Ideas with Impact
UNB Faculty of Management

Understanding New Brunswick’s History of Innovation

Faculty of Management

Posted: October 25, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT

Category: Alumni, Faculty

Dr. David Foord, a professor with UNB’s faculty of management, has co-authored with UNB colleagues Dr. Gregory Kealey and Dr. John McLaughlin a chapter on New Brunswick’s science, technology and innovation policy in the recently published book Ideas, Institutions, and Interests: The Drivers of Canadian Provincial Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. The chapter presents a...

Investigating the impact of cash flows vs. discount rates on stock prices

Faculty of Management

Posted: October 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT

Category: Alumni, Faculty

Stock prices are the sum of discounted future expected dividends.  In a conventional view of financial economics, fundamental cash flows, such as dividends, play an important role in driving stock price movements. Surprisingly, in the U.S. stock market almost all variability of aggregate stock prices comes from changes in expected returns, and almost none of it comes from changes in...

Predicting workplace tradeoffs: impact of job crafting competencies

Faculty of Management

Posted: October 24, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT

Category: Faculty, Alumni

Jobcrafting is the process of workers making changes to their positions to improve the job for themselves. It can involve adding or reducing tasks, or otherwise changing aspects of the job. In a recent article published in Human Resource Management (included in the Financial Times Top 50 journals), Dr. Patrick Bruning introduces the concept of jobcrafting competencies to predict tradeoffs...