NewsBites

Below is a sampling of citations in prominent national and regional media. These placements enhance the school’s national reputation and help brand it as one of the nation’s top business schools.

Fortune featured an article co-authored by Feng Gu, professor of accounting and law, to mark the launch of his book, The M&A Failure Trap, which explores why a majority of M&A deals fail based on an analysis of 40,000 deals over 40 years. “The consequences of corporate acquisitions affect peoples’ lives, the state of the economy and investors’ wealth. The current state of 70–75% acquisition failure is intolerable,” he said. “Executives must be more steadfast in their diligence and research before signing a deal to start reversing the widespread M&A failure across essentially every industry vertical and sector.”

The New York Times cited research by Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, assistant professor of organization and human resources, in an article about assumptions on human nature. Goya-Tocchetto’s research found that Democrats and Republicans perceived their opponents’ policies — on such issues as taxation, gun control and environmental regulation — as driven by malicious intent. 

NPR’s Marketplace interviewed Dominic Sellitto, clinical assistant professor of management science and systems, for a story about DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that upended the technology and financial sectors. Sellitto said people can download DeepSeek’s models without paying a license fee, which he thinks will encourage more organizations to build AI tools. And if more people use DeepSeek’s open source model, they’ll still need some graphics processing units to train those tools, which would help maintain demand — even if major tech companies don’t need as many GPUs as they may have thought.

The Wall Street Journal quoted Charles Lindsey, associate professor of marketing, in an article about splurging on bedding. “Clothing is a very public product, and you get social status from it. There’s the emotional satisfaction when someone says, ‘I love your sweater,’” he said. “But bedding is very private. You may be thinking, ‘Oh, that’s just something I sleep on.’”

MSN featured research by Kyle Hunt, assistant professor of management science and systems, in an article about how announcing the deployment of new technologies — such as enhanced baggage scanners at airports — may inadvertently help malicious actors identify which locations are defended and how. “Security and defense agencies often notify the public when they deploy new technologies and resources, which may lead to strategic responses by adversaries.”

MSN also reported on a study by Wreetabrata Kar, assistant professor of marketing, which shows that in states where medical marijuana is legal, payments from opioid manufacturers to physicians have decreased significantly. “Our findings indicate that medical marijuana is increasingly viewed as a substitute for opioids in chronic pain treatment, with the potential to transform pain management practices and help mitigate the opioid crisis that has profoundly affected communities across the U.S.,” he said.

Yahoo News referenced research by Emily Grijalva, associate professor of organization and human resources, about why men are thought to be more fit for leadership roles in an article about what Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss means for American and Canadian women in politics. Grijalva’s study found that although the gender gap has narrowed in recent decades, it still persists.

Psychology Today also cited research by Grijalva about the damage that narcissists bring to teams and leadership.

Newsweek quoted Cristian Tiu, chair and associate professor of finance, in an article about a potential American recession and its timeline. “In the best case scenario, we expect overseas businesses to move production to the U.S., hire workers and invest in the American economy. But manufacturing in the U.S. is more expensive — so higher prices, thus inflation,” he said. 

The Washington Post quoted Natalie Simpson, professor of operations management and strategy, in an article about the Trump administration’s lack of support for FEMA. Simpson said she was shocked that North Carolina did not appoint a disaster response czar and said this could help explain the uneven response following Hurricane Helene. “If there were genuine problems with FEMA’s response, like not penetrating fast enough into the affected areas, somebody that the state appointed as czar would have been sounding the alarm earlier,” she said. “If FEMA was guilty of anything, the state of North Carolina is equally guilty of it,” Simpson added.

Buffalo Business First quoted Jennifer Flagg, director of the Center for Supply Chain Analytics, in a story about how the NY SMART I-Corridor Tech Hub is progressing, including $9 million in funding awarded for the Supply Chain Activation Network, led by UB, which will focus on building a regional supply chain for semiconductors. The School of Management’s recently established Center for Supply Chain Analytics will connect faculty with industry leaders to tackle supply chain projects like SCAN. “Our goal is to help companies understand what the opportunity is and facilitate those conversations by hosting events that bring together the suppliers and the buyers to make those connections and draw up contracts.”