Research News - Tepper School of Business - Carnegie Mellon University

Study: Lawyers’ “Game Framing” of Negotiations Associated With Lower Moral Character and Less Honesty

Tepper Faculty Member Takes Closer Look at the Impacts of Policy on Immigrants' Economic Outcomes

Ph.D. Student Awarded Tata Consultancy Services Award for Cryptocurrency Research

Algorand Foundation Becomes Strategic Partner With Carnegie Mellon University CyLab

Tepper Faculty Member Named Co-Investigator on $4.4 million NIH Grant

New Framework Accounts for How Moral Character Promotes Ethical Decision-Making

Tepper Faculty Member Tapped to Join Amazon Scholars Program

Debunking Popular Conceptions About Gerrymandering

News Media Amplified Rather Than Rectified Misleading Health Information From TV Personality Dr. Oz

Policy Analyses Severely Underestimate Impact of Air Pollution on Racial Minorities

Tepper Faculty Accolades

New Index of Utility Firms’ Environmental Performance Monetizes Pollution Damage

New Study Uncovers Why There Is so Little Competition in Government Procurement

Study Finds Male, Female Responses to Performance Pay Similar Across Contexts, Programs

Study Finds Airbnb Units Expand Market But Reduce Long-Term Rentals, Including Affordable Housing

New Algorithmic Approach Predicts Strong Leaders

Laurie Weingart Receives “Most Influential Article” Award in Conflict Management by AOM

Mandatory Public Reporting Reduced Carbon Dioxide Emission Rates of U.S. Power Plants

The Ethics of Split Liver Transplantation: Analyzing Case Studies to Make the Right Decision

The Outsized Impacts of Rudeness in the Workplace

Cold Weather Cost New England Electric Customers Nearly $1.8 Billion in One Month; A New Study Suggests Ways to Mitigate Fuel Shortages

Green Interest Rate Could Help the United States Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Research, Theory on Negotiation Can Inform Understanding of I-Deals in the Workplace

Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice

New Research Reveals Significance of Psychological Safety Influences Among ICU Staff

New Model Identifies Levers for Stability for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Credit

Collective Intelligence Can Be Predicted and Quantified, New Study Finds

Analysis: Businesses Have a Moral Duty to Explain How Algorithms Make Decisions That Affect People

Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? Only If More Black Hosts Adopt it.

Cryptocurrency Derivatives Markets Are Booming, New Study Shows

Research Study Proposes New Method of Environmental Accounting

Tired of Video Conferencing? Research Suggests that You’re Right to Question Its Effectiveness

After a Year of COVID-19, Finance Expert Shares Learnings on Debt Burdens and Infection

Electric Transmission System Operators Could Benefit from Temperature-dependent Resource Adequacy Modeling, Research Finds

Reserve Prices Under Scarcity Conditions Improve with a Dynamic ORDC, New Research Finds

Switching to Firm Contracts May Prevent Natural Gas Fuel Shortages at U.S. Power Plants, Study Finds

Unconventional Computing: Applications, Hardware, Algorithms

Don’t Let Pressure of One-Upmanship Dictate Your Gift Selection

Study Examines How the Clean Air Act Affects Municipal Bond Market

Boomerang Performance Is on Par With Internal Employees Who Never Left the Firm, New Paper Finds

Continuity and Change in Management Science

Tepper School Wins Big at INFORMS Information Systems and Technology Conference

Laurie Weingart Honored with Prestigious INGRoup Lifetime Achievement Award

Tepper School Researcher Named to World Economic Forum Global Future Councils

Weakening a Competitor’s Market Position on the Merchant Side May Strengthen Its Position on the Consumer Side When Multihoming is Present, New Study Finds

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Partner With USRA and Amazon to Teach Quantum Computing Programming Foundations

COVID-19 Extends Black Friday, Moves It Online

Research: Multiparty Negotiations and the Fixed Pie Perception

Tepper Economists Receive $50,000 Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation for COVID-19 Economic Impact Research

Robots Should Replace Beasts of Burden, Not Humans, Tepper Faculty Argues

CMU Researcher Among Team Awarded $4.4 Million Grant to Study Honesty

VR Provides Reality Check on Climate Change and Future Well-Being

Transforming Health Care With Machine Learning

The Benefit of Using Data Analytics to Select Drug-Disease Pairs for Clinical Trials

Ad Blockers May Benefit Websites, Users, and the Market at Large

First Impressions Can Sway Financial Professionals' Forecasts of Firms for up to Six Years

COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Policies Reduced Emissions, Energy Use, and Likely Premature Deaths

Study Suggests Aggressive Carbon Taxation Could Help U.S. Meet Targets in Paris Agreement

New Bottom-Line Benefits of Taxing Emissions

Detecting Early-Stage Disease

Tepper Blockchain Initiative Asks "What Uses Will Bring the Most Benefits to Business and Society?"

