DIVERSITY IN BUSINESS

Schipani’s research focuses primarily on corporate governance, specifically on the relationship among directors, officers, shareholders, and other stakeholders and pathways for women to obtain positions of organizational leadership. Schipani teaches business law topics.

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Corporate governance, finance and society, and new forms of organizations, corporate governance, organization theory, globalization, social networks, and social movements.

BANKING

Research by Kress focuses on bank regulation, systematic risk, and financial stability. He has presented his research to Congress and serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Education and Industry Forum on Financial Services Culture. His work has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg News.

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HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Connolly’s research primarily focuses on issues of public and private regulation of land use and their relationship to housing affordability and urban redevelopment. He has written on First Amendment related to local government regulation as well as fair housing matters in local planning and zoning. His work on these topics has included filing a U.S. Supreme Court amicus curiae brief and serving as an expert witness in cases involving these and other land use topics. Prior to joining Michigan Ross, Professor Connolly spent over a decade in private law practice in Denver, Colorado, where he represented public- and private-sector clients in zoning, planning, development entitlements, and other complex regulatory matters.

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Empirical operations management, business analytics, price and revenue management, consumer behavior, competitive dynamics, network analysis, service sector, airline, hotel, and retailing.

Institutional theory, culture change, social movements, negotiations, organizational and social entrepreneurship, environmental protection, and sustainability of industries.

Corporate environmental information disclosure, greenwashing, the causes and consequences of renewable energy policy regulation, and voluntary programs for environmental improvement.

Stochastic modeling and strategies for decisionmaking under ambiguity with applications in e-commerce retail, omnichannel retail, supply chain management, revenue management, and humanitarian logistics.

Interactive marketing, ecommerce, retailing, online advertising, digital media consumption, customer relationship management; Bayesian econometrics and statistics, adaptive experiments, multi-armed bandit problems, machine learning. Customer analytics stretches managerial applications, including online display advertising, email marketing, video consumption, and word-of-mouth.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND STRATEGY

Gordon’s interests focus on entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. His expertise also includes alliances and joint ventures, intellectual property strategy and licensing, and the roles and operations of board of directors. Gordon is frequently quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and other outlets. He teaches entrepreneurial studies and strategy topics.

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The function of diversity in complex social systems, the potential for collective intelligence, and the design of institutions for meeting the challenges of a complex world.

Organizational transformation enabled by digital information systems.

Health economics, the demand for insurance, employer-sponsored insurance and the labor market, regulation of insurance markets, and public insurance programs.