Cutting-Edge Research
Q&A with Andy Koch and Leming Lin
Andy Koch, Associate Professor of Finance, and Leming Lin, Associate Professor of Finance Koch: BS, Georgia Tech; PhD, University of Texas Lin: PhD, University of Florida For decades, politicians and pundits have repeated the line “it’s the economy, stupid,” when it...
Q&A with León Valdés
León Valdés, Associate Professor of Business Administration BS, Universidad de Chile MS, Ecole Centrale Paris PhD, MIT Why did you decide to set out on this research topic? One of my primary research objectives is to gain a deeper understanding of how motivations...
Q&A with Tess Kwon (PhD ’24) and Peggy Liu
Tess Kwon: BS and MS, Seoul National University; PhD, University of Tennessee; PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Business; currently Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Hong Kong Peggy Liu: BS, Yale University; PhD, Duke University; currently...
Q&A with Xiaomeng Chen
Xiaomeng Chen, Assistant Professor in ISTM PhD, Cornell University Why did you decide to set out on this research topic? I have been interested in open innovation platforms, where value is created by communities of volunteers contributing their knowledge and skills...
Q&A with Lingling Pan
Lingling Pan, Associate Professor of Business Administration PhD, Temple University; PhD, Michigan State University Why did you decide to set out on this research topic? Women’s representation in top leadership roles at corporations has been increasing very slowly,...
Q&A with Gaurav Kankanhalli
Gaurav Kankanhalli, Assistant Professor of Finance and Ben L. Fryrear Early Career Faculty Fellow BA, University of Oxford; MS, University of Oxford; PhD, Cornell University Why did you decide on this research topic? I became interested in understanding how...
Q&A with Trevor Young-Hyman
Trevor Young-Hyman, Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Sociology PhD in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Why did you decide to set out on this research topic? I am interested in the ways that businesses pursue complex and, sometimes,...
Q&A with Helen Van der Sluis
Helen Van der Sluis, Assistant Professor of Marketing BA, Columbia University; PhD, Arizona State University Why did you decide to set out on this research topic? Disabled consumers make up at least 25 percent of the U.S. and 16 percent of the world, yet are a...
Happy 50th Anniversary to Barry Mitnick’s Theory of Agency
We often think that in the many relationships in society where we depend on the services of others it is always better to have more perfect agents. But consider three cases: A. Imagine you own a company, but you can't manage it all by yourself. You hire someone to run...
Peggy Liu Earns Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award
Peggy Liu, the Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and an associate professor of business administration, is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award.
Return to Office Mandates Don’t Improve Employee or Company Performance
While many firms are sticking to the working from home mode, a lot of others have implemented or are considering return-to-office mandates.
Sharing Food Can Backfire: When Healthy Choices for Children Lead Parents to Make Unhealthy Choices for Themselves
There is increasing interest in nudging parents to make healthier meal choices for children. However, ironically, after making a healthy meal choice for their children, parents then choose an unhealthier meal for themselves to eat.
The Downside of Proactive Skill-Building at Work
R. David Lebel, Associate Professor of Business Administration and Ben L. Fryrear Faculty Fellow, Katz Graduate School of Business Key Findings: Fear of financial insecurity during the pandemic led U.S. workers to engage in proactive skill-building to safeguard their...
Can Consumers Accurately Estimate Calories? How Portion Size and Food Types Influence Calorie Counting
Peggy Liu, Ben L. Fryrear Chair in Marketing and Associate Professor of Business Administration, Katz Graduate School of Business Context: This project examines two common ways consumers think about calorie information and its implications for their food choices. The...
Racial Bias in Customer Service on Twitter (now X)
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.
Researchers Connect College Students with Black-Owned Businesses
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.
Have We Got a Deal for You: Do You Want the Good News or Bad News First?
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.
Is Cryptocurrency the New Haven for Tax Evaders? Exposé of Financial Secrecy in Tax Havens and Bitcoin Trading
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.
Researching the Pandemic’s Impact on the Workforce Receives Knowledge Challenge Grant
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...
How emotions fuel fake news on social media
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....
Pitt Business researcher shows remote work bringing both anxiety and satisfaction
David Lebel sees the effect of remote work on individual employees and employers as a research opportunity.
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