Business News
Expert: State budget, pension woes tied to big gambling giveaways
Published Date:May 9, 2013
Budget and pension woes in the state of Illinois are inextricably linked to giveaways to Big Gambling, says emeritus professor John Kindt, a leading national gambling critic.
Published Date: May 9, 2013
Family-friendly tenure policies result in salary penalty for professors
Published Date:April 29, 2013
Well-intentioned policies to make achieving tenure more family-friendly actually have negative consequences for the salaries of college faculty, says a study co-written by University of Illinois labor and employment relations professor Amit Kramer.
Published Date: April 29, 2013
Research: Common component strategy could improve profits
Published Date:April 22, 2013
Manufacturing using common components can actually reduce product line cannibalization, a finding that could allow firms to improve profits, says research by Dilip Chhajed and Yunchuan Frank Liu, professors of business administration at Illinois.
Published Date: April 22, 2013
Personalized leadership key for keeping globally distributed teams on task
Published Date:April 18, 2013
Ravi S. Gajendran, a professor of business administration at Illinois, says companies with employees located around the globe can mitigate their isolation by taking a relationship-based approach in the form of a leader-member exchange.
Published Date: April 18, 2013
'Social capital' key to workers' success on the job, study says
Published Date:April 9, 2013
The quality of the social relationships that newly hired people develop with other employees in their work groups is critical to newcomers job satisfaction, learning their responsibilities and their ability to fit in to the workplace culture, a new study suggests.
Published Date: April 9, 2013
