Zensi, a research startup from the UW and Georgia Tech that uses simple technology to monitor electricity and water use in the home, has been acquired by international electronics company Belkin.

Energy experts from the University of Washington want to help local businesses cut their utility bills.

A report on the log truck industry just delivered to the state legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006.

According to research conducted at the University of Washington, manufacturing firms can increase shareholder value by transitioning to services, but there are some important caveats.

Hanson Hosein, a professor of communication, recorded small-businesses' efforts to regenerate in the city.

Inexperienced investors can negatively affect their investment results by using "unfiltered" information from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, according to research conducted at the University of Washington.

President Mark Emmert and UW Computer Science & Engineering host Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on April 25 for the final stop of his six-university tour, as Gates transitions from Microsoft to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

New research on international joint ventures in China demonstrates the complexity of multilevel trust and warns that some types of trust can lead to negative outcomes.

Minority small-business owners in Washington voiced increased optimism about their prospects-even amidst the threat of recession-during the last half of 2007.

Let the seller beware: while relationship marketing programs have traditionally been perceived as a way to improve a company's financial performance, a new study shows they can actually be a double-edged sword.

Moral idenity may motivate behavior, but accurate ethical judgments are needed to set that behavior in the right direction, according to researchers who study business ethics.

The Foster Foundation, longtime supporters of the UW, have pledged $50 million to the Business School, which will be named the Michael G. Foster School of Business.

Companies that network and form strategic alliances are more creative and develop more patented inventions than those that don't.

The scars created by domestic violence persist long after the bruises have healed, leaving some adolescent mothers psychologically distressed and increasing their chances of being unemployed, according to a new study.

Chief executive officers often pursue acquistions regardless of risk or potential outcome because they know their salaries will increase substantially, leaving shareholders to take the financial hit.

Ports could use their cranes to move goods more quickly without investing in any new equipment. A system called double cycling would minimize empty return trips - what taxi drivers and long-haul truckers call "deadheading" - by the massive cranes.

Minority small-business owners in Washington state are, much like entrepreneurs across the country, confident about their abilities to succeed despite the fact that fewer than one-third of them feel that the state's business climate is supportive. Their overall confidence level, a measure of how positively they view future business success, is 56 out of a possible 100 points.

The Business School's Global Business Case Competition welcomes students from around the globe for some friendly but heated rivalry.

Computers, cell phones and other electronics can't keep shrinking in size without radical changes to their design. Finding novel semiconductor materials is the first goal of the new Micron Laboratory for Combinatorial Materials Exploration.

The University of Washington has joined 26 universities in a Department of Energy-sponsored program to reduce electricity use in manufacturing plants.

Why do workers voluntarily quit their jobs? What kinds of things can employers do to help keep their best employees? Researchers from the UW and Truman State University theorize on the psychology of voluntary turnover.

For his doctoral research in computer science, Tapan Parikh designed mobile phone software for use by members of Indian grassroots banking cooperatives, known as microfinance groups. Now he's gone one step further and founded a company in India that carries out testing and brings the system to its intended users.

A new program for students majoring in entrepreneurship has been created with a gift from Leonard Lavin, founder and chairman emeritus of the Alberto-Culver Company.

Students from around the globe will be in Seattle to compete in a competition that rewards the best commercially sustainable and socially conscious business idea.

Two UW Business School researchers have found evidence that "bad apples," or workers who are lazy, chronically unhappy or who bully and attack others can seriously spoil a company's "barrel" of employees.

Although online virtual experiences may improve a consumer's knowledge of a product, the marketing tactic can backfire by creating a false sense of what the product's real capabilites are, says a UW professor of marketing.

A UW professor contends that penalties imposed upon public companies that falsify accounting records are miniscule compared with the costs incurred when news of a company's misdeeds spreads and its reputation spoils.

Marketing executives should add new product features for upgraders and improve existing ones for first-time buyers if they want to sell more products, according to an assistant professor of marketing.

The idea that oil supplies are finite is one of seven myths about mineral resources that UW geologist Eric Cheney wants to dispel.

People who have mixed emotions--feeling sad and happy at the same time--are more creative than people who are feeling just happy, sad, or have no emotions at all, according to a new study by the UW Business School.

Investor relations professionals retaliate against analysts who don't give favorable stock recommendations on their companies by excluding them from analyst-firm meetings and refusing to answer questions during conference calls, according to a new UW study.

The Business School's new building facilities received a major boost today from Orin Smith, a 1965 graduate of the UW Business School and former Starbucks executive. In making this gift, Smith said he "feels very lucky to be able to give back to something that has provided my life with such meaning."

With today's gift from UW Business School graduate and marketing executive Gary Shansby, the school is more than two-thirds the way toward its goal of raising $120 million for a new state-of-the-art facility.

The Business School's Global Business Center hosts its eighth case competition, with students from 14 countries competing.

Students from around the world will compete in the UW's Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition and will offer their business ideas designed to improve the quality of life in developing countries.

Older diabetic patients with depression who received a new type of team care had more depression-free days, better physical functioning, and lower medical costs than patients treated with a standard model of care. The findings are the result of a University of Washington-led study, published in the Feb. 6 issue of the journal Diabetes Care.

Cuthroat, profit-driven cultures seen in companies like the defunct Enron corporation can cause executives to suffer from moral ignorance and ethical insensitivity, according to a UW Business School professor.

B-list actors whose voices are used in television commercials are more likely to positively influence consumers because their identities are less recognizable than mainstream celebrities, according to researchers at the University of Washington and Rice University.

Banks and thrifts in our state yielded very strong returns to investors in 2004, according to researchers in the UW Business School.

A University of Washington, Bothell business professor has published research on the disastrous effects the regional economy will suffer in the event of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake along the Seattle Fault, which runs through Hood Canal in the west, across the Puget Sound and south Seattle, and into Bellevue and Issaquah.

Can academics and corporations work in tandem to identify important emerging technologies and shorten the time it takes for them to develop into the Internet's next billion dollar market segments? Experts gathering in Seattle next week aim to do so.

Naysayers of advertisements are more accepting of aesthetically appealing commercials than ones that provide product information.

Finalists for the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship's Business Plan Competition are some of the most eclectic and promising teams in its eight-year history

A former UW department of accounting chairman has been named the school's new dean.

Undergraduate teams from around the globe will gather April 4-9 for the Business School's seventh annual Global Business Challenge. Hosted by the Global Business Center and the Certificate in International Studies program, the competition gives teams 48 hours to solve a business case and present conclusions to a panel of corporate judges.

Researchers from Group Health and the UW Business School contend that doctors who view their work as emotional labor and who use 'deep acting' techniques that help generate genuine empathy for their patients are more effective healers and enjoy greater professional satisfaction.

A little sexual banter in the workplace isn't necessarily a bad thing. According to a new UW study, sexualized encounters in some work situations actually can contribute to building camaraderie on the job.

In the UW's first Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, students have been asked to explain how they'll improve the quality of life and reduce poverty in developing countries. Their plans have to show social and financial returns on investments.

New research shows consumers typically avoid feelings of guilt by purchasing products they need rather than what they want.

A team of second-year MBA students have won the 2005 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition.