Mitchell honored by Academy of Management for lifetime achievement
Terence Mitchell, a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has been named recipient of the 2010 Lifetime... Read More
Packaging a Pill
Sara Jones, Assistant Director One of the courses students are taking this quarter is Marketing of Innovations and Digital Media, taught by Professor Joe Dodson.... Read More
Faculty podcasts: Brands that die and merger research
Two UW Foster School of Business faculty members gave lectures this week on research relevant to the financial crisis and our current economy: Brands that die and... Read More
Management podcasts by Foster faculty
University of Washington Foster School of Business Assistant Professor of Management Michael Johnson and Assistant Professor of Management Morela Hernandez interviewed several other researchers and... Read More
Boeing’s Dreamliner – friend or foe of US business?
UW Foster School of Business Professor Dick Nolan guest blogged for the Harvard Business Review about the dark side of Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner engineering... Read More
People seek to appear independent when communicating online
Social science tells us that, in face-to-face meetings, people tend to modify their true opinions in order to preserve group harmony. Many have presumed that the... Read More
Klastorin receives Institute of Industrial Engineers best paper award
The Institute of Industrial Engineers honored Ted Klastorin, the Burlington Northern/Burlington Resources Professor of Operations Management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, with its... Read More
Nature vs. nurture: Genes play a leading role in financial behavior
Bull, bear or barely aware of alternatives to the trusty savings account. What are the primary forces that shape each person’s financial behavior? Are investors born... Read More
Foster study on ethics of stakeholder relationships named IABS best paper
There’s no shortage of moral philosophy to guide the study of personal ethics. But what about the ethics of modern corporations, whose complex cultures and... Read More
Announcing a restatement via online video can limit damage to investor trust
Announcing a restatement—correcting a previously issued financial statement—is known to destroy trust in a firm’s financial reporting, and can negatively influence investors. But the use... Read More