Research

Research: Selected Faculty Presentations Etc.

- Winter 2012 -

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Do Stock Analysts Have an Impact on Share Prices?

- Winter 2010 -

Innumerable daily news reports plus a large body of scholarship affirm stock analysts’ price-moving influence to be considerable, a presumption with profound effects on matters ranging from regulatory statutes to theories of market efficiency to the ample pay of analysts themselves. But now new research by two Freeman School finance professors raises fundamental doubts about this reputed power.

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The failure of credit rating agencies in emerging debt markets

- Summer 2009 -

By David Lesmond, associate professor of business In the recent economic downturn, a downturn precipitated by an explosion of so-called toxic debt, one of the most striking discoveries was the inability of credit-rating agencies to properly assess credit risk, the chance that a bond will default. But an overriding question emerges: Were we really caught […]

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Faculty in Brief

- Summer 2009 -

Albert Cannella, Earl P. and Ethel B. Koerner Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, published the following articles over the last two years: With John-Hoon Park and Ho-uk Lee, “Top Management Team Diversity and Firm Performance: Examining the Roles of External and Internal Context,” Academy of Management Journal, 51(4): 768-784; with Yangmin Kim, “Social Capital Among […]

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