Category: Experts Guide

Quoted: “What was strained was the relationship between Netanyahu and Obama…in personal terms,” Nadav Shelef, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Israel Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Teen Vogue. “There was no strain [between the countries] in any other sense of the word.”

Quoted: Entrepreneurship is an important part of the economic engine, said Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business. Almost all net job creation in last 20 years has come from companies five years old or younger, he said.“Job creation is very much driven by startups,” he said.

Noted: Hart Posen, associate professor of management and human resources in the Wisconsin School of Business, was interviewed for a story on Walmart’s quarterly report and its battle with Amazon (at the 1:05 mark).

Quoted: “Those WHO statistics are just from some very specific health outcomes where we have some known working equations and models to do it,” said Dr. Jonathan Patz, a professor and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who participated in the meeting.

Quoted: Christine Whelan, a UW-Madison professor in the Department of Consumer Science and director of the School of Human Ecology’s Relationships, Finance and Life Fulfillment Initative, said the idea of boy dolls “isn’t particularly new,” citing “Ken and Barbie back in the day.”

Quoted: It’s “never a sure thing,” said Steve Carpenter, director of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, but “the odds are better than even that (Lake Mendota) will thaw in February, in my opinion.

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.

Quoted: As more cooperatives merge, dairy farmers have fewer options for selling their milk, said Peter Carstensen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and expert in antitrust law and competition policy.

Quoted: History suggests that lawmakers who outperform their party’s president at the ballot box exercise more independence from the White House, says David Canon, a congressional scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.“For members of Congress where a president runs ahead of them in their districts, there is a tendency to support him more,” says Canon.

Quoted: A sales decline probably has indeed occurred, said both University of Wisconsin-Madison marketing professor Neeraj Arora and retail industry consultant Dick Seesel. “Donald Trump’s election rhetoric likely eroded a sizable chunk of Ivanka’s customer base of wealthy, educated, urban women,” Arora said by email.

Quoted: “Meteors like that are surprisingly small for as much light as they put out,” said Jim Lattis, the director of UW-Madison’s Space Place, which is part of the Astronomy Department.

Quoted: The company, which is registered as a public benefit corporation, includes the charity component to show it’s not just about making profits. This practice is unusual because an insurance company usually keeps all the profit or pays dividends to its shareholders or policyholders, said Justin Sydnor, a behavioral economist and associate professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural & applied economics professor Paul Mitchell said without the TPP, the United States will have to negotiate individual trade deals with the countries involved, a process that could take a great deal of time.

Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute, said Medicaid’s relatively rosy budget situation this year could make reform even more likely.

Quoted: Thomas O’Guinn, professor of marketing at UW-Madison, views the naming rights deal as a good move by American Family. He said the insurance market is crowded, so it’s to American Family’s advantage to stand out.

Quoted: UW-Madison economist Steven Deller said the level of union membership nationally has been declining for years — a trend that is likely to continue with large-scale, labor-intensive manufacturing being replaced with smaller-scale technology that requires more capital but less manual labor. Large-scale manufacturing companies tend to be unionized and their replacements are more likely not to be.

Other times, laws become so restrictive that people are forced to break them to engage in public life, said Finn Enke, a professor of gender and women’s studies at UW-Madison. “Civil disobedience arises when conditions become such that persons are actually criminalized for really basic behaviors,” Enke said, pointing out that transgender people using a bathroom or undocumented immigrants receiving public services could be breaking laws.

Quoted: “I found that young children with imprisoned mothers are at risk for having insecure attachment relationships with their mothers and caregivers,” says Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kids may become ambivalent or anxious about relationships, instead of enjoying the type of secure relationships that help a child flourish.

University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor David Canon said the question for the Women’s March movement is whether it will have a lasting impact on policy following Saturday’s marches.

Art faculty Lynda Barry quoted: “Always carry a pen and a notebook with you — write down the crazy things you hear people say: the good, the bad, the confusing. If you can draw a picture of them saying it, even better! In other words, start to make comics about your experiences in this world.“And learn to sing ‘Bad Reputation’ by Joan Jett. Sing it as loud as you can with all of your heart.”

Noted: Katherine J. Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, recently wrote a book about this. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker came out just last March. It’s based on research she did from 2007 to 2012, when she essentially kept inviting herself to informal but regular gatherings of people in more than two dozen rural communities around the state—and listened.

Quoted: To Justin Sydnor, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who studies insurance and individual behavior, the two measures represent a chance to put politics aside and think about what really happens when the government requires consumers to buy insurance.

Kathy Cramer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, noticed these bubbling tensions when studying rural Wisconsinites’ political opinions. In her book “The Politics of Resentment,” Cramer explains the ever-growing wariness of people in rural areas toward Madison and Milwaukee.

