As informed traders, short sellers can help spot concerns with mergers and acquisitions and business-to-business relationships. Recent research led by Professor and Luck Eminent Scholar Brian Connelly examined the important role of short sellers in mergers and...
An inside look at transparent, or secret, pay practices. Are organizations better off to keep salaries in the dark or be transparent? That depends. Jaclyn Koopmann, associate professor in Management at the Harbert College, co-authored “Best Not to Know: Pay...
Though sales remain best associated with traditional media, social media is tilting buyers’ perceptions from one manufacturer to another. Companies in the U.S. are expected to spend more than $50 billion in social media advertising in 2021. But are they utilizing this...
Harbert College researchers explore means to keep proprietary information secret along the blockchain without distorting transparency. Four Harbert College researchers believe blockchain can simultaneously help organizations preserve security and increase...
When a CEO is dismissed, peer CEOs often turn fiscally conservative, dialing back on research and development, acquisitions and capital expenditures. Firing a CEO can change the strategic decision-making of CEOs at competing firms. Two Harbert...
Managers should consider their own conduct. Employee insubordination is often a reaction to abusive supervision and/or non-productive managers, according to two Harbert researchers. Jeremy Mackey, assistant professor of management, and Katie Crawford, a doctoral...
