How to Sell Economic Equality? Marketing Professor has an Idea

Uber Gives a Lift to Laid-Off Workers: New Research by Finance Profs on the Gig Economy

In Business Ethics, Spinello Points to Natural Rights

Does the Stock Market Listen to Academic Researchers?

A Carroll School finance professor found out—and scored big

The World Comes to the Carroll School

Meet the new faculty members, hailing from several corners of the globe

Historic Pub Doyle’s, Soon to Close, Regularly Hosted a Carroll School Class

Can Management Help Save the Church?

Management Professor Urges Taking a Hard Look at Rewards and Punishments, and Other Systems

New England and the Shoe Industry: “Still a Great Fit”

Carroll School lecturer Lourdes German receives Dinneen community service award

The Dual-Purpose Playbook

What it takes to do well and do good at the same time.

In Whose Interests? When CEOs' personal tax liabilities go down, they gain a greater appetite for corporate risk-taking.

A Carroll School researcher finds that when their personal tax liabilities go down, CEOs gain a greater appetite for corporate risk-taking.

New and Improved, Just Like Me

When people are prompted to think about their self-improvement, they’re more likely to appreciate the improvements made in products such as iPhones, according to a study coauthored by Sokiente W. Dagogo-Jack (Marketing) and written up in the Harvard Business Review.

Communication for Consultants

Learning from China’s Digital Disrupters

What TSA Agents Can Teach Us

’Tis the season to be not so jolly about stressful waits at airport checkpoints. But before lashing out at TSA agents, travelers might want to hear some of what Professor Curtis Chan has learned about the work woes of these agents.

Joy Field Garners Top Award from Decision Sciences Institute

Associate Professor of Operations Management Joy Field has received the highest honor bestowed by the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), a global society of more than 1800 scholars dedicated to fostering knowledge that improves managerial decisions.

Carroll School Hosts Third Annual “Judgment” Day

Financial infidelity in marriages. Negative online reviews that consumers see as a threat to their identity. Luxury consumption that makes people feel inauthentic. These were among topics aired at the third annual Boston Judgment and Decision Making Day, hosted by the Carroll School of Management.

The Voters Have Spoken

And the winner is … Ralph Lauren. Or is it Urban Outfitters? Nailya Ordabayeva (Marketing) explains how liberals and conservatives make choices that reveal their ideologies—not at the ballot box, but while shopping.

A Dean for Others

Sullivan steps into new role as senior associate dean for undergraduate programs

A Celebration of the Life of Jim Gips

On AI, Sorting Out the “Pioneers” from the “Passives”

In an annual survey for the MIT Sloan Management Review, Sam Ransbotham (Information Systems) and co-authors identify the Pioneers—the one-fifth of companies polled that are scoring big with artificial intelligence.

Legacies Catching On

A Carroll School professor’s report finds that established companies are finally making digital progress.

How We Play Politics in the Store Aisles

A new study by Nailya Ordabayeva shows how consumers vote with their wallets, without even realizing it.

Jim Gips, 1946–2018

Carroll School professor leaves an inspiring legacy for students, colleagues, and many who used his assistive technologies.

Cognitive Commodes?

Do Americans want smart toilets? U.S. News & World Report sought the expertise of Associate Professor of Management and Organization Mary Tripsas to flush out the answer.

When It Comes to Ethical Decision-Making, Two Heads Might Not Be Better than One

In clinical experiments, two people working together were more likely than individuals to act unethically. Why? Professor Hristina Nikolova, who led the experiments, has answers.

When Waiting to See a Doctor is Less Irritating: Understanding Patient Preferences and Choice Behavior in Appointment Scheduling

How do patients choose care in the healthcare market, a service sector that spends almost 18% of the GDP in the United States every year? Knowledge of patient preferences and choice behavior in care seeking—i.e., what patients want—is essential for managing modern healthcare enterprises as the healthcare sector becomes more patient-centered.

The Wealth Divide

How does growing up rich or poor affect what kind of leader a person might become?

The Politics of Shopping

Do you prefer the “Just Different” coffee mug or the one that says “Just Better”? The shopping choices you make will depend a lot on your political ideology, says Nailya Ordabayeva in the Journal of Consumer Research.

21st Century Corporate Citizenship

More and more, people at all levels of corporate life realize they can “create not only more economic value but more social and environmental value” too, says the Center for Corporate Citizenship’s Katherine Smith, in a video introducing her recent book.

Who’s Influencing the Shareholders?

At a gathering called by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Nadya Malenko detailed how shareholder advisory firms are influencing votes by institutional shareholders on issues such as executive compensation. The influence is both good and bad, she said.

Trump's 401k Line Misfires, Says Munnell

President Trump has taken to asking crowds, “How’s your 401(k) doing?” The responses from his most enthusiastic supporters have been mixed, and Alicia Munnell of the Center for Retirement Research explains why, in a Bloomberg News story.

