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.
Marketing experts say the Black Friday shopping tradition could be very different in the future after the impacts of the pandemic. Jeff Shulman, professor of finance at the UW, is interviewed.
With a second wave of business shutdowns and other restrictions barely a day from taking effect, business leaders and economists were bracing for new economic shocks with only modest prospects for significant government aid. And some of the worst pain will strike sectors already hard hit during the pandemic. Thomas Gilbert, associate professor of finance at the UW, is quoted.
The online MBA program at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business moved up to a No. 1 finish in the fourth annual ranking of the world’s best online MBA programs from PoetsandQuants.com. The online program of the UW’s Foster School of Business is ranked No. 9.
There are countless products to buy, but only some hit a vaulted status of “must have.” What propels a single item into being a sensation? Hema Yoganarasimhan, associate professor of marketing at the UW, is quoted.
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.
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