Statement by Joe Colvin, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, in response to Tuesday's vote in the U.S. Senate on the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1998, H.R. 1270.
The large growth experienced in the U.S. economy may be too much of a good thing. Folllowing the 3.8 percent rate of growth in GDP during 1997, the economy should sustain a blistering gain of 3.4 percent in 1998, before moderating to a more sustainalbe 2.5 percent gain in 1999.
Affirmative action and similar efforts have lost favor in recent years with politicians and the public, but many corporations are only working harder to promote and manage diversity in their workforces, says a University of Illinois researcher.
America's banking industry is shrinking and may get even smaller due to further consolidation, says a Ball State University financial industry expert.
Organic farming, long a niche activity in the nation's agricultural system, is garnering second looks from traditional farmers. The reason for the change in attitude is simple: high prices, which are the result of strong demand for organic foods.
William H. Meckling, dean emeritus of the University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, died Friday, May 15, at his home in Rancho Sante Fe, California, after an extended illness. He was 76.
Abraham Seidmann, Xerox Professor of Computers and Information Systems and Operations Management at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, has been named a member of the Texas Tech University Academy of Industrial Engineers. The Academy was established by the University's Department of Industrial Engineering in 1991 to recognize individuals who have distinguished themselves in the IE field.
The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration will hold its commencement ceremonies on Sunday, June 14, 1998, at 10:00 a.m. in the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York. University of Rochester President Thomas H. Jackson will preside. Charles I. Plosser, dean of the Simon School, will deliver the Salutation to the Class of 1998. James S. Gleason '68, chairman and president of Gleason Corporation, will deliver the commencement address and receive the David T. Kearns Medal of Distinction, which recognizes "significant achievements in business, public service and education." Paul A. Brands '66, chairman and CEO of American Management Systems, Inc., will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
An Ohio State University study indicates that there may often be good reasons for the fact that women are usually more conservative investors than are men.
How employees are treated when they are fired or laid off can play a major role in determining whether they sue their former employers, new research has found.
The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester has received a major contribution from Frontier Corporation to endow the Ronald L. Bittner Professorship in Business Administration. The gift was made in honor of Ronald L. Bittner, former chairman and chief executive officer of Frontier Corporation, who died on August 31, 1997.
When it comes to working in teams, college-age males and females have different perspectives on their roles, says a Ball State University study.
Virginia Tech enters joint venture to form Virtual Prototyping and Simulation Technologies, Inc. (VPST), which will use virtual environments and simulation for training and for scientific or business visualization applications. The Virginia Tech CAVE, a 3-D virtual environment, will be a key element of the company's training and R&D tools.
Managers are far more likely to report profits that meet or slightly beat analysts' earnings estimates than they used to, according to a recent study by Dr. Lawrence Brown, Controllers RoundTable Research Professor in the College of Business Administration at Georgia State University. "Although there has been recent media speculation that managers are reporting profits that meet or exceed analysts' expectations, there has been no hard evidence that supports this notion until now," Brown said.
The days of a simple overhead projector to liven up a presentation are over. Business people want all the bells and whistles when it comes to meetings, says a Ball State University professor.
Central Michigan University is one of five universities that are taking a national lead in preparing students to use one of the newest and most sophisticated business software products in the world: SAP.
Contrary to widely accepted theory, less-informed investors consistently tend to "buy high and sell low," systematically transferring their wealth to better-informed traders through overly aggressive trading, according to a ground-breaking study at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
With Memorial Day weekend marking the unofficial start of the summer tourism season, a report prepared by the National Sea Grant College Program for NOAA and next month's National Conference on the Ocean, says the United States "lacks appreciation for the economic importance of coastal tourism" and that poor coordination of a variety of federal, state and local programs hampers the growth of that economic sector.
Regulating child-staff ratios, group sizes and caregiver qualifications "is too blunt an instrument" for improving the overall quality of U.S. child care, UD researchers report in the new "Economics of Education Review."
Contrary to widely accepted efficient markets theory, less-informed investors consistently tend to "buy high and sell low," systematically transferring their wealth to better-informed traders through overly aggressive trading, according to a ground-breaking study of investor confidence and knowledge by three professors at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The researchs used laboratory experiements to test investor behavior.
A recommendation to delay the retirement age to 70 in an effort to strengthen the Social Security system is not likely to succeed, according to a University of Wyoming professor who has studied careers of older workers.
Thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, the Entrepreneurial Management Center at San Diego State University will place 15 of their brightest MBA students into internships where they'll learn the ropes from some of San Diego's most successful entrepreneurs. (The grant requires a significant project be assigned to the SDSU intern who will report to senior management and sit in on senior management's meetings.)
Corrosion prevention may get a big boost from a new process being developed by a company at LSU. The story of the company, Metal Technology, is also a window into the last days of the Russian Communist era and into a possible future of the steel industry worldwide.
