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Simulations Illustrate Flaw In Inflation Models, Peter L. D'Antonio Ph.D.

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

This study questions the basic assumption of standard inflation models that there are only two forces driving price changes - underlying inflation and short-term noise. Specifically, the paper analyzes the distributions of individual price changes to shed light on an apparent contradiction: individual price changes are extremely dispersed, while measured inflation, the aggregate of individual price changes, remains relatively steady. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that the standard inflation model is inconsistent with this observation. The author reintroduces a new inflation model that explicitly accounts for the possibility of a third price-change driver - long-term sector-specific forces. Simulations show that the …

The Economics Of Quick Service Restaurant Delivery Partnerships, Robert Goch, Jeremiah Titone

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

Large chain fast food restaurants, also known as quick service restaurant (QSR) are known for price and convenience. However, one critical factor that is lacking for many QSR restaurants is customer delivery. For restaurants that offer delivery, the increased availability to the consumer can offer a substantial competitive edge. With the advent of third party delivery, those restaurants which heretofore were not able to deliver, now have the opportunity to partner with third party delivery providers. In a similar war, restaurants that simply lack an online presence can look to order aggregators to fill their needs. The size and allocation …

Empowering Youths And Combating Gang Activity Across Long Island Through Mba Capstone Consulting, Daniel R. Ball, Stephanie Mattarocci

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

The MBA program at Molloy College culminates with a capstone experience that provides prospective graduates with the opportunity to demonstrate learning through a project-based paradigm that aligns with the mission of the academic institution. Molloy College is an independent