2005 News Archives
Work and Family Research Director Jacquelyn James comments on retiring baby boomers. Boston Globe.
Professor Jeffrey Cohen wins the American Accounting Association's 2005 best paper award on Work/Family issues. More...
New England's donut wars: Carroll School of Management marketing expert Kathleen Seiders offers analysis on NECN.
Professor Mohan Subramaniam cites innovation depends on social networks. More...
Michael H. Jordan, CEO of EDS announced at CEO Club it will double its number of workers in low-cost countries. WSJ.
CRR launches interactive retirement game for women. More...
Professor Sandra Waddock named The Aspen Institute’s 2005 Faculty Pioneer Award for External Impact. More...
BC MBA Program ranks 15th worldwide for social and environmental stewardship. More...
United Technologies CEO George David discussed the company’s diverse products. More...
Michelle Goodall Faulkner's MBA '05 article "What Motivates Executives to Accept New Board Positions Today?” was recently featured in National Association of Investor
Relations' quaterly, local newsletter. More...
Professors Yu and Subramaniam were awarded the 2005 Dough Nigh Memorial Best Paper Award. More...
CEO of Freddie Mac, Dick Syron, warns of "bubble" in luxury housing market. More...
Harvard Business Review features article on virtuoso teams by Dean Andy Boynton. More...
The Chief Executives’ Club of Boston again named Nation's Top Speaking Forum. More...
Professor Liz Miller cites the effect of color and flavor names on consumer choice. Science Daily.
Professor Theresa Hammond comments on diversity in accounting profession. Washington Post
Andy Boynton, co-author of Virtuoso Teams, comments on the nature of virtuoso teams and the extraordinary results they deliver. Boston Globe.
Harvard Business Review (July/August 2005) features an article by Dean Andy Boynton about the inner workings of highly successful virtuoso teams. More...
Professor G. Peter Wilson is awarded the American Accounting Association Outstanding Educator award. More...
Appearing at Boston College's Chief Executives' Club, Daniel A. Carp, Kodak's chairman, said Kodak is only halfway through a strategic transition from primarily a film company to digital photo technology. Boston Herald.
Manulife Chief Executive Dominic D'Alessandro addressed the BC CEO Club and noted that Manulife Financial Corp.'s $13.9 billion takeover of John Hancock Financial Services last year will likely lead to job gains locally. Boston Herald. Boston Globe.
Professor Bill Torbert comments on the success rate of leadership training among executives in corporate America. His insights, based on research contained in his recently published Harvard Business Review article “Seven Transformations of Leadership,” can be read in Financial Times.
Sprint Corporation chief executive Gary D. Forsee addressed the CEO Club and predicted that next year the first ''combo phones" will come to market in the United States, linking conventional wireless service and low-priced Internet calling. Boston Globe.
Dean Andy Boynton aims to build the school's program around values and ethics, writes the Boston Globe.
Professor Sandra Waddock comments on the responses of business schools to the recent online admission breach. More…
Professor John Gallaugher comments in The New York Times on Apple’s recently unveiled business strategy, which moves the company deeply into the consumer electronics market. More…
Risk and privatized Social Security: Reporting only the higher returns on stocks, without accounting for the risk, seriously overstates the contribution of private account plans to retirement security, says Alicia Munnell, director of BC's Center for Retirement Research. Boston Globe.
Fulbright Scholarships were awarded to six Carroll School students over the last three years.