When: July 11 – July 13, 2017 Where: The School of Management, Riverfront Center The Summer Entrepreneurship Institute will assist participants with an interest in business and entrepreneurship decide if this is a route they would like to pursue in college. The program will engage students in a series of life changing sessions, allowing […]
A UM-Flint professor is exploring what drives people to overwork and how it may influence their private lives. This research may help employers create a healthy and productive workplace atmosphere. Associate Professor of Management Gregory Laurence will highlight these questions of work-family conflict and dynamics at an international conference later this month in Japan. […]
Greg Laurence, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management, focuses his research around employee health and well-being, with interests such as workspace personalization, workaholism, and work-family conflict and how these phenomena intersect with the experience of stress at work. Recently appearing in Real Simple magazine, The Well Workplace is an article that focuses on tips for making […]
Syagnik (“Sy”) Banerjee, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing (Article by Kim Laux) Last year, the United Nations released a startling statistic: Six of the world’s seven billion people have a mobile phone; only 4.5 billion have access to a toilet. Mobile phones are everywhere (including bathrooms). Their potential to conveniently connect you to anyone, anywhere […]
Brian Blume, Ph. D. Professor of Org. Behavior & HR Management (Article by Kim Laux) When commenting on the results of a study that identified the greatest fears among Americans, comedian Jerry Seinfeld joked that “at a funeral, more people would rather be the guy in the coffin than the one delivering the eulogy.” Fear […]
Erin Cavusgil, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing (Article by Kim Laux) A business professional’s ability to recognize and respond to the forces at work in the world around you can lead to unprecedented success or an “out of business” sign on your door. In the article, “A Perspective on Destruction Regeneration in International Marketing,” published […]
Yener Kandogan, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Professor of International Business (Article by Kim Laux) While international trade and investment play critical roles within specific companies, their effects can be much greater—in some cases affecting entire markets. In his article, “The effect of foreign trade and investment liberalization on spatial concentration of economic activity,” accepted for […]
Greg Laurence, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Management (Article by Kim Laux) Feeling uninspired or emotionally exhausted at work lately? Maybe it’s because your workspace doesn’t have the right amount of “you” in it. According to research conducted by Gregory A. Laurence, Ph.D., assistant professor of management at UM-Flint, the items we use to decorate our workspace […]
Tom Hemphill, SOM Associate Professor of Strategy, Innovation, and Public Policy, provides perspective about the future of U.S. Manufacturing for the U.S. Chamber Emerging Issues website. Article
Over the past seven years, Sy Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Mobile Interactive Marketing, has been researching exact details on how the location freedom of mobile is affecting consumer behavior – and what that means for marketers. This is not theoretical discussions that ad agency execs have on a conference panel. This is what is really happening. […]