BALTIMORE, MD, October 2, 2024 – INFORMS Executive Director Elena Gerstmann, Ph.D., FASAE, CAE, has been elected secretary/treasurer of CESSE, The Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives. CESSE is an association that convenes senior staff leaders from STEM membership organizations. Through CESSE, these leaders exchange best practices, innovative ideas and strategies for leading their respective organizations to success.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A strike has officially been called at all ports along the eastern United States, including in Philadelphia.
If you’re in a retail store in early October and are struck by the sudden appearance of holiday gifts, sales, and decorations, you won’t be imagining it. The holiday shopping season may come earlier than ever this year due to several factors, from a short shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas to the distraction of a national election.
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According to a new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science, the hectic world of Wall Street, dominated almost entirely by men, there is a strong link between male hormone, testosterone, and the way the shareholders manage business.
An international team of researchers recruited 140 young males to participate in experimental asset market simulation. Prior to the simulated trading period, the participants were given a topical gel containing testosterone or a placebo. The experiment's results - shared this week in the INFORMS journal Management Science - revealed more inflated price bubbles among markets inhabited by traders hopped up on testosterone.
The financial institutions that do work trading on the New York Stock Exchange are predominantly, perennially staffed by men. And now, a new study from the University of Western Ontario, University of Oxford and Claremont Graduate University, published in the INFORMS journal Management Science, has found that testosterone, the hormone found more so in men than in women, can be linked to the decisions that lead to stock market destabilization and crashes.
According to a study published in the INFORMS journal Management Science, entitled The Bull of Wall Street: Experimental Analysis of Testosterone and Asset Trading, testosterone contributes to fluctuations and in particular leads to overestimating values and building dangerous bubbles and consequently leading to financial crackdowns.
CATONSVILLE, MD, November 13, 2017 – “Mobile money,” a checking account attached to a mobile phone number, has revolutionized the financial lives of millions of people in many developing countries without access to a banking infrastructure. Using text messages or apps on consumer phones and in partnership with mom-and-pop retailers, who serve as cash-in and cash-out points, telecom companies have created an accessible and cost-effective virtual banking infrastructure in many developing countries.
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