Energy Department (DOE) proposal to settle the contractual issues raised by the agency's failure to meet its Jan. 31, 1998, deadline to begin accepting used fuel from commercial nuclear power plants
From the flat, fertile farm fields of Indiana comes the latest innovation in alpine skiing ã a soybean-based ski wax that's kinder to the ski slopes because it's petroleum free.
Monsanto Company receives "Inherit the Earth" gold medal award from Connecticut College for combining "environmental stewardship with jobs, productivity, and profits."
National Press Club "Morning Newsmaker" News Conference with Professors Robert Knecht and Biliana Cicin-Sain, of the University of Delaware Center for the Study of Marine Policy discussing critical issues facing U.S. coastal tourism and recreation industries as the largest and fastest growing economic segments of the U.S. service industry.
Is American industry passing up opportunities to profit by operating "clean and green?" A new report released by Resources for the Future (RFF) addresses this question through three case studies of pollution prevention-related decisionmaking at three multinational chemical manufacturers headquartered in the U.S.
Loan consolidation -- paying off several smaller debts with one larger loan -- has just delayed financial disaster for many consumers rather than helped them avoid it, according to a Purdue University expert on family finances.
Sucessful management teams -- those with both a "directive" leader and openness to new information--were best able to mobilize the energies and talents throughout an organization, according to a new study at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Five companies were today named winners of The Conference Board's "Best in Class" Awards.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- University of Iowa law students are hoping that a new "electronic handbook" that they have developed will help explain the complex, yet important, world of international finance and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to people without advanced degrees or years of study.
Starting salaries, signing bonuses, and other job perks have sent the total compensation package for MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management up to $117,000. That's up 29% from last year's total of $92,000.
Students at Cornell are learning to conduct online searches for corporate clients in search of competitive information
The Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Managment, which offers two-year, full-tuition fellowships to 30 of the nation's top MBA applicants each year, has appointed its first director. Clint Sidle, who has taken on that role, will direct the Fellows program and help develop the other components of the Johnson School's leadership development offerings, including hte Distinguished Speakers series,the Young Leaders series, the annual Leadership Forum, and the Johnson Mentor Program.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine named The Boeing Company, IBM, First Chicago NBD, and Johnson & Johnson as the "healthiest companies" in its 1998 Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.
Few people are cut out for pressure-cooker jobs such as being a 911 operator or an air traffic controller. University of Washington psychologist have determined that certain people seem to possess a common trait that enables them to handle these kinds of jobs, sometimes involving life and death, and have developed a new test that identifies these individuals.
The Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University and other business schools around the country are using community service activities to teach leadership and a sense of community to students. For the third time in as many years, the approximately 100 graduate students involved in Krannert's Management Volunteer Program, or MVP, have won the national "MBAs make a difference day" award.
Biomedical research has been shifting from a commons to a privatization model. Federal patent policy in biomedical research imposes social costs overlooked in the public debate. Granting too many patent rights in pre-market or "upstream" biomedical research paradoxically may stifle discovery of life-saving "downstream" products.
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The methods that managers use to assign employees to workplace teams can have significant effects on worker attitudes and even performance, new research shows.
Most biotechnology firms created during the 1980s were developed near the scientists who made the initial discoveries underlying the technology, new research shows.
New Computer Technology Provides Interface Based On Eye Movement; Consumer Interactive Music Product Delivers Creative Expression
You can shop, search and email on the Internet. Now you can also raise capital on-line. Constance Bagley, a senior lecturer at Stanford Business School, has co-authored a detailed article about the growth of initial public offerings on the Internet. She warns that such practices raise questions about legality and liquidity.
In an increasingly diverse population, consumers outside a company's intended target market are exposed to targeted appeals, which can sometimes get companies into trouble. Sonya Grier, an assistant professor of marketing at Stanford Business School, has examined the difficult questions raised by nontarget marketing -- appeals aimed at one group that unintentionally reach another.
In 1995, Congress passed a controversial "safe harbor" law, aimed at reducing frivolous shareholder lawsuits and allowing executives to be more generous with forecasts. Critics feared the new law would license executives to predict rosy profits in order to drive up stock prices. What has happened since the law took effect? Two Stanford Business School faculty members find the new law has had a positive effect.
Despite strong economic growth and record low unemployment, the gap between America's richest and poorest families has sharply increased over the last 20 years, according to a Conference Board report.
Wall Street "whispers" are speaking louder than ever to the financial community. A study of "whisper forecasts," the unofficial corporate earnings forecasts that circulate among traders and investors, concludes that the whispers tend to be more optimistic and often more accurate than traditional earnings forecasts.
Northwestern engineering freshmen launch their own company -- and a club for other students who want to do the same.
A University of Missouri-Rolla professor's recently patented process for evaluating every phase of a product's development -- from conception to marketing -- should mean big savings to AT&T, Paradyne and other companies.
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