How Will Today’s Business Practices Affect People and the Planet in the Future?

Four Things You Need to Know About Blockchain

Societal Behavior During, and After, the Pandemic

Effects of Recommender Systems in E-Commerce Vary by Product Attributes and Review Ratings

Study on Firms’ Return Policies Offers Guidance on Pricing, Returns, Refunds

Considering How Many Firms Can Meet Pollutant Standards Can Spur Green Tech Development

People Who Provide Data to Firms Should Be Considered Investors, Are Entitled to Rights

New Framework Helps Consumers Understand Machine Learning Algorithms

Display Advertising Switched to First-price Auctions After Adoption of Header Bidding, New Study Finds

Deeper Knowledge and Experience Helping Other Customers Lead to More Successful Ideas in Innovation Crowdsourcing Communities

Retailer Buyer Power Does Influence Wholesale Market Price, New Study Finds

“Bursty” Email Communication Helps Groups Convert Resources Into Results

Best Practices For Working Remotely

When Choosing an Adviser, People Value Positivity Over Expertise

Understanding Research on How People Develop Trust in AI Can Inform Its Use

Meaning of Life and Purpose of Business Analyzed in Study of Machine Automation

Study Develops Framework to Help Firms Use Crowdsourcing More Effectively

New Study Finds a Cost-Efficient Method for Active Search

Effects of Natural Gas Assessed in Study of Shale Gas Boom in Appalachian Basin

INFORMS Honors Tepper Research in Operations Management with Best Student Paper Recognition

INFORMS Honors Tepper Operations Management Research With Best Working Paper Recognition

Study Reveals that People Across Cultures Are Inclined to Volunteer

The Power of Suggestion: New Research Deconstructs the Impact of Recommender Systems in Online Sales

New Model Developed at the Tepper School Seeks to Optimize Market Price Risk in Energy Trading

Study Considers Double-Edged Sword of Trust in Regulatory Agencies’ Monitoring of Firms

Hold-up Problem Has Clean Solution Based on Applied Information Design

Study on Remote Medical Robotics with Machine Learning Receives Research Grant

Recent Increase in Fine Particulate Matter Associated With More Premature Deaths in U.S.

Tepper School Professor Receives Facebook AI Research Award

Research Finds A Cheaper Solution to Predict Consumer Demand

Female-led Team Uses AI to Help Machines Play Nice with Humans

New Research From the Tepper School Tests the Limits of Customer Loyalty

Research: How Much Do CEOs Matter for Firm Strategic Behavior and Its Outcomes?

The Administration’s Plan to Privatize Fannie and Freddie Could Cause More Harm Than Help

Research: To Reduce Pollution, Policymakers Should Broaden Focus Beyond Smokestacks

Bike-sharing Research Wins Award from European Operational Research Publication

Tepper Faculty Receive Block Center Grants to Study Future of Work and AI for Social Good

Rapid AI Growth Sometimes Happens at the Expense of Scientific Scrutiny, Tepper School of Business Research Shows

The Human Element: Machine Learning Cannot Replace Critical Thought

Want to Boost Sales? Make Sure Those Five-Star Reviews Focus on Price, Aesthetics, Research Shows

Research: When Minorities Within a Group Contribute, Other Members are More Likely to Listen

Tepper Hosts International Energy and Commodity Markets Conference

Milken Institute Report Calls for Oversight of Proxy Advisory Firms

Research: When Job Seekers Appear Overqualified, Companies View Them as Undercommitted

Research: Most Productive Teams Require Mix of People Who Think Differently From Each Other

Tepper Professor Awarded Grant Through Sloan Foundation

Rethink Peak-Season Pricing in the Presence of Sharing Economy

Tepper School Professor Receives Amazon Web Services Award

Tepper School Professor Receives Google Faculty Research Award

Research Explores Ways To Bridge Gaps In Science Communication

Research: Optimize Open Floor Plans by Shuffling Workstations

Creating a Captive Audience: Tepper School Research Identifies New Pricing Strategy for eReader Products

Faculty Spotlight: New Research Explores Machine Learning to Simplify Drug Development

Tepper School Professor Awarded $500K in Research Funding

What is a Corporate Blockchain?

