Flexibility's price tag: Gain time, lose career footing
Flextime, telecommuting and part-time employment are popular employee enticements. But, are these attractive benefits also drawbacks for corporate warriors who choose to utilize them?
Heart smart management: Emotional intelligence in the corporate world
Emotional intelligence (EI) is a measure of how well individuals can manage their own moods, and how well they can read the moods of others. Though some critics question the scientific validity of EI, real-world results have been promising.
Insuring the uninsured: President Bush joins the health care debate
President Bush's private-insurance initiative, unveiled during the 2007 State of the Union address, keeps alive the debate over how to get at least some of the estimated 47 million uninsured Americans into the system.
Why don't the statistics show the boom? Unmeasured investment in the 1990s
There's a large discrepancy between the number of per capita hours people actually worked in the 1990s and the number of hours predicted by the official statistics and the standard growth model.
Why doctors are reluctant to swallow the IT pill
In a recent study, researchers at the W. P. Carey School of Business found that only about a third of doctors use computers for patient notes, and about 10 percent prescribe electronically.
Podcast: The big gamble Super Bowl advertising
In the Super Bowl advertising arms race, companies spend millions on mere seconds. Is it worth it? Nancy Stephens, associate professor of marketing, says no.
Accounting cues bolster or bust restructuring efforts
Accounting practices can influence behavior that aids or thwarts organizational efforts to get the job done, according to research conducted by Casey Rowe, an assistant professor of accounting at the W. P. Carey School of Business.
The gentle science of persuasion, part four: Consistency
Nobody likes being known as a liar or as wishy-washy or erratic. So, when people make public commitments or promises, they will almost always want to back up those words with action. They have little choice: For reputation’s sake, they must do so.
Economic outlook: A healthy economy if policymakers let the engine go
When it comes to the economic outlook for 2007, Nobel Laureate and W. P. Carey School professor of economics Edward Prescott is optimistic.
Now for the good news: U.S. exports strong, especially in the West
In 2006, the United States' trade deficit in goods was $836 billion, a record for the fifth year in a row and an 80 percent increase from four years earlier.