Working with family-owned firms in New Orleans over the past few years, I started hearing stories about the days, months and years after Katrina and how these firms maintained continuity and restructured in response to the disaster. These stories differed significantly from those I heard from non-family firms, and they led me to conduct a formal academic study comparing the two groups.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The A. B. Freeman School of Business gratefully acknowledges in the following pages those individuals and corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations that made gifts to the school in fiscal year 2012 (July 1, 2011–June 30, 2012).