Faculty Spotlight: Wind Farm Research Illustrates Why it’s Not Easy Being Green

Relying on Karma: Research Explains Why Outrage Doesn’t Usually Result in Revolution

Faculty Research: INFORMS Spotlight on Param Vir Singh

Faculty Spotlight: Can People Teach a Self-Driving Car to be Safe?

DIY Real Estate: Inside Technology’s Next Disruption

Public Feedback Late in Crowdsourcing Contest Garners Better Results

Break Through Big Data With Strategic Clustering Algorithms

Discrimination in STEM May Result From Inaccurate Aptitude Beliefs

Women Respond to Performance Pay Incentives Similarly to Men

Human Moral Intuitions Cannot Reliably Guide Ethical Decisions of Autonomous Machines

International Association for Applied Econometrics Elects Tepper Professor as a Fellow

Just Regular Candy Crush Please: Copycat Apps Leave Us Yearning for the Original

Studying ICU Teams Could Lead to Improved Patient Outcomes

TheirSpace: How the Facebook Privacy Debate Raises Ethical Questions for the Virtual Age

In for a Dime, in for a Dollar: Research Explains Why We Stick With Unwanted Choices – Even Those We Don’t Make

Product Recommendations in Online Storefronts Primarily Benefit Already Popular items

Competitive Bidding Not Especially Effective for Reducing Contract Costs

Electric Vehicles Cause Greater Air Pollution Through Power Plant Emissions

Air Pollution Widens Gap of Income Inequality in the U.S.

The Borrower Still Loses If U.S. Mandates Post Office Banking

Show Me the Money: The Time is Ripe for Understanding Cryptocurrencies

There is No Hashtag in Team

TL; DR: What Can Make or Break a Remote Team’s Mission

Make It Rain: How Politics Impacts Disaster Relief

Business Analytics Professor Dokyun Lee Wins Best Paper

Optimization Model May Help Cities Improve Bike-Sharing Programs

Airbnb’s Effect on Hotels Fluctuates with Location, Season, Quality

The Case for Unencumbering Interest Rate Policy at the Zero Bound

“Passive investors” are Usually Anything But

Research into Fashion and Socio-economics Becomes Media Hot Topic

Tepper School Research News

Tepper Fall Research Rundown

CMU Hosts Public Hearing on Cybersecurity and Blockchain

Firm Managers May Benefit from Transparency in Machine-Learning Algorithms

Republicans and Democrats See Their Own Party’s Falsehoods as More Acceptable

Carnegie Mellon Professor Launches ESG Index

Team Composition, Structure, Members’ Gender Influence Ability to Focus, Work Together

DEI&B Thought Leadership: Rosalind M. Chow

Study Chronicles Presence of Chronic Frames of Race, Gender, and Wealth Inequality

Videos Can Spur Family Members to Donate Tissues, Improve Lives

MSPM Students Identify Strategic Opportunities for Multinational Corporation

The No Club: Bringing Gender Equity to the Workplace

The Intelligent Future of Sustainable Business

Study: Lawyers’ “Game Framing” of Negotiations Associated With Lower Moral Character and Less Honesty

Tepper Faculty Member Takes Closer Look at the Impacts of Policy on Immigrants' Economic Outcomes

Ph.D. Student Awarded Tata Consultancy Services Award for Cryptocurrency Research

Algorand Foundation Becomes Strategic Partner With Carnegie Mellon University CyLab

Tepper Faculty Member Named Co-Investigator on $4.4 million NIH Grant

New Framework Accounts for How Moral Character Promotes Ethical Decision-Making

Tepper Faculty Member Tapped to Join Amazon Scholars Program

Debunking Popular Conceptions About Gerrymandering

News Media Amplified Rather Than Rectified Misleading Health Information From TV Personality Dr. Oz

Policy Analyses Severely Underestimate Impact of Air Pollution on Racial Minorities

