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$1 million CDC grant to help researchers improve work from home management

Monday, October 4, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $1.1 million grant to the Tippie College of Business and the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest in the College of Public Health. Researchers will use the five-year grant to investigate better methods of training supervisors to manage employees who work remotely.
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How to make informal leadership work

Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Tippie's Jennifer Nahrgang and coauthors' research on strategies to help both formal managers and informal leaders reap the benefits of informal leadership while minimizing its negative side effects was recently summarized in Harvard Business Review.
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New Discoveries And The Future Of The Office

Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Iowa Public Radio's Ben Kieffer speaks with Michele Williams about the future of the office, why the office matters, how employees can negotiate working from home after the pandemic and how managers have been trying to foster a virtual company culture.
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UI to study automation impact on clerical work

Monday, September 20, 2021
Automation is changing everyone’s jobs, even secretaries and receptionists, office assistants, and mailroom clerks. But while numerous studies and think pieces have thought about how automation is affecting factory workers, engineers, or truck drivers, few have looked at how artificial intelligence will change clerical jobs. A $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...
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NSF grant will study how automation affects clerical work

Friday, September 17, 2021
Automation is changing everyone’s jobs, even the secretaries and receptionists, office assistants and mail room clerks, but no major study has looked at how clerical work will be affected by technology. A $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to researchers at the Tippie College of Business will start the process of answering those questions.
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Stop screening job candidates’ social media

Thursday, September 2, 2021
Social media sites such as Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram have given many organizations a new hiring tool. According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employers check out applicants’ profiles as part of their screening process, and 54% have rejected applicants because of what they found. Social media sites offer a free, easily accessed portrait of what a candidate is really like, yielding a...
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Faculty mourn the loss of former Tippie professor Frank Schmidt

Thursday, September 2, 2021
Frank Schmidt, former emeritus professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, died from a heart attack on Aug. 21 at 77. Faculty at Tippie College of Business are remembering the legacy of an impactful faculty member recorded as an incredibly impactful scholar in his field.
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Professor emeritus Frank Schmidt dies at 77

Monday, August 23, 2021
Frank Schmidt, emeritus professor of management & entrepreneurship at the Tippie College of Business and one of the University of Iowa’s most cited researchers, died suddenly of a heart attack on Saturday, Aug. 21.
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Courtright joins Department of Management and Entrepreneurship

Thursday, August 19, 2021
Stephen Courtright earned his PhD from the Tippie College of Business and returned in 2020 after eight years at Texas A&M University to become the Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Management and Director of Executive Education.
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Van Iddekinge joins the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship

Friday, August 13, 2021
Chad Van Iddekinge joined the Tippie College of Business from Florida State University in 2020 as the Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Management. Van Iddekinge’s research focuses on how organizations make staffing decisions and how those decisions affect job applicants and the quality and diversity of a firm’s workforce.