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Management Professor Offers Advice on How to Combat ‘Quiet Cracking’ in the Workplace

Posted on by Claire Hall

UConn Today – “Quiet Cracking” is one of the most widely discussed topics in the workplace this summer. In the last week alone, it has made headlines in Forbes, Business Insider, and Psychology Today, and been discussed on MSN and CBS.

Management professor Travis Grosser, of the School of Business, has studied organizational change and shares insight on “quiet cracking” with UConn Today. Below, he explains the causes of quiet cracking and offers recommendations for both business leaders and employees to prevent or mitigate its impact.

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Real Estate Professor Cohen: Study Confirms that Properties Adjacent to Tornado Destruction Initially Plunge in Value

Posted on by Claire Hall

UConn Today – The power of a tornado can inflict tremendous damage on residential property, but the impact is also felt by nearby homeowners, even when their property is unscathed.

Undamaged homes in close proximity to those that were partially or fully destroyed incur up to a 39% decline in value, according to finance and real estate professor Jeffrey P. Cohen, associate economist Violeta A. Gutkowski, and research associate Jack Fuller. Their findings were released in a recent economic report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where Cohen is a Research Fellow.

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Macy’s Welcomes Four UConn Business Grad Students to Explore Sustainable Practices

Posted on by Claire Hall

UConn Today – Macy’s Inc. recently invited four UConn business graduate students to serve as consultants in a months-long project reviewing and analyzing the company’s sustainable business practices.

Each of the four students were enrolled in the “Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business” course taught by business law professor Rachel Chambers. The course is part of a newer graduate program on Social Responsibility & Impact in Business.

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MBA’s Michael Bozzi Named Honorary Commander of Air National Guard Unit

Posted on by Claire Hall

UConn Today – Michael Bozzi, an adjunct faculty member in the MBA program and the Director of the MBA Office of Student Services, has been selected as the Honorary Commander for the Connecticut Air National Guard’s 103rd Maintenance Group.

He is the first civilian to receive the appointment. During his three-year tenure, he will share his leadership knowledge and expertise with the 250-member maintenance group, attend many of their social functions, and go on a training flight to learn more about their work.

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Ask the Experts – Kristen Haseney

Posted on by Scott Slater III

Wallethub – Homeownership isn’t for everyone. Roughly 46 million American households have opted to rent rather than buy their homes because of convenience, cost or both. But renting isn’t always a cheaper or better alternative to owning a property. The right road to take depends on a variety of factors, including an individual’s or family’s financial means and how well the local real-estate market is doing.

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The Rule of Law is Key to Capitalism − Eroding it is Bad News for American Business

Posted on by Robert Bird

UConn Today – Something dangerous is happening to the U.S. economy, and it’s not inflation or trade wars. Chaotic deregulation and the selective enforcement of laws have upended markets and investor confidence. At one point, the threat of tariffs and resulting chaos evaporated US$4 trillion in value in the U.S. stock market. This approach isn’t helping the economy, and there are troubling signs it will hurt both the U.S. and the global economy in the short and long term.

The rule of law – the idea that legal rules apply to everyone equally, regardless of wealth or political connections − is essential for a thriving economy. Yet globally the respect for the rule of law is slipping, and the U.S. is slipping with it. According to annual rankings from the World Justice Project, the rule of law has declined in more than half of all countries for seven years in a row. The rule of law in the U.S., the most economically powerful nation in the world, is now weaker than the rule of law in Uruguay, Singapore, Latvia and over 20 other countries.

Originally published in The Conversation.

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A ‘Blueprint for Mass Cybercrime’

Posted on by Stephen Fitzgerald

UConn Today – A sweeping and deeply concerning leak of internet user credentials is making headlines around the globe, with cybersecurity analysts confirming that more than 16 billion usernames and passwords have been compromised in what’s being called the largest credential compilation ever discovered online.

Although many of us have been desensitized to data breaches, this appears to be a much more sophisticated concentration of effort and information.

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UConn Among First to Offer Experiential Learning in Decentralized Artificial Intelligence

Posted on by Claire Hall

UConn Today – When graduate student Dmitrii Tuzov ’26 MS heard about an opportunity to learn about decentralized AI (deAI) from experts in the field, and potentially create business-enhancing technology, he couldn’t have been more excited.

“My first reaction was, ‘Definitely! That’s what I want to do,’’’ he says. Now in the early stages of the project, he and four other UConn graduate students are learning technical skills, setting goals, and defining the scope of their work. “The deeper I dive, the more I see how big this opportunity is.’’

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UConn 360 Podcast Episode 138: Novel Brands Give Consumers New Choices

Posted on by Scott Slater III

UConn 360 – When somebody scrolls through the top product categories on Amazon odds are some 60% of the brands for sale will be ones you’ve never heard of before. That poses a challenge for marketers looking for their brands to be chosen among the many options, including familiar ones. UConn marketing professor Danielle Brick has researched how novel brands can make inroads in a very crowded marketplace and it has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research. She joins us on the podcast and tells us about how she went about her research, which included offering candy bars to people that just worked out at a gym. Brick also tells us about how novel brands have affected her personal shopping habits and her research on spiteful brand choices in relationships.

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