The faculty, students, alumni and staff of the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business are in the news on a regular basis. From feature stories to faculty quotes, find a taste of recent media coverage below.
Plenty of offices will be empty until well into 2021, so there’s no time like the present to seek feedback from the boss and brush up on your skills. Elizabeth Umphress, professor of management at the UW, is quoted.
Even as fewer Washingtonians filed for unemployment last week, experts warned that preelection politics could hold up much needed federal funds for the hundreds of thousands of state residents already left jobless by COVID-19. Debra Glassman, principal lecturer of business at the UW, is interviewed.
Amazon’s decision to allow many employees to work from home until next summer is having dramatically different effects on two Puget Sound cities – Seattle and Kent. Jeff Shulman, professor of finance at the UW, is interviewed.
During the pandemic, the amount of screen time for many people working and learning from home as well as binge-watching TV has sharply increased. New research finds that wearing blue-light glasses just before sleeping can lead to a better night’s sleep and contribute to a better day’s work to follow. Christopher Barnes, associate professor of management at the UW, and Wei Jee Ong, a doctoral student in business at the UW, are mentioned.
Seattle data storage startup Qumulo added Elissa Fink, an adjunct professor of business at the UW, to its board of directors.
As many white-collar employers extend into next year the work-from-home policies they instituted in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a vast amount of vertical space in downtown Seattle is leased but empty. It’s not clear when workers might begin trickling back into that space or what could become of it in the meantime. Jeff Shulman, professor of finance at the UW, is quoted.
It’s every quant’s nightmare: Trades that look good on paper break down in the real world. And in the $1 trillion business of smart-beta investing, it’s happening on an industrial scale. Yang Song, assistant professor of business at the UW, is referenced.
Two powerhouse companies split their stock Monday: Apple and Tesla increased the number of shares each investor now owns, though the value of each share has decreased. Philip Bond, professor of finance and business economics at the UW, is quoted.
Jeff Wilke, the flannel-wearing CEO of Amazon’s vast consumer business, was viewed as the logical successor to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. So when Wilke last week announced his plans to retire in the first quarter of next year — an unexpected move that caught many Amazon watchers off guard — we naturally wondered: Who is next in line? Bruce Avolio, professor of management at the UW, is quoted.
In December, UW football head coach Chris Petersen announced that he was stepping down. Now, he’s landed himself a new job as the Fritzky Chair in Leadership at UW’s Foster School of Business.
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