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5 things to know about… summer travel - Jenny Hawkins, PhD, assistant professor of economics
If you’ve wondered the difference one year can make, look no further than the travel industry. The summer of 2020 was marked by quarantines, stay-at-home mandates and other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively putting a pause to travel plans altogether. Now, vaccines are…
Mentorship and Coaching Help Transform Women Leaders
For Audrey Turley, Weatherhead Executive Education’s Leadership Institute for Women in STEM and Manufacturing (LIW) reinforced a principle that she had always intuitively known: relationships are essential for development and flourishing.  Audrey is a senior biocompatibility expert at Nelson…
Peer Coaching Offers Unexpected Benefits in Women’s Leadership Program
We all have a tendency to gravitate toward what is comfortable.  In fact, the more volatile and uncertain our world becomes, the stronger our instinct grows to seek solace in the familiar. But sometimes the things that provide us comfort also block us from making the changes we desire in life. No…
Research: Strategic Service Design Attributes, Customer Experience and Co-Created Service Choice
Manoj Malhotra, Dean of the Weatherhead School Albert J. Weatherhead, III Professor of Management, recently published research in the Production and Operations Management Journal discussing strategic service design attributes based on evidence from hospitals in Florida. Malhotra and his coauthors’…
Research: Mispricing, short-sale constraints and the cross-section of option returns
Lakshmi Shankar Ramachandran, assistant professor of banking and finance, published new research in the Journal of Financial Economics on pricing of options. Shankar and his co-author establish that investors use put options to express their views on overpriced stocks that face severe constraints…
Research: The Curse of Extremes: Generalist Career Experience and CEO Initial Compensation
New research published in the Journal of Management by Simon Peck, associate professor of design and innovation, challenges the assumption that generalist CEO’s—CEO’s who have worked in different organizational areas for a number of different firms—are more valued and should receive higher…
Applications Open for Professional and Leadership Development Program for Mid-Career Women Faculty
The Women Faculty Leadership Development Institute (WFLDI) includes a range ofprograms targeted to support and empower women faculty of all academic ranks in theirprofessional and leadership development journeys. "What's Next?" is targeted to mid-career women faculty (associate or full professors)…
Research: The dimensional structure of transparency
Corinne Coen, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, coauthors new research in the journal Human Relations on transparency as a three-dimensional construct consisting of perceived information disclosure, clarity, and accuracy.  Coen’s research suggests that transparency—defined as the…
Research: The Role of Communication Mode in Auditor-Client Interactions: Insights from Staff Auditors
As remote work increases, so does the availability of differing communication modes such as face-to-face interactions, which have become less common. New research co-authored by Melissa Carlisle in Current Issues in Auditing suggests that under normal circumstances the majority of staff auditors…
Study: Colleges can prevent 96% of COVID-19 infections with masks, distancing, and routine testing
The combination of three COVID-prevention strategies on college campuses—mask-wearing, social distancing, and routine testing—is up to 96% effective in preventing coronavirus infections, according to a new study co-authored by researchers from Case Western Reserve University with partners at…