Image source: We Love Costa Rica Most young auditors recognize when clients try to influence their work, but when those clients are important to the firm’s bottom line, getting auditors to act on that knowledge can be a challenge. By Kris Hoang, Assistant...
Finance professor C. Edward “Ted” Fee focuses his research on the effects of corporate financial policy, but the recently appointed Morton Aldrich Professor of Business has been known to apply that lens to some offbeat subjects. His PhD dissertation looked at how...
Business school conferences typically don’t include research from anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers and military scholars, but “Morality in the Marketplace” was no ordinary conference. The event, which took place at the Freeman School in October 2014,...
Jasmijn Bol ’s paper “Performance Target Revisions in Incentive Contracts: Does Information and Trust Reduce Ratcheting and the Ratchet Effect?” has been accepted for publication in The Accounting Review. The paper was co-authored by Jeremy Lill, a PhD candidate in...
Michael Burke’s paper “Statistical Significance Criteria for the rWG and Average Deviation Interrater Agreement Indices,” co-authored with Kristin Smith- Crowe, Ayala Cohen and Etti Doveh, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Burke...
The U.S. Postal Service has lost $20 billion in the last two years as it struggles to adapt to a fast-changing, increasingly digital business environment. Could the agency help right itself by taking a page from its online competitors? The Freeman School’s Geoff...
