July 18, 2017
Hartford Business Journal – Health insurer Aetna’s decision to relocate top-level employees to New York City, while maintaining the bulk of its workforce in Hartford, is part of a nationwide management trend in which companies are increasingly separating their corporate executives from the rest of their workforce.
July 17, 2017
Norwich Bulletin – Foxwoods Resort Casino’s slot-machine revenue for June rose 2.7 percent compared with a year earlier but was down compared with May.
Mohegan Sun reported an 8 percent revenue gain for June, making it the first time in three months that both casinos reported revenue gains in the same month. But don’t break out the champagne just yet.
The increases say more about the strength of economies in neighboring states than about Connecticut’s situation, said Fred Carstensen, a University of Connecticut finance professor who is director of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis.
July 14, 2017
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation – Namho Kang is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Connecticut. This post is based on a recent paper authored by Professor Kang; Kenneth A. Froot, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; Gideon Ozik, Affiliate Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School; and Ronnie Sadka, Professor of Finance at Boston College Carroll School of Management.
July 13, 2017
Healthcare in the age of technology, offers different tools for the consumer.
To prepare for healthcare technology, you have to understand what types of technology exist. For the individual, there are personal health tools, often in the form of wearables. Continue Reading
Jeffrey Cohen, a professor of finance and real estate, served as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for four days in May. Continue Reading
Mansfield Patch – A University of Connecticut faculty member has reached a conclusion about social media addiction — the answer seems to lie not with quantity of postings but whether people post more on weekends than weekdays.
UConn operations and information management professor Xue Bai and two colleagues revealed the findings in a newly published study in the journal “Information & Management” titled, “Weekdays or weekends: Exploring the impacts of microblog posting patterns on gratification and addiction.”
July 12, 2017
HealthNewsDigest.com – Are you at risk of becoming addicted to social media?
It seems the answer lies not in how much you tweet or microblog, but rather, whether you post significantly more on weekends than weekdays.
That’s what UConn operations and information management professor Xue Bai and two colleagues found in a newly published study in the journal Information & Management titled, “Weekdays or weekends: Exploring the impacts of microblog posting patterns on gratification and addiction.” Their findings are based on in-depth study of the habits and responses of a diverse group of 308 microbloggers.
Greenwich Time – Charter Communications cemented its dominance of the cable market last year by acquiring two of the largest firms in the industry. Now it is forging closer ties with the country’s largest cable company and possibly one of the largest cellular carriers in a bid to tap into new markets.