How should policymakers and regulators deal with disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, and their applications, including cryptocurrencies? That’s the question Professor Nizan Packin (Department of Law) poses in an article she recently published in the American University Law... View Article
Many in the investment community believe that short-term earnings forecasts do more harm than good. Legendary investor Warren Buffett, for example, has called for CEOs to stop issuing quarterly profit forecasts, out of the view that once forecasts are set,... View Article
More than 100 professors and doctoral candidates filled a 14th-floor conference room in the Newman Vertical Campus on March 6 for the kickoff of the Baruch Climate Finance and Sustainability Conference, co-sponsored with the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis... View Article
Diogo Hildebrand, PhD, admits to getting “emotional” when watching TV ads—but not in a good way. “I was always bothered when ads for charities used images of people suffering, like the Save the Children appeals showing a starving child,” says... View Article
It’s no secret that people make spending decisions based on what they think of the state of the economy. If you have a stable job and you think the economy is in good shape overall, you’re more likely to make... View Article
In October, the Zicklin School’s William (Billy) Organek, an assistant professor in the Department of Law, published “Up in Smoke: Bankruptcy by Contract in the Legal Cannabis Industry,” in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. He sat down for an interview... View Article
On October 17, the Zicklin School’s Willem Kooyker Dean, Bruce W. Weber, announced that professors Donal Byard (Stan Ross Department of Accountancy) and Yehuda Izhakian (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance) had been appointed to endowed faculty positions. ... View Article
Debbie Kaminer would like to thank the Academy. The Academy of Legal Studies in Business, that is. Professor Debbie Kaminer (Department of Law) has received the 2024 Hoeber Memorial Award from The Academy of Legal Studies in Business for... View Article
Assistant Professor Zeda Li (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) has won a National Science Foundation grant for his project, entitled “Covariate-Assisted Analysis of Spectral Matrices with Applications to Physiological Signal.” Researchers across many different fields study... View Article
Two years ago, the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) at Northeastern University in Boston awarded a grant to the Zicklin School of Business to undertake a deep analysis of the gender distribution of its undergraduate computing information systems (CIS) classes.... View Article
