Leavey Professors Receive Hackworth Grants
Two Professors from the Leavey School of Business have recently received grants for their work from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, according to a press release from the school. The Markkula Center promotes the study of ethics in relation to both personal and professional life, with an emphasis on practical tools for ethical living and action. The grants are funded by an endowment from Michael and Joan Hackworth. Michael Hackworth is well-known for serving CEO and President of Cirrus Logic as well as being an important early investor and philanthropic force in Silicon Valley. Continue reading…
Saïd Announces Equity Crowdfunding Study
Saïd announced in a recent press release that Associate Professor of Business Economics Nir Vulkan has been granted funding from the Kauffman Foundation so that he may study equity crowdfunding, a process where a broad group of investors will put their money behind a startup in return for equity. This industry is worth over £50 million in the UK alone, although very little research has been done into the market dynamics, success of campaigns to attract money and risks associated with the investment. Continue reading…
Cambridge Judge Study Highlights Importance of Innovation in R&D Spending
A new study published at Cambridge Judge’s Centre for Business Research says that a renewed focus on innovative research and development spending by major UK departments would create new export-oriented industries and help re-balance the economy.
In past decades, many vibrant UK technology industries including semiconductors emerged from R&D spending at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and other departments, and future R&D spending should seek to recreate such a pipeline of innovation, says the 65-page report, entitled “Creating markets for things that don’t exist”.
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Kellogg Immersion Trip Shows Faculty Members How to Read Minds
The following article was originally sourced from “How to read a mind,” a news piece that appeared on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
20 Kellogg School of Management faculty members went on a field trip organized by Assistant Professor of Marketing Moran Cerf to talk about the human brain. While visiting Nielsen Holdings, a global information and measurement company, the faculty members discussed a new field of research known as neuromarketing, or “consumer neuroscience.” Continue reading…
Oxford Study Warns Against Internal Cyber-Attacks
In a new Harvard Business Review article, Professor David Upton of Saïd Business School and Professor Sadie Creese of Oxford’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre warn that internal cyber attacks against companies are an increasing threat that costs tens of billions of dollars a year worldwide and ruin companies. Their study found that while many organisations are intensifying their defences against external attack, these widely used safeguards are often ineffective against attacks involving insiders. Such attacks from insiders, be they from employees, suppliers, or other companies legitimately connected to a company’s computer system, pose a more pernicious threat than external attacks.
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