Business School Faculty in the News - February 2004

Below are selected citations of news stories organized by academic department or area, compiled by the Office of Communications. Please submit additional articles or comments to OfficeofCommunications@bus.umich.edu.

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Eugene Imhoff, "Earnings Management (1)," Marketplace Morning Report/Michigan Radio, February 16, 2004
Eugene Imhoff, "Earnings Management (2)," Marketplace Morning Report/Michigan Radio, February 16, 2004
Douglas Skinner, Venky Nagar, "What’s Behind the Buybacks," Business Week, February 16, 2004
Richard Sloan, "Analysts Hype Floats: Study," Australian Financial Review, February 20, 2004

Jim Hines, Jr., "Bush and Kerry agree: Offshore is bad," CNNMoney.com, February 25, 2004
Joel Slemrod, "Your Taxes: Talking Simplicity, Building A Maze," New York Times, February 15, 2004

 Tom Gladwin, "Forum to discuss Earth-friendly businesses: Annual event focuses on finding alternative to global industry," Ann Arbor News, February 24, 2004
Robert Kennedy, "Moving some employment offshore helps U.S.; trying to ‘protect jobs’ will make everyone worse off," Detroit News, February 1, 2004
Ken Lieberthal, "The China Puzzle part 1 of 2," Workforce Management, December 1, 2003
Anuradha Nagarajan, "Internet Use Rising in Trucking," Fleet Owner, February 10, 2004
Anuradha Nagarajan, "More truckers travel Internet superhighway," Refrigerated Transporter, February 10, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, "Face-to-Face: CK Prahalad on co-creating the future," New Zealand Marketing Magazine, February 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Robert Kennedy, Bob Dolan, "India the big topic in B-schools abroad," The Economic Times, February 26, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "Consumers add value too: Book Review: The Future of Competition . . ." Financial Times, February 12, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "The Future of Competition: The Book, the Future of Competition is more a ‘How-Else-to-Think’ Guide . . ." Business Line, February 12, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "The Customer As Collaborator," Business Today, February 29, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "Adding Customers To the Design Team," Business Week, March 1, 2004
Jan Svejnar, "Svejnar Says Czechs Would Be Better-Off with Real Reform—Press," Czech News Agency, February 27, 2004

David Brophy, "Fair share? Venture fund operatures cry foul over the SBA’s to get a greater share of their investment profits . . ." Entrepreneur, January 1, 2004
Adair Morse, Sophie Shive, "Opening U.S. investors’ eyes to foreign options," St. Petersburg Times, February 8, 2004
Adair Morse, Sophie Shive, "Don’t let patriotism crimp your returns," CBS MarketWatch, February 13, 2004
Richard Sloan, "Analysts Hype Floats: Study," Australian Financial Review, February 20, 2004


Donald Grimes, "Republicans in Michigan vent anger: Job losses, war causes of worry," Chicago Tribune, February 5, 2004
Donald Grimes, "Jobless rate falls to 5.6%: Overall outlook brighter . . ." Detroit Free Press, February 7, 2004
Donald Grimes, "With 2 job-counting methods, the truth is hard to ascertain," Detroit Free Press, February 7, 2004
Donald Grimes, "New jobs are out there, but same pay isn’t," Detroit Free Press, February 11, 2004
Donald Grimes, "St. Louis Manufacturers Evolve in Global Market," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 20, 2004
Donald Grimes, "Region experiences shift in occupations: Most work in white-collar jobs," Detroit Free Press, February 27, 2004
Roland Zullo, "Exploiting Wal-Mart’s Workforce Weak Spot," Workforce Management, February 1, 2004

David Lewis, "Historic hydroelectric plant to be restored," Associated Press, February 9, 2004

Claes Fornell/American Customer Satisfaction Index, "Banking on better service: The area's big financial centers redirect their interest," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 5, 2004
Claes Fornell/American Customer Satisfaction Index, "Bankers steal page from industry to boost quality," The Business Journal, December 19, 2003
M.S. Krishnan, "What's Next For India?-Interest in offshore I.T.operations keeps growing, but increased competition . . ." InformationWeek, January 5, 2004
Venkat Ramaswamy, C.K. Prahalad, "Big speech about state, but little hope," Detroit Free Press, January 27, 2004
Venkat Ramaswamy, C.K. Prahalad, "Co-creating Value With Your Customers: How experience-quality management and the role of IT . . ." Optimize, January 1, 2004
Venkat Ramaswamy, C.K. Prahalad, "Contributors: January 2004," Optimize,
January 1, 2004
Venkat Ramaswamy, C.K. Prahalad, "Customer, partner, or both?" InformationWeek, December 8, 2003
Venkat Ramaswamy, C.K. Prahalad, "Expert Voices: Customer Experience Over Products," eWeek.com, December 1, 2003

Wayne Baker, "Detroit’s Digital Divide Not Due To Race," Michigan Technology News, February 19, 2004
Kim Cameron, Jane Dutton, Bob Quinn, Gretchen Spreitzer, "Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: The HBR List," Harvard Business Review, February 2004
Jane Dutton, "People making news," Detroit Free Press, February 11, 2004
Jane Dutton, "People on the move," Detroit News, February 11, 2004
Jane Dutton, "People on the move," Detroit News, February 24, 2004

Noel Tichy, Bob Dolan, "Tom Walsh: U-M wants to spread ethics improvement," Detroit Free Press, February 20, 2004

Noel Tichy, "Man of Mystery," Fast Company, February 2004

Noel Tichy, "Intuit CEO: To Achieve Your Goals, First Define Them," Investor’s Business Daily, February 23, 2004


Robert Kennedy, "Job flight stirs fight to keep work in U.S.: Michigan tech firms say overseas workers improve competitiveness," Detroit News, January 18, 2004
Robert Kennedy"Top-10 US Business School Active in Slovakia," The Slovak Spectator,
January 26, 2004

Theresa Welbourne, "Mastering the art of the survey," ComputerUser.com/eePulse, July 2003
Theresa Welbourne, "HRM Favorites 2003," HR.com, January 2004
Theresa Welbourne, "eePulse, Inc. Study Shows Faith in U.S. Leadership," Great Lakes Journal, January 8, 2004
Theresa Welbourne, "UM Survey Shows Business Leaders Expect Big Growth, Worry About Retaining, Motivating Employees," WJR, January 12, 2004
Theresa Welbourne, "Employment Going UP and Maybe 'Out'?" HR.com, January 14, 2004
Theresa Welbourne, "Venture capital 101: Entrepreneur courses increase," USA Today, January 5, 2004
Theresa Welbourne, "Briefly," Crain's Detroit Business, January 12, 2004

"Executive Life: Business Schools Make a Pitch for Women," New York Times, January 4, 2004
"UPS CEO to lead off forum on future of technology . . ." Ann Arbor News, January 8, 2004
"CEOs Move To Improve Ethics Training: Business Roundtable Joins Forces With Universities," The Washington Post, January 15, 2004
"Two students die in weekend car accident," Michigan Daily, January 20, 2004
"Economic study revealed," Lenawee Connection, January 23, 2004
"Top 10 US schools jostle for position in the premier league," Financial Times, January 26, 2004
"What the Data Shows," Financial Times, January 26, 2004
"Evaluating the class of 2000," Financial Times, January 26, 2004
"Financial Times MBA 2004 rankings: The top 100 full-time global MBA programmes," Financial Times, January 26, 2004
"Financial Times Annual Rankings of MBA Programs - 2004: MBS and Wharton Comparison Data," Financial Times, January 26, 2004