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Released: 4-Nov-2022 10:00 AM EDT
The Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program (AILAS) Announces Launch of the Woody and Gayle Hunt Fellowship Alumni Network
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

The El Paso alumni chapter aims to promote continued development of leadership skills of alumni through exposure to world-class programming and connections to new networks.

   
Released: 1-Nov-2022 2:30 PM EDT
Is Transparency the Right Path to Equal Pay?
Arizona State University (ASU)

An Arizona State University business professor examines how a new law in the United Kingdom deals with gender pay gap, and whether it can benefit the American workforce.

   
Released: 31-Oct-2022 3:15 PM EDT
Do IPO Firms Become Myopic?
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Going public does not cause firms to underinvest compared to their private counterparts, shows research from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

   
Newswise: High-End Hotels Manipulate Reviews When Competing with Airbnb
Released: 27-Oct-2022 2:50 PM EDT
High-End Hotels Manipulate Reviews When Competing with Airbnb
Iowa State University

Researchers found high-end hotels often post more fake, positive reviews about themselves and less negative reviews about other hotels when they face greater competition from Airbnb. This shift toward “co-opetition instead of tit-for-tat" creates inflated ratings.

Released: 26-Oct-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Power of the Pocketbook: An Ethicist Weighs in on Ethical Consumption
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Binghamton University Philosophy Professor Nicole Hassoun considers the global health responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies, and makes the case for a new kind of ethical investment in public health.

   
Released: 25-Oct-2022 1:20 PM EDT
New research shows practices of ethical finance leadership have been ‘hiding in plain sight’
City University London

The irreversible damage caused by humanity to the planet forces us to examine the entire culture and model of accounting and finance.

Released: 24-Oct-2022 11:55 AM EDT
Positive ESG Ratings in the Past Led to 25% Drop in Philanthropic Giving
Brigham Young University

Everywhere you look, something or someone is being rated — that movie you’re thinking of seeing, the restaurant you might try, the president’s popularity this week.

   
Released: 13-Oct-2022 3:45 PM EDT
Climate change will affect the way all businesses operate. Now a US regulator wants companies to tell their shareholders exactly how
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Climate change is real, and it’s happening now — from melting permafrost in the Arctic to massive flooding in Pakistan to the increased likelihood of devastating hurricanes in the Americas and elsewhere.

Released: 12-Oct-2022 4:30 PM EDT
American Society of Anesthesiologists Named a Best and Brightest Company to Work For® in the Nation, Sixth Year in a Row
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today announced it has been selected as a 2022 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the Nation. This marks the sixth consecutive year the Society has received the designation.

Released: 12-Oct-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School launches Center for Innovative Leadership
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

The center serves to advance knowledge and build capacity for innovative leadership in modern organizations. As a hub at Johns Hopkins for new ideas and insights on leadership, it brings together faculty research, student experiences, and industry engagement.

     
Released: 12-Oct-2022 4:05 AM EDT
Eco-labels on menu options prompt diners to make more sustainable choices, new research finds
University of Bristol

A first-of-its-kind study has shown adding eco-friendly ratings on menu items results in diners making choices which are kinder to the environment.

Released: 11-Oct-2022 6:05 AM EDT
New book offers road map for more equitable corporate culture
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

The new book "Shared Sisterhood" lays out a road map for white, Black and Latina women to build workplace alliances through vulnerability, trust, risk-taking, and empathy in order to pressure organizational structures to become more equitable for all women.

Released: 10-Oct-2022 3:35 PM EDT
The Venture Capital Landscape Is Changing, and Perhaps Not for the Better
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Newly published findings suggest entrepreneurs are changing the way they evaluate venture capitalists and often are deciding to work with new VCs rather than established ones.

Released: 10-Oct-2022 3:20 PM EDT
Protecting identities of panelists in market research
Cornell University

According to research by a Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business professor and colleagues, it’s highly likely that a survey participant’s identity and other sensitive information can be traced back to the individual.

Released: 6-Oct-2022 10:35 AM EDT
Negotiation Skills Workshop on Tap November 2-4 in Washington, D.C.
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

UMD’s Smith School of Business hosts a three-day professional certificate course involving a broad spectrum of workplace negotiation exercises and simulations for professionals at all levels.

   
Released: 30-Sep-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Can a business succeed without profit motives for individuals?
University of Oregon

University of Oregon law professor Susan Gary writes about purpose trusts and the business of business.

Released: 27-Sep-2022 2:10 PM EDT
The latest research and expert commentary on guns and violence
Newswise

Here are some of the latest articles that have been posted in the Guns and Violence channel on Newswise.

       
Released: 21-Sep-2022 8:05 AM EDT
How white consumers helped drive discrimination by businesses
Ohio State University

A new study provides the best evidence to date that preferences of white consumers helped drive private businesses to discriminate against Black customers before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Released: 13-Sep-2022 10:35 AM EDT
Researchers identify how science can help cities and companies to operate within Earth system limits
University of Exeter

What businesses and cities must do to stay within ‘safe and just’ environmental limits for carbon, water, nutrients, land and other natural resources is the subject of a new set of recommendations from Earth Commission experts.

Released: 1-Sep-2022 4:30 PM EDT
How ‘prediction markets’ could improve climate risk policies and investment decisions
Lancaster University

A market-led approach could be key to guiding policy, research and business decisions about future climate risks, a new study outlines.

Released: 22-Aug-2022 8:55 AM EDT
The increase in funding for the IRS is not going create an army of agents that will come after you
Newswise

The Inflation Reduction Act includes $79 billion for the IRS. Many political figures are reacting incredulously to this long-sought budget increase. The Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has warned his viewers that “Joe Biden’s new army” of armed IRS agents could “hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers that don’t pay enough”.