Five Ways that Top Firms Stay Nimble

Devising a digital strategy is one of the key practices of companies—small and large—that outpace their rivals in adapting to an evolving digital landscape, wrote Professor of Information Systems Gerald Kane in Entrepreneur.

Life Expectancy for Women in U.S.

A report by the Center for Retirement Research says life expectancy for women in the U.S. has stalled, leaving American females at the bottom of the list of the wealthiest nations.

The Dividend Disconnect

Investors tend to see dividends as extra money they receive on top of their capital gains. This is a fiction, says the Carroll School’s David Solomon.

Planning for the Future of Work

Rather than focus on finding jobs in the gaps left by machines, individuals and organizations would be smart to prepare themselves to adapt to a changing digital business environment, writes Professor Jerry Kane for Sloan Management Review.

GE Meets in Boston to Rethink Its Future, Announces Job Cuts

Professor Michael Barry recently spoke to NECN regarding the impact of GE's decision to cut jobs in the area.

Portico: Journal Article Throws Light on a Unique Experiment in Business Ethics

“Be attentive. Be reflective. Be loving.” Those words of advice are not what you’d expect to hear in a typical management class, but they sum up the aims of the Carroll School’s signature Portico course, according to an article published in the latest edition of the Journal of Jesuit Business Education.

Slideshow: Teachers and Scholars

Portico: Journal Article Throws Light on a Unique Experiment in Business Ethics

Portico: Journal Article Throws Light on a Unique Experiment in Business Ethics

How the Business News Gets Political

Will a media outlet slant its coverage of a company because it doesn’t like the political leanings of the firm’s top executives? Vishal P. Baloria and a coauthor explore how Democratic-leaning firms use different strategies to avoid negative coverage by Fox News.

Enterprise Risk Management and Financial Reporting

New research by Professor Jeffrey Cohen finds that there is a critical link between enterprise risk management—a company’s integrated approach to evaluating and controlling risk—and financial reporting.

Ransbotham Helms MIT Report on AI

Sam Ransbotham co-authored the Sloan Management Review’s report on artificial intelligence and business strategy. The report included a broad survey of business executives around the globe along with context provided by some of Ransbotham’s own articles on the topic.

Size and Color Saturation, a Perceptual Connection?

New research from Boston College is showing that color saturation—how pure a color is—affects how we perceive an objects’ size. The more saturated a color is, the bigger something looks, the researchers say, with attendant implications for marketing and design.

Where Digitally Maturing Companies Need to Catch Up

Few companies would dispute that they should adapt to increasingly digital markets and take advantage of digital technologies to improve operations. However, Professor Jerry Kane found that few companies are actually making the changes necessary to achieve these goals.

Why Consumers Keep Supersizing

It’s no secret that restaurant food portions have grown tremendously over the years, but what accounts for the super-sizing trend? Nailya Ordabayeva (Marketing) and a coauthor have come up with a novel explanation—with new findings published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology

Lessons From the Collapse of Banco Popular

The New York Times tapped the expertise of Professor of Finance Edward Kane for an article about the collapse of Banco Popular.

No Hosannas: IS Professor Tamps Down the Hype on Big Data

When Scholars Meet Marketers: Professor Kay Lemon’s Marketing Journey

Award-winning Pontiff Paper Shows Investors Care about Academic Research

Woo, Wow, and Win: Excerpts

Scholars—and Teachers

THREE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS GO TO WORK

Carroll School Professor Tapped as Vice Provost

After 26 years of helping to invigorate the academic life of the Carroll School, Professor Billy Soo will now be well situated to do the same for the broader University—as Boston College’s new vice provost for faculties.

Pete Wilson on the Art of Teaching, and the “Journey from Me to We”

Make That 11 New Professors

Bringing It to the Carroll School

Newest Tenure-Track Faculty Show What They Have

Encouraging home ownership

Does tax reform help or hurt homeowners? Accounting Professor Gil Manzon shares his thoughts in an op-ed for The Conversation US.

In Long Run, There’s No Such Thing as an Einstein Investor

Research by Professor Jeffrey Pontiff was cited in a New York Times op-ed on the risks of trying to emulate an “Einstein” investor such as Warren Buffett.

Everything Worth Knowing About ... How We Decide

When we’re presented with a choice, we carefully weigh the alternatives and choose the option that makes the most sense—or do we? Only recently has science begun to unravel how we really make decisions.

On Markdowns, Know the Steps of a Tricky Dance

New research by Tingliang Huang examines posterior price-matching, where a firm sells a product before marking it down, but with a promise to reimburse the price difference, and present a model that isolates the role of customer bounded rationality in this interaction.

IS Profs Team Up with Sloan Management Review to Spotlight “Big Ideas”