Research

Carmen Weigelt, assistant professor of management, recently had her paper “Implications of Internal Organization Structure for Firm Boundaries,” co-authored with Doug Miller, accepted for publication in Strategic Management Journal.

Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Etc.

Michael T. Yest, professor of practice in finance, received the James T. Murphy Teaching Excellence Award in May at the Freeman School’s Graduate Diploma Ceremony.

Study shows “downsizing” options beat calorie warnings in convincing diners to eat less

Studies have shown fast-food calorie postings do little to deter diners from overeating. A better approach may be for restaurants to simply ask consumers if they’d like smaller portions, according to new research by Janet Schwartz, assistant professor of marketing at the Freeman School.

The Science Behind Consumer Behavior

On a recent Friday morning, about a dozen undergraduate students gathered in a computer lab in the business school where they were directed to a website and asked to make various choices—everything from what to order for dessert to whether to go to a restaurant advertising a special to which NFL replica jersey to buy. It may sound like an online shopping session, but in fact the students were participating in behavioral experiments designed to help researchers at the Freeman School better understand the complexities of consumer decision-making processes.

Perspective: Think the Contemporary Art Market is a New Phenomenon? Think Again

While all this might sound like 21st century Wall Street-style art dealing, nothing could be further from the truth. Research into past art markets has revealed the existence of sophisticated dealer networks in the 19th century and possibly even earlier.

Love DIY Projects? It’s the Ikea Effect

So it turns out there’s a reason why you could never throw out that wobbly old bookcase you put together in college. It’s the Ikea effect. In a new article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Freeman School’s Daniel Mochon argues that consumers tend to value products they build themselves— such as furniture from Ikea—more than similar professionally built products

Research: Selected Faculty Research

Venkat Subramaniam, associate professor of finance, contributed “Are there monitoring benefits to institutional ownership? Evidence from seasoned equity offerings” to the Journal of Corporate Finance, December 2011. The article was co-authored with Ilhan Demiralp, Ranjan D’Mello and Fred Schlingemann.

Research: Selected Faculty Presentations Etc.

John Elstrott spoke to students, business leaders and entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colo., on Sept. 29 as part of An Evening at the Epicenter, a series of interactive talks dedicated to promoting local, socially responsible and green businesses.

Research: Faculty Research in Brief

- Summer 2011 -

Geoff Parker, professor of economic sciences, contributed “Putting It Together: How to Succeed in Distributed Product Development,” co-authored with Jason Amaral and Edward G. Anderson Jr., to the winter 2011 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review.

Faculty In Brief

- Winter 2011 -

Cynthia Devers, associate professor of management, was recently appointed as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Review, and she was recently elected to a three-year term as representative-at-large for the Corporate Strategy and Governance interest group of the Strategic Management Society.

The Dread Factor

- Winter 2011 -

A psychological mechanism referred to as the “dread factor” helps explain the enhanced effectiveness of high-engagement training relative to low-engagement training when workers are being prepared to deal with particularly ominous hazards.

Perspective: The True Cost of the Moratorium

- Summer 2010 -

The Macondo Blowout, the world’s worst accidental marine oil spill, has been essentially under control since mid-July, when BP installed a mini BOP and transition spool on the well, but the disaster continues thanks to our federal government.

Driving Innovation Through Knowledge Markets

- Summer 2010 -

Geoff Parker has studied platforms for more than a decade, but this fall he and his colleagues plan to take that research to another level with an investigation of how firms can use one type of platform—an internal knowledge market—to drive and distribute innovation.

Faculty In Brief

- Summer 2010 -

Adrienne Colella, professor of organizational behavior, has been appointed the James W. McFarland Distinguished Chair in Business. Prior to her appointment, Colella had served as the A. B. Freeman Chair in Doctoral Studies and Research since joining the Freeman School in July 2005.