All founders--good or bad--must eventually turn over the reins, but some will need to turn them over sooner than others. A new study contradicts some long-held beliefs in this area.
In order for business to stay afloat in today's "perpetual state of whitewater," organizations must take five big, brassy, bold, and occasionally bizarre steps, according to University of San Francisco management expert Oren Harari. They must 1) catapult their strategy over conventional wisdom; 2) flood their organization with knowledge; 3) wrap their organization around each customer; 4) transform their organization into a web of relationships; and 5) eat change for breakfast.
Corporate CEOs may propose some takeover deterrents for their companies in order to protect their above-average levels of compensation, a new study suggests.
Now that many large American companies have tried downsizing to boost profits, Regina Conti, assistant professor of psychology at Colgate University, says there are costs to downsizing that are not anticipated and fail to inmprove the financial status of organizations
The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University has developed a special program designed to repay up to $25,000 of student loan debt as a way of helping its MBA graduates pursue entrepreneurial ventures straight out of school.
Virtual Reality (VR)-based training for learning equipment maintenance skills improves traineesà ability to acquire and perform critical skills, increases the number of students who can be trained, and reduces the overall cost of gaining and maintaining critical skills.
A unique joint university-industry-government research project demonstrates how innovative "engineered lumber" can bring higher-performing building products to the marketplace in a cost-effective, ecologically sound way.
An undeveloped residential lot that's covered with grass is likely to bring a bigger profit to the developer than a more typical bare-soil lot, according to a Purdue University study. The grass-covered lot also will profit the environment and may help the developer comply with local or state regulations.
The WV economy is forecast to grow and become more diversified for the next five years, according to West Virginia University researchers. The growth is slower than it was in the first half of the 1990s but is still expected to average 1.4 percent through 2002.
New studies supported by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) and published in today's issue of the journal, Health Affairs, present the first comprehensive look at what is currently happening in the health care marketplace. The articles form an invaluable evidence-based core of information for current discussions of policy options by all health care system participants -- both public and private.
Women and employees with working spouses may be offered fewer chances to relocate because of a not-so-subtle bias among employers, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of Georgia.
Faculty in the Purdue University School of Agriculture give a better-than-educated guess of what the future holds for American food and fiber industries with a new book and video set entitled "FoodSystem 21: Gearing Up for the New Millennium." Purdue Agricultural economist Mike Boehlje calls it "a frank and brutal look" at where farms, input suppliers, processors and consumers are heading.
Law students at Nova Southeastern University are mediating employment discrimination cases for the U.S. Postal Service. This is the only program of its kind in the nation which works with the Postal Service. It's been so successful that it is now expected to be duplicated at other law schools throughout the country. The cases are complaints filed with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that go to mediation instead of hearing with the EEOC's administrative judges.
International M&A, Joint Ventures and Beyond: Doing the Deal, the first comprenehsive, hands-on manual designed for those charged with the day-to-day implementation of such transactions, is set to be published by John Wiley and Sons on Nov. 28. The book is edited by mergers & acquisitions experts David J. BenDaniel, professor of entreprneurship at Cornell's Johnso Graduate School of Management, and Arthur H. Rosenbloom, special partner and former chairman of Patricof & Co. Capital Corp.
Research Triangle Institute has produced a guide to help entrepreneurs and small-business managers grow high-tech businesses. Making Money with Your Technology is based on more than 100 interviews, focus groups, and literature research. It was written to inform and encourage innovators of new technology and to serve as a catalyst for action.
While regulators, environmentalists and industry debate whether there's enough evidence to warrant restrictions on mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants, researchers say that questions remain on how to accurately measure such emissions and control them in a cost-effective manner.
If you buy a "Beamer" you're more likely to take good care of it, according to a new study by three Notre Dame management professors.
Free trade and more agricultural research are essential to meet the food demands of a world population expected to triple by 2050, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) told 200 Purdue University agriculture students and faculty during a recent visit.
More coaching and less score-keeping by sales managers produces a more effective sales organization. That's according to results of a two-year study of sales effectiveness, "Improving the Effectiveness of Field Sales Organizations," by two marketing professors at Texas Christian University.
This year's holiday retail outlook is about as merry and bright as it can be, says Jack Gifford, professor of marketing at Miami University.
Miami University's initiative to bring the worlds of business and science together to work on environmental challenges has undergone an evolution of its own. Originally an interdisciplinary course for business and science students, the Miami University Sustainability Project was seen as a way to teach these divergent majors how to talk to one another. Its inspiration? The corporate world.
A patent disclosure filed Oct. 27 by University of Delaware scientists describes a technique that uses soybean oil--rather than petroleum-derived resins--to produce inexpensive, lightweight and potentially biodegradable composites for tractors, supercars, bridges and military vehicles.
Purdue agricultural economist Michael Boehlje [BOWL-jee] is constantly having to explain to people how agriculture is changing at the end of the 20th century.
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