Eli Broad College Of Business Podcasts
PODCAST: Fred Morgeson on BusinessWeek ranking flaws
Frederick P. Morgeson, a professor of Management and Valade Research Scholar, recently critically examined BusinessWeek’s full-time MBA rankings and the challenges business schools face to improve their position in the rankings.
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PODCAST: ‘Soft skills’ of managers drive firms’ international expansion
When all businesses are at the mercy of increasingly tough competition in the global marketplace, what makes professional service firms choose to export and ultimately expand successfully beyond their own borders? According to Michigan State University researcher David A. Griffith and his co-authors, it is the attitudes and “soft skills” that certain managers possess that allow their firm to successfully expand internationally.
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After decades of research, Sollenberger says, ‘join a credit union’
Harold Sollenberger, professor in the Broad School's Accounting and Information Systems Department, talks about his forty years of teaching accounting and research. Listen to his observations of subjects as wide-ranging as the high quality of today’s students “who want everything, snappy quick,” and his solidly optimistic conclusions from studying credit union capitalization data.
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PODCAST: Broad Expert Link: Gerry McNamara
Stock market rewards firms of execs who buy early, punishes later buyers who yield to pressure - Associate Professor of Management Gerry McNamara recently examined why "early movers" in a merger wave typically do better financially than those who wait and jump on the "bandwagon" at the end of a merger wave.
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Broad Expert Link: Morgeson examines teamwork issues
In this monthly feature highlighting faculty expert knowledge relating to current business news, Frederick Morgeson, Valade Research Scholar and professor of Management at the Broad School, talks about the issues associated with the rise in work being structured around teams.
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PODCAST:Broad Expert Link: Nancy Lankton
Lankton finds that enjoyment affects client expectations in e-health services - Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Systems Nancy Lankton examined the factors that might increase clients’ use of e-health services and found that enjoyment in using the Internet was the predominant factor in client expectations, which ultimately influenced their satisfaction.
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Future accountants,
IT professionals need more
than technical competency
Sanjay Gupta, the new chair of the Broad School’s Accounting and Information Systems Department and the Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor in Accounting, explains that new regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley give professionals in both accounting and in information systems greater responsibility in assuring the internal integrity of business reporting systems. He shares his insights about how that affects the preparation of Broad School students.
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PODCAST:Broad Expert Link: David Closs
Risk management in the supply chain
In this monthly feature highlighting faculty expert knowledge relating to current business news, David Closs, the John H. McConnell Chair in Business Administration and a professor of Supply Chain Management, talks about risk management in the global supply chain and why the Broad School’s supply chain management department is so strong.
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Broad Expert Link:
Cavusgil on marketing in the global economy
In this monthly feature highlighting faculty expert knowledge relating to current news, S. Tamer Cavusgil, the John W. Byington Endowed Chair in Global Marketing, explores the imperative to engage in global marketing, as well as some of the research tools and other resources companies can use to facilitate their participation in international business.
Key among these decision-making tools is his Emerging Markets Potential Index (EMPI).
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Sambamurthy says CIOs will soon work more like CEOs
Vallabh Sambamurthy, Eli Broad Professor of Information Technology in the Broad School’s Accounting and Information Systems Department, discusses how today’s CIOs (chief information officers) are becoming much more integral to the success of their organizations and will be expected to take on increasingly demanding leadership roles in the near future.
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Broad Expert Link: Ken Boyer
Critical issues in Internet retailing
In this monthly feature highlighting faculty expert knowledge relating to current business news, Professor of Marketing & Supply Chain Management Ken Boyer discusses critical issues in Internet retailing… and you can even listen to it while you’re buying stuff online.
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