Tepper Faculty Accolades

New Index of Utility Firms’ Environmental Performance Monetizes Pollution Damage

New Study Uncovers Why There Is so Little Competition in Government Procurement

Study Finds Male, Female Responses to Performance Pay Similar Across Contexts, Programs

Study Finds Airbnb Units Expand Market But Reduce Long-Term Rentals, Including Affordable Housing

New Algorithmic Approach Predicts Strong Leaders

Laurie Weingart Receives “Most Influential Article” Award in Conflict Management by AOM

Mandatory Public Reporting Reduced Carbon Dioxide Emission Rates of U.S. Power Plants

The Ethics of Split Liver Transplantation: Analyzing Case Studies to Make the Right Decision

The Outsized Impacts of Rudeness in the Workplace

Cold Weather Cost New England Electric Customers Nearly $1.8 Billion in One Month; A New Study Suggests Ways to Mitigate Fuel Shortages

Green Interest Rate Could Help the United States Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Research, Theory on Negotiation Can Inform Understanding of I-Deals in the Workplace

Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice

New Research Reveals Significance of Psychological Safety Influences Among ICU Staff

New Model Identifies Levers for Stability for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Credit

Collective Intelligence Can Be Predicted and Quantified, New Study Finds

Analysis: Businesses Have a Moral Duty to Explain How Algorithms Make Decisions That Affect People

Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? Only If More Black Hosts Adopt it.

Cryptocurrency Derivatives Markets Are Booming, New Study Shows

Research Study Proposes New Method of Environmental Accounting

Tired of Video Conferencing? Research Suggests that You’re Right to Question Its Effectiveness

After a Year of COVID-19, Finance Expert Shares Learnings on Debt Burdens and Infection

Electric Transmission System Operators Could Benefit from Temperature-dependent Resource Adequacy Modeling, Research Finds

Reserve Prices Under Scarcity Conditions Improve with a Dynamic ORDC, New Research Finds

Switching to Firm Contracts May Prevent Natural Gas Fuel Shortages at U.S. Power Plants, Study Finds

Unconventional Computing: Applications, Hardware, Algorithms

Don’t Let Pressure of One-Upmanship Dictate Your Gift Selection

Study Examines How the Clean Air Act Affects Municipal Bond Market

Boomerang Performance Is on Par With Internal Employees Who Never Left the Firm, New Paper Finds

Continuity and Change in Management Science

Tepper School Wins Big at INFORMS Information Systems and Technology Conference

Laurie Weingart Honored with Prestigious INGRoup Lifetime Achievement Award

Tepper School Researcher Named to World Economic Forum Global Future Councils

Weakening a Competitor’s Market Position on the Merchant Side May Strengthen Its Position on the Consumer Side When Multihoming is Present, New Study Finds

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Partner With USRA and Amazon to Teach Quantum Computing Programming Foundations

COVID-19 Extends Black Friday, Moves It Online

Research: Multiparty Negotiations and the Fixed Pie Perception

Tepper Economists Receive $50,000 Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation for COVID-19 Economic Impact Research

Robots Should Replace Beasts of Burden, Not Humans, Tepper Faculty Argues

CMU Researcher Among Team Awarded $4.4 Million Grant to Study Honesty

VR Provides Reality Check on Climate Change and Future Well-Being

Transforming Health Care With Machine Learning

The Benefit of Using Data Analytics to Select Drug-Disease Pairs for Clinical Trials

Ad Blockers May Benefit Websites, Users, and the Market at Large

First Impressions Can Sway Financial Professionals' Forecasts of Firms for up to Six Years

COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Policies Reduced Emissions, Energy Use, and Likely Premature Deaths

Study Suggests Aggressive Carbon Taxation Could Help U.S. Meet Targets in Paris Agreement

New Bottom-Line Benefits of Taxing Emissions

Detecting Early-Stage Disease

Tepper Blockchain Initiative Asks "What Uses Will Bring the Most Benefits to Business and Society?"

How Will Today’s Business Practices Affect People and the Planet in the Future?

Four Things You Need to Know About Blockchain

Societal Behavior During, and After, the Pandemic

Effects of Recommender Systems in E-Commerce Vary by Product Attributes and Review Ratings

Study on Firms’ Return Policies Offers Guidance on Pricing, Returns, Refunds

Considering How Many Firms Can Meet Pollutant Standards Can Spur Green Tech Development