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11-Jul-2025

Pusan National University researchers identify key barriers hindering data-driven smart manufacturing adoption

Pusan National University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Modern manufacturing requires advanced management methods, and manufacturing data analytics (MDA) has emerged as a key tool to help manufacturers anticipate and respond to rapidly changing conditions. However, despite its clear benefits, MDA adoption remains low due to a variety of challenges. In a new study, researchers developed a comprehensive issue set for MDA implementation (CISM) that can help manufacturers proactively identify and resolve these issues, paving the way for broader MDA adoption.

Journal: Journal of Manufacturing Systems

10-Jul-2025

Research links birth issues to adult health deficits

University of Miami
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by Miami Herbert Business School professors shows long-term mental and physical health effects linked to distressed births, with implications for health policy reform.

Journal: Medical Care

10-Jul-2025

Education exports help offset U.S. trade deficit—but new tariff and visa policies threaten gains

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As U.S. policymakers increase tariffs on goods, particularly those imported from China—a new study from the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy finds the opposite may be needed to protect one of the country’s most powerful economic exports: higher education.

Journal: The Review of Economics and Statistics

10-Jul-2025

Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group welcomes John Ohab of the Hertz Foundation to its Executive Board of Directors

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Business Announcement

Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group (ITV), a nonprofit dedicated to connecting business leaders, academic institutions, government and research hubs across the Tri-Valley region of the San Francisco Bay Area, today announced the appointment of John Ohab, senior director and chief strategist at the Hertz Foundation, to its Executive Board of Directors as a member-at-large.

10-Jul-2025

Turns out there is an ‘I’ in team

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M researchers find that individual practice is the secret to maintaining high team performance over time.

Journal: Human Performance
Funder: U.S. Air Force, Division 19: Society for Military Psychology

10-Jul-2025

US vacation renters waste $2 billion worth of food annually

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study values the food wasted by U.S. vacation renters at about $2 billion each year. Based on survey results, researchers estimated that groceries, takeout and restaurant leftovers averaging $12 in value per night of short-term lodging remains uneaten.

Journal: Waste Management

10-Jul-2025

Why some bosses lash out — and feel good about it (temporarily)

Indiana University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from a team of management scholars, including Emily Poulton from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, suggests that sometimes an angry boss is losing their temper on purpose-- and might feel good about it afterward.

Journal: Journal of Management