Business School Faculty in the News - November 2003

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 umbs-comm@umich.edu.

 

Eugene Imhoff, "FASB eyes new disclosure," CFO, November 2003 
Eugene Imhoff, "Reforming the Big Board," CFO, November 2003
James Wheeler, "Ex-Governor Of Hawaii Questions Use Of Law Firm," New York Times, November 18, 2003
James Wheeler, "Lingle defends decision against suing oil company," Associated Press, November 19, 2003


Joel Slemrod, "Economic View: As Stimulus, Tax Cuts May Soon Go Awry," New York Times, November 30, 2003

 

M.S. Krishnan, "Business Advantages Flow With XML: Web services are smoothing the way for better business decisions . . ." Optimize, November 1, 2003


Ken Lieberthal, "American auto parts in high demand from Chinese auto makers," National Public Radio/Marketplace, November 12, 2003
Ken Lieberthal, "Only automakers could go to China," Michigan Radio, November 12, 2003
Ken Lieberthal, "After Year of Crises, Chinese Premier Faces Trade War . . ." The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2003
Linda Lim, "Revaluing yuan cuts both ways," New Straits Times, November 2, 2003
C.K. Prahalad, "Retail Revolution Has Begun in India: Banga," Indian Express, November 11, 2003
C.K. Prahalad, "What Is the Word-of-Mouth in the AD World, Now?" Business Line, November 18, 2003
C.K. Prahalad, "The Consumer Rules," Business Line, November 20, 2003
C.K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy, "Customer as CEO," Time, November 24, 2003


Wayne Brockbank, "Growing numbers of HR professionals influence business direction," Employee Benefit News, November 1, 2003


Clemens Sialm, Lu Zheng, "Focused Funds Go Further With Fewer Diversify Or Worsify: Holding more securities . . ." Investors' Business Daily, November 25, 2003
Clemens Sialm, Lu Zheng, "Fund Track," Wall Street Journal Abstracts, November 25, 2003
Clemens Sialm, Lu Zheng, "Money Still Pours Into Stock Funds . . ." The Wall Street Journal Online, November 26, 2003
Tyler Shumway, "Yes, Virginia, you can beat the market . . ." Journal of Financial Planning, September 2003


George Fulton, "Michigan's Sluggish Economy Will Pick Up Speed In 2004-05," WJR's MiTechnews.com, November 21, 2003
George Fulton, "University of Michigan economists predict turnaround next year," Associated Press, November 21, 2003
George Fulton, "Manufacturing may rally: Job outlook in ailing sector may turn around soon, economist says," Ann Arbor News, November 21, 2003
George Fulton, "Factories to hum with jobs for Michiganders," Detroit Free Press, November 22, 2003
George Fulton, "Better Days Ahead? . . ." Detroit Free Press, November 30, 2003
George Fulton, "A figure of dispute: Is state's job decline 23.5% of U.S. total?" Crain's Detroit Business, December 1, 2003
Donald Grimes, "Will 'Made in USA' Fade Away? . . ." Fortune, November 24, 2003
Roland Zullo, "Stakes high for Borders, strikers as talks resume," Ann Arbor News, November 30, 2003


David Lewis, "Battle over DaimlerChrysler deal," The International Herald Tribune, November 28, 2003


Aradhna Krishna, "Retailers hoping for better year aim to lure holiday shoppers early," Associated Press, November 27, 2003
Venkat Ramaswamy, C.K. Prahalad, "Customer as CEO," Time, November 24, 2003
Claes Fornell/American Customer Satisfaction Index, "City bank wars escalate: BofA-Fleet deal will give giants a run for their money," Crain's New York Business, November 3, 2003
Claes Fornell/American Customer Satisfaction Index, "Web Progress," Information Week, November 10, 2003
Claes Fornell/American Customer Satisfaction Index, "Mortgage lenders rate low on customer service," USA Today, November 24, 2003
Claes Fornell/American Customer Satisfaction Index, "E-Shoppers Are Now E-Spenders," BusinessWeek Online, November 25, 2003
Claes Fornell/American Customer Satisfaction Index, "Domino's returns to fast food's fast lane . . ." Financial Times, November 26, 2003


Wayne Baker, "U-M studies Arab-American issues . . ." Detroit News, November 7, 2003
Wayne Baker, "A Sketch of Arab-Americans: Survey Touches Off Disputes Over Who Should Study Whom," New York Times, November 15, 2003
Kim Cameron, "Virtuousness pays corporate dividends in innovation and profits," Vancouver Sun, November 15, 2003
Jane Dutton, "Study seeks best treatment approach for RSI-causing arthritis," CTDNEWS Workplace Solutions for Repetitive Stress Injuries, November 19, 2003
Gerry Meyers, "DC merger anniversary," Michigan Radio, November 12, 2003
Gerry Meyers, "Kerkorian, DaimlerChrysler prepare to square off over 1998 merger," Associated Press, November 30, 2003
Gerry Meyers, "University of Michigan's admissions lagging under new student applications system," Associated Press, November 30, 2003
Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, "Managing conflict: Focus on improving workplace culture," HR Reporter, November 14, 2003
Noel Tichy, "In search of leaders: Whatever their strategy, CEOs are convinced that grooming top leaders . . ." Chief Executive, October 1, 2003


Anna Meyendorff, "Local Comment: If the Rouge goes Russian, economic benefits will roll," Detroit Free Press, November 6, 2003
Anna Meyendorff, "WTO steel tariff ruling," Michigan Radio, November 11, 2003
"Jara-WTO and Democracy," Michigan Radio, November 6, 2003


Theresa Welbourne, "Survey Reveals Low Morale among Roanoke Police, Citing Poor Pay, Leadership . . ." Roanoke Times & World News, November 15, 2003


Peter Lenk, "Bayesian semiparametric density estimation and model verification using a logistic—Gaussian process," Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics, September 1, 2003
"Firms target businesswomen: Group encourages more females to pursue MBA," Detroit News, November 2, 2003
"Russell Epker, Berkshire Partners," Private Equity Week, November 10, 2003
"Schools Get Creative to Hike Minority M.B.A. Enrollment," CareerJournal.com (Wall Street Journal Online), November 5, 2003
"Taubman jumps back into civic, business life . . ." Detroit News, November 6, 2003
"Freed mall developer looks back, forward . . ." Detroit Free Press, November 7, 2003
"Taubman defends his innocence after release," Michigan Daily, November 7, 2003
"Taubman expounds on real estate trends . . ." Ann Arbor News, November 7, 2003
"UM center wins award for economic development," Crain's Detroit Business, November 10, 2003
"Wanted: Women MBAs," Broward Daily Business Review, November 10, 2003; also appeared in Palm Beach Daily Business Review, November 10, 2003
"Best Practices: Entering the EMBA Market: University of Michigan," Graduate Management News, November/December 2002