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Practical insights from three Fox micro-influencers
While research experts like Jay I. Sinha and Thomas Fung, professors in the Fox School’s Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management (MSCM), are studying how companies are innovating to reach...
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Recipe for a “just-right” workplace
CPSD 2014 Job Fair in Mitten Hall. No business is perfect. From top-down management to lopsided raises, maintaining a successful business strategy comes with many challenges. The “perfect”...
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Changing the channel on CSR
TV impacts what we talk about at the water cooler, but how is it affecting executives’ decision making? What TV viewers consume can shape their decisions and beliefs. In today’s polarized political...
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Shaping business academics for a rapidly evolving world
Sunil Wattal During the 2019-2020 academic year, Sunil Wattal was named the new managing director of PhD programs. He shared with the On The Verge editorial team his relationship with research, the...
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Workaholics, get a life!
“In intercollegiate athletics and beyond, you put in your hours. Many people believe the only way to get better, to be more successful, is to work harder.”Elizabeth Taylor, assistant professor at the...
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High time for legalization?
Illustration by SK Designworks In 1973, Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to decriminalize the use of marijuana. Nearly fifty years later, eleven other states—including Colorado, Alaska,...
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To binge or not to binge?
How many Friday afternoon office conversations go a little something like this? “What are your plans for the weekend?” “We’re hoping to binge the new season of ‘Ozark.’ We’ve been waiting for this to...
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The case for a social CEO
Influencers dominate today’s social media landscape. Consumers turn to their favorite bloggers, vloggers and online personalities to influence their purchasing decisions on everything from beauty...
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ERA to USA: Protecting a Fragile Future
“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the national, scenic, historic and aesthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the...
View ArticleTuning out security warnings
We get dozens of digital notifications every day. From text messages to calendar reminders, privacy permission requests to software updates, our reactions are near-automatic each time: dismiss, snooze...
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What impacts company culture?
Diana Kyser, DBA ’17, has played nearly every possible role one can in business. Even with jobs like programmer, marketing manager, customer service representative, consultant and COO under her belt,...
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The Water Cooler
Design: SK Designworks / Illustration: Scotty Reifsnyder Whether it’s over coffee or on Zoom, social connections create companies, establish successful partnerships and launch industry-changing...
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Managing risk with reward
Is your company taking enough risks? Managing a company is a challenge. CEOs need to balance short-term profit with long-term innovation, performance with investment, and shareholders’ interests with...
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Mobilizing to end food insecurity
Illustration by Scotty Reifsnyder For many of us, it’s hard to imagine not being able to open up the fridge and grab a snack or have the groceries needed to prepare a healthy and filling meal for our...
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Managing the mental cost of multitasking with mindfulness
Illustration by Scotty Reifsnyder In the past, businesses were made up of workers who dedicated their time to a singular task. However, thanks to technological advancements, employees are now expected...
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Is authenticity all it’s cracked up to be?
People are multifaceted; it’s what makes each person unique from others. Someone could express themselves one way in a certain situation and differently in another. In the workplace, scholars have...
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A case for teaching with stories
Teachers often use real-life examples to make lessons stick in the minds of students. TL Hill, professor of strategic management at the Fox School, was looking for a teaching case that would help...
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The gender roles mirror
How can you research culture without current events creeping into the data? Look at language that goes back to the foundation of communication itself. Amir Shoham, associate professor of finance and...
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Leveraging global business for local good
Over the last several decades, an economic overhaul has changed the way global business interacts with its surroundings, both locally and globally. Multinational Enterprises (MNE) have long shaped...
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The diversity challenge for nonprofit boards
Progress is the force that drives Shawn S. Edwards, DBA ’20, in her desire to help open pathways to diversity at the highest levels of nonprofit organizations. “I often come across individuals who...
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To report or not report? That is the cyberbullying question
We all lived through moments where we have had to intervene. Perhaps it was in response to a child being bullied on the playground. Or maybe it was after we saw a peer being treated unfairly in the...
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What is Big Brother watching?
Earlier this year, in the immediate wake of the storming of the United States Capitol, only a handful of arrests were made. Yet, in the weeks that followed, there were more than 400 additional people...
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What will be popular next?
How do you know what will be popular next? Predicting the future like this has its benefits. A business owner can confirm her supply chain to prepare for a surge in purchases. A public works official...
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From fraud to finance: Lessons from the future of business
In 2017, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a fraud, going as far as to describe any of the company’s employees who were considering trading bitcoin “stupid.” A little more than a year later, JP...
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2021: Now What?
Design: SK Designworks / Illustration: Scotty Reifsnyder Change drives research. Research drives change. As science and research guided us through the COVID-19 pandemic with public health best...
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Unlocking Insights
Numbers are everywhere. We’re constantly generating and searching through enormous amounts of data, and rarely do we recognize how much we really use. Statisticians, on the other hand, are very aware...
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Financial inclusion: Where do we go from here?
As of 2017, about 24.2 million households in the United States—25% of the population—did not have access to basic financial services such as banks and online lending platforms. Some people choose not...
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Zoned out: The battle between business and land regulation
When a business is unable to open in a certain location, it’s not uncommon to anecdotally hear things like, “They wanted to open there, but Walmart blocked them” or “The town just did not want another...
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The right to resist: sanctuary cities & states’ rights
illustration by Scotty Reifsnyder The following article is about Professor Kevin Fandl and his research. Last year, Professor Fandl passed away from health complications. For eight years, he was a...
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From confrontation to collaboration: A movement towards shared sustainability
Illustration by Scotty Reifsnyder In April 1970, the very first Earth Day became the largest single-day protest in American history. Roughly 20 million Americans flooded neighborhood streets to...
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