   
Released: 15-Aug-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Research reveals how common online health marketing practices may violate patient privacy
Cell Press

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed in 1996 to protect sensitive protected health information (PHI) from being disclosed without patient consent.

Released: 10-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Strategy, Psychology Behind Effective Negotiating
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Maryland Smith experts explain the groundwork for professionals to “'think on their feet’ when the next situation arises to negotiate – whether in product pricing, partnership agreements or the next job offer.”

   
Newswise: Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s new vice dean to focus on faculty impact via research, innovation, and diversity
Released: 10-Aug-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s new vice dean to focus on faculty impact via research, innovation, and diversity
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School names new vice dean to build on foundation of research and outreach, expand the graduate school's positive impact on society through research and innovation, and champion diversity in all its forms.

Released: 8-Aug-2022 3:30 PM EDT
Is Business Innovation the Cure for What Ails US Health Care?
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Health care-related expenditures accounted for a record 19.7 percent of U.S. GDP in 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

   
Released: 2-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Wildfires are intensifying around the world. Here are the latest headlines in wildfires research for media
Newswise

California’s McKinney Fire grew to become the state’s largest fire so far this year. The risk of wildfire is rising globally due to climate change. Below are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Wildfires channel on Newswise.

       
Released: 25-Jul-2022 2:05 PM EDT
The Spillover Effect of R&D Funding
University of Oregon

Using investments made by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, the paper's authors develop a methodology to trace how technology generated by one firm’s R&D “spills over” and benefits other firms across both geographic and technological space.

Released: 20-Jul-2022 12:50 PM EDT
FSU Researcher: Make It Your Business to See Stress as Enhancing
Florida State University

In a new study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, business owners experienced personal growth and engagement in their businesses when they increasingly saw stress as enhancing instead of debilitating. The study also indicated that business owners experienced stronger benefits of this stress-is-enhancing mindset when they believed their business might have been at risk and needed to close.

Released: 15-Jul-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Relief from high gas prices is not likely to come from more drilling, as many politicians are demanding
Newswise

U.S oil and gas production is just one of many elements that drive the global oil and gas market.

   
Released: 15-Jul-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Health of the planet can be improved by companies' people-centred growth, says new study
University of Surrey

Using the high-fashion brand Brunello Cucinelli as a case study, researchers recommend shying away from one-off, large events and instead focusing more on embedding sustainability into everyday processes to make a real positive impact on the planet's health.

Released: 12-Jul-2022 4:05 PM EDT
New Study Reveals Benefits of Hybrid Working for Disabled Workers but Some Fear Choice Between Health and Career Progression
Lancaster University

Eighty-five per cent of disabled workers in the UK say they are more productive working from home, new research by the Work Foundation reveals.

   
Released: 12-Jul-2022 3:50 PM EDT
Musk’s Buyer’s Remorse and Potential Deal Outcomes
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Elon Musk’s move to abandon his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter is less about bot traffic and more about Musk’s buyer’s remorse for agreeing to too high a purchase price, explains Maryland Smith finance expert David Kass

Released: 11-Jul-2022 12:35 PM EDT
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act did little to affect executive pay, counter to what Congress intended
Indiana University

Through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress attempted to curb CEO pay by repealing a long-standing exemption that allowed companies to deduct large amounts of qualified performance-based pay. New research finds the change has had little effect, with CEO pay either staying the same or growing after the law made it more costly to award executives with high levels of compensation.

Released: 28-Jun-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Expert Says Financial Technologies Can Help Address Climate Change
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

“Financial technologies offer great promise to tackle climate change and provide pathways for developing sustainable economies,” says Aparna Gupta, co-director of the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies, the first-ever fintech research center backed by the National Science Foundation.

Released: 27-Jun-2022 1:45 PM EDT
The latest expert commentary on SCOTUS decisions, including the overturn of Roe v. Wade
Newswise

The latest expert commentary and research on SCOTUS decisions, including the overturn of Roe v. Wade

       
Newswise: 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident did not harm BP’s long-term stock market returns
8-Jun-2022 4:30 PM EDT
2010 Deepwater Horizon accident did not harm BP’s long-term stock market returns
PLOS

Study suggests BP’s reputation suffered, but not the reputations or stock returns of other oil firms.

   
Released: 8-Jun-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Study: Trade can worsen income inequality
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Using Ecuador as case study, economists show international trade widens the income gap in individual countries.

   
Released: 8-Jun-2022 10:45 AM EDT
Expertise as a Liability? Experts May Overcompensate Decisions When Told They Are Wrong
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Financial strategists, medical advisers and venture capitalists that are considered experts in their fields play a crucial role in major organizations, but are more likely than novices to make overconfident predictions after being told they are wrong, according to a Rutgers study.

   
Released: 1-Jun-2022 6:05 PM EDT
Study Finds Worker-Friendly Scheduling Boosts Bottom Line
University of Oregon

A study by University of Oregon researchers found that stores that adopted responsible scheduling practices were more productive and saw increased sales and reduced labor hours compared to Gap stores that maintained the status quo.

Released: 1-Jun-2022 2:20 PM EDT
Narcissistic Bosses Stymie Knowledge Flow, Cooperation Inside Organizations
University of Washington

New research from University of Washington associate professor of management Abhinav Gupta shows that narcissism can cause knowledge barriers within organizations. Narcissists hinder cooperations between units due to a sense of superiority.



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