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This final Director’s Blog of 2021 highlights the research of some of our Fuqua faculty to illustrate the academic strength that a diverse community can create and share to the benefit of management education and the world. Our only regret is that we can’t feature our entire faculty here due to space limitations!

Note that the links below will prompt you for your Duke Net ID and password in some cases. Fuqua faculty author names will appear in bold. Thanks for your attention this year, and best wishes for successful exams and a restful holiday season!

• The Natural Hair Bias in Job Recruitment, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12:5, 2021
  Christy Zhou Koval, Ashleigh Shelby Rosette.
• Loved As-Is: How God Salience Lowers Interest in Self-Improvement Products, Journal of Consumer Research, 2021
  Lauren Grewal, Eugenia C Wu, Keisha M Cutright.
• Marketing Thinking and Doing, Journal of Marketing, 85:1, 2021
  John A Deighton, Carl F Mela, Christine Moorman
• The Impact of Medical Marijuana Legalization on Opioid Prescriptions, SSRN, 10/12/2021.
  Hayoung Cheon, Tong Guo, Puneet Manchanda, S Sriram
• The Rise of Scientific Research in Corporate America, NBER Working Papers, September 2021
  Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Konstantin Kosenko, Jungkyu Suh (Fuqua PhD candidate) & Yishay Yafeh
• A Job for Everyone, Duke Corporate Education Insights on Culture, Diversity, Inclusion, & Leadership, June 2021
  Daisy Lovelace
• Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing and the Spread of an Infection, NBER Working Papers, July 2020
  Daron Acemoglu, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian & Asuman Ozdaglar
• What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity during the Pandemic?, Journal of Finance, 76:4, August 2021
  BM Barber, W Jiang, A Morse, Manju Puri, H Tookes, IM Werner

This month’s Director’s blog features a miscellany of notable WSJ articles along with recent scholarship published by Fuqua faculty authors in online & print scholarly journals. Ford Library helps fund access for these journals for Duke and Fuqua. Fuqua authors’ names are in italics.

From the WSJ – All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com.

• West Virginia Creates Jobs Farming Lavender at Former Coal Mines – Jocelyn Sheppard, 61, who has degrees in English and library science, is president of Appalachian Botanical, a company banking on the hope that repurposing former mines as lavender farms can help diversify the state’s economy, create jobs and clean up the environment.
• Goldman Sachs, Other Financial Firms Back Program to Diversify Wall Street – Bloomberg LP, Centerbridge Partners LP and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are funding a new program to train, mentor and hire students for careers in the financial sector in a push to bring more women and minorities to the industry.
• Facebook Disables Access for NYU Research Into Political-Ad Targeting – The Library Director comments: If you’re doing data-driven research and need to build a research or article corpus, don’t do it this way. The NYU Ad Observatory, launched last September by the university’s engineering school, recruited more than 6,500 volunteers to use a special browser extension to collect data about the political ads Facebook shows them. Soon after, Facebook, which hadn’t given permission for the project, demanded the researchers cease collecting the data.

Featured Fuqua Faculty Research

• US Tropical Disease Priority Review Vouchers: Lessons In Promoting Drug Development And Access, David Ridley, Pranav Ganapathy et al., Health Affairs, 40(8), Aug 2021.
• Categorical Competition in the Wake of Crisis: Banks vs. Credit Unions, Aaron Chatterji et al., Organization Science, 32(3), May-Jun 2021.
• The Blossoming of Economic Epidemiology, David McAdams, Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 13. (2021).

This month’s Director’s blog features recent scholarship published by Fuqua faculty authors in online & print scholarly journals. Ford Library helps fund access for these journals for Duke and Fuqua. Fuqua authors’ names are in italics.

• Does Medicare Reimbursement Drive Up Drug Launch Prices? – David Ridley & Chung-Ying Lee. The Review of Economics & Statistics, (20)5.
  – Fuqua Insights Synopsis.
• Transforming COVID-19 vaccines into vaccination: challenges and opportunities for management scientists – Dai, Tinglong & Jing Sheng “Jeanette” Song. Health Care Management Science (2021).
• Knowledge creation through collaboration: The role of shared institutional affiliations and physical proximity – Bryan Stephens, Jonathon N. Cummings. Journal Of The Association For Information Science And Technology, May 2021.
• Media Platforms’ Content Provision Strategies and Sources of Profits – Wilfred Amaldoss et al. Marketing Science, May-June 2021.

If you are a Fuqua faculty member, and are reading this and would like to see your research linked here, please email us!

In this blog post, Ford Library honors the Juneteenth holiday by sharing some selected e-book acquisitions and articles from our online collections and subscribed resources that focus on related timely and important topics.

