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Consumer views on third-party uses of personal location data vary, study showsIt’s common knowledge that tech companies mine users’ personal information, but how do consumers feel about their location data being tracked and sold? New research from tech ethics professor Kirsten Martin yields surprising results.
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The limits of resilienceEntrepreneurship professor Dean Shepherd's latest research reveals domestic abuse has an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship.
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From the top: Effective customer analytics solutions need leadership advocacyMarketing professor Frank Germann's research finds that companies need to do more than invest in analytics staff and systems in order to improve business performance. The attitude of the top management team (TMT) makes a critical difference, and their advocacy drives positive outcomes.
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When safety rules backfireA study from marketing professor Vamsi Kanuri reveals that government-imposed restrictions related to issues such as vaping and obesity can backfire, depending on political ideology.
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A moment of opportunityEconomist and finance professor Jeffrey Bergstrand writes about the potential costs of government intervention in economic recovery in this opinion piece for the Keough School of Global Affairs.
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Firms perceived to fake social responsibility become targets for hackers, study showsWhat corporate leaders may not realize is that strides they are making toward social responsibility may be placing a proverbial target on their backs — if their efforts appear to be disingenuous, according to new research from professor of IT, Analytics and Operations Corey Angst.
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Firms behaving badly: Investors punish for social irresponsibility depending on proportion of company execs with law degreesMarketing professor Vamsi Kanuri and his research team discovered the extent to which investors punish firms for Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) is associated with the proportion of top management executives in a firm who have a law degree.
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Massive decline in first quarter GDP signals much worse lies ahead, expert saysFinance professor Jason Reed talks about what to expect in the second quarter and says experts expect it to get much worse.
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Most firms neglected to include pandemic in annual risk assessments despite warning signs, study showsFinance professors Bill McDonald and Timothy Loughran examined all 10-K filings (annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission) from 2018, before the current pandemic, and found that less than 21 percent of the filings contain any pandemic-related terms.
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Econometrics researcher’s calculations illustrate why we should social distanceNot only does social distancing work to slow the spread of the virus, it’s an exercise in probability, according to Richard Sheehan, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Sheehan, who specializes in applied econometrics, has developed a model that shows viral transmission as a probability rather than a certainty and demonstrates how social distancing — or changing the probabilities — slows the spread.
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