«Organizations need to think about this, develop policies and get first - level managers involved who are closest to the source,» says Gary Johns, a department of
management professor at Concordia University in Montreal.
Rotman School
of Management professor of international business Walid Hejazi: «It may change peoples» perception of the independence of the bank.»
In a paper in Harvard Business Review, on «transitional business platforms» Kellogg School of
Management professor Robert Wolcott illustrates the problems that Netflix founder Reed Hastings had in 1997 in building a platform.
Environment, morality and government force «The stakes are immense,» said John Sterman, the MIT
management professor who backs divesting.
«I don't think the average Disney guest will overthink it,» said Martin Lewison, a theme park expert and
business management professor at Farmingdale State College in New York.
Led by
management professor Russell Johnson, the research looked at smartphone use both among upper - level managers and a variety of mid-level professionals, like nurses and accountants, asking them to both report their nighttime smartphone use and then answer questions about their levels of alertness and productivity the next day.
To pinpoint the right person, determine exactly what it is you need, advises Loyola Marymount
University management professor Ellen Ensher, co-author of Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Protégés Get the Most Out of Their Relationships.
More from Knowledge at Wharton: «According to Wharton
management professor Matthew Bidwell, «external hires» get significantly lower performance evaluations for their first two years on the job than do internal workers who are promoted into similar jobs.
A recent study by University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of
Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found that high levels of emotional exhaustion that come from workplace anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.
Participants also earn points based on how closely their teams match the broader voting population, and how they stack up against the picks selected by experts, such
as management professors, top executives, headhunters, and other folks who spend a lot of time thinking about leadership.
«In every other kind of job, attractive women were preferred,» says Stefanie Johnson, University of
Colorado management professor, of the findings.
Ali Asgary, a disaster and
emergency management professor at York University's School of Administrative Studies, says Chapman's recovery offers a blueprint for other imperiled companies.
Talisman's shares were priced at a 10 % to 20 % discount during the period Talisman was in Sudan, according to a case study by Wharton School
management professor Stephen Kobrin.
But here's the essence of the findings: according to work by Christopher Barnes, a University of
Washington management professor, the mismatch between many employees» natural preferences and the workday's official start not only results in decreased productivity and creativity (not to mention increased misery), but might also impact the ethical decisions of late risers forced out of bed prematurely.
«It's now just permeated everything we do around entrepreneurship at HBS,» says Harvard Business School
entrepreneurial management professor Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the school's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
«Previous job experience has been regarded as an important factor for entrepreneurial success,»
management professor Suryadevara Ashok Kumar wrote in his book Entrepreneurial Success in Small And Medium Enterprises.
«Yes [Ledecky's] leaving money on the table, but I think she's done a calculation,» Rick Burton, a
sports management professor at Syracuse University, told CNBC.
University of
Laval management professor Yan Cimon says we've reached a stage where business must make a choice between optimization and robustness.
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of
Management professor Lauren Rivera's research found that relatively untrained interviewers often look for «potential friends and «playmates» rather than those with the best work experience or job - relevant skills.»
Associate Dean, Research and Academic Resources J.R.S. Prichard and Ann Wilson Chair
in Management Professor of Strategic Management
Mental concentration is similar to a muscle, says John P. Trougakos, an
assistant management professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Rotman School of Management.
Nicole Coomber, a
PhD management professor at the University of Maryland, returns home after retrieving her two young children — Tony, 4, and Gus, 14 months — from school and day care in the District.
University of Mississippi, Oxford, business school
management professor H. Kristl Davison found this result particularly intriguing.
After all, when a large enough number of local ecosystems transform, a global shift occurs, notes Johan Rockström, one of the authors of the planetary boundaries concept and a natural
resource management professor at Stockholm University.
To find out how the news of bin Laden's death is being received in Islamabad, Scientific American spoke with
retail management professor Murtaza Haider of Ryerson University in Toronto, who returned to his native Pakistan last week to conduct research on country's rehabilitation after the devastating magnitude 7.6 earthquake in 2005.
Two UT
Arlington management professors argue that employers can prevent workplace violence by keeping dangerous employees positively engaged and closely supervising them to ensure they get the help they need.
New research from Carlson School of
Management Professor Jason Chan and NYU Stern Professors Anindya Ghose and Robert Seamans finds that broadband availability increased the incidence of racial hate crimes committed by lone - wolf perpetrators in the United States during the period 2001 - 2008.
A new study by a University of
Arkansas management professor shows how origins of social class explain risk - taking behavior — good or bad — by the top executive at the largest U.S. public corporations.
Leopold, then a
game management professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, died in 1948 at the age of 61 while fighting a brush fire on a neighbor's farm.
The authors of this issue's cover stories, political scientist Jon Fullerton and
management professor William Ouchi, address these questions from different angles.
The Action Learning Model was first introduced by Professor Reginald Revans in 1980, who was a noted physicist and the first known
Industrial Management Professor.
«This code isn't going to do much of anything to deal with payday lenders, rent - to - own companies or debt agencies,» says Jennifer Robson, a
political management professor at Carleton University.
His passion for public speaking, he says, was inspired by economics and
management professor Richard Aplin, for whom he worked as a grader and teaching assistant.
Psychologist and Yale School of
Management professor Amy Wrzesniewski focuses her work on how people make meaning of their work, and the experiences of those who perceive their work as a job, career or calling.
UC
Berkeley management professor Morten Hansen discovered through conducting this study that those leaders who rise to the top of an organization are all skilled at persuasion.
Mark Williams, a Boston
University management professor and author of Uncontrolled Risk: Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System, says Basel 3 is irrelevant because it will take nine years to roll out.
Among other commentators,
management professor Matthew Bidwell weighed in on the problems with using «crude numeric tools» to achieve desirable behavior.
U of T Scarborough and Rotman School of
Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, explored the effects of workplace anxiety among officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), a national police service.