A message from our Associate Dean for Research

Welcome to research at the Tippie College of Business.

From its inception to today, Tippie places a high premium on the thought leadership provided by a dynamic, productive, and engaged faculty. Researchers in our six departments have a proven track record of creating new knowledge that moves their field forward, while also engaging constructively with businesses and other external partners to advance the state of business practice.

Here, you’ll encounter demonstrated research success such as:

  • world-class records of academic impact in areas like accounting and management;
  • timely results from young faculty in areas like risk management (finance) and human decision making (marketing);
  • contributions to large-scale interdisciplinary research in healthcare, climate change, and emergency management in business analytics and economics;
  • the world’s only real-money academic research market, the Iowa Electronic Markets;
  • impactful engagement with corporations, non-profits, regulatory agencies, etc. around the globe.

Tippie’s research mission drives the state of knowledge from Iowa to the world. Whether you’re a prospective student or faculty member, academic peer, or potential new partner, feel free to reach out to us if you have questions, or if you want to get involved.

Nick Street

Nick Street

Associate Dean for Research and PhD Programs
Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Business Analytics
nick-street@uiowa.edu

12 %

More peer reviewed articles per faculty member in the last five years

# 11

Most productive management faculty

TAMUGA Rankings, Pubs/Faculty, 2021

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Countries represented by our PhD students

Research seminars and speaker series

Behavioral Research seminars

This series provides a forum for faculty and PhD students who conduct behavioral research to present and discuss their current projects in a low-pressure environment.

See upcoming seminars

Research Methods seminars

This series provides faculty and PhD students in Business Analytics, Economics, and Finance with opportunities to successfully introduce methods, while offering new insights for more experienced researchers.

See upcoming seminars

Departmental seminars

Each year, several of our academic departments invite influencers and scholars from around the nation to speak to faculty and students. Our current lineup includes:

Faculty research news

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UI professor helps create domestic abuse awareness training module

Thursday, October 3, 2024
Professor Beth Livingston created the Abuse Is Not Love website to help people identify when their coworkers or even themselves are in need of help.
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University of Iowa economics professor shares how Fed's interest rate cut will impact borrowers

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Professor Ann Villamil talks with WQAD about the impact of recent rate cuts.
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Tippie NSF grant to help connect academic researchers with venture capitalists

Monday, September 23, 2024
A Tippie College of Business researcher has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how the commercialization of academic research is affected by the geographic location of the institution.
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Tippie researcher helps global domestic abuse program

Monday, September 23, 2024
Learn more about the "Abuse Is Not Love" program Tippie's Beth Livingston created with Yves St. Laurent.
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Silver medalists appear less happy than bronze medalists

Thursday, September 19, 2024
Associate professor Andrea Luangrath looked into why Olympians who come in second are often less pleased than those who finish third.