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The State of Supply Chain Carbon Footprinting: Analysis of CDP Disclosures by U.S. Firms

Felipe Caro, Charles Corbett and Anderson Ph.D. student Christian Blanco combined their expertise in supply chain management and corporate environmental sustainability practices to study how firms measure, track and report their "Scope 3" supply chain carbon footprints. The ongoing work is conducted in collaboration with with CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), which aims to influence firms’ climate change strategies by encouraging them to measure their emissions and corresponding risks and opportunities.

Felipe Caro, Charles Corbett

War and Relatedness

“War and Relatedness,” Romain Wacziarg’s research paper with Enrico Spolaore, was published in MIT Press’ Review of Economics and Statistics. Using evidence based on interstate conflicts between 1810 and 2001, the authors found that more closely related populations are more prone to engage in international conflict with each other. Using evidence from conflicts over natural endowments and territorial changes like decolonization, they found that similar populations are likely to care about controlling similar rival goods, such as territory or resources; and that rulers, in order to minimize the costs of administering new territories after the conflict, face incentives to conquer populations that are more similar to their own. The research is starkly at odds with the primordialist view that cultural dissimilarity between countries should breed war, plunder and a clash of civilizations. This work garnered pre-publication attention from international media that include Newsweek Russia, Vanity Fair Italy and LesEchos.

Romain Wacziarg

Die Zeit Calls Her "Our Most Promising Economist"

The Swiss edition of the renowned German-language newspaper lauded Jana Gallus' research on the effects of awards — including the Edelweiss mit Stern for Wikipedia authors, an award she invented to study whether people who earned the symbolic, non-cash prize were motivated in the aftermath.

Jana Gallus

Workplace Discrimination against Women, Racial Minorities May Be Similar, But It’s Not the Same

Margaret Shih and Serena Does explored how businesses can build more inclusive workplaces by recognizing the nuances of bias.

Margaret Shih

Is the Pen Still Mightier? The Pros and Cons of Loose Leaf vs. Laptop

A study co-authored by Daniel Oppenheimer found that while hand writing and typing were equally helpful for rote memorization of names and dates, hand writing showed a significant advantage when subjects were tested for deeper conceptual learning.

Daniel Oppenheimer

Good People, Bad Managers:
How Work Culture Corrupts
Good Intentions
(Oxford University Press, 2017)

What’s worse than a bad manager who everybody knows is bad? A bad manager who is well-intentioned and considered to be good. Yet these bad managers make up the bulk of management today. How did that happen? In his forthcoming book, Sam Culbert sheds a light on why managers need to understand the causes of their misguided practices. He shows that company leaders, CEOs and top-tier managers need to become more aware of the damage they inflict, and the hollowness of the rationales they use to justify what they do.

Samuel A. Culbert

How Free Coupons for Patients Help Drugmakers Hike Prices by 1,000%

Matt Schmitt's research reveals why drug companies are eager to offer coupons to consumers. He and his co-authors find that coupons increase branded sales by more than 60 percent, entirely by reducing the sales of bioequivalent generics.

Matt Schmitt

UCLA Forecasts "Trumponomics" Impact on California and the Nation

Forecast economists Jerry Nickelsburg and David Shulman discuss the new economy under a Trump presidency.

Jerry Nickelsburg and David Shulman

Want to Feel Less Time-Stressed?

Here’s a novel suggestion for those who feel they are in a constant race against the clock to get things done: Make some time for others. Cassie Mogilner Holmes says give away precisely what you think you have too little of in order to relieve stress.

Cassie Mogilner Holmes

The Mistakes We Make When Giving to Charity

All of us think about giving during the holiday season. But it’s possible that we’re thinking about it wrong. Shlomo Benartzi and colleagues conducted research revealing that our generosity and good intentions are hamstrung by tricks our minds play on us and we don’t think clearly about the choices we make when donating to charity.

Shlomo Benartzi

New UCLA Anderson Initiatives Geared Toward the Asian Market

Dean Judy Olian visited UCLA Anderson alumni in Asia and talked with Hong Kong's Education Post about the school's new initiatives to meet demand from Asian markets.

Judy Olian

Giving the Gift of an Experience Can Lead to Stronger Bonds

Public radio’s Take Two interviewed Cassie Mogilner Holmes about her study “Experiential Gifts Foster Stronger Social Relationships than Material Gifts,” in which she and her co-author found that recipients who received gifts like concert tickets or a vacation or a dinner out — gifts constituting an event that they lived through vs. a material object — felt closer and more connected to the giver.

Cassie Mogliner Holmes

Financial Goals Directly Impact Employee Safety

Judson Caskey and Bugra Ozel co-authored research in the Journal of Accounting and Economics that shows companies’ financial goals may be more important than employee safety. Examining 14 years of data on workplace safety from OSHA, the authors found that any changes in operations or production that are meant to increase earnings affected the number of injuries in the company.

Judson Caskey

A Warning From the Bumpy Road to Mandalay

Writing from the faraway colonial port of Yangon in Myanmar, Jerry Nickelsburg predicts what will happen if U.S. infrastructure is ignored.

Jerry Nickelsburg

Collaboration at Its Best

UCLA's Women & Philanthropy asked three of the 18 female deans and vice provosts in leadership roles at UCLA, including Anderson's Dean Judy Olian, to talk about cross-campus collaboration at a university where boundaries are pushed and society’s most pressing issues are tackled from multidisciplinary angles.