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Charles Cuny
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Professor Charles Cuny has published research on the role of growth on corporate capital structure, the impact of market volatility on the stock index-futures basis, the effect of portfolio manager compensation on turn-of-the-year stock prices, the design of futures contracts, valuing employee stock ...
Expertise: Capital structure, financial innovation, venture capital, employee stock options, stock index changes, corporate payout policy
Direct contact: (314) 935-4527
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cuny@wustl.edu
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Barak Aharonson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Organization and Strategy
Professor Aharonson's research focuses on patterns of technological competition and cooperation among firms, and their influence on the firm's behavior. His current projects examine a firm's behavior and knowledge flows in geographic agglomerations, technological space and networks. Aharonson's professional ...
Expertise: Business policy and strategy, microeconomics, industrial organization, management strategy, corporate strategy, geographic agglomerations, technological clusters, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4846
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aharonson@olin.wustl.edu
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Cheryl Block
Professor of Law
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Cheryl Block is an expert in tax law and policy. Author of a leading book on corporate taxation, she has also written numerous articles on taxation, public policy relating to federal bailouts, legislative voting rules, social choice theory, federal budget process, and the interplay between tax and ...
Expertise: tax law and policy, corporate taxation, federal bailouts
Direct contact: (314) 935-6444
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cblock@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Sergio Chayet
Assistant Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management
Chayet's area of expertise is in decision analysis, inventory control, production planning and scheduling and operations strategy. He also studies strategic planning for production and service organizations using queueing and game-theoretic models; control and management of manufacturing systems; ...
Expertise: Operations management, inventory control, production planning and scheduling, operations strategy, decision analysis.
Direct contact: (314) 935-6769
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chayet@wustl.edu
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Raj Mashruwala
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Professor Mashruwala is an expert in managerial accounting. His research focuses on the role of non-financial measures in performance measurement and business value models; the role of non-financial measures in executive labor and capital markets; and the impact of information technology on performance. ...
Expertise: managerial accounting, performance measures, executive performance, information technology
Direct contact: (314) 935-5924
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mashruwala@wustl.edu
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Peeking over your shoulder
When is it okay for employers to monitor workers?
May 7,
2008 --
There is an appropriate time and place for employers to monitor employees, according to a business professor at the Olin Business School. If done wrong, firms can lose their worker's trust and willingness to go above and beyond.
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Olin Business School to present distinguished alumni awards
Annual event includes presentation of the Olin Award
April 23,
2008 -- The Olin Business School is honoring three alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Dean's Medal on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at its annual dinner at the Ritz-Carlton St. Louis in Clayton. Mahendra Gupta, dean of the business school, will also present the winners of the Olin Award, a new award that recognizes the practical impact of Olin's academic research.
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Four area non-profits garner prizes totaling $110,000
WUSTL's Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition winners have an artistic bent
April 18,
2008 -- On April 17, four local nonprofits were honored at the Awards Dinner for the 3rd annual Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC). The winners are StudioSTL, LiveFeed, BEGIN and Indego Africa. The groups will receive a total of $110,000 in cash and in-kind support for successfully demonstrating that their ventures have social value and that their group has the ability to implement its plans.
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Which Genetic Tests are Really Worth Getting?
The Wall Street Journal
May 1,
2008 -- With Congress poised to eliminate a big barrier to genetic testing for risk of certain diseases, consumers still face challenges in figuring out which ones offer useful information.
Despite heavy marketing by some genetic-test makers, the wide use of genetic tests has been held back by a variety of factors, including questions about the tests' usefulness and concerns that results could be used by employers and insurers to discriminate against people. Critics argue that many tests can't accurately identify which people are at risk for various illnesses.
WUSTL medical researcher Brian Gage comments.
Includes Web links to learn more about genetic testing.
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May We Scan Your Genome?
Newsweek
April 22,
2008 -- As personal genetic testing takes off, some worry that marketing is getting ahead of science.
With each new marketing push comes new criticism. Some say DNA testing doesn't belong in virtual clinics: One key issue is regulation.
WUSTL pediatrics and genetics specialist Thomas Morgan worries that the business is getting ahead of the science. "I might scare myself or reassure myself falsely based on the very limited knowledge that we have."
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New study advances method to make energy from farm waste
Associated Press
and 81 others
April 17,
2008 -- WUSTL engineers, including WUSTL chemical engineering professor Muthanna Al-Dahhan, using imaging technology have found that vigorous mixing helps microorganisms turn farm waste into alternative energy.
The goal is to produce a simple method that farmers can use to treat their waste and generate energy.
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Backed patent bill in trouble in U.S. Senate
The Guardian (UK)
and 10 others
April 15,
2008 -- A long-negotiated patent overhaul bill sought by technology companies and opposed by big pharmaceutical makers ran into trouble in the U.S. Senate. Scott Kieff, WUSTL law professor and patent law expert, comments.
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Hillary Clinton's expectations contradict
United Press International
April 2,
2008 -- The challenge facing Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is that people have contradictory expectations of women leaders. WUSTL business professor Judi McLean Parks says the character traits associated with people in leadership positions are stereotypically masculine -- being assertive or competitive.
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Consumer Debt, Not Housing Bubble, May Be Root of Economic Woes
ConsumerAffairs.com
April 2,
2008 -- WUSTL's Steven Fazzari, economics professor, comments on rising consumer indebtedness and it's role in the economic slowdown. Fazzari sees fundamental changes in the economy that are reducing the effectiveness of consumer spending as an economic driver.
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Fed Bank Appoints Bullard as President
The Wall Street Journal
March 26,
2008 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, has appointed as president James Bullard, an 18-year veteran of the bank's research staff and an adjunct faculty memeber at WUSTL.
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Order in the jungle - Economics and the rule of law
The Economist
March 17,
2008 -- Article refers to the theory of WUSTL economist Douglass North and his view that stable, predictable laws encourage investment and growth.
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Finding Industry Funding
Science Magazine
March 14,
2008 -- WUSTL's Karen Wooley, professor of chemistry, comments on the difficulties and approaches academic researchers use to garner industry funding.
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Commentary: Let The Markets Regulate Microsoft
Forbes.com
March 12,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor Scott Kieff writes a commentary about regulating Microsoft.
He is also a research fellow at Stanford University' s Hoover Institution, where he runs the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics and politics of innovation.
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Extracurriculars That Count
BusinessWeek.com
Feb. 26,
2008 -- Nanette Tarbouni, WUSTL undergraduate admissions director, talks about the importance of extracurriculars in undergraduate applications.
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Group says it has mapped corn genome
Associated Press
and 76 others
Feb. 26,
2008 -- Richard Wilson, director of WUSTL's Genome Sequencing Center, comments on the successful mapping of the corn genome.
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Program offers hourly car rentals in downtown St. Louis
Associated Press
and 13 others
Feb. 14,
2008 -- Enterprise Rent-A-Car and St. Louis have partnered to make nine hybrid cars available for rental in downtown St. Louison an hourly basis. In January, Enterprise launched a similar WeCar program at WUSTL.
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Looks are important in the campaign
NPR Marketplace Morning Report
Jan. 29,
2008 -- NPR reports on a study that suggests what a candidate looks like has a lot to do with their chances of getting elected. Scott Jagow of Marketplace talks to study head and WUSTL marketing professor Michael Lewis about how appearance factors into the campaign.
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A Shaky Season for Student Loans
Business Week Online
Jan. 18,
2008 -- Student financial aid season is getting off to a shaky start. The industry is experiencing jitters as the fallout from the subprime credit crisis trickles down to lenders who make private loans, as well as companies that also issue federal loans. Bill Witbrodt, director of WUSTL student financial aid services, says he has not seen students directly affected yet, but expects that could change.
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Clustering High Tech Firms Advances Economic Development
Nanotechnology Now online
and 3 others
Dec. 14,
2007 -- It is a common economic development strategy to locate similar firms close to each other. WUSTL business professor Barak Aharonson shows the tactic is most effective when companies are within 500 meters of each other. After that, the benefits of proximity quickly lose its power.
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Cheery customers spend more
U.S. News & World Report
Sept. 24,
2007 -- News item on research by WUSTL accounting professor Raj Mashruwala and a Temple U. colleague that suggested that there is a link between satisfied customers and a store's profits, but only when competition is stiff. Their study will appear in Contemporary Accounting Research.
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In time of tumult, obscure economist gains currency
The Wall Street Journal
Aug. 20,
2007 -- The recent market turmoil is rocking investors around the globe. But it is raising the stock of one person: a little-known economist named Hyman Minsky, whose views have suddenly become very popular.
Minsky, who taught economics at WUSTL and died more than a decade ago, spent much of his career advancing the idea that financial systems are inherently susceptible to bouts of speculation that, if they last long enough, end in crises. At a time when many economists were coming to believe in the efficiency of markets, Mr. Minsky was considered somewhat of a radical for his stress on their tendency toward excess and upheaval.
Former WUSTL economics professor Laurence Meyer and current economics professor Steven Fazzari comment.
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Resources for students looking to start a business
Chicago Tribune
Aug. 20,
2007 -- There is a growing number of college students interested in starting a business.
Experts point to a growing skepticism about job security as one of the motivations.
The Internet also has helped, making it possible to set up and run a business from a dorm room at a fraction of the cost of renting office space.
Article offers some pointers, such as using college resources. For example, WUSTL runs an entrepreneurial program that gives students access to advisers, storefront space and other useful tools, including information on raising money and paying taxes.
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Cashing in on the market chaos
ABC News
Aug. 17,
2007 -- There is opportunity in chaos. People with an appetite for risk can still make money in the rocky financial markets and rest assured many are trying.
So how do so-called smart people make money when everyone else is sweating it? Simply stated, they buy things that no one else wants and get a steep discount in the process.
WUSTL business professor and former business school dean Stuart Greenbaum comments.
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