This paper by Assistant Professor Priyanga Gunarathne and others provides the first large-scale evidence of business-to-customer racial bias (B2C bias) on a digital platform, on which the perpetrators are individual employees who act on behalf of a company and the victims are customers.
Assistant Professor Michael Hamilton and other researchers, motivated by the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black-owned businesses, began working with community organizations to try and identify ways the students could support Black-owned businesses in the Pittsburgh area.
This research by Associate Dean Jeffrey Inman and others found that leading with the bad news first (the restriction) followed by the good news (the discount) is consistent with consumer news order preferences and changes perceptions of the deal.
This study by Assistant Professor Mark Ma and another researcher examined if the Paradise Papers’ exposure of financial secrecy in tax havens significantly affects and predicts future cryptocurrency trading since Bitcoin transactions are not regulated.
Faculty researchers from the University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, and Washington University in St. Louis have been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Ewing Marion...
There’s no shortage of stories about the algorithms and social media platforms that amplify misinformation and aid the spread of fake news. But behind all that technology, there’s someone sitting at their computer getting worked up enough to click the share button....
David Lebel sees the effect of remote work on individual employees and employers as a research opportunity.
