The Global Classroom

The Global Classroom

With Brexit, NAFTA and the U.S.-China trade war dominating news cycles, it’s easy to focus on the differences between nations, but for nearly 100 international executive MBA students who took part in a recent Freeman School seminar, the biggest takeaway was their...
Using Big Data to Improve Health Care

Using Big Data to Improve Health Care

A great deal is known about patient outcomes, costs and quality of care inside the brick-and-mortar walls of a hospital, but very little is known about what happens when the patient leaves the facility, and that appears to have an equally significant impact on...
A New Approach to an Old Management Problem

A New Approach to an Old Management Problem

When companies fail to achieve organizational goals, company leadership often attributes it to a failure of personnel. If managers could do a better job hiring, training and evaluating employees, the thinking goes, the problem would be solved. Serena Loftus and...
Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Awards, Etc.

Selected Faculty Presentations, Honors, Awards, Etc.

Sherif Ebrahim, professor of practice in management, was a co-recipient of the 2018 Dean’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award is the Freeman School’s highest accolade for undergraduate classroom instruction. Xianjun Geng, professor of management...
Selected Faculty Publications

Selected Faculty Publications

Gus De Franco’s paper “Riding the Blockchain Mania: Public Firms’ Speculative 8-K Disclosures,” co-authored with Assistant Professor Stephanie Cheng, Visiting Assistant Professor Haibo Jiang and PhD student Pengkai Lin, has been accepted for publication in Management...