If a prospective employer asked "Do you ever use work time for personal email or social media?" it would be easy to answer no. But what if they instead said "You use work time for personal email, right?" The different phrasing makes it much easier to admit that you've checked Instagram while on the clock. Eccles School Assistant Professor of Marketing Eric Van Epps [...]
Focusing on individual liberty and purity may be the way to change the minds of those who choose not to vaccinate their children, new research shows. A paper by Jesse Graham — George S. Eccles Professor of Business Ethics here at the David Eccles School of Business — and co-authors suggests that reframing the conversation around the anti-vaxxer movement might change more minds than [...]
The arguments behind abolishing decentralized markets as envisaged by the European Securities and Markets Authority, or ESMA, in the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, MIFID II, rules may not be valid. Contrary to intuition, decentralized trading of financial instruments may not stand in the way of effective aggregation of information and price formation. That is the conclusion of research by professors Elena Asparouhova of [...]
Professor of Management Todd Zenger was honored recently by a prestigious operational research society for writing the best paper. The paper, "The small firm effect and the entrepreneurial spawning of scientists and engineers," co-authored by Daniel Elfenbein, Barton Hamilton and Zenger, was honored as best paper by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). This is the competition’s inaugural year, and [...]