Got Ideas? Know Your Boss’ Traits Before You Pitch
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Got Ideas? Know Your Boss’ Traits Before You Pitch

Q&A with Professor Kimberly Elsbach

Next time you’re in a meeting and asked to pitch an idea, follow this simple strategy: Align your idea with your boss’ personal identity says Professor Kim Elsbach.

Next time you’re in a meeting and asked to pitch an idea, follow this simple

Pitching Ideas Successfully Can Hinge on Your Project Leader’s Style
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Pitching Ideas Successfully Can Hinge on Your Project Leader’s Style

Professor Kim Elsbach shares new research examines leadership personality traits and how they affect ideas being accepted and rejected.

Quick Summary:

  • Team members should align their idea pitches to the style of their creative project leader
  • Cre
Audit Committees Not Compromised by Big-Four Alumni
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Audit Committees Not Compromised by Big-Four Alumni

Benefits include higher audit quality, lower fees, timelier reporting

Assistant Professor Paul Wong and his co-authors explain how the familiarity of a former partner who sits on the company’s audit committee can actually be a benefit.

A former partner of a Big-Four accountancy sits on the audit committee of a company

Extreme Heat Impacts Firms’ Stock Value
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Extreme Heat Impacts Firms’ Stock Value

First study to quantify the impact of physical climate risk on corporate market values

Professor Paul Griffin shares new research on the market value risk following episodes of extremely hot weather, especially for small firms in the South and Southeast.

Climate change is making business and investors sweat.

Research from the

Beware: You Might Not Be Buying the Stock You Think You Are
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Beware: You Might Not Be Buying the Stock You Think You Are

A new study highlights similar or confusing stock symbols, which leads to widespread confusion for investors. Professor Brad Barber says companies can be connected in others ways some might not fully understand.

Molding the Next Generation of Business Leaders
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Molding the Next Generation of Business Leaders

On a podcast hosted by by Frank Zaccari, Professor Andrew Hargadon shares about our lab-to-market academies and the 20th annual Big Bang! Business Competition.

"Robots, Algorithms & AI, Oh My!"
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"Robots, Algorithms & AI, Oh My!"

On Forbes.com, Associate Professor Gina Dokko's take on how automation will impact careers as she led a panel of experts at a recent Academy of Management meeting.

Purpose-Driven Isn’t Always People-Driven: 3 Ways to Change
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Purpose-Driven Isn’t Always People-Driven: 3 Ways to Change

Creating purposeful work for your employees

Purpose only gets you so far to a great workplace and employee fulfillment. It shouldn’t be a veil for other practices.

I’ll avoid the cliché lecture about a need for “authenticity” in a purpose-driven business, and will be more specific.

Here are

15 Leadership Certificate Programs to Boost Your Career
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15 Leadership Certificate Programs to Boost Your Career

Professor Kimberly Elsbach's eight-week online leadership course named among the top 15 certificate programs to boost your career by CIO.com. Program begins Oct. 16.

One-on-One with UC Davis Provost
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One-on-One with UC Davis Provost

Rare opportunity to shadow Ralph Hexter

What is it like overseeing the day-to-day operations of one of the world’s most comprehensive research universities—literally a 5,300-acre city unto itself—with nearly 40,000 students, 4,700 faculty and 17,000 staff?

I recently had the privilege of

Are We Ready for Driverless Cars?
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Are We Ready for Driverless Cars?

Professor Hemant Bhargava says not yet

(Editor's note: Professor Bhargava's blog originally appeared on Medium on May 5, 2019)

Are we ready for driverless cars?

Short answer, No.

Tesla, the new kid on the block, has shaken up the automobile industry during the last decade, with

Bobbleheads Rule! Promos Can Predict Baseball Attendance
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Bobbleheads Rule! Promos Can Predict Baseball Attendance

Analysis shows giveaways boost MLB game ticket sales

Fresh cut outfield grass, the smell of hot dogs and cool spring nights mean one thing, the Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing.

While having a competitive, star-studded team makes baseball marketers’ jobs much easier, promoting the

Small Data Tells a Big Story
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Small Data Tells a Big Story

Big Data is overblown, bigger problems lack data

Everyone is talking about big data today. While there are many applications and opportunities to harness big data to disrupt industries and revolutionize company operations, the conventional wisdom proclaims you should feel ashamed if you don’t solve

Old School Sales Tactics Still Work
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Old School Sales Tactics Still Work

Editor's note: Alumnus Chris Jackson, a founder, CEO and chief technology officer for several firms, contends we rely too much on digital outreach vs. calls and personal touch.

Working a Phone Will Generate More Sales Than an Email Campaign

This is

Dialed into World-Class Customer Service
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Dialed into World-Class Customer Service

Headsets.com CEO Mike Faith turns up the volume

Customer service is one of those terms that I hear in the most general sense, but Mike Faith takes it to a new level—he’s a customer service fanatic.

Faith is the founder and CEO of Headsets.com, the leading headset supplier in North America with

What’s Next in the Disney-Netflix Streaming Battle?
A faculty expert explains the Netflix model
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What’s Next in the Disney-Netflix Streaming Battle?

Professor Hemant Bhargava shares his insights on Netflix's future and its preparedness as Disney plans to launch a competing video streaming service, stating, 'Netflix also has other ammunition, too.'

Disney+ Challenge to Netflix
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Disney+ Challenge to Netflix

Disney's streaming service, Disney+, will launch at the end of 2019. The company claims it will be cheaper than Netflix, but there are more reasons why you'll want to subscribe.

Disney's streaming service, Disney+, will launch at the end of 2019

The Blockchain Revolution in Food
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The Blockchain Revolution in Food

Media coverage of blockchain in the food supply chain are a good reminder that technological innovations aren’t just for revolutionaries. Sometimes they are  even better at entrenching the entrenched. 

This article on blockchain in the food supply

Raising Innovations
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Raising Innovations

The relationship between the core business strategy and its innovation portfolio is tricky. But maybe not as tricky as companies make it.

This relationship between the core business strategy and its innovation portfolio is tricky. But maybe not as tricky as companies make it. Molly Fleming writes in MarketingWeek:

In a results call for investors today (10 July), PepsiCo CEO Indra

Protecting Energy Groups From Climate Lawsuits Is A Bad Idea
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Protecting Energy Groups From Climate Lawsuits Is A Bad Idea

Financial Times op-ed by Professor Paul Griffin

Professor Paul Griffin co-authors an op-ed in the Financial Times based on his latest research about how well fossil fuel firms are informing investors.