This RSS news feed from uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 40 in the Business category. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByCategoryName&categoryName=Business&numToShow=40 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2009 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:44:50 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Energy experts from the University of Washington want to help local businesses cut their utility bills. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45244 Business Technology Rachel Tompa (rtompa@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45244 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:29:46 GMT A report on the log truck industry just delivered to the state legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43951 Business Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Kathy Barnard (kbarnard@wsu.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43951 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:48:42 GMT According to research conducted at the University of Washington, manufacturing firms can increase shareholder value by transitioning to services, but there are some important caveats. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43621 Business Andrew Krueger (krueger6@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43621 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:47:37 GMT Hanson Hosein, a professor of communication, recorded small-businesses' efforts to regenerate in the city. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43447 Arts and Humanities Business Politics and Government Catherine O'Donnell (cath2@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43447 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:00:40 GMT Inexperienced investors can negatively affect their investment results by using "unfiltered" information from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, according to research conducted at the University of Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42815 Business Andrew Krueger (krueger6@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42815 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:25:19 GMT President Mark Emmert and UW Computer Science & Engineering host Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on April 25 for the final stop of his six-university tour, as Gates transitions from Microsoft to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41168 Campus Business Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41168 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:26:30 GMT New research on international joint ventures in China demonstrates the complexity of multilevel trust and warns that some types of trust can lead to negative outcomes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40704 Business Andrew Krueger (krueger6@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40704 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:23:29 GMT Minority small-business owners in Washington voiced increased optimism about their prospects-even amidst the threat of recession-during the last half of 2007. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40120 Business Andrew Krueger (krueger6@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40120 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:00:57 GMT Let the seller beware: while relationship marketing programs have traditionally been perceived as a way to improve a company's financial performance, a new study shows they can actually be a double-edged sword. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37790 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37790 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:46:06 GMT Moral idenity may motivate behavior, but accurate ethical judgments are needed to set that behavior in the right direction, according to researchers who study business ethics. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37590 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37590 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:20:15 GMT The Foster Foundation, longtime supporters of the UW, have pledged $50 million to the Business School, which will be named the Michael G. Foster School of Business. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36464 Campus Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36464 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:18:50 GMT Companies that network and form strategic alliances are more creative and develop more patented inventions than those that don't. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36131 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36131 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:16:59 GMT The scars created by domestic violence persist long after the bruises have healed, leaving some adolescent mothers psychologically distressed and increasing their chances of being unemployed, according to a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35107 Social Science Business Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35107 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:32:07 GMT Chief executive officers often pursue acquistions regardless of risk or potential outcome because they know their salaries will increase substantially, leaving shareholders to take the financial hit. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34297 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34297 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:06:47 GMT Ports could use their cranes to move goods more quickly without investing in any new equipment. A system called double cycling would minimize empty return trips - what taxi drivers and long-haul truckers call "deadheading" - by the massive cranes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=33967 Science Technology Business Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=33967 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:29:00 GMT Minority small-business owners in Washington state are, much like entrepreneurs across the country, confident about their abilities to succeed despite the fact that fewer than one-third of them feel that the state's business climate is supportive. Their overall confidence level, a measure of how positively they view future business success, is 56 out of a possible 100 points. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32901 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32901 Thu, 10 May 2007 15:57:09 GMT The Business School's Global Business Case Competition welcomes students from around the globe for some friendly but heated rivalry. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32040 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32040 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:30:34 GMT Computers, cell phones and other electronics can't keep shrinking in size without radical changes to their design. Finding novel semiconductor materials is the first goal of the new Micron Laboratory for Combinatorial Materials Exploration. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31333 Technology Business Science Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31333 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:02:00 GMT The University of Washington has joined 26 universities in a Department of Energy-sponsored program to reduce electricity use in manufacturing plants. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31266 Technology Business Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31266 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:54:51 GMT Why do workers voluntarily quit their jobs? What kinds of things can employers do to help keep their best employees? Researchers from the UW and Truman State University theorize on the psychology of voluntary turnover. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31234 Business Social Science Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31234 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:02:08 GMT For his doctoral research in computer science, Tapan Parikh designed mobile phone software for use by members of Indian grassroots banking cooperatives, known as microfinance groups. Now he's gone one step further and founded a company in India that carries out testing and brings the system to its intended users. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31066 Technology Business Science Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31066 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:16:03 GMT A new program for students majoring in entrepreneurship has been created with a gift from Leonard Lavin, founder and chairman emeritus of the Alberto-Culver Company. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30896 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30896 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:59:46 GMT Students from around the globe will be in Seattle to compete in a competition that rewards the best commercially sustainable and socially conscious business idea. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30744 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30744 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:07:00 GMT Two UW Business School researchers have found evidence that "bad apples," or workers who are lazy, chronically unhappy or who bully and attack others can seriously spoil a company's "barrel" of employees. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30464 Business Social Science Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30464 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:52:00 GMT Although online virtual experiences may improve a consumer's knowledge of a product, the marketing tactic can backfire by creating a false sense of what the product's real capabilites are, says a UW professor of marketing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28900 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28900 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:00:00 GMT A UW professor contends that penalties imposed upon public companies that falsify accounting records are miniscule compared with the costs incurred when news of a company's misdeeds spreads and its reputation spoils. