From the comfort of a dorm room or coffee shop, students today can access the collective holdings of thousands of libraries, but that abundance of information, paradoxically, can be a problem. “Online research has made it easier to do research, but I think it also...
By Serena Loftus, assistant professor of accounting Companies invest millions of dollars in developing performance management systems, yet managers and employees continue to be frustrated by performance evaluations they perceive to be ineffective. A 2005 survey by...
The Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has awarded eight career-development grants as part of the newly launched Lepage Faculty Fellows program. The grants, which support faculty engaged in research, teaching or commercialization efforts in...
Jasmijn Bol’s paper “The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Auditor Expertise and Human Capital Development,” co-authored with Cassandra Estep, Frank Moers and Mark Peecher, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Accounting Research. Bol is the...
More and more innovators are turning to platforms like Kickstarter to support their new products or services, but what does it take to run a successful crowdfunding campaign? Two new studies from professors at the Freeman School offer fresh insights for startups and...
Businesses have long recognized the importance of skills such as teamwork, communication, self-management and the ability to prioritize tasks, but previous research suggested that these and other hard-to-teach skills — referred to by scholars as tacit knowledge — were...
