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March 19, 2021From the court to the classroom to the C-suite, Muffet McGraw offers up some pointed leadership lessons about gender inequityFormer Notre Dame head women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw spoke to the Mendoza Women in Business Club, a group consisting primarily of graduate business students for the purpose of fostering a strong and supportive community of prospective and current students and Mendoza alumnae.
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July 6, 2020Incoming CEOs with premium pay packages perform accordingly, study showsA study by management professors Adam Wowak and Craig Crossland found CEOs who are paid more than the going rate during their first two years on the job tend to perform more effectively over the rest of their tenure.
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March 10, 2020ND business experts on: CoronavirusJeffrey Bergstrand, professor of finance, James O'Rourke, professor of management, and Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of information technology, analytics, and operations, provide insight into aspects of how the COVID-19 epidemic has unfolded, as health officials brace for the virus to spread within the United States.
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July 5, 2019Enlist your employees in crafting grand goals that produce big winsManagement and Organization's Mike Crant was interviewed for an Investor's Business Daily story on employee goal-setting. According to Crant employees don't always buy in when managers set goals for them.
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May 21, 2019Concerns often not offered or accepted in close employee-manager relationships, study showsResearch has long suggested that strong relationships between managers and employees lead to positive outcomes, including employees feeling safe to speak up and take risks. But new research from the University of Notre Dame shows that employees may not want to sacrifice social capital with their leader by voicing concerns.
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December 11, 2018Research: When overconfidence Is an asset, and when it’s a liability
Harvard Business Review published a piece on Nathan Meikle…
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November 8, 2018Series brings nonprofits leaders, top researchers together around program evaluation
The four-part Fall Nonprofit Breakfast Series concluded Oct. 26 with a collaborative discussion of quantitative and qualitative approaches to program evaluation.
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October 29, 2018Commentary: Why good businesspeople do bad things
Business ethics professor Joseph Holt reflected on the recent conviction of an Adidas exec and two others on fraud charges in a commentary piece published in the Chicago Tribune.
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October 25, 2018Psychopaths may not be as useful in leadership as you think — and women are often punished for dark traits while men are rewarded
Business Insider featured Management & Organization professor Charlice Hurst's research in a roundup of studies about psychopaths in the workplace. Lead author Charlice Hurst, an assistant professor of management in Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, said that this is harmful in the long run because it could enable people who are likely to "perpetuate abusive cultures."…
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October 19, 2018Notre Dame Stories: Confidence, building
In this episode: Confidence, building. New research from Mendoza College of Business on confidence says nonverbal cues can help people avoid the social penalties of overconfidence. And, a collaboration between Notre Dame’s School of Architecture and the City of South Bend shows how buildings from the past can help plan for the future.…
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