Ford Library remains committed to pursuing a strong collection of resources that concentrate on the interrelationship of business with diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The titles below are only a sample of our newly added holdings, and we encourage our Fuqua faculty, staff, and students to send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.

E-Books

• Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
• Organizational Justice and Organizational Change : Managing by Love
• ‘Counting Black and White Beans’ : Critical Race Theory in Accounting
• The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
  – also available as an audiobook
• Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
  – also available as an audiobook
• The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
  – also available as an audiobook

Articles

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com.

• CFO Journal : Racially Diverse CFOs Are in High Demand, but Challenges Persist
  – While minorities already in the executive ranks are seeing more opportunities, it can be difficult for those without C-suite experience to break in, recruiters and finance professionals say.
• CEO Pay Increasingly Tied to Diversity Goal
  – McDonald’s and AmEx are among the companies tying executive compensation to adding women and people of color to leadership ranks
• Pittsburgh Is Losing Black Residents. One Entrepreneur Is Trying to Bring Them Back.
  – Venture capitalist David Motley is on a mission to help Black professionals take advantage of city’s rebirth as a center for technology, healthcare and education.
• Peaches Golding Is a Pioneering Representative of the Crown
  – An African-American businesswoman who serves as an official of Queen Elizabeth knows ‘the power of visibility.’
• The Daughter of a Slave Who Did the Unthinkable: Build a Bank
  – The first Black woman to run a U.S. bank, Maggie Lena Walker opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on the first floor of St. Luke Hall on November 2, 1903, in Richmond, Va..

Suggested By Faculty

New Scholarly Journal – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: an international journal
– Many thanks to Fuqua Prof. Angelica Leigh for her recommendation!

Thank you for reading! — please send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.

This month’s Director’s blog post celebrates an all-too-brief “summer” break for the Fuqua community with a collection of interesting miscellaneous articles. Enjoy some down time!

From the Wall Street Journal

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com!

• The Olympian Who Turned a Profit on Her Wedding
  – June has been the traditional month for weddings, and an Olympic-level triple-jumper brings her financial acumen and discipline to the process.
• CFO Journal : Racially Diverse CFOs Are in High Demand, but Challenges Persist
  – While minorities already in the executive ranks are seeing more opportunities, it can be difficult for those without C-suite experience to break in, recruiters and finance professionals say.
• Pittsburgh Is Losing Black Residents. One Entrepreneur Is Trying to Bring Them Back.
  – Venture capitalist David Motley is on a mission to help Black professionals take advantage of city’s rebirth as a center for technology, healthcare and education.
• CEO Pay Increasingly Tied to Diversity Goals
  – McDonald’s and AmEx are among the companies tying executive compensation to adding women and people of color to leadership ranks

Barrons.com “Extra” – The article below requires a Barrons.com account which is available to Fuqua users courtesy of the Fuqua Career Management Center and a generous donation by Mr. R. Scott Collins (Duke Class of 1993), President, Fiduciary Wealth Advisors.

• Top 10 Most Influential Women in Wealth Management
  – Barron’s latest list of 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance includes these 10 leaders in wealth management, including Morgan Stanley’s Carla Harris and Ellevest’s Sallie Krawcheck.

Popular Online Audio and E-Books

The titles below from Overdrive all have lengthy wait periods. If you don’t want to wait that long, let us know and we’ll see if we can purchase additional online “copies”.

• Empire of Pain – audiobook | ebook
  – A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin.
• Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most – audiobook | ebook
  – Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it.
• The Premonition: a pandemic story – ebook
  – Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.

This month’s Director’s blog post will focus on women in leadership, business and finance, and the ongoing work of deciding how to “do work” post-COVID.

From the Wall Street Journal

All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library has funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com!

• The Advisers Who Help Verizon’s Tami Erwin Call Up Her Strengths
  – The most senior woman at the telecom giant tamed her competitive streak as she rose through the ranks, but still tries to keep an eye on even the tiniest details.
• Anna Catalano Is in the Room Where It Happens
  – The longtime energy executive has been serving on corporate boards for 18 years. Here, she recounts some of the people who have helped along the way.
• Peaches Golding Is a Pioneering Representative of the Crown
  – An African-American businesswoman who serves as an official of Queen Elizabeth knows ‘the power of visibility.’
• Asian-American Professionals Push for Visibility at Work
  – Since George Floyd’s death, issues of race have come to the fore in many workplaces; now, after anti-Asian attacks, more Asian employees [both women & men] say their needs should be heard, too.

Barrons.com “Extra” – The article below requires a Barrons.com account which is available to Fuqua users courtesy of the Fuqua Career Management Center and a generous donation by Mr. R. Scott Collins (Duke Class of 1993), President, Fiduciary Wealth Advisors.

