The use of "contingent" workers in the U.S. has increased labor productivity but not necessarily employer profits, according to a wide-ranging study by scholars at the University of Illinois and other institutions.
The most popular source of new business revenue is the Internet, but it's still new ground that should be tread with care, say UAB professors of business quantitative methods and marketing.
DuPont has donated a patent estate to the University of Tulsa for development of a little black bead that can house hungry bacteria that then feast on hazardous substances and render them harmless before they damage the environment.
Tobacco use by Hoosiers exacts a terrible penalty on Indiana's economy, costing the state in excess of $3.5 billion in the year 2000, says a study by a Ball State University researcher.
The findings of a new study reveal enormous differences in net worth between elderly white people and elderly black people. The differences can be attributed in part to education, number of years worked and investment habits. If social security is privatized, will this have an adverse effect on minority and working poor net worth in retirement?
Mary Brown Bullock, President of Agnes Scott College and an experienced China hand, will be in Beijing from May 20 - 27, during the pending key vote to pass the year's most contentious legislation: a bill granting China permanent normal trade relations.
Marketing Research Association (MRA) will hold its 42nd Annual Conference "Change in Your Pocket" at The Westin Seattle in Seattle, WA June 7-9, 2000.
Traders in the Iowa Electronic Markets can now buy and sell shares in the prospects of candidates in the hotly contested Mexican presidential race.
When a small, rural manufacturer needs help, it has few resources available; a University of Arkansas researcher is trying to solve that problem by making necessary resources more readily available to small manufacturers.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is announcing a call for entries for its year 2001 ACOEM Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.
The standard mutual fund legal disclaimer notwithstanding, past performance may indeed predict future results, according to a study by two finance professors.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine announces that Dow Chemical Company, General Electric Power Systems, and Sherman Health Systems are winners in its fourth annual Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.
"When Your Retirement Plan Changes," an online booklet from the American Academy of Actuaries, helps you understand how changes to your pension can affect retirement planning.
General Mills, GTE Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, and U S WEST were named winners of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.
The North American economy will surge 4.3% this year and 3.7% next year, according to a study released today by The Conference Board, Inc., The Conference Board of Canada and Centro de Estudios Economicos del Sector Privado A.C. of Mexico.
Carnegie Mellon hosts a two-day conference on applicatons of algorithms in business and industry.
The School of Management at Boston University announced a unique program offering concurrent Masters degrees in business and information systems to prepare future CEOs for the new economy.
E-commerce has raised the value of and market for used and rare books; online sales have increased the number of used books sold by an average of 12.5 percent, Ohio University researchers found.
Companies pinning their turn-around hopes on economic profit plans to improve operating performance are likely to find they would have done just as well with their existing compensation plans, according to a study by Vanderbilt University professors.
None of the economic indicators often used to forecast inflation -- such as changes in the unemployment rate or in the price of gold -- do a good job of prediction, a new Ohio State study suggests (Current Issues in Economics and Finance, 4-00).
Are consumers manipulated into buying things they don't want? BU history professor Regina Blaszczyk, in "Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning," reveals that leading manufacturers of home goods devote considerable effort to learn their customers' priorities and preferences.
The class of 2000 has more to be excited about than just being finished with final exams and textbooks -- this year's crop of college graduates can expect to see an increase in starting salaries and an expanded job market.
Auditors are much less likely to distort new information when they make decisions than salespeople; when held accountable, though, salespeople are likely to shed their biases, whereas auditors' decisions don't improve, shows a Cornell University study (Management Science, 1-00).
The Washington State University International Business Institute has launched the first cooperative MBA program involving an American and a Vietnamese university.
Obtaining lower cost insurance and satisfying employees who want to keep their current doctors may be more important to small businesses when negotiating health care coverage than the plans' quality of care or accreditation status, according to a study from AHRQ.
A $10 million commitment from Purdue alumnus Jerry Rawls, one of the largest private gifts in the university's history, has pushed the Krannert School of Management's fund-raising campaign past its halfway mark.
