Business School Faculty in the News - January 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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Douglas Skinner, "Credit card rebates, dividends, credit reports can improve finances," Miami Herald, January 20, 2004
Eugene Imhoff, "Briefing: Cooking books, CEO pay are linked," Ann Arbor News, January 16, 2004
Douglas Skinner, "A smart start to 2004: Follow these suggestions to save and earn money in the new year," Miami Herald, January 4, 2004


Jim Hines, Jr., "A taxing battle," The Economist, January 31, 2004
Joel Slemrod
, "Official touts Bush's role in recover: Economist says tax cuts boosted spending," San Francisco Chronicle, January 17, 2004
Joel Slemrod
, "Common Sense, Not Partisanship On Tax Reform," The Washington Post,  January 14, 2004
Joel Slemrod, "The U.S. rich get richer while the rest tread water..." Baltimore Sun, January 4, 2004
Frank Yates, "Out of the Box," Business Standard, January 22, 2004


Ken Lieberthal, "Bush's dire straits over Taiwan," Akron Beacon Journal, January 12, 2004
Ken Lieberthal
, "The challenge of China: Communist country's rapid rise brings peril, promise to Upstate economy," Greenville News, January 11, 2004
Ken Lieberthal
, "Dire Strait: The Risks On Taiwan," The Washington Post, January 8, 2004
Lynn Perry Wooten, "Nurses as implementers of organizational culture," Nursing Economics, November 1, 2003
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "Big speech about state, but little hope," Detroit Free Press, January 27, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "Co-creating Value With Your Customers: How experience-quality management and the role of IT . . ." Optimize, January 1, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy
, "Contributors: January 2004," Optimize, January 1, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy
, "Customer, partner, or both?" InformationWeek, December 8, 2003
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "Expert Voices: Customer Experience Over Products," eWeek.com, December 1, 2003
C.K. Prahalad
, "China Still Gets a Lot More Respect Than India, but It Is a Matter of Time before That Changes," Financial Express, January 30, 2004
C.K. Prahalad
, "Business key to development, PM says," Toronto Star, January 23, 2004
C.K. Prahalad
, "Calling Kumbakonam ..." Business Today, January 18, 2004
C.K. Prahalad
, "India: A Source Of Innovation?" Business Today, January 18, 2004
C.K. Prahalad
, "The worst is over: Techweekly's panel of experts tackles the issues facing Ottawa's tech scene in 2004," Ottawa Citizen, January 8, 2004
C.K. Prahalad
, "No Money, No Problem: Marketing To The Less Affluent Around The World . . ." Sun-Sentinel, January 5, 2004
C.K. Prahalad
, "India's Soybean Farmers Join the Global Village," New York Times, January 1, 2004
C.K. Prahalad, "India can bag a big chunk of 1.2 trillion IT mart," India Abroad, November 14, 2003


Han Kim, "Low-Fare Airlines Decide Frills Maybe Aren't So Bad After All," New York Times, January 7, 2004


Donald Grimes, "New jobs are out there, but same pay isn't: Lower wages, loss of benefits a struggle," Detroit Free Press, January 30, 2004
Donald Grimes
, "Brian Dickerson: Affirmative action debate a good start," Detroit Free Press, January 28, 2004
Donald Grimes
, "Voters put focus on jobs and economy: Bush to detail plans for training tonight," Detroit Free Press, January 20, 2004
Donald Grimes
, "Affirmative Action: Let state's voters decide," Detroit Free Press, January 17, 2004
Donald Grimes
, "Electrolux's Michigan plant to close," United Press International, January 17, 2004
Roland Zullo, "Study links Thompson campaign donations to road contracts," Associated Press, January 13, 2004
Roland Zullo
, "Road Contracts, Campaign Giving Linked: Michigan Study Looked at Thompson Years," Capital Times, January 13, 2004


Tim Fort, "Business ethics institute planned: A group of corporate leaders and universities said the new school would be in Virginia," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 2004
Tim Fort
, "CEOs Move To Improve Ethics Training: Business Roundtable Joins Forces With Universities," The Washington Post, January 15, 2004
Dana Muir
, "Aerospace Corp.: Aerospace board of trustees," Los Angeles Business Journal,  December 22, 2003; also appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology, January 5, 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


Gerald Meyers, "Frank's Nursery CEO resigns," Associated Press, January 22, 2004
Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, "Decorations walk a fine line: Most cubicle dwellers sense that displaying too much offbeat stuff . . ." Chicago Tribune, January 6, 2004
Noel Tichy, "Firm helps fortify business ethics codes: Company creates material based on corporate policies," Detroit News, January 16, 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, "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