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28135 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28135 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:00:00 GMT Marketing executives should add new product features for upgraders and improve existing ones for first-time buyers if they want to sell more products, according to an assistant professor of marketing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27586 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27586 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT The idea that oil supplies are finite is one of seven myths about mineral resources that UW geologist Eric Cheney wants to dispel. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27554 Science Business Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27554 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT People who have mixed emotions--feeling sad and happy at the same time--are more creative than people who are feeling just happy, sad, or have no emotions at all, according to a new study by the UW Business School. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27195 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27195 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:00:00 GMT Investor relations professionals retaliate against analysts who don't give favorable stock recommendations on their companies by excluding them from analyst-firm meetings and refusing to answer questions during conference calls, according to a new UW study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26703 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26703 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT The Business School's new building facilities received a major boost today from Orin Smith, a 1965 graduate of the UW Business School and former Starbucks executive. In making this gift, Smith said he "feels very lucky to be able to give back to something that has provided my life with such meaning." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26418 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26418 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT With today's gift from UW Business School graduate and marketing executive Gary Shansby, the school is more than two-thirds the way toward its goal of raising $120 million for a new state-of-the-art facility. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25337 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25337 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:41:00 GMT The Business School's Global Business Center hosts its eighth case competition, with students from 14 countries competing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23471 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23471 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:00:00 GMT Students from around the world will compete in the UW's Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition and will offer their business ideas designed to improve the quality of life in developing countries. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22662 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22662 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:00:00 GMT Older diabetic patients with depression who received a new type of team care had more depression-free days, better physical functioning, and lower medical costs than patients treated with a standard model of care. The findings are the result of a University of Washington-led study, published in the Feb. 6 issue of the journal Diabetes Care. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22329 Health and Medicine Business Clare Hagerty (clareh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22329 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:00:00 GMT Cuthroat, profit-driven cultures seen in companies like the defunct Enron corporation can cause executives to suffer from moral ignorance and ethical insensitivity, according to a UW Business School professor. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21714 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21714 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 07:00:00 GMT B-list actors whose voices are used in television commercials are more likely to positively influence consumers because their identities are less recognizable than mainstream celebrities, according to researchers at the University of Washington and Rice University. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21395 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21395 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:00:00 GMT Banks and thrifts in our state yielded very strong returns to investors in 2004, according to researchers in the UW Business School. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13903 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13903 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:00:00 GMT A University of Washington, Bothell business professor has published research on the disastrous effects the regional economy will suffer in the event of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake along the Seattle Fault, which runs through Hood Canal in the west, across the Puget Sound and south Seattle, and into Bellevue and Issaquah. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12480 Business Bothell and Tacoma Stu Witmer (switmer@uwb.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12480 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMT Can academics and corporations work in tandem to identify important emerging technologies and shorten the time it takes for them to develop into the Internet's next billion dollar market segments? Experts gathering in Seattle next week aim to do so. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11926 Business Science Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11926 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:00:00 GMT Naysayers of advertisements are more accepting of aesthetically appealing commercials than ones that provide product information. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11651 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11651 Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT Finalists for the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship's Business Plan Competition are some of the most eclectic and promising teams in its eight-year history http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10230 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10230 Tue, 17 May 2005 07:00:00 GMT A former UW department of accounting chairman has been named the school's new dean. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9466 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9466 Thu, 07 Apr 2005 07:00:00 GMT Undergraduate teams from around the globe will gather April 4-9 for the Business School's seventh annual Global Business Challenge. Hosted by the Global Business Center and the Certificate in International Studies program, the competition gives teams 48 hours to solve a business case and present conclusions to a panel of corporate judges. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9246 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9246 Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:00:00 GMT Researchers from Group Health and the UW Business School contend that doctors who view their work as emotional labor and who use 'deep acting' techniques that help generate genuine empathy for their patients are more effective healers and enjoy greater professional satisfaction. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8577 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8577 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:00:00 GMT A little sexual banter in the workplace isn't necessarily a bad thing. According to a new UW study, sexualized encounters in some work situations actually can contribute to building camaraderie on the job. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8452 Social Science Business Bothell and Tacoma Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8452 Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:00:00 GMT In the UW's first Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, students have been asked to explain how they'll improve the quality of life and reduce poverty in developing countries. Their plans have to show social and financial returns on investments. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8322 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8322 Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:00:00 GMT New research shows consumers typically avoid feelings of guilt by purchasing products they need rather than what they want. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7997 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7997 Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:00:00 GMT A team of second-year MBA students have won the 2005 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7535 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7535 Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:00:00 GMT Despite more than $25 billion spent per year by pharmaceutical drug companies on promoting new drugs and distributing free samples to doctors, new research proves these marketing tactics are ineffective. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6830 Business Nancy Gardner (nancylou@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6830 Tue, 07 Dec 2004 07:00:00 GMT