What’s the “Right” Price?

In a new book, Carroll School of Management Associate Professor Gerald Smith (who also chairs the Marketing Department) mixes the academic with the actionable for managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners in need of smarter pricing strategies.

When Designing CEO Pay, Board Assignments Matter

The Human Factor

Management Professor’s rereading of Camus’s The Plague helps inspire new book on dealing with global crises

Disrupted by COVID? Get Used to It.

Responding successfully to disruptions needs to become a habit, says new book co-authored by Carroll School professor

HBR Article Previews Professor Mohan Subramaniam's Forthcoming Book from MIT Press

HBR article previews Carroll School professor’s forthcoming book from MIT Press

Living Outside Their Comfort Zones

Meet the Carroll School of Management’s new crop of tenure-track professors

Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant

Greater SEC transparency leads to better enforcement and worthier shareholder suits, Carroll School researchers find

Trust but Verify

Machine learning systems need informed (i.e., human) oversight

What Comes Next?

Politics, the economy, and global markets after the pandemic. Join us for a live webinar series during the first week of May.

“A Form of Optimism about the Human Condition”

Why we do research, and why it matters to our teaching and our students

"What Should We Learn Next?" Juggling COVID-era Teaching and Cutting-Edge Research

For Carroll School of Management professors, innovating their way around a new, “hybrid” classroom isn’t the only adaptation this unusual year has demanded of them.

Want to Help a Local Restaurant? Do This.

Professor’s research reveals the benefits of ordering directly and skipping the delivery app

In Good Company

Global survey puts Carroll School among top business schools for research; points to strength of M.B.A. degree as well

Professor Curtis Chan Makes Poets & Quants’ 2020 List of 50 Best B-School Profs in the Nation

Curtis Chan, assistant professor of management and organization at the Carroll School, was named to Poets & Quants for Undergrads’ list of Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors of 2020.

Global and Gifted

They come from Beijing and from Boston. They are eye-opening researchers and award-winning teachers. They boast a panoply of experience—there’s a Finnish naval veteran and a record label executive, among others. Meet our new faculty.

The World Comes to the Carroll School

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

Academic–Practitioner Relationships: Developments, Complexities, and Opportunities

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.

High risks, high rewards in ICOs

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.

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.

Financial Times Ranks Carroll School #13 for Faculty Research

The Carroll School of Management now ranks 13th in the world for faculty research and productivity, according to a definitive annual survey released earlier this year by the Financial Times.

Faculty, Faculty, Faculty

Leading With Ideas: Dean's Message

Encouraging Home Ownership

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

Research: Men Get Credit for Voicing Ideas, but Not Problems. Women Don’t Get Credit for Either.

HBR: 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.

Size and Color Saturation, a Perceptual Connection?

DISCOVER MAGAZINE: New research from Boston College is showing that color saturation—how pure a color is—affects how we perceive an objects’ size.

Why Consumers Keep Supersizing

BC NEWS: 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.

Everything Worth Knowing About ... How We Decide

DISCOVER MAGAZINE: When we’re presented with a choice, we carefully weigh the alternatives and choose the option that makes the most sense—or do we?

When CEOs Downplay the Bullish News

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.”