http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/researchatpenn/Business research highlights from Penn's graduate and professional schools.en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssTue, 03 Jun 2008 13:52:31 -0400minicola@pobox.upenn.eduhttp://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1432&busWed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1432&busThe majority of finalists at this year's Venture Finals -- the culminating event in the yearlong business plan competition -- offered up ideas for businesses that could help people live longer or less painful lives.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1431&busWed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1431&busCertain racial groups seem to spend more on fashionable clothes and flashy cars than others. Or is that just a stereotype?http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1430&busWed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1430&busSingle Family Offices play an important role in managing major investment portfolios, guiding philanthropic endeavors and maintaining values across generations of extremely wealthy families.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1429&busFri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1429&busThe credit shortage puts pressure on pricing and transactional quality, while also giving public companies a better shot at acquisitions that the more aggressive private equity firms might previously have snatched away.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1415&busWed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1415&busWhat would you pay for an additional year of healthy life in America? How about $129,090?http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1414&busWed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1414&busFrom trans fats to gas-guzzling SUVs, it takes creative marketing to sell unpopular products.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1413&busMon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1413&busA statistician offers the possibility that hedge fund managers might be gaming the system to maintain those huge management fees.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1412&busTue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1412&busBear raids do take place and the strategy manipulates stock prices and can devastate an organization. Even Bear Stearns.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1411&busTue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1411&busMany say CEO compensation is getting out of hand. A new Wharton study says the consultants who advise on compensation aren't the ones to blame.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1396&busWed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1396&busTwo Wharton researchers delve into the psychology that leads executives to commit fraud and endanger themselves and their corporation.