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Research

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

Two Carroll School Professors Win Top Accolades for High-impact Research

Katherine Lemon (Marketing) and Miao Liu (Accounting) have both recently won top awards for research contributions in their respective fields.

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

Two Coveted Finance Awards, Two Years Running

In a remarkable streak, Carroll School faculty have walked off with six of these prestigious awards in the past six years

Video Clip: Life After COVID—Inequality and the Road to Resilience

Marketing Professor Nailya Ordabayeva discusses how to make society more resilient, in time for the “next disaster”

Professor Montes Explains How to Build "Organizational Resilience"

A dangerous ascent of Mount Everest helped Juan Montes, a professor of the practice in Management and Organization, derive lessons on how companies can meet crises like those brought on by COVID with “the resilience tool kit."

Information Systems Professor Gerald Kane on How COVID-19 Accelerated a Digital Transformation

The Wall Street Journal is publishing a series of excerpts from Professor Gerald Kane’s forthcoming book about how COVID-19 is accelerating a digital transformation in business.

Holiday Shopping in a Pandemic: Advice from Professor Nan Liu

After suffering from major declines in revenue since the pandemic began, Boston businesses will continue implementing services and safety measures to keep customers safe for the holiday shopping season.

Which Firms are Winning with Artificial Intelligence? Professor Explains in New Podcast Series

As co-host of a new podcast produced by MIT SMR and Boston Consulting Group, Professor Sam Ransbotham talks to leaders who’ve achieved big wins with AI, hearing firsthand how they did it.

Wall Street Journal Launches Series on Professor Jerry Kane's Book About Digital Transformation

The Wall Street Journal is publishing a series of excerpts from Professor Gerald Kane’s forthcoming book about how COVID-19 is accelerating a digital transformation in business. The first excerpt, published in October, profiles health insurance company Anthem, where the crisis has intensified a drive to go digital-first.

Twitter Can Be a Rumor Mill That Distorts the Price of a Stock

Social-media misinformation isn’t just a problem in politics. Unfounded financial rumors on Twitter can distort the price of a stock for weeks.

Weathering the COVID Crash: Environmental and Social Policies Pay Off, Study Says

Socially responsible stocks posted significantly higher returns, Seidner Family Faculty Fellow and Professor of Finance Rui Albuquerque finds

Who Are We? And Where Are We Going?

Two separate findings by Management and Organization professors Michael Pratt and Metin Sengul suggest better ways for companies to state their purpose and set goals

When Rivals Smell Blood: How Companies React to a Competitor’s Negative Earnings

In Academy of Management Journal, Metin Sengul and Tieying Yu, both associate professors in the Carroll School’s Management and Organization department, examine competitors’ reactions to a firm’s negative earnings surprise

We Have a Winner

Haub Family Faculty Fellow Gergana Nenkov co-authored a study on recycling that earned the prestigious H. Paul Root Award for 2019, which honors the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of marketing in a given year.

How to Sell Economic Equality? Marketing Professor has an Idea

Research by professor Nailya Ordabayeva explores ways to sell policies promoting economic equality to the American public

Two Carroll School Marketing Researchers Tackle Problem of “Banking Deserts”

Carroll School professors propose “win-win” strategy for mainstream banks to thrive in “banking deserts”

Three Finance Professors Win Coveted Awards for Papers

Three members of the Carroll School of Management’s top-ranked finance department won coveted awards for academic papers from the American Finance Association—another notch in the School’s growing reputation as a leading management research institution.

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.

Legacies Catching On

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

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.

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.

Who’s Influencing the Shareholders?

At an S.E.C. gathering, Nadya Malenko detailed how advisory firms are influencing votes by shareholders on issues such as executive compensation.

Planning for the Future of Work

MITSMR: 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.

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.

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.

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

MITSMR: New report on artificial intelligence and business strategy, led my information systems professor, included a broad survey of business executives around the globe

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.

Where Digitally Maturing Companies Need to Catch Up

FORBES: Research from Information Systems professor Jerry Kane found that few companies are actually making the changes necessary to adapt to increasingly digital markets

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.

Lessons From the Collapse of Banco Popular

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

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

NYTIMES: 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

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?

Award-winning Pontiff Paper Shows Investors Care about Academic Research

New research from a Carroll School finance professor examines how the stock market responds to potential investing strategies identified by fellow academics.

Research Matters (Most of All, to Our Students)

Leading With Ideas: Dean's Message

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