Gatton Chaired Professor of Management Joe Labianca was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal story, "Working From Home Has Created a Hole That Office Gossip Used to Fill."
"Technical Report: Impact of COVID-19 and Human Resource Management Agility Practices" by Susan Zhu was published by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Susan Zhu and fellow contributors recently partnered with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) to better understand how business schools and employers approach leadership development programs and how both parties can be better aligned to improve the leadership development processes and offerings at business schools.
When faced with a crisis, companies should dial up two interdependent drivers — speed and agility — to seize opportunities. Wally Ferrier and co-authors explore this topic in an article published in MIT Sloan Management Review. In it, they use the example of Etsy, the e-commerce site that allows crafters and artisans to sell their work to the public.
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Gatton Chaired Professor of Management, has been named a co-editor for the Department of Theories in Decision Making of Decision Sciences.
At what age did you know what you wanted to do for a living? As children, we have the notion that we can be and do anything. For some, those aspirations fade and more realistic ones emerge. Others spend their entire lives searching for a purpose — not Cam Asher. “I wanted to be a catalyst for change, not only in Kentucky, but in the world.”
Dan Brass was recently featured on the most recent edition of Talking about Organizations, a podcast about organizational theory. The topic was Power, Influence and Networks. Listen to Podcast
Companies are adopting Enterprise Social Media, like Slack, to democratize social networks and foster communication and creativity. In a recent paper, co-authored with computer scientists based in Italy, Prof. Ajay Mehra examined how gender and rank shaped emergent social networks on an Enterprise Social Media platform.
Dan Halgin, Steve Borgatti, and Zhi Huang recently published “Prismatic Effects of Negative Ties” in Social Networks. Research on negative ties has focused primarily on the harm they do. In this paper, Halgin and co-authors show that negative ties can also have beneficial market effects. They argue that, like positive ties, negative ties can link actors together in the minds of observers, and theorize that negative ties with high-status others can benefit a focal actor.
Jill Holloway Smith has been named associate vice president for alumni engagement and executive director of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association. “I am honored and excited for the opportunity to serve as the associate vice president for alumni engagement and executive director of the UK Alumni Association. As a native Kentuckian and two-time graduate of this institution, I am incredibly proud of the many positive ways the University of Kentucky impacts the Commonwealth and beyond,” said Smith.
