News at Adelphi

Rethinking our approach to rooting out organizational corruption.

How accountants navigated market unknowns.

On March 1, future entrepreneurs from the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business got valuable real-world experience in what it would take to launch their own businesses when they competed in the University’s annual Shark Tank-style Business Plan Competition.

The Misery Index was introduced in the 1970s as a crude measure of economic adversity, adding together the otherwise incommensurable inflation and unemployment rates. In a similar spirit, here we introduce a rudimentary measure of monetary accommodation. Our Fed Accommodation Index is the simple sum of two components. The first is the difference between the…

Master of Science in Business Analytics students put their skills into practice by teaming up with tech enterprise Netrality Data Centers.

Probing the correlation between a company's political ideology and its loan terms

A new approach to cost-benefit analysis helps corporations reduce their carbon emissions.

When patients are given the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear—that they have cancer—the first questions most will ask are about their prognosis.

Behind the unsung innovations driving global commerce.

What began as a virtual collaboration in 2020 and turned into a successful international exchange will move to its next phase this month.

More than 252 million of the world's entrepreneurs are women, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's (GEM) 2018/2019 Women's Entrepreneurship Report. Perhaps inspired by these women who have taken on the business world, an average of almost 18 percent of women globally said they too aspired to start a new business within the next three years.

When GM, the auto manufacturer, is planning the next quarter's production of its Sierra Denali pickup, it needs to be able to accurately predict the timely delivery of parts and components—from its other units and external suppliers. The company does this by using a computer simulation or a model which tries to mimic the real world. In reality, managers often don't have accurate or complete data to build the model. Eunji Lim, PhD, assistant professor of decision sciences, has addressed this problem by developing an algorithm that takes care of the problem of insufficient data.

Nearly 250 million people in India do not have access to electricity. Creating the infrastructure to connect them to the power grid is a costly and challenging project. Gita Surie, PhD, professor of management, has been studying how an ecosystem for providing renewable energy for the world’s poorest people living in rural areas can be created that will both safeguard the environment and improve social and economic conditions in India.

Annually, worldwide, 1.3 million tons of garbage go into landfills. Reducing such waste is one reason behind the growth of “alternative giving,” where people share and exchange products instead of throwing them away. Fan Liu, PhD, assistant professor of marketing, and Zachary Johnson, PhD, associate professor of marketing, studied this growing practice and found that it, enabled by social media and networks, benefits the broader society.

Climate change has been identified in many quarters as the existential crisis facing all of mankind. It has been estimated that the world needs to spend between $1.6 trillion and $3.8 trillion every year to honor the commitments of the Paris climate agreement. Robert Goldberg, clinical associate professor of finance, and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor of economics and department chair, have proposed that a fund be set up by the government to pay for the costs associated with carrying out the changes needed to halt global warming.

Adelphi instructors and students aren't only making the best of remote learning during the time of pandemic. In some cases, they're taking advantage of it and building on it.

New research reveals the impact of leadership on new product development.

Adelphi's nursing and business schools join forces to inspire the next generation of nurse managers.

Divergent views find common ground in a proposed climate security fund.

Murat Sakir Erogul, PhD, focuses his research on entrepreneurship, gender and identity, organizational leadership and family business management. He has published research on the topic of female entrepreneurs in developing and emerging countries. 

Combining college classroom learning with outside activities that enhance student knowledge and engagement is a powerful way to make more of the college experience.