Research

When to show your hand: Competition and financial reporting

Accounting professionals face challenges when they decide how conservative to be in reporting a public company’s financial results. New research by Assistant Professor Shawn X.

Customer experience: A journey, not a moment

Wick’s against-the-grain and often counterintuitive transformation of American Home Shield’s customer service model resulted in an approach focused on the end-to-end customer journey.

How to implement effective performance management

It is a process that few managers look forward to, and one that most employees dread: the annual performance review. The workplace ritual is a task to cross off the list, something that needs to be done but rarely is taken seriously enough to get done right.

In the Twitter world, the weak ties are strong

Wielding influence on Twitter is all about getting thousands or even millions of followers, right? Not exactly. It turns out there are other, potentially better ways to measure someone’s impact on the burgeoning social-media platform. New research by Dr.

What's driving CEO pay sky high?

U-Haul CEO Joe Shoen said growing income disparity is a troubling trend at the Economic Club of Phoenix, where he examined the forces driving senior executive pay.

Deloitte chairman describes culture of exceptionalism

Deloitte Chairman Punit Renjen, who helped drive Deloitte’s exceptional performance through the recession, describes the firm’s culture at the Economic Club of Phoenix Luncheon on Feb. 13, 2014.

Why negotiations fail

Strategic uncertainty, a career focus for associate economics professor Amanda Friedenberg, occurs when the parties in a negotiation don’t know how the others will behave, perhaps because they’ve never negotiated before.

Best Western revisited: On the inside of brand modification

With more than 4,000 hotels worldwide, chances are good that you'll sleep at a Best Western sometime this year. When you book your room, however, you'll have more information about your lodging than you did in the past.

Bridging the gap between health sector supply chain research and practice

The annual research dissemination conference of the W. P. Carey School’s Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium is designed to bring practitioners and researchers together to talk about new knowledge and practical issue. The journals edited at the W. P.

Consumer-driven health care leads to reform, innovation

Even as the U.S. begins implementation of one of the most comprehensive healthcare policies ever passed, Regina Herzlinger, a leading researcher and long-time advocate of consumer-driven healthcare, argues that policy cannot fix the broken healthcare system.