Companies and universities tackle obesity through pulses

To discover new ways of promoting pulses like lentils and peas to tackle obesity and undernutrition, the Desautels Faculty of Management at 黑料不打烊 University has launched a platform that enables companies and institutes to work together towards improving the nutrition of food products.

The Global Pulse Innovation Platform (PIP) aims to boost consumption of protein-rich pulses, a sustainable food product that helps prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes.

Does CSR create shareholder wealth?

Due to increasing pressures on organisations to behave in socially responsible ways, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming a 鈥渕ust have鈥� component of corporate strategy. This is a good development for the society at large as the massive rate of industrialization in the last century has placed a heightened burden on the limited resources our planet has to offer.

Socially responsible behavior boosts profit - if marketing is strong

That can complicate the situation for managers who must balance between doing good and keeping shareholders happy, said Sachin Modi, an associate professor in Iowa State University's College of Business. According to a new study by Modi and Saurabh Mishra, an associate professor at 黑料不打烊 University, a strong marketing department is crucial to helping a firm leverage its efforts to be socially responsible.

Corporate social responsibility and shareholder wealth: The role of marketing capability

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Mishra, S.,聽Modi, S.B.

Publication: Journal of Marketing聽

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Ultimate Campus Celebrity: Professor Ashesh Mukherjee

It's a busy time for both students and professors as final exams and grades loom upon us. But this week,聽Her Campus 黑料不打烊 was lucky enough to get a hold of Desautels's renowned consumer behaviour professor and DJ for an interview - Professor Ashesh Mukherjee!聽

Read full article: Her Campus, December 12, 2015

Distinct threats, common remedies: How consumers cope with psychological threat

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Han, D.,聽Duhachek, A., and聽Rucker, D.D.聽聽

Correcting for misspecification in parameter dynamics to improve forecast accuracy with adaptively estimated models

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Kolsarici, C. and聽Vakratsas, D.

Publication: Management Science聽

Using food as reinforcer to shape children's non-food behavior: The adverse nutritional effect doubly moderated by reward sensitivity and gender

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Ji Lu,聽Suhong Xiong,聽Narendra Arora,聽Laurette Dub茅

Publication: Eating Behaviours

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Using foods high in sugar, fat as rewards can lead to obesity in children

You鈥檙e late getting out the door and your six-year-old isn鈥檛 co-operating. You know it isn鈥檛 the best parental decision you鈥檝e ever made but you offer him a treat if he agrees to obediently put on his shoes and get into the car. What鈥檚 the harm in that?

Shareholder value implications of service failures in triads: The case of customer information security breaches

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Modi, S.B.,聽Wiles, M.A., and Mishra, S.

Publication: Journal of Operations Management

Using food as reinforcer to shape children's non-food behavior: The adverse nutritional effect doubly moderated by reward sensitivity and gender

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Lu, J., Xiong, S., Arora, N., and Dub茅, L.

Publication:聽Eating Behaviors

Whole-of-society approach for public health policymaking: a case study of polycentric governance from Quebec, Canada

Authors: Addy, N. A., Poirier, A., Blouin, C., Drager, N. and Dub茅, L. Publication: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Abstract:

An Innovative Approach to Addressing Childhood Obesity: A Knowledge-Based Infrastructure for Supporting Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Decision-Making in Quebec, Canada

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Addy, N. A., Shaban-Nejad, A., Buckeridge, D. L., and Dub茅, L. Publication:聽International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Abstract:

Management learning at the speed of life: Designing reflective, creative, and collaborative spaces for millenials

础耻迟丑辞谤蝉:听Karakas, F., Manisaligil, A., Sarigollu, E. Publication:聽International Journal of Management Education Abstract:

Civil Society appeals to policymakers to declare malnutrition as a medical emergency

Almost eight million children in India are severely malnourished and have nine times higher risk of death compared to normal children. These children deserve to live. In January 2015 over 100 organisations and individuals collectively urged the government to take action and save the lives of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) through the Generation Nutrition Campaign.