Eamon M. Kelly will continue as chair of the National Science Board and Anita K. Jones will serve as vice chair, the board announced today.
Today's rapidly shifting business environment not only demands creativity and vision from its key players, but an ability to problem solve using a broad base of knowledge and methodologies.
Black managers consider adhering to corporate ethics more important than white managers do, but morality isn't the reason, according to a study by two UAB management researchers published in Business and Professional Ethics Journal.
The majority of foundation and corporate giving executives value hotels and airlines that implement socially and environmentally sustainable practices, according to a new study from The Conference Board.
Over the next few decades, millions of state and local government workers will find out how well their pension plans are funded. Some may be in for a shock.
"Pay-to-play," the practice whereby lawyers make political contributions to government officials who award legal contracts, has been stubbornly resistant to reform, according to a University of Illinois legal scholar.
A breakup of Microsoft may not be the panacea that some think it would be, says Vanderbilt Professor Luke Froeb, a former staff economist in the antitrust division of the Department of Justice.
A Web site maintained by a Mississippi State University professor is devoted exclusively to issues of computer ethics and usage; intended primarily for those who teach, it is a centralized resource linking articles, discussions and other Web sites.
A new monograph by a Saint Joseph's University consumer expert, available for free over the Internet, provides step-by-step strategies that can be used by the average customer in a wide variety of buying situations.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory recently signed a technology transfer and development agreement with Timonium-based FutureHealth Corporation, licensing APL's expertise in automated and knowledge-intensive systems to automate some of FutureHealth's proprietary business operations.
Federal action to reduce oil prices, either by rolling back the federal gasoline tax or tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, would bring little benefit to consumers and could do much to harm the economy, according to a Resources for the Future scholar.
China's nearly certain accession to the World Trade Organization this June, as well as its imminent trade deal with the United States, will create tremendous business opportunities for U.S. companies, particularly those in high tech.
Partnership for Quality Growth's research report provides essential guiding principles that local planners can use to build better communities that accommodate growth, promote development and improve the environment.
Legislation designed to protect consumer confidentiality is pending in Congress and reflects the growing public concern that banks and other institutions could share customers' personal information without consent, says a UAB computer scientist.
A group of 13 French business leaders will gather at the University of Illinois at Chicago April 30 to May 6 to learn strategies to broaden their share of the e-commerce universe.
Several Ohio banks have pledged financial support for the new Appalachian Ohio Development Fund, a venture-capital effort developed by an Ohio University alumnus and supported with a $2 million investment from the university.
Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, in cooperation with AAAI, will host the first Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment (WIRE2000), April 30-May 1.
In the first major evaluation of Job Corps in 20 years and the biggest study of any American social program, research confirms the federal program's success in improving the prospects of disadvantaged young people, a Swarthmore College economist says.
Institutional investor equity in the largest 1,000 U.S. corporations has peaked and individual investor ownership is increasing, The Conference Board reports in its Institutional Investment Report.
Chief executives' confidence in the nation's economy increased for the second consecutive time, The Conference Board reports.
In a report submitted this morning to Governor Paul Cellucci, the Commonwealth's Blue Ribbon Commission on Older Workers warns that the Massachusetts economy could be hobbled by the loss of as many as 250,000 potential new jobs to other states by mid-decade, unless steps are taken to retrain and employ the state's older workers.
One of the biggest headaches faced by U.S. utility companies could be consigned to history with the development of an acoustical system that constantly checks the health of power lines by listening to them.
In the agricultural world, the common belief is that a farmer's efficiency increases to its maximum in the middle years, and then decreases with age, but Cornell University researchers have found that a farmer's productivity has less to do with efficiency decreases as a farmer ages, and everything to do with using the latest agricultural technology.
The number of Web visitors can be more crucial than sales or profits in making a stock sink or float, according to an analysis of 86 publicly traded Internet companies.
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