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“Phase Four” coronavirus relief package is necessary and must address three points, expert says

Jeffrey Bergstrand, professor of finance and a former Federal Reserve economist, emphasized the need for Phase Four, which he said “will bring some stimulus to aggregate demand if there is a government infrastructure program put in place.”

Shannon Roddel

Female directors are quicker to recall dangerous medical products, study shows

Severe product problems that injure or kill consumers are recalled much faster when there are women on the board according to “The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions,” forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management from lead author Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of information technology, analytics and operations in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

Shannon Roddel

Coronavirus relief dollars will help produce medical supplies, direct patient impact will take time

A $2 trillion coronavirus relief package is on its way, but health care workers won’t feel its impact for weeks, according to Kaitlin Wowak, an assistant professor of IT, analytics, and operations at Mendoza College of Business.

Shannon Roddel

Trusting strangers: Details matter to millennials using Uber, Airbnb

The “sharing economy” is a defining feature of the millennial generation, allowing people to earn money from renting their assets that may be sitting unused, including homes, spare bedrooms and […]

Shannon Roddel

When less (frequent) is more

Accountancy professor F. Asís Martínez-Jerez and his co-researchers explain their pilot project, revealing that the best performance is achieved when detailed feedback is delivered less frequently, in a piece for Strategic Finance.

Strategic Finance

On the Money

Researchers build the first analytical model to study selling virtual video game currency. Business analytics professor Hong Guo, grew up playing video games in China and has studied emerging IT trends ranging from net neutrality to mobile platforms since earning her doctoral degree. Her latest research is the first to build an analytical model to understand the trend sweeping the video game world of selling virtual currency.

Brendan O'Shaughnessy (ND '93)

Contract Killers

Detailed contracts can provide incentives for opportunistic behavior. In a rapidly changing business landscape, are incomplete contracts the answer? Accountancy professor F. Asís Martínez-Jerez believes there is a counterintuitive solution.

Michael Hardy

Building an ethical career

Ann Tenbrunsel's research into the ethical mirage, which is the tendency to overestimate the virtuousness of our future selves, was used in a piece by Harvard Business Review about being intentionally ethical in your career.

Harvard Business Review

Scrooge, Marley and the business of mankind

A piece in ND Magazine by the Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership's Brett Beasley makes the argument that the story of Scrooge is applicable in today's business world and should be a reminder of mortality that motivates executives toward greater social responsibility. The article is based on research by management professor Craig Crossland, which brought a scientific approach to Scrooge-like scenarios in modern corporate management.

ND Magazine - Brett Beasley

Air travel reduces local investment bias, benefits investors and firms

Easy access to air travel has not only flattened the world, it also has flattened the bias toward investing locally, according to new research from finance professor Zhi Da and his co-researchers.

Shannon Roddel