Faculty Media Mentions

After the tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, firearm stock prices have increased says Brad Greenwood, associate professor of ISOM, in an op-ed for The Conversation. “As of the close of trading on May 31, 2022, the stock price of weapons-maker Sturm Ruger was up more than 6.6% since May 23, the day before the shooting.”

Dean Maury Peiperl discusses the seven principles for making responsible business leadership effective in EFMD GlobalFocus. “Looking forward – and indeed, looking at history – the best societal business leaders will be masters of coalition-building and the contradictions of “coopetition” (i.e. cooperation with rivals),” says Peiperl.

The Washington Commanders maybe moving to Virginia, and George Perry, instructor of business foundations, notes, in an interview with The Washington Times, that fans could switch to rooting for the Baltimore Ravens as many may not want to commute all the way to Virginia. 

Lisa Gring-Pemble, co-executive director of the Business for a Better World Center, was interviewed by Connection on The Honey Bee Initiative adding a new apiary to Laurel Hill Park. 

Defense News Commentary authors Daniel Fata and Jerry McGinn detail how "maintaining robust foreign suppliers through a 'Buy Allied' approach is essential for the American economy to remain strong and will help reduce dependencies on Chinese sources."

Having a team where more than one gender is represented is always something that companies should strive for. “In business, you need diverse points of view, you need the benefit of different ways of looking at the world, and I will say I have had better learnings,” Dean Maury Peiperl says an interview with SHESKILLZGLOBAL.

Sometimes businesses will hijack a competitor’s ad keywords to gain new customers. Siddharth Bhattacharya, assistant professor of information systems and operations management, has written an article for Harvard Business Review on a study he has done, along with coauthors Jing Gong and Sunil Wattal, on competitive poaching.

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on how negative real interests encourage risk taking by investors for the first half of a negative interest rate cycle, and how this reverses in the latter half of the cycle.

Businesses that don’t have poison pill defenses “written into their charter tend to earn excess returns.” Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, says in Business Insider that “this is because since they are exposed to market discipline (threat of takeover), management acts in the best interest of the shareholders.”

Derek Horstmeyer, professor of finance, was interviewed by the Financial Times on ETFs and how they have been taking excess risks.

“We worked to identify the practices that acquisition professionals and their industry counterparts can use now to innovate, iterate, scale, and field effective military capabilities for United States forces,” notes Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting, in an interview with ExecutiveGov on the Center’s new playbook on the defense acquisition system.

On addressing how to deal with your colleagues’ annoying habits or quirks Suzanne de Janasz, professor of management, says to “use phrases like, ‘Have you noticed?’ or ‘What’s your take?’” so the dialogue can be reframed as a “a joint problem-solving exercise,” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.