Research News

Pittsburgh Pirates Executives To Discuss Impact Of Economy On Major League Baseball

The Center for Sports Business & Research at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business is hosting two executives from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Nov. 14 for a discussion on the effect of the struggling economy on Major League Baseball.

Research Suggests Stock Market Pessimism At Root Of Financial Crisis

While the stock market is generally believed to be merely a barometer of economic health, new research co-authored by a professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business finds that the pessimism in our stock markets may actually be the cause of our struggling economy, rather than just an indicator of it.

Conference To Honor Smeal Professor's Classic Strategic Management Book

Cardiff University in Great Britain is holding a conference next month to mark the 30th anniversary of a seminal book in the management discipline co-authored by Charles Snow, Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Smeal Dean To Visit India

The dean of Penn State's Smeal College of Business will visit India this month to meet with some of the country's leaders in government, business, and education to explore partnerships between Smeal and Indian universities and discuss the growing importance of economic relations between the United States and India.

Smeal Faculty In The News On The Financial Crisis

Smeal College of Business faculty members are being called on by the local and national media to offer their expertise on the current financial crisis.

Op-Ed: The Enronization Of The Banking Industry

The ashes of Enron are not a decade old, but we have forgotten the sources of this debris. Instead of sweeping out the rubbish, we cover it up and are surprised to encounter a growing trash pile. Yesterday it was Enron and WorldCom; today it is the banking sector. Who will it be tomorrow—the federal government?

Lesson From 1979: Politics Prevail Over Accounting Data In Federal Bailout Decisions

With lawmakers on both sides of the aisle blaming each other for the country's current financial woes, it's possible that the politics of job loss, election concerns, and philosophical ideas about American economics are weighing more heavily than hard accounting data on the decision to bail out Wall Street banks. Such was the case in the 1979 bailout of Chrysler, according to research from Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Fourteen New Faculty Members Join Smeal

Penn State's Smeal College of Business welcomes 14 new faculty members to the college for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Smeal Faculty Member Co-Authors Book On How To Cope With Nasty Coworkers

Dulin Clark and Robert Orndorff want to make the workplace a much happier and fulfilling place to go, and they think they have the problem solved with their new book, The PITA Principle: How to Work With and Avoid Becoming a Pain in the Ass.

Online Network Connects Entrepreneurs And Economic Development Orgs.

Penn State has a launched a new online network to connect Pennsylvania entrepreneurs with the collective intelligence of all of the state's regional economic development centers to help tackle the questions associated with starting and running a business.

Center For Digital Transformation Research Forum To Examine 'Quiet Revolutions'

The Center for Digital Transformation at Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host its semiannual research forum in September 2008 to examine "quiet revolutions"—technologies that are altering major market segments yet receive little attention in the popular media.

Smeal Professors Pen Eighth Edition Of Supply Chain Textbook

South-Western Cengage Learning has published the eighth edition of Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective, a textbook coauthored by five supply chain academics, including two professors at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Research: To Win In Baseball And Business, Spend More On Pitchers

Major League Baseball teams with more highly skilled and experienced pitchers and catchers fare better than those with equally skilled and experienced position players, according to a new report coauthored by a professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. The study suggests that baseball teams—and teams, in general—could do better by allocating more resources to their strategically core roles.

Lilien Named Inaugural Fellow Of INFORMS Society for Marketing Science

The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) has named Gary Lilien, Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, as one of 10 recipients of its inaugural ISMS Fellow Award.

Center For Sports Business & Research Announces New Board, Inaugural Meeting

The Center for Sports Business & Research, which launched in January at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has formed a new advisory board consisting of leading industry experts from sports finance, management, and marketing. The new board will hold its first meeting on June 25 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

U.S. Navy Names Executive Education Alumnus 'Logistician Of The Year'

The U.S. Navy has awarded its 2007 Military Logistician of the Year honor to an alumnus of the Marine Corps Logistics Education Program (MCLEP), a series of courses for military and Defense Department logisticians led jointly for the past 10 years by Penn State Executive Programs and the Center for Supply Chain Research at the Smeal College of Business.

Hambrick Earns Academy Of Management's Highest Research Honor

Donald C. Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Scholarly Contributions to Management Award from the Academy of Management, the leading professional organization for scholars in the field of management and organization.

Study: Smeal Real Estate Faculty Ranks Among Top Ten In Published Research

Penn State's Smeal College of Business ranks as the fourth most-published real estate department in the world and two Smeal faculty members are among the top ten most-productive real estate academics worldwide, according to a report in the Journal of Real Estate Research based on publications in leading real estate journals.

OEM Remanufacturing Round Table Meets At Smeal

Top managers from Alcatel-Lucent, Bosch Tool, Caterpillar, Cummins, GE Transportation and Xerox, all OEMs that engage in product recovery and remanufacturing , met May 1 and 2 at a round table held at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Report: Penn State Among Top Universities For Tech Entrepreneurs

A new report from The Kauffman Foundation lists Penn State as one of the top ten universities graduating founders of technology companies.