Online retailers seek logistics service providers offering high-quality supply chain management knowledge. But new research by supply chain management professor Elliot Rabinovich shows retailers need to look before they leap into a contract with a provider.

Elizabeth M. Bailey, clinical assistant professor of economics at the W. P. Carey School of Business, has been studying the debate over oil industry consolidation and prices.

The U.S. government debt is massive — and growing out of control. Our debt is a burden on our grandchildren failing to decrease it today is selfish and myopic. Those are statements that most Americans have become accustomed to hearing.

The ability to persuade others is critical to success, whether you are selling cars or a new corporate strategy. Psychology and marketing Professor Robert Cialdini has examined the component parts of influence, in the lab and on the street.

Year in and year out, cars manufactured by Toyota Motor Corp. are praised by automobile critics and lauded by loyal customers. The cars sell extraordinarily well and, come year's end, can almost always be found at the top of the rankings in reliability, quality and customer satisfaction.

Last year, some 28 percent of corporate managers surveyed told Evans Data, a market research firm, that their primary driver for outsourcing was cost cutting. You'd think saving money would catch the eye of Wall Street but, in fact, it doesn't.

Finding the optimal number of suppliers to form your supply base is not easy — nor is it the only factor buying companies must juggle in order to manage their suppliers effectively.

Sixteen years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passed, workers with mental illness still face a disheartening choice: keep their health problems a secret at work, or risk being shunned, passed over, paid up to one-third less, or even fired, according to a new study conducted by the

In early 2005, Hewlett-Packard's board of directors was embroiled in controversy. Board discord anonymously spilled into the media, and an effort commenced to find and plug the leaks of board deliberations. The probe has erupted into scandal, indictments and congressional hearings.

The HP situation provides a many-faceted illustration of ethics in the breach, according to Marianne Jennings, professor of legal and ethical studies at the W. P. Carey School of business and author of "The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: How to Spot Moral Meltdowns in Companies ...