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Associated Press

Analysis: Failure 101: a class students could use – 11/05/09
Senior Lecturer of Marketing Richard Honack comments on millennials and the concept of failure.

Proviso Herald

11/05/09
Clinical Professor James B. Shein comments on how entrepreneurship during an economic downturn can be successful.

NPR (To the Point)

11/04/09
Professor of Management and Strategy Aaron Gellman comments on Warren Buffet’s decision to buy a U.S. railroad company.

The Mint

Tort reform no miracle cure for healthcare costs – 11/04/09
The article features research on the impact of tort reform on employer-sponsored health plans, co-authored by Assistant Professor of Management & Strategy Leemore Dafny.

BBC (XM Radio)

11/03/09
Professor of Management and Strategy Aaron Gellman comments on Warren Buffet’s decision to buy a U.S. railroad company.

Bloomberg

Public Option Skeptics Find Support in CBO Health-Care Study – 11/03/09
From the article: Some economists also say the public option would have the unfair advantage of not being taxed and, if it loses money, to ask Congress to make up the shortfall. “I am skeptical of the ability of the public plan to deliver meaningful competition while keeping within a break- even budget constraint,” said Leemore Dafny, a health economist at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. “Sure, it will inject competition if they don’t have to break even.”

Chicago Public Radio

Clean Smell Encourages Good Behavior – 11/03/09
A profile of a study about the connection between moral behavior and cleanliness, co-authored by Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management Adam Galinsky.

Globe and Mail (Canada)

Two schools can be better than one – 11/03/09
The article highlights the school’s joint executive MBA program with the Schulich School of Management at York University in Toronto.

New York Times (also in the International Herald Tribune)

Giving Business Education a Global Twist – 11/03/09
Interim Dean Sunil Chopra comments on the school’s global course requirement.

USA Today

More walk away from homes, mortgages – 11/03/09
The article highlights research on strategic mortgage loan defaults, co-authored by Professor of Finance Paola Sapienza. The research is a part of the Financial Trust Index's Working Papers Series.

BNET

Can a Clean Environment Improve Ethical Behavior? – 11/02/09
A profile of a study about the connection between moral behavior and cleanliness, co-authored by Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management Adam Galinsky.

Los Angeles Times

An antitrust exemption for insurers? That's not the real problem – 11/02/09
From the article: "Competition in the health insurance industry is insufficient," Leemore S. Dafny, a health economist at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, told me last week. "It's becoming less competitive over time and it's causing higher premiums than we otherwise would see." Insurance mergers have hurt doctors and hospitals, too. In many communities powerful insurers not only pump up premiums but suppress reimbursements to doctors and hospitals, who have no alternative but to take what's offered by the dominant healthcare payer in town. The resultant savings aren't typically passed on to policyholders either -- they go to the insurers' bottom lines. There's no time like the present for injecting more competition into the health insurance market, what with Congress moving to push more Americans into the insurance market through coverage mandates and incentives. "Do we really want to throw everybody into this unvibrant marketplace, where costs are far outpacing the growth in worker earnings?" Dafny asks.

Minyanville.com

TV Networks Programmed to Win from Major Games – 11/02/09
The article highlights the 2009 Kellogg Super Bowl Advertising Review.

Morningstar

Should I Stay or Should I Go? – 11/02/09
A reprint of the Kellogg Insight article on how loss-aversion influences choice, based on research by Associate Professor of Marketing Alexander Chernev.

Belleville News-Democrat

Can BlueStar sign up enough customers to make electricity market competitive? – 11/01/09
From the article: Lynne Kiesling, an expert on the retail electricity market, has doubts whether BlueStar can sign up enough customers to ensure a truly competitive residential electricity market in the metro-east or elsewhere across Illinois. Kiesling's concerns revolve around a provision in state law that makes the state's two top power companies -- Ameren Illinois and Commonwealth Edison -- the beneficiaries of what's known as the "default service contract." When Illinois opened up its electricity market to competition, a lot of political jockeying occurred over the question of what do for customers who "choose not to choose," said Kiesling, an economist who teaches at Northwestern University outside Chicago. "But this is an industry that has been regulated and granted a government monopoly for a century," she said. "So there's a lot of inertia. So for a lot of people the easiest option is to stay with the incumbent." Which means BlueStar faces big hurdles in the residential market because companies like it must "make a compelling argument for having some sort of new and interesting bundle of products and services to enable you, the consumer, to manage and control your own electricity decisions," she said. "I hope they can sustain that, but I'm not very optimistic."

Financial Times

Something for the weekend – 10/30/09
A profile of a study about the connection between moral behavior and cleanliness, co-authored by Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management Adam Galinsky.

MSNBC.com

Nothing to sniff at: Clean smells inspire virtue – 10/30/09
A profile of a study about the connection between moral behavior and cleanliness, co-authored by Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management Adam Galinsky.

BNET

Which Do Consumers Fear More: Losing Money or Regretting Bad Choices? – 10/29/09
The article features research on how loss-aversion influences choice, authored by Associate Professor of Marketing Alexander Chernev.

"Chicago Tonight" (WTTW)

10/29/09
Professor of Management and Strategy Aaron Gellman discusses flight safety.

Medill Reports

Finding the sweet spot: Why we balance between indulgence and self-control – 10/29/09
Senior Lecturer of Marketing Kelly Goldsmith comments on the relationship between consumer behavior and one's environment.

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