Leading in the Classroom
The case faces students with a large complex data set that they would face in a real-world setting. It helps students hone existing Excel skills and learn new methods to provide data-driven recommendations to a health care products manufacturer.
Is the Triple Bottom Line a Strategic Priority in U.S. Businesses?
Boler College supply chain professor Sebastian Brockhaus and his coauthors, Moritz Petersen of Kühne Logistics University in Germany, and A. Michael Knemeyer of Ohio State University tackle the question of what it means to be sustainable company.
Encouraging Leadership Practice in Leadership Education
Scott Allen, Associate Professor of Management in the Boler College, along with coauthors David Rosch and Ronald Riggio argue that business schools can enhance management education hewing closely to their stated missions.
Advice to Management: Improve Employee Offboarding through Relationship Building
Employee turnover rates aren’t what they used to be; they are much higher. Boler Associate Professor Alison Dachner and her coauthor Erin Makarius from the Univesity of Akron note that the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts average employee tenure at just over four years, and they suggest the rate of job turnover is only increasing.
Can Stock Market Concentration Hinder an Economy’s Performance?
The study produces evidence that the concentration of market value in a few stocks actually negatively impacts important economic outcomes like the rate of technological innovation and the rate at which an economy grows.
Who Says Opposites Attract?
What they found was that, like in other countries, companies in the United States prefer audit partners who share characteristics with their directors/managers.
In Accountants We (Mis)Trust
The authors examine 590 sanctions imposed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) against members for violating its Code of Professional Conduct (CPC) from 2008 to 2013.
Do Stock Splits Share The Wealth For All?
More than 40 years of research has consistently found that stock split announcements generate positive abnormal returns. Equipped with this knowledge, do firms time CEO stock option grants around stock split announcements to sweeten the pot for their CEOs?