2018
Air pollution exacts a serious psychological and economic toll in the workplace
Featuring Ryan Fehr
Dealing with an abusive supervisor? Change the power dynamic
Featuring Elijah Wee
Distilling the wisdom from 100 years of research on voluntary job turnover
Featuring Thomas William Lee
Feelings of unfair treatment trigger the worst in narcissistic leaders
Featuring Ryan Fehr
Firms tend to imitate competitors led by charismatic—not narcissistic—CEOs
Featuring Abhinav Gupta
2017
Cultivating gratitude in the workplace can be good for the bottom line
Featuring Ryan Fehr
Demonstrative passion is paramount to earning new venture investment via crowdfunding
Featuring Suresh Kotha and Xiao-Ping Chen
Meaningful work can be productive and satisfying—or it can lead to burnout
Featuring Kira Schabram
New book examines what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in China
Featuring Xiao-Ping Chen
The empirical guide to greater government efficiency
Featuring Thomas William Lee
2016
A company’s political ideology predicts its commitment to social responsibility
Featuring Abhinav Gupta
Coercing employees to be “good soldiers” can trigger deviant behaviors
Featuring Scott J. Reynolds
Deciphering our decisions to voice ideas and opinions in a group
Featuring Xiao-Ping Chen
How and why (some) accelerators expedite startup success
Featuring Benjamin Hallen
Political ideology of corporate boards influences CEO compensation
Featuring Abhinav Gupta
Quality sleep is essential to inspire—and to be inspired
Featuring Christopher M. Barnes
2015
Chen named fellow of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Featuring Xiao-Ping Chen
Christmas cheer? The hidden toll of friendly customer service
Featuring Ryan Fehr and Scott J. Reynolds
Foster research symposium sparks 13 years of top scholarship in tech entrepreneurship
Featuring Benjamin Hallen
Hunger drives unethical acts, but only in the quest for food
Featuring Scott J. Reynolds
Lee honored for career achievement by Academy of Management HR Division
Featuring Thomas William Lee
Reason, not disruption, is the most effective means of growing a social movement
Featuring Abhinav Gupta
The unburdening lightness of forgiving
Featuring Ryan Fehr
Venture capital investors with competing interests can inhibit innovation
Featuring Benjamin Hallen and Emily Cox Pahnke
When are you most vulnerable to unethical behavior? Check your chronotype
Featuring Christopher M. Barnes
2014
Enhancing stakeholder happiness: A new corporate objective for a new era?
Featuring Thomas Jones
Entrepreneurs, like teenagers, need a guiding mother
Featuring Benjamin Hallen
Foster Faculty receive international recognition for superior research
Featuring Benjamin Hallen, Christopher Hrdlicka, Christopher M. Barnes, David Burgstahler, Hema Yoganarasimhan, Robert W. Palmatier, Terence Mitchell, Thomas Gilbert, Thomas Jones, and Thomas William Lee
Foster faculty recommend favorite books on macroeconomic trends
Featuring Debra Glassman, Edward Rice, Jonathan M. Karpoff, Kevin Steensma, Philip Bond, Richard S. McPherson, Robert Higgins, Stephan Siegel, Suresh Kotha, Thomas Gilbert, and Thomas Jones
Foster School continues run of stellar faculty hires in every department
Featuring Amin Sayedi, Benjamin Hallen, Florian Schulz, Hema Yoganarasimhan, Lea Dunn, Phillip Quinn, and Terrence Blackburne
Local college hoops recruits tend to perform better, provided the coach stays
Featuring Thomas William Lee
Lost sleep takes a serious toll on performance in the workplace
Featuring Christopher M. Barnes
Mean boss? Might be due to a bad night’s sleep
Featuring Christopher M. Barnes
Mental fatigue doesn’t always make us more likely to act unethically
Featuring Xiao-Ping Chen
Night-time smartphone work drains employee effectiveness in the morning
Featuring Christopher M. Barnes
The Foster Why
Featuring Ann Schlosser, Bruce Avolio, Christina Ting Fong, Christopher M. Barnes, Jeffrey D. Shulman, Mark Forehand, Michael Johnson, Natalie Mizik, Nidhi Agrawal, Richard Yalch, Robert W. Palmatier, Ryan Fehr, Scott J. Reynolds, Shailendra Pratap Jain, Suresh Kotha, and Xiao-Ping Chen
The Year in Research: 2013-14
Featuring Asher Curtis, Christopher Hrdlicka, Christopher M. Barnes, Jarrad Harford, Jonathan Z. Zhang, Mark Forehand, Nidhi Agrawal, Ran Duchin, Ryan Fehr, Scott J. Reynolds, Shailendra Pratap Jain, Terence Mitchell, Thomas Gilbert, Thomas Jones, and Xiao-Ping Chen
Working flextime? Bosses prefer early birds to night owls
Featuring Christopher M. Barnes and Ryan Fehr
Workplace courage: what makes people act?
Featuring Terence Mitchell
2013
Army Research Institute re-ups Foster School leadership development study
Featuring Bruce Avolio
Dr. Bruce J. Avolio appointed as University of Washington Chair in Business Strategic Leadership
Featuring Bruce Avolio
Job satisfaction, over time and in context, best predicts voluntary turnover
Featuring Terence Mitchell
Modeling ethical culture: trickle-down management isn’t enough
Featuring Bruce Avolio
Paper cites Associate Dean Lee as the exemplary “academic decathlete”
Featuring Thomas William Lee
Richard Nolan’s novel twist on the case study method has a sequel
Featuring Richard L. Nolan
2012
Corporate venture capital comes with strings attached, for better or worse
Featuring Kevin Steensma
Humility is a key to high performance and effective leadership
Featuring Michael Johnson and Terence Mitchell
Master Class: Foster School amplified by nine new faculty members
Featuring Asher Curtis, David G. Sirmon, Foad Iravani, Mark Westerfield, Michael R. Wagner, Natalie Mizik, Ran Duchin, Sarah McVay, and Tracey Seslen
Moral compass can shift depending on organizational role, expectations
Featuring Scott J. Reynolds
Shevlin named American Accounting Association’s outstanding educator
Featuring Thomas William Lee
2011
Corporate knowledge spillovers can benefit the original innovators
Featuring Kevin Steensma
Fong wins University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award
Featuring Christina Ting Fong
Mitchell wins Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award
Featuring Terence Mitchell
Motivational cultural intelligence can enhance the bottom line
Featuring Xiao-Ping Chen
Want to retain high-value employees? Empower autonomy
Featuring Thomas William Lee
Workplace autonomy fosters passion, passion fosters creativity
Featuring Xiao-Ping Chen