Quotables: Faculty Share Insights in the Media
ĂŰĚŇ˝´Cox faculty members share insights with USA Today, Variety, Dallas Morning News, and more.
U.S. News & World Report, âMulan Epitomizes the Dilemma of Doing Business in China,â 10/06/20
David Jacobson, international business law expert and Cox adjunct professor, explains that the Disney remake of âMulanâ faced a boycott call because the filmâs credits include a thank you to a Chinese government-run police agency blacklisted by the U.S. government for alleged human rightsâ abuses. Jacobson says itâs a cautionary tale for companies doing business in China. âOn one hand, to maintain their presence in China, these companies must comply with the demands and expectations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the other hand, doing so comes with the cost of significant reputational risk at home.â
Orange County Register, âWork-at-Home Crowd Prefers to Relocate to Places with Lower Taxes, Less Regulation,â 10/23/20
Meg Tuszynski, research associate professor at the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom, writes that decisions about where to live have traditionally been connected to decisions about where to work, but COVID-19 has caused many companies to move part or all operations online temporarily or permanently. She explains: âWeâre now starting to see what happens when the bonds between a personâs city of residence and city of work are broken. The results are intriguing.â
Poets & Quants, âStill More Top MBA Programs Waiving Standardized Tests,â 12/02/20
Cox School Dean Matthew B. Myers says,âThe last few months have been among the most challenging our students and prospective students have ever faced.â The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a wave of business schools across the nation going test-optional or waiving the GMAT and the GRE for MBA program admissions. The Cox School announced in the fall its decision to continue its temporary test-optional GMAT/GRE policy for August 2021 admissions. âOur goal is to give our graduate school applicants as much flexibility as possible in the face of test center closures. Streamlining the experience during this time period makes sense, and itâs the right thing to do.â
USA Today, âA Christmas Story â with No Commercial Interruptions,â 12/24/20
Mike Davis, senior lecturer of strategy and business economics, writes that even in the face of COVID-19 and U.S. economic challenges, Americans can be grateful for modern technology and innovations that are still giving them choices that help enhance current-day life. âWhatever normal looks like next summer, we will still have those choices. Smart people will still be working to come up with new ways of giving kids even better choices.â
The Dallas Morning News, âDFW-based Pizza Inn CEO Gets Political, Calling for an Election Audit,â 1/06/21
Dan Howard, professor of marketing, weighs in on a comment by the CEO of Rave Restaurant Group Inc. The group operates Pizza Inn and other pizza brands. The CEO issued a statement in early January calling for âelection integrityâ and listing suggestions for how to accomplish that goal. The statement had marketers and foodies wondering why a pizza company, which has never made political statements in the past, opted to speak out with little mention of the product the company has sold for 62 years. Cox professor of marketing Dan Howard comments that ânobody wants a pizza company going political on them.â
KRLD Newsradio 1080 AM, âMayor Eric Johnson Names the Members of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Task Force,â 1/15/21
Professor of Practice Simon Mak, executive director of the Cox Schoolâs Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, was named one of 15 members of the newly created Mayorâs Task Force on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. As a guest on David Johnsonâs CEO Spotlight, Mak explains that âthere are two ways to think about start-ups: small business start-ups that stay small businesses and start-ups that are growth-oriented and become scale-ups. The task force is looking at how to help both categories of start-ups do well and thrive in the city of Dallas.â
WFAA-Channel 8, âExperts Explain Whatâs Happening with GameStop Stock and What to Expect Next,â 1/27/21
Don Shelly, professor of practice in finance, offers insight into why stock of Grapevine-based GameStop soared more than 1,500% in one week. GameStop stock was shorted, he says, meaning instead of buying and hoping it would go up, people borrowed shares of stock betting it would go down. âMore people are getting squeezed here. They just canât take the pain, and they buy the stock and close out their positions. This is basically a supply-demand imbalance.â
Variety, âAMC Theatres Shares Just Plunged More Than 50%. Whatâs Next for Stocks Roiled by Reddit?â 1/28/21
Mehrdad Samadi, assistant professor of finance, comments on the SECâs potential role in the market phenomenon that resulted in AMCâs 300% surge to $20.31 per share one day followed by a drop to just over $10 per share the next. Samadi says: âMarket manipulation laws are broadly defined as evidenced by the SECâs historically wide-ranging anti-manipulation enforcement cases. Typically, the largest challenge in making a manipulation case is proving intent â which doesnât seem to be an issue here. The question is whether the SEC will actually pursue a case.â
KXAS-NBC 5 ,âMillions See âRolling Blackoutsâ Turn into Hours-Long Outages,â 02/16/21
Bruce Bullock, executive director of the Maguire Energy Institute, says that unprecedented cold coupled with unprecedented demand put unexpected strain on the countryâs premier energy manager. With snow accumulations of 2 to 6 inches and single-digit temperatures, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) planned rolling blackouts of 15 minutes to rotate outages and conserve power. Instead, thousands of North Texans endured hours without heat in their homes. Bullock expects a thorough after-action analysis and says, âundoubtedly, some changes will come out of this.â