Charles Lindsey, associate
professor of marketing, spoke
with the Associated Press about
Major League Baseball's strug-
gle to get attendance back to
pre-pandemic levels. Though
inflation and the pandemic were
straining fans' budgets, "those
are factors that are common
across all sorts of recreational
experiences," Lindsey said. "Din-
ing out, travel — a lot of those
areas are back to pre-pandemic
levels." ESPN, Yahoo! Sports and
others also carried the story.
Lindsey also was interviewed
by CNN Business about holiday
sales creep, a strategy where
retailers start the holiday season
in early fall with deals and dec-
orations. "Christmas music and
aesthetics and scenery affect
purchase behavior," Lindsey
said. "It might give consumers an
opportunity to indulge a little bit
more and spend."
Sunyee Yoon, assistant profes-
sor of marketing, discussed the
relationship between impulse
buying and other economic fac-
tors with The Wall Street Journal.
"Increasing income inequality,
along with the fear of economic
recession, can make people feel
that it is very hard for them to
succeed," Yoon said. "If being
rich is perceived as realistically
difficult, people have no reason
to control their spending and
save more because their finan-
cial prudence won't bring real
financial success to them."
Several influential media featured the accomplishments of the
School of Management and the expertise of its faculty over the
past several months. Below is a summary of some of the school's
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.
NewsBites
6 Buffalo Business Spring 2023
The New York Times quoted Mi-
chael Dambra, associate pro-
fessor of accounting and law,
about a new Securities and Ex-
change Commission rule requir-
ing executive pay to be linked
to specific performance goals.
"Companies have flexibility in
reporting this pay information —
and that may be problematic,"
he said. Performance measures
can be finessed to reflect favor-
ably on the firm, thus defeating
the SEC's transparency goals,
Dambra noted.
Natalie Simpson, professor and
chair of operations manage-
ment and strategy, shared her
insights on disaster response
with Popular Science. Low-in-
come people, racial and ethnic
minority groups, and the elderly
are most at risk for disaster
exposure, she said. "The domi-
nant factor in anyone's ability to
minimally prepare for disaster
is income level," Simpson said,
adding that mobility is crucial
to staying safe — an additional
challenge for these demo-
graphics.
Business Insider quoted James
Lemoine, associate professor
of organization and human
resources, in a story about how
employers are using artificial
intelligence to catch candidates
who lie in interviews. "Every-
thing we thought we knew
about work has been called into
question in the last two years,"
Lemoine said. "In the age of
the 'Great Resignation,' they're
quitting more often, so a lot
of people start to think, 'What
other rules can be broken?'"
CNBC and Re:Thinking, a
podcast hosted by bestselling
author Adam Grant, discussed
a study by Emily Grijalva and
Timothy Maynes, associate pro-
fessors of organization and hu-
man resources. Their research
showed that NBA teams with
higher levels of narcissism had
poorer coordination and lower
overall performance.
Forbes reported on a School
of Management study that
examined how gender influ-
ences perceptions of creativity
in organizations. "Based on the
findings of this research, an
environment that fosters gender
egalitarianism, kindness, equal-
ity and concern for others is
likely to be beneficial in boost-
ing the creativity of women and
men," said doctoral researcher
Snehal Hora, who led the study
with co-authors Lemoine and
Grijalva.
Arun Lakshmanan, associate
professor of marketing, was
quoted in major media — in-
cluding Bloomberg and Fortune
— about the rise of so-called
"authentic" social media apps,
like BeReal. "When [Instagram
and Facebook] first came on
the scene, they were touted as a
way to connect," he said. "Then,
over time, use actually correlat-
ed with greater loneliness and
disengagement as the business
model behind that has fueled a
different sort of behavior. [These
apps] are a market response to
a failed need, which is the need
for an authentic connection."
MarketWatch interviewed
Michael Dambra, associate
professor of accounting and
law, about declining investor
interest in special purchase
acquisition companies (SPACs).
"Shareholders are pretty leery of
transactions right now," he said.
"High-growth firm valuations
have plummeted, and influen-
tial investors are worried about
paying the earlier agreed-upon
prices."
Research by Danielle Tussing, as-
sistant professor of organization
and human resources, was cited
by The Economist and Yahoo!
Finance in an article titled, "The
deadly sins and the workplace."
Tussing's study found that when
some people feel envious of their
colleagues, they skip work or quit
to avoid those feelings.
USA Today interviewed Charles
Lindsey, associate professor
of marketing, about why the
Federal Trade Commission is
stepping up enforcement efforts
against false "Made in the USA"
labels. "There was a fear that if
you don't enforce it, ultimately
it becomes meaningless and
consumers might not be willing
to pay more," Lindsey said.
Nallan Suresh, UB Distinguished
Professor of Operations Man-
agement and Strategy, was
quoted by The Buffalo News
about how companies are
working to overcome supply
chain disruptions. "We need to
continue with this agenda of
diversifying supply chains with
a sense of urgency," Suresh said.
"We may not be able to predict
the next event, but we can at
least predict the consequences
proactively."
