Their confidence high, average investors still lose out consistently to the professionals, Cornell study finds. Theory aside, efficient markets fail to protect the "little guy."
John O. McClain, professor of production and quantitative analysis at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named the president of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.
Prestige and worldwide attention, in addition to a desire to increase sales, may be a chief reason to advertise during the Super Bowl, according to a Cornell professor. Douglas M. Stayman, associate professor of marketing at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
International M&A, Joint Ventures and Beyond: Doing the Deal -- the first U.S. book dealing exclusively with cross-border deals -- is set to be published by John Wiley & Sons on Nov. 28.
Pierre Pestieau, professor of economics at the University of Lige in Belgium, will present the 1997 Einaudi Lecture Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White Houseat Cornell.
Robert J. Swieringa, a professor in the practice of accounting at the School of Management at Yale University and a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has been named the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Leaders of the international trend toward "greener" corporations will speak in an eight-part seminar series at Cornell titled "Industrial Ecology: Connecting Business and the Environment." The seminar series began Feb. 14 with a presentation by Andrea Farrell, chair of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.
Work-sharing, a workplace management approach used primarily in the auto- and apparel-manufacturing industries, may not be suitable for all types of employees, finds an ongoing Cornell study.
Cornell alumni will revisit their alma mater the weekend of Sept. 20-22 for Homecoming 1996, the university's annual fall celebration featuring educational, athletic and social events for all members of the Cornell community.
