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What can business schools do to thrive in our competitive environment? Dean Andy Boynton says it has to do with the nature of strategy, summed up in a little formula: Strategy = Choice + Execution.
With its recent acquisition of Red Hat, IBM expects to gain competitive advantage in the cloud computing industry, says a new article from associate professor of management and organization Mohan Subramaniam.
’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.
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.
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.
A new study by Nailya Ordabayeva shows how consumers vote with their wallets, without even realizing it.
A Carroll School professor’s report finds that established companies are finally making digital progress.
But at the start of this new academic year, Dean Andy Boynton is marveling at how top researchers bring their passions and rigorous methodologies into the classroom, and how they help prepare the next generation of smart, conscientious leaders. Research matters—most of all, to our students.
Jean M. Bartunek's new book offers a concise and up-to-date review of the essential analysis and action underlying scholarly engagement with the world of business.
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.
The average investor in a cryptocurrency saw returns of 82 percent last year—not in spite of uncertainty around the digital tokens, but because of it, according to a new study by Assistant Professor Leonard Kostovetsky.
How does growing up rich or poor affect what kind of leader a person might become?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor Michael Barry recently spoke to NECN regarding the impact of GE's decision to cut jobs in the area.
Men get credit for voicing ideas, but not problems—and women don't get credit for either, according to research published in Academy of Management Journal.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The New York Times tapped the expertise of Professor of Finance Edward Kane for an article about the collapse of Banco Popular.
A working paper by Professor Ronnie Sadka (Finance) and three colleagues made headlines this past summer, including this one from CBS MoneyWatch—“Do CEOs lie? Perhaps, but not how you think.”
Does tax reform help or hurt homeowners? Accounting Professor Gil Manzon shares his thoughts in an op-ed for The Conversation US.
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.
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.
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.
