© Copyright 2026 University of Notre Dame
Showing 210 of 244 articles
Faculty Research
Marketing professor Frank Germann's research finds that companies need to do more than invest in analytics staff and systems in order to improve business performance. The attitude of the top management team (TMT) makes a critical difference, and their advocacy drives positive outcomes.
Faculty Research
A study from marketing professor Vamsi Kanuri reveals that government-imposed restrictions related to issues such as vaping and obesity can backfire, depending on political ideology.
Faculty Research
Economist and finance professor Jeffrey Bergstrand writes about the potential costs of government intervention in economic recovery in this opinion piece for the Keough School of Global Affairs.
Faculty Research
What corporate leaders may not realize is that strides they are making toward social responsibility may be placing a proverbial target on their backs — if their efforts appear to be disingenuous, according to new research from professor of IT, Analytics and Operations Corey Angst.
Faculty Research
Marketing professor Vamsi Kanuri and his research team discovered the extent to which investors punish firms for Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) is associated with the proportion of top management executives in a firm who have a law degree.
Faculty Research
Finance professor Jason Reed talks about what to expect in the second quarter and says experts expect it to get much worse.
Faculty Research
Finance professors Bill McDonald and Timothy Loughran examined all 10-K filings (annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission) from 2018, before the current pandemic, and found that less than 21 percent of the filings contain any pandemic-related terms.
Faculty Research
Not only does social distancing work to slow the spread of the virus, it’s an exercise in probability, according to Richard Sheehan, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Sheehan, who specializes in applied econometrics, has developed a model that shows viral transmission as a probability rather than a certainty and demonstrates how social distancing — or changing the probabilities — slows the spread.
Faculty Research
Jeffrey Bergstrand, professor of finance and a former Federal Reserve economist, emphasized the need for Phase Four, which he said “will bring some stimulus to aggregate demand if there is a government infrastructure program put in place.”
Faculty Research
Severe product problems that injure or kill consumers are recalled much faster when there are women on the board according to “The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions,” forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management from lead author Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of information technology, analytics and operations in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.