Eller Faculty Insights
Timely perspectives on critical business issues facing today’s working professionals.
Eller faculty have unique, leading-edge insight into business, and here they share information that can be immediately applied to your career and professional development.
Through webinars, white papers, blogs and more, these insights are also value-added if you are interested in learning more about Eller graduate business programs.
View Eller faculty insights:
The Case for High Impact Leadership
Joe Carella, Assistant Dean, Executive Education
In this webinar, Joe Carella, assistant dean of Eller Executive Education, provides practical tools executives can immediately deploy to improve specific capabilities and amplify business results.
Consumer Reviews are Key to Measure Quality
Anastasiya Pocheptsova Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Marketing
New research by Assistant Professor of Marketing Anastasiya Pocheptsova Ghosh shows that the quantity of product reviews is often more important than higher product ratings.
Contrary to what you’d expect, higher product ratings don’t always translate into better sales. Instead, the quantity of product reviews—regardless of whether those reviews are positive or negative—is often much more important in the consumer’s decision process.
How to Stay Ethical in an Unethical Climate
Paul Melendez, Professor of Practice in Management and Organizations
In this webinar, Paul Melendez, professor of practice in management and organizations, reviews the latest thinking on practicing ethical behavior and provides tips on how to ensure that, even on your worst days, you are not acting unethically.
Women and Leadership: Assertion and Perception
Elizabeth McClean, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations
In this webinar, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations Elizabeth McClean leads you through her research on what happens when women speak up in the workplace and offers some behaviors that both women and men can adopt to support women at work.
In this era of #metoo and #equalpay, it’s becoming evident that gender might play a role in our perception of leaders and leadership.
Why a Cybersecurity Degree is Key to a Flourishing Career
Hsinchun Chen, UA Regents' Professor of Management Information Systems, Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology, Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Director, AZSecure Cybersecurity Fellowship Program
In this white paper, UA Regents' Professor Hsinchun Chen explores how to protect systems, networks and devices from cybersecurity threats; ways to develop skills to institute the best possible security measures; and preparing for your place in the Fourth Industrial Revolution with Eller's online Master's in Cybersecurity.
The Business and Application of Artificial Intelligence
Bikram Ghosh, Associate Professor of Marketing
In this webinar, Bikram Ghosh, associate professor of marketing, will walk you through the different flavors of machine learning, how they can be applied in your company and the risks and limitations of AI so that—buzzword or not—you can help your organization lead the way.
Communicating to Thrive, Especially During COVID 19
Mikel Chertudi, lecturer in business communications
Marisa Michaels, director of and lecturer in business communications
Amber Owens, lecturer in business communications
How can we continue to build and maintain relationships in the absence of face-to-face communication? This webinar focuses on understanding our basic interpersonal needs of inclusion, affection and control, and cover how to effectively communicate our needs to others, as well as understand and accommodate others’ interpersonal needs, and how to best create immediacy and connection over screens in personal and professional contexts.
Wonder at Home | COVID-19 and the Economy
George Hammond, economic and Business Research Center director
Price Fishback, Thomas R. Brown professor of economics
Alice Bonaime, associate professor of finance
The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted nearly every aspect of day-to-day life and how the world operates, including the economy. In this webinar, Eller faculty discuss the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the current economy, touching topics such as employment, new policies, average goods and services prices, and the predicted future of the national and local economy.
Competition and Cooperation in the Workplace
Sarah Doyle, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations
In this webinar, we will:
- Unpack the positive and negative outcomes that predictably emerge within hierarchical and contested environments.
- Detail some of the factors that may aid organizational efforts to maximize the beneficial, and minimize the dysfunctional, outcomes associated with these hierarchical environments.
- Discuss how we can look ahead as COVID-19 continues to impact the way we communicate
Why Trust Matters
Oliver Schilke, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), Director, Center for Trust Studies
This webinar is an opportunity for you to:
- Recognize why trust matters in the workplace
- Understand how trust can be produced
- Discover what you can do to be an effective leader, employee and co-worker
The Price of Taking a Stance
Nooshin Warren, Assistant Professor of Marketing
This webinar will focus on what companies should know when they engage in corporate activism in order to alleviate any negative ramifications, including:
- Who should deliver the message?
- Is the stance a statement or an action?
- Is the stance aligned with the company’s industry?
- Are there external benefits to the stance?
