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Faculty Research

Are Siri and Alexa making us ruder? The answer is...

August 16, 2019
Is the way we bark out orders to digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant making us less polite? Prompted by growing concerns, two BYU information systems researchers decided to ask.
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Faculty Research

Viewing pornography at work increases unethical behavior on the job

June 24, 2019
New research discovers employees who view pornography aren't just costing companies millions of dollars in wasted time, they're causing harm to the company.
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Faculty Research

BYU Marriott study: Effective incentives help people overcome procrastination

May 07, 2019
Researchers from Harvard, Yale and BYU Marriott have found a useful tool in overcoming procrastination when it comes to making financial decisions.
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Faculty Research

Show me the gift cards! Reward types impact effectiveness of wellness programs

March 22, 2019
Employee wellness programs are popular among businesses seeking to increase productivity and cut health care costs. New research from BYU Marriott professors sheds light on how to possibly motivate employees to participate in these programs.
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Faculty Research

Ninth Harvard Business Review Article Published by BYU Strategy Professor

March 13, 2019
Getting published in the Harvard Business Review is difficult, but BYU Marriott School of Business strategy professor Jeff Dyer seems to have successfully faced the challenge.
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Faculty Research

Race, Gender, and Age Affect Who Writes Majority Opinions for State Supreme Courts

March 13, 2019
A new study coauthored by a BYU researcher provides evidence that the gender, age and race of state supreme court justices may influence whether they are asked to write the majority opinion in a case.
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Employee Experiences

Newly Organized Professional Research Team Streamlines Farming Supply Chain in Tanzania

February 01, 2019
The Global Innovation Group (GIG) unites professors from across BYU's campus to focus on advancing social innovation and fighting global problems, such as poverty.
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Faculty Research

Study: Collaborative video games could increase office productivity

January 28, 2019
Move over trust falls and ropes courses, turns out playing video games with coworkers is the real path to better performance at the office.
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Faculty Research

On its own, Trump admin's price disclosure policy unlikely to help curb drug prices

January 23, 2019
The Trump administration proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to publish drug prices in TV ads is unlikely to help control drug prices, according to a co-authored BYU study published Jan. 22 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Faculty Research

Good vs. Evil: How heroes and villains affect the food you buy

January 10, 2019
A new BYU study finds the battle between good and evil is being waged in our food packaging, and we are paying the price because of it, both in terms of health and money.
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Faculty Research

BYU prof breaks down Uncle Sam’s loans to automakers

November 29, 2018
Did you know the US government is in the business of lending billions to automakers like Ford, Nissan and Tesla?
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Faculty Research

Political Competition Is Hurting Our Charitable Giving

October 25, 2018
A new study coauthored by public management professor Rob Christensen presents a unique angle of American politics: how party affiliation affects charitable donations.
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Alumni Spotlight

Improving Deception Detection

June 28, 2018
Andrew Sanford, a recent MISM grad and ORCA grant recipient, developed a framework aimed to help auditors better detect fraud.
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Faculty Research

Paying Attention to Notifications

May 24, 2018
Using brain data, eye-tracking data and field-study data, a group of BYU Marriott researchers have confirmed something about our interaction with security warnings on computers and phones: the more we see them, the more we tune them out.
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Faculty Research

Opening New Types of Research

May 16, 2018
"I use video data to help people see what they are unaware of." BYU Marriott professor Curtis LeBaron is leading the way in tapping into the burgeoning power of video.
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Faculty Research

Entrepreneurship Skills Shared Globally

March 28, 2018
Professor Chad Carlos is making the world his campus by teaching BYU Marriott entrepreneurship principles across the globe.
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Faculty Research

Can a New Nonprofit Succeed?

March 27, 2018
Public administration professor Robert Christensen's new research seeks to answer whether or not there are too many nonprofits in the market.
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Faculty Research

IS Faculty Win Best Paper Award

December 27, 2017
You may think twice before listing "multitasking" as a skill on your resume due to top-notch research performed by BYU professors on security warnings.
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