• 100 Women Making Their Mark in the World of Finance
  – Barron’s second annual list of the 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance. These 100 honorees include banking and brokerage executives, money managers and research analysts, financial-company CEOs, public servants, and policy makers.

On-site, Remote, or Hybrid? – Companies, organizations, and universities are wrestling with choosing a way of “doing work” that benefits both employees and the organization. It is not an easy decision!

• Five Days in the Office? For These Startups, the Future of Work Is Old School – WSJ
• Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely – WSJ
• Should You Go Back to the Office? It can be a complicated choice … – WSJ
• A Remote Work Future at Duke – A majority of surveyed employees say they would prefer to work remotely three to five days per week – Duke Today
• Highly Recommended – How To Do Hybrid Right – HBR, May/June 2021.
  – to read this article, connect to Business Source Complete, and search for author = lynda gratton, and title = how to do hybrid right.

Congratulations on completing your Duke MBA! Whether you’re re-entering the working world, or continuing a job search, Ford Library has provided access to a select set of online databases and services that can help you.

Visit our Library web site and select “Alumni” from the top menu row to browse and access our services and online resources for alumni.

If you have questions about your access to resources not listed on our Library Databases For Alumni page, please visit our FAQ.

And again, CONGRATULATIONS!

Happy Valentine’s Day to you. From our hearts to yours, our gift is 10 classic audiobooks that you can download to your own device from OverDrive.

Here is a list of Duke students’ most beloved audiobooks:

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Good To Great by Jim Collins

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

The Originals by Adam Grant

Spark Joy by Marie Kondo

Talk Like Ted by Carmine Gallo

© Meg Trauner & Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business.
All rights reserved.

If you look for market research via a search engine; you’re going to miss sources already available to you via Ford Library!

Here is a quick list of our databases that provide outstanding market research.

BCC Market Research – BCC’s market research reports explore major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations. Duke currently subscribes to all report categories. Select a topic under the “My Categories” section after connecting to browse reports.

eMarketer Total Access – eMarketer Total Access aggregates and analyzes e-business and high tech market research from over 1600 sources worldwide. Includes charts, tables, statistics & articles for download in PDF, PPT, and Excel format.

Forrester Research – Contains market research reports and data for the online economy with a focus on the impact of IT developments on businesses and consumers.

IBISWorld – Provides an extensive collection of industry market research and industry risk ratings on U.S. industries. Reports focus on industry performance, outlook, products & markets, competitive landscape, major companies, operating conditions, and key statistics. Duke’s subscribed content includes: Core NAICS US Industry Market Research Reports, iExpert Summary Reports, US Specialized Super Niche Industry Reports (Current & Future), and China Industry Reports.

MarketLine Advantage – Contains full text market research reports focusing on companies and broad industry sectors: consumer goods, energy, finance, healthcare, and technology. Market analysis and forecasting looks at major issues and threats for each sector with analytical commentary and data.

MarketResearch.com Academic – Includes full-text market research reports on : Consumer Goods, Heavy Industry, Service Industries, the Public Sector, Life Sciences, Technology & Media, and Demographics. Our subscription includes reports from the following publishers: Packaged Facts, Kalorama Information, Simba, Freedonia, and Mind Commerce.

Mintel Academic – Adds over 600 market research reports into European, UK-specific and US consumer markets every year. more details here

Passport (fka Euromonitor GMID) – A source of demographic, economic, and marketing statistics and research reports for over 200 countries. Provides volume and value market size data for 330 consumer products across 49 countries.

SimplyAnalytics (fka SimplyMap) – a web-based data mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data.

Statista – Provides access to downloadable statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

You can also find these resources listed in the Library catalog and on our web site’s A-Z Database List.  And don’t miss our Database Subject Finder, either!

Hidden Figures, a critical and commercial success, features engaging performances from its lead actors Taraji P.Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae. Set in the early 1960s, the three African-American mathemeticians play key roles in the nascent space program. Henson’s character Katherine Johnson is instrumental in calculating the Mercury 7’s flight trajectory, and the film manages to make scenes of rapid mathematical calculation riveting.

Toni Erdmann (Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film) centers around Winfried and Ines, a father and daughter. Winfried, who has affinity for pranks involving fake personas, is trying to reconnect with his serious daughter who’s left for a business consulting job. His attempts to build a bridge involve creating an alter ego, Toni Erdmann, an eccentric life coach who keeps showing up at Ines’ various work functions. The movie is a funny but touching character study.

The Expanse is a science fiction series with a compelling political narrative centering around a police detective, an officer on an interplanetary ice freighter and a United Nations executive.  Set two hundred years in the future, people have colonized the solar system but over the course of the show the characters uncover a conspiracy which threatens human survival.