Quoted: “The vocal folds have a very specific viscosity, and you need that viscosity to create the mucosal wave,” said Susan Thibeault, an otolaryngologist and surgeon at the University of Wisconsin.

UW-Madison professor Hart Posen joined Steve Ketelaar on Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News to discuss the future of retail. How did brick-and-morter stores do compared to online during Black Friday and holiday shopping? What will malls look like in the next few years?

Quoted: That has the advantage of allowing the U.S. Senate to pass a repeal measure without needing a filibuster-proof majority of 60 votes. But it also has the downside of being unable to necessarily pass all the elements that are likely needed in a replacement plan, said Donna Friedsam, director of Health policy programs at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

Quoted: “At the moment, he looks like a very individualized figure in history,” said political scientist Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hillary Clinton “couldn’t mobilize the Obama coalition because it’s an Obama coalition.”

Katy Culver, an assistant professor of Journalism at UW-Madison and the director of the UW Center for Journalism Ethics, talks about the phenomenon of “fake news” on Live at Four.

Quoted: Because of Walker’s approach, what happens to the exchange and its subsidies matters more in Wisconsin than in most places, said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute.

Quoted: Martin Ganco, an associate business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part of a nationwide effort to find out how widespread non-competes are, which industries use them, and how they impact companies, workers and the overall economy.

Quoted: UW-Madison Journalism Professor Mike Wagner told 27 News politicians have always challenged the press, but feels the type of attack from President-Elect Trump is certainly new for an entire of generation of reporters used to covering the likes of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – all of whom were generally cordial with the media.

Quoted: “We don’t want to lose ground on the insurance coverage,” Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute, said during a panel discussion at the Capitol.

Quoted: “There’s no question there’s an income disparity, and probably in no case does more than half of that [79-cents-on-the-dollar] gap go away when you control for other factors,” says Barry Gerhart, a professor of management and human resources at the University of Wisconsin School of Business. “The question is, what causes that? That’s harder to answer.”

There is still a lot about the political campaign process the public should know, said Young Mie Kim, the UW researcher. She is still poring through ads she collected during the general election to try to understand how voters are targeted. Her findings are due in the spring. Kim is examining ads received by more than 10,000 voters nationwide during the general election. She collected ads six weeks before Election Day from volunteers who agreed to download an internet browser extension that tracked the political ads they received. The browser extension worked like an ad blocker, but instead of blocking ads, it captured them and sent them to Kim.

UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said the statewide error rate might represent a small change in the eyes of the public or candidates, but for an election official it reveals areas where there’s room for improvement.

UW-Madison professor Hart E. Posen talks to News 3 This Morning about the naming of a new CEO for Wisconsin company Lands’ End.

Noted: We know that, as human beings, we compare ourselves to other people constantly—whether we’re aware of it or not. Research by Liad Weiss, assistant professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business, and Gita Venkataramani Johar of the Columbia Business School showed that we also compare ourselves to the inanimate objects that surround us, and whether or not we own these things can dictate how they make us feel about ourselves.

Quoted: A University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor who was on hand for the vote said that once again in 2016, the Electoral College meetings playing out across the country have made history.”I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this in decades,” Professor Barry Burden said. “To have crowds outside protesting, a full room to watch the event, a lot of interest, a lot of opposition, frankly, to what was happening. Nothing like this before.”

Quoted: While the vote ended any potential controversy surrounding the Electoral College for 2016, UW-Madison Political Science Professor Barry Burden – who sat in on the historic vote – believes the nationwide concern over it long-term isn’t going away.”I suspect this will lead to an ongoing conversation about whether to reform the Electoral College or maybe to do away with it,” said Burden.

Quoted: The choice of Griffith shows that even though the Lands’ End board cut ties with Marchionni, it plans to keep moving fashion forward, said Hart Posen, a UW-Madison associate professor in the School of Business.

Noted: Prof. Anuj Desai serves on the claims commission ruling on the Pan Am pilots’ case.

Noted: In fact, when the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, the giant Canada goose received serious consideration for listing, said Stan Temple, Beers-Bascom professor in conservation and professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Quoted: That’s despite students in extracurricular activities being “less likely to use drugs (although not necessarily alcohol) than youth who are not actively involved,” according to UW-Madison professor Stephen Small, who studies adolescent development and parenting.

Quoted: Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison political science professor who specializes in judicial issues, said the effect of Walker’s preference of appointing judges with Federalist Society ties only signals “a commitment to a more conservative judicial principles.”

UW-Madison Assistant Professor of Finance, Oliver Levine, talks to News 3 This Morning about reports that the Federal Reserve is about to increase interest rates.