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Lessons from Detroit: Guard Your Image Like a Treasure
Although objective measures show Detroit has closed the quality gap with Japanese carmakers, American auto executives' insularity, smugness, and missteps led them to squander decades of customer loyalty, according to Haas Professor Emeritus Robert Cole.
(11/13/2009)
California Housing Prices Unlikely to Recover for 5 Years
While current trends suggest that the California housing market may be stabilizing, prices are unlikely to fully recover to the pre-crisis peak in the next five years.
(11/13/2009)
Prof. Oliver Williamson Wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Hundreds of Haas School faculty, staff, and students toasted Professor Oliver Williamson today after he was named a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
(10/12/2009)
Research Spotlight: Stock Prices Follow Investor Sentiment More than Fundamentals
In a recent paper, Professor Richard Sloan finds that investor "recognition" -- not earnings results and related fundamentals -- accountable for more than 50 percent of explainable variations in stock prices.
(08/25/2009)
CMR Highlights Organizational Design
The new issue of the Haas School's California Management Review highlights organizational design with a symposium of four articles that explore several new organizational forms and the types of companies that have adopted them.
(08/18/2009)
Banks Receives Award for "Exempt" Job Analysis
Senior Lecturer Cristina Banks was recently honored with an Innovative Practice Award Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for her work in the application of psychology in consulting.
(07/20/2009)
Prof. Villas-Boas Honored for Marketing Insights
Professor J. Miguel Villas-Boas has been named the first recipient of the Long-Term Impact Award from the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science for changing the way marketers view data and consumer choice.
(07/20/2009)
Should Politicians Have Longer Terms in Office?
A new study by Associate Professor Ernesto Dal Bó determines longer term lengths make politicians more productive. Beyond politics, the findings may be applied to business organizations and projects that take years to complete.
(07/14/2009)
New Teece Book: How to Build Competitive Advantage
In a new book, Professor David Teece builds on his research on "dynamic capabilities" to create a framework for understanding how firms develop and maintain competitive advantage in global markets.
(06/22/2009)
Beckman Receives California Management Review's Accenture Award
Senior Lecturer Sara Beckman and co-author Michael Barry received the 2009 Accenture Award from the California Management Review for their article “Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking.”
(06/12/2009)
Research Spotlight: Quality Tops Quantity in Social Networking
Marketing Professor Zsolt Katona finds that as one’s online contacts increase, the average influential power of that individual decreases in a social network.
(05/11/2009)
Prof. Sloan Receives Top Accounting Award
The American Accounting Association has selected Professor Richard Sloan to receive its most prestigious annual award, the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, for his 2005 paper examining accruals, earnings, and stock prices.
(05/11/2009)
