Quoted: “My impression is that Foxconn’s interests are definitely larger than just setting up a plant,” said Peter Rafferty, a researcher in the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW’s College of Engineering.
Quoted: The economic side of the industry is “where all the questions are these days,” said Hart Posen, a UW-Madison associate professor of business who tracks sharing economies.
Noted: “There has always been corporate sponsorship,” said Tom O’Guinn, a marketing professor at UW-Madison. “You see them on Little League uniforms and business names on the boards at hockey rinks. It’s only gotten people’s attention lately, but it is controversial. On the one hand, if you need the money, what’s wrong with a little advertising? But on the other hand, it begs the question, is nothing sacred? Do we have to sell everything?
Noted: It’s a stretch to compare donations directly from people facing accusations of wrongdoing and someone like Uihlein who is a contributor to them, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Noted: In “An Assessment of When, Where and Under What Conditions In-Store Sampling is Most Effective,” the three authors – Sandeep R. Chandakula of Singapore Management University, Jeffrey P. Dotson of Brigham Young University, and Qing Liu of University of Wisconsin-Madison – find that sampling has both an immediate, if short-term, effect and a sustained impact on sales, but that the impact varies according to the size of the store conducting the event. They also found that repeated sampling for a single product produces increased returns and that sampling tends to expand a category rather than purely substitute for another product.
According to research out of the University of Wisconsin School of Business, buying the same thing for yourself makes the gift even more special to the recipient. There’s even a name for it: companionizing.
“Recipients end up liking the gift more because it’s shared,” says Evan Polman, a UW marketing professor, who conducted the research with Sam Maglio, a marketing professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. They published the results of their study in July in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Barry Orton, a University of Wisconsin professor emeritus, specializes in telecommunications policy, cable television and internet utilization.
One factor that could explain the shift in Wisconsin is the increasing number of those with a bachelor’s degree, said Noah Williams, a conservative UW-Madison economist.
Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.
In the summer of 1978 when Long Island native Monica Turner was an undergraduate at Fordham University, she volunteered as a naturalist in Yellowstone National Park.
Quoted: “Consumer confidence is a big deal during the holidays, so Madison will probably do a little bit better than the national average,” said Jerry O’Brien, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at UW-Madison. “It’s apparent that some people like shopping on Thanksgiving. We may have hit that balance, but the (stores) that are closing (on Thanksgiving) have had some good responses, too.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s corporate partnerships bring in revenue for the institution but also raise ethical questions.
Quoted: “I think it’s encouraging, because although we might usually think that the more expensive the gift, the better it is, that’s often not the case,” University of Wisconsin marketing professor Evan Polman told CreditCards.com. “As a recipient, you’re usually just as happy to receive an expensive gift as you are an inexpensive gift. There is some truth to ‘It’s the thought that counts.’ “
Quoted: Evan Polman, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, adds that people tend to defer financial decisions when they’re mentally zapped. And of course, the longer you put off something like figuring out how to pay off your debt or when to start investing, the worse off you’ll be.
Noted: Donald Downs was a guest.
“It may have something to do with the cumulative impact of a lot of gains in health care, in terms of preventing and treating childhood infections, and improved maternal and child health,” said Karen Cruickshanks, a UW-Madison epidemiologist who led the study, published Thursday in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology.
Quoted: Neeraj Arora, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business, said engaging in politics should not be a business’s main goal. “Ideally, a company is in the business to actually serve the customers and they kind of stay out of the politics,” Arora said.
Scientists with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Initiative on Climate Change Impacts — an effort to identify climate change fallout and offer coping strategies — believe that the effects can be mitigated with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. They believe that policy makers and public agencies can take measures to adapt. But those measures are on indefinite hold. “It’s disappointing, particularly with the shutdown of the DNR science bureau that WICCI collaborated with,” said Michael Notaro, a UW-Madison professor on the front lines of climate research.
Jason Fletcher, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs, Sociology, Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences, has studied the intersection of genetics and social sciences for years.
Dr. Toby Campbell, chief of UW Health’s palliative care program and a board member of Agrace Hospice and Palliative Care in Fitchburg, said he understands why death midwives are catching on.
Other national or state issues could also have an impact. And whoever emerges from the ensemble to play the Democrats’ leading role as challenger could also shape the debate, said UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden.
In Wisconsin, assistance is being scaled back but remains available, said Donna Friedsam, director of Covering Wisconsin. People wanting help can call 211 or go to www.coveringwi.org.
Quoted: For example, in the death care services industry (10.8% profit margin), which includes businesses such as funeral homes and crematories, price wars are less intense because customers make decisions more quickly based on emotions and are less likely to shop around, says Dan Olszewski, director at the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business.
The founder of UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Noted: Shawn Green, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes that games like Call of Duty develop retained skills specifically because they are fun. Games created with the sole intent to improve cognition are what he referred to at a panel at the University of California, San Francisco, as “chocolate-covered broccoli.” The level of genuine engagement in the game correlates with how likely the player is to retain the skills necessary to play it.
Noted: Justin Sydnor, an associate professor at the Wisconsin School of Business, was part of a contingent who studied new gym memberships. They found incentives to join gyms did not help people maintain exercise habits.
Noted: This article is by Robin J. Tanner, associate professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Noted: Private-equity investments can be a good way for a company to let owners diversify their assets, making their exposure to the company’s risks more palatable, UW-Madison School of Business associate professor Oliver Levine said.
Noted: Ed Churchwell is a faculty member in the astronomy department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“That shows they’re doing a good job of reaching out to kids from diverse backgrounds,” said Eric Grodsky, a UW-Madison associate professor and co-director of the research partnership.
As a longtime professor of Wisconsin constitutional law and government, I have been lamenting that Wisconsin’s constitution and institutions have been largely absent from the Wisconsin redistricting case just argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. Simply put, the case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.
“The market — if they want to keep workers — should push employers to do better for them on scheduling,” said UW-Madison economist Tim Smeeding, but some governments can and have enacted policies to allow for more family-friendly scheduling.
“If people are having fewer children, there’s going to be a smaller pool entering the labor force 20 to 25 years down the road,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer at UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory.
“It’s a positive thing,” said Dr. Deb Ehrenthal, a UW-Madison associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and population health sciences. “Kids do better if they’re born into a more stable setting.”
Russian cyberactors might have thought accessing Workforce Development systems would help them access voter files, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison professor and elections expert.
A Voter ID law and presidential candidates’ failure to show up in the state contributed to a surprising drop in voter turnout among Wisconsin college students, said Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.
A study released Monday estimates 16,800 or more people in Dane and Milwaukee counties were deterred from casting ballots in November because of Wisconsin’s voter ID law.
Noted: The essay, a roughly 500-word sermonlike meditation called “Individual Influence,” was found at the New York Public Library by Jonathan Senchyne, an assistant professor of book history at the University of Wisconsin. The document, which will be published in October in PMLA — the journal of the Modern Language Association — appears to be the first prose essay in Horton’s handwriting to come to light, and one of only a handful of manuscripts in his own handwriting known to survive.
Crayola’s new color, “Blue-tiful,” has sparked up quite the debate. Majid Sarmadi is an expert on color theory and technology, looks into the conversation.
Noted: While New York’s growth may be bad for Wisconsin’s ranking, Erin Silva, organic production specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s good for the state’s farmers.
Dan Olszewski, director of UW-Madison’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, said the biggest challenges startup companies face are finding its target user and effectively marketing to them.
Noted: Michael Caldwell, a staff psychologist at Mendota Mental Health Institute and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hired by Weier’s attorneys to evaluate her in July 2014.
Noted: Patz is director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison
Noted: Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, is John P Holton Chair of Health and the Environment and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Interview with Brian Mayhew, associate professor of Accounting & Information Systems and Executive Director of the Arthur Andersen Center for Financial Reporting and Control at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
While Hurricane Harvey washed through neighborhoods in and around Houston last week, a small group of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists noticed something unusual off the coast of Africa.
Atlantic hurricane seasons over the years have been shaped by many complex factors, explained Jim Kossin, a hurricane scientist with NOAA and the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Those include large scale ocean currents, air pollution — which tends to cool the ocean down — and climate change, which does the opposite.
“Meditation can help foster a mindful, rather than automatic or reactive response to chronic pain. Mindfulness builds awareness of the differences between pain sensations itself (i.e., sharp, shooting, stabbing) versus patterns of unhelpful reactions to pain such as emotional reactions or patterns of behavior. It disrupts the autopilot way of responding that isn’t effective and often causes additional suffering by giving us greater freedom to make healthier choices. Since difficult situations and painful stressors will always be a part of life, mindfully learning how to handle them can make all the difference,” says Shilagh A. Mirgain, UW Health Senior Psychologist.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin finance professor James Johannes said the move makes sense. “It’s pretty common for smaller banks to want to be state-chartered,” he said.
Quoted: But there are differences between the ways in which reporters are covering a hurricane this time around. Hurricane Katrina was later seen as “a real black mark on journalism,” says Kathleen Bartzen Culver, the assistant professor and James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
A new analysis from the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center has determined that Harvey is a 1-in-1,000-year flood event that has overwhelmed an enormous section of Southeast Texas equivalent in size to New Jersey.
Noted: (translated from French) “Sponsored links redirect to manufactured stories, pure fake news,” says Tom O’Guinn, a marketing professor at the Wisconsin School of Business. If the traditional way of campaigning in the United States remains to bomb Americans from political spots on TV between two pubs for laundry or pizza, “these field spots are very, very expensive,” O’Guinn said, ‘conversely, buying links is cheap at all. Pubs are always more accurate, more targeted through social media and more advanced analytics. “
UW Anxiety Disorders Program Director Dr. Marcia Slattery talks about what parents can do to minimize the anxiety students feel when it’s time to go back to school.
Interview with Tracey Holloway.
As the kids get back to school, lunches need to be packed again. Chef Julie Andrews RD of UW Health shows us a healthy, easy and delicious recipe for the kids — and maybe even you too — lasagna cups.
Quoted: Dr. Marcia Slattery, director of the UW Health Anxiety Disorder Program, said you’ll likely notice that younger school-age children may become more irritable as the onset of school approaches. “The grade school kids definitely start asking more,” she said. “They start wanting to have detail about what’s going to happen, basically trying to say, ‘What are the unknowns that I need to know about?’So, more questions, more seeking information.”
Noted: University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor Menzie Chinn’s research also suggests lawmakers in the United States should look to domestic fiscal policy if they want to reduce external imbalances.
Noted: In a separate study, Professor Menzie Chinn from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said that the Trump administration will likely not be able or willing to reduce the US foreign debt, as, amongst other reasons, the Treasury notes’ safe-haven status supports capital inflows in the US.
Noted: The study was conducted by Evan Polman, marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Sam Maglio, marketing professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Quoted: “We are not quite there yet, but that’s what the next level will be,” said Raj Veeramani, founding director of the Internet of Things Systems Research Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A massive manufacturing complex planned by Foxconn Technology Group could generate broad gains for Wisconsin “that go far beyond the direct job estimates and tax revenue costs which have dominated the recent discussion,” according to a report by a UW-Madison economist released Monday.
