Oct. 26th, Michael Baye, Ph.D. – Product Search Online Bio: Michael Baye is the Bert Elwert Professor of Business at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He served as the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the US Federal Trade Commission during 2007 and 2008. Professor Baye has won numerous awards for his outstanding
As a new feature of the blog, we will be profiling some of our students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Sarah Luna, an MBA student who is an entrepreneur CEO committed to teaching fitness and well-being. She explains why she chose the MBA program at Chapman University
Hello ASBE – We will have two new executives that I’m very excited to announce in our administration at the Argyros School of Business and Economics – Dr. Darryl Stephens will be starting on October 29 as the new Assistant Dean of Graduate and Executive Education. All the MBA’s and aspiring MBAs should get to
Oct. 19th, John Morgan, Ph.D. – On the Merits of Meritocracy Abstract: We study career choice when competition for promotion is a contest. A more meritocratic profession always succeeds in attracting the highest ability types, whereas a profession with superior promotion benefits attracts high types only if the hazard rate of the noise in performance
Oct. 12th, Jonathan Meer, Ph.D.– An Experimental Analysis of Charitable Donations of Time and Money Abstract: We conduct a laboratory experiment to test if there are differences in behavior when subjects can donate either time or money to charity. Our subjects perform an effort task to earn money. In one treatment they can have their
Chapman University is hosting the Cross-Border Entrepreneurship Conference (“CBE”) to be held on Saturday, October 20, 2012. This conference will provide opportunities for individuals, members of business and professional organizations, private capital and government entities from both the United States and Mexico to explore alliances among operating companies and investor groups on both sides of the
As students look for different social circles to be a part of, it is easy to just think of groups such as sports teams, fraternities and sororities. However, there are also students who dedicate their free time to groups that coincide with their future goals once they leave Chapman. These groups can be found here
ASBE’s Undergraduate Office of Career Planning and Placement is proud to announce that beginning Monday, October 8th, OCPP starts an entire month of full-time accounting interviews for our graduating seniors. In addition to 10 accounting firms, ASBE is excited to have JP Morgan Chase who will be here to recruit graduating seniors in finance and business for their 2013 Commercial Banking Analyst Program.
Hey ASBE crowd, I have two quick things to share with you about this table. This Summer I decided to leave BCG, the company shown as #2 (for second year running) on Fortune’s annual list of “100 Best Companies To Work For”, to join you at this FANTASTIC institution because ASBE is just
Oct. 5th, Joshua Tasoff, Ph.D. – Exponential-Growth Bias and Lifecycle Consumption. Abstract: Exponential-growth bias (EGB) is the tendency for individuals to underestimate exponential growth to the neglect of the role of compounding. We develop a theoretical model in which EGB causes consumers to mis-perceive the budget constraint. Because consumers dynamically mis-perceive prices, consumers will over-consume
Professor Vernon Smith, 2002 Nobel laureate in economics, is in Chile this week and will receive an extraordinary honor – he will be appointed an Honorary Fellow at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, a private institution in Valparaiso, “for his seminal contributions on experimental economics and liberal thinking,” the university has announced. Read full article in