David Aron, Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management. David wrote a paper where he made the case that Precision Medicine (PM) is neither precise nor medicine in Precision Medicine and the Challenges of Human Complexity.
Richard Boyatzis, Distinguished University Professor; H. Clark Ford Professor; and professor of organizational behavior, Angela Passarelli (GRS '14, organizational behavior), associate professor of management at the College of Charleston and Anthony “Tony” Jack, the Elmer G. Beamer – Hubert H. Schneider Chair in Ethics and an associate professor in philosophy at Case Western Reserve, published an article in Crain's Cleveland Business on a recent brain-imaging study where they examined the neural processes that determine whether people set out on a path of learning and personal development, or shut down and become defensive.
Boyatzis, Han Liu (PhD student), Amy Smith, Joanne Quinn (GRS '13, management), and Kira Zwygart published an article on Competencies of Coaches that Predict Client Behavior Change in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.
Boyatzis was recognized as a Thinkers50 Coaching Legend. The Thinkers50 Coaching Legends, in partnership with 100 Coaches and BetterUp, honors executive coaches that have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of coaching. Read his full bio here.
Phil Cola PhD (GRS ’15, management), Winkle Healthcare Management Professorship; professor, Department of Design & Innovation and Organizational Behavior; associate professor of Medicine; and director of Healthcare Management Programs, the newly appointed "Chris Winkle Designated Professor in Healthcare Management" at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Cola is a renowned scholar in the field, with over 25 years of experience in research's fiscal, legal, scientific, and ethical reviews.
Cola, Rachel Goff-Albritton (Florida State University), and collaborators were honored with the Rod Rose Award for the most outstanding contribution in the past year to the Journal of Research Administration by the Society of Research Administration International (SRAI). The award was given for their article: Faculty Views on the Barriers and Facilitators to Grant Activities in the USA: A Systematic Literature Review. Read the full article here.
Timothy Fogarty, Andrew D. Braden Professorship in Accounting and Auditing; and professor of accountancy, noted in The Wall Street Journal that the IRS needs more resources to close the $450 billion tax gap, the difference “between what taxpayers should legally pay but don’t.”
Fogarty said the economic consequences of current trade disputes are well-anticipated by the markets and therefore have already been priced into the share price levels. Read here: Corporate tax rate report.
Michael Goulder, Faculty Director Master of Supply Chain Management Weatherhead School of Management, assistant professor Department of Operations Weatherhead School of Management, weighed in on what a pending UPS strike would mean for Northeast Ohio on cleveland.com. “It will be a big deal,” he said. “And it will be a big deal that will be felt in days, not weeks … If all that UPS capacity goes offline, a whole lot of stuff is just not going to move.”
Goulder commented on trucking company Yellow Corp.’s closing of its terminals in Brooklyn, Richfield and Copley as part of a national shutdown. cleveland.com (subscription required)
Tom King, E. Mandell de Windt Professorship in Leadership and Enterprise Development Department Chair and Professor, Department of Accountancy (MGT '16) discussed why insurance specialists will raise prices on home insurance if more frequent weather disasters of higher magnitude, such as Hurricane Idalia, continue to happen. Read the full article here.
Kalle Lyytinen, the Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design; chair and professor, design and innovation; and faculty director, Doctor of Management program, has been selected to receive the International Excellence Fellowship of KIT. This is a highly respected position in Karlsruhe Institute or Technology (KIT, the MIT of Germany) - one of the top 3 technical universities In Germany (among TUM, RWTH Aachen). The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is “The Research University in the Helmholtz Association.” The roots of the academic education institution extend all the way back to 1825. It is one of the largest science institutions in Europe.
Kalle said that while advancing automation can curb or decrease union activity, collaboration between a company’s workforce and management is necessary for it to work. “It requires certain levels of cooperation,” he said. “It’s as important to invest in ... the social, organizational and human skills in managing and coordinating and leveraging these new types of technologies.” Read the full article here.
Satish Nambisan, The Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professorship of Technology Management; and professor, Department of Design & Innovation, honored with reviewer awards from academic journals. Satish, recently received the 2023 Best Developmental Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Review and the 2023 Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of International Business Studies. “Both the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of International Business Studies are top-tier academic business journals and I am truly privileged to review manuscripts for them,” Nambisan said. Read more about the awards.
Jagdip Singh, AT&T Professor of Marketing; professor, Department of Design & Innovation; and co-director of the Master of Business Analytics and Intelligence program, discussed customer service issues with banks—and the headaches that follow with CBS News. "Customers don't want you to spend some time on it," Singh said. "They just want you to solve my problem, get me to where I need to go."
Peter Whitehouse, professor of Neurology, with secondary positions as Professor of Psychiatry, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Organizational Behavior, weighed in on factors that can result in decreasing brain volume. He said more could be gleaned from insight into people’s social habits over the course of a lifetime. “A person who’s been isolated their whole life may have a different brain volume than someone who only became isolated in old age.”
Youngjin Yoo, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty; Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professorship in Entrepreneurship; and professor, Department of Design & Innovation. A whitepaper by two Case Western Reserve University faculty members and their collaborator outlined how a national learning and employment record (LER) system could be created. The authors were:
- Youngjin Yoo, professor of design and innovation at Weatherhead School of Management;
- Erman Ayday, associate professor of computer and data sciences at Case School of Engineering;
- Theoretical anthropologist Natalie Smolenski.
Their report, titled “Designing a Responsible Universal Learning and Employment Record Ecosystem,” demonstrated how the LER ecosystem can enhance hiring processes, increase access to opportunities, and reduce inequality through use case scenarios. Read the report.
Yoo is one of the leading global scholars in digital innovation and has made significant intellectual contributions to the role of technology in organizations. Yoo joined Case Western Reserve University as a faculty member in 1997 and taught for 10 years before leaving for Temple University in 2006. He returned to Case Western Reserve in 2016 and, not long after, became the founding faculty director of xLab at Weatherhead School of Management. Read more about his work.
