Thought some of you might like to see this. Gavan Fitzsimmons is one of the most popular core professors - some of you might have attended his class if you came in November or December. Dan Ariely is a recent addition, and his class - Behavioral Economics - is one that people talk about at company dinners and parties...and a whole bunch more:
Global PlayerDean Sheppard’s January visit to Dubai earned coverage as he met with local officials to discuss fostering talent in the United Arab Emirates. Read the story in the Khaleej Times:
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArti ... ary777.xmlFundamental IssuesHealth Care – The role of the school’s Health Sector Management team in the passage of legislation providing priority review vouchers to drug makers researching neglected diseases was detailed in an editorial from BioWorld Today.
https://www.bioworld.com/servlet/com.acc ... ceid=47070
Health Care – media worldwide, including the New York Times (
https://tinyurl.com/2lpzlx) and London Telegraph (
https://tinyurl.com/3cwaff) reported on Professor Dan Ariely’s research indicating that $2.50 placebo pills were more effective at reducing pain than placebos that cost 10 cents.
Economy – Professor Campbell Harvey was interviewed on several different NPR programs this month, covering the Bear Stearns sale and the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=88415067https://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=88482997Economy – Professor Dan Ariely spoke with Fox Business News and Marketplace regarding how consumers are likely to respond to the government’s economic stimulus rebates.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/econ ... 364_3.htmlhttps://marketplace.publicradio.org/disp ... ommentary/Students of ConsequenceA group of first-year Duke MBA – Daytime students (SECTION 3 - THAT'S MINE!!) used the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday as a volunteer opportunity at a Durham homeless shelter, gaining coverage in the Herald-Sun and several online outlets.
https://www.knowledgeplex.com/news/1310261.html?p=1 Duke MBA – Daytime second-year Mayuresh Tapale was interviewed by Business Week for their Valentine's day article about dating at Fuqua for LGBT minorities.
https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/co ... op+stories
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The Financial Times reported on Fuqua’s partnership with Polycom to develop new telepresence videoconferencing that will provide remote participants with a “same room” experience.
https://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4bdbaa60-f1a3 ... fd2ac.htmlThe AACSB featured Fuqua’s pioneering work with virtual worlds in its magazine, BizEd.
https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/catalog/docum ... nmedia.pdfResearch Advantage
Professor Dan Ariely’s new book, Predictably Irrational, has been on the New York Times best sellers list since February. The book has received extensive media coverage in outlets including TIME magazine (
https://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/ ... 79,00.html) and on the CBS Early Show (
https://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video ... d=3844567n).
Research on mimicry's influence on persuasion by Ph.D. student Robin Tanner and Professor Tanya Chartrand was detailed in the New York Times’ Science Times section.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/12mimic.html The most recent release of the Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey gained worldwide media attention, with Professors John Graham and Campbell Harvey being quoted in reports by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, NPR and a host of other major outlets.
https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/89bd60a0-ef94 ... fd2ac.htmlDid you spot a famous face on campus? Yes, it’s true. Alan Alda was at Fuqua in March to film interviews and experiments with Professor Tanya Chartrand. Chartrand’s work will be included in a new documentary series, “The Human Spark,” scheduled to air on PBS in 2009.
Fuqua ranked # 3 in a survey by the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management of research productivity – up several places from last year – in both the North America and worldwide listings. The rankings consider the number of articles published by faculty in 24 leading academic journals over the previous five years.
https://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show ... 5387.shtmlProfessors Gavan Fitzsimons and Tanya Chartrand’s research into the ways brands can affect human behavior was featured in Advertising Age (
https://adage.com/article?article_id=125887), on NPR (
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=89205286 ), in The Wall Street Journal (
https://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/03/20 ... trackback/) the Boston Globe (
https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas ... knowledge/), and others including Der Speigel; for which we also send a special thank you to our Duke-Goethe colleague Mariele Prussner for her excellent translation assistance!
You can learn more about this work by viewing a Research Advantage video created by Matthew Duckworth and Laura Brinn:
https://stream.fuqua.duke.edu/Content/Gr ... osures.qtl