Warrington in the News Articles: page 40
It’s no secret that Warrington faculty are internationally renowned for their innovative research. The media looks to our scholars for insights and impactful news. See below where our faculty are featured in the news.

Yang Yang’s research shows that people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward.
How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent
Harvard Business Review
New research from Assistant Professor of Marketing Yang Yang suggests that people tend to choose impractical and ineffective approaches.
How misperceptions of deadlines, urgency influence time management and performance
Johns Hopkins University
Yang Yang’s research explains why people gain more happiness when they satisfy their inherent rather than learned preferences—needs rather than wants.
How to be happy without earning more
Chicago Booth Review
Yang Yang’s research about why people prioritize unimportant tasks is featured in this story from the Washington Post.
How deadlines thwart our ability to do important work (and what we can do about it)
The Washington Post
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter explains why companies with losses up to their IPOs are still able to stay in the game.
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can.
The New York Times
Public Utility Research Center Director Dr. Mark Jamison explains how the emergence of cryptocurrencies has once again pushed technology ahead of current regulatory systems.
America should build on the Swiss model to regulate cryptocurrency
The Hill
Is firing someone for rudeness extreme? W.A. McGriff III Professor of Management Dr. Amir Erez investigates.
Fired French waiter isn’t the only rude person around. Can meanness kill?
Chicago Tribune
Director of the Public Utility Research Center Dr. Mark Jamison offers insight as to what can be done to help social media platforms regain user trust in the era of #deletefacebook.
Political usage of Facebook data is old hat, but still creates problems
American Enterprise InstituteFive things Facebook needs to know about platform economics
American Enterprise InstituteFive questions Facebook should ask
American Enterprise Institute
Joe B. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter weighs in on the prospects for Dropbox’s IPO.
Will Dropbox be the unicorn that proves itself?
Wharton School
Dr. Ted Kury has studied taxes and energy as well as how the government leverages what it spends on infrastructure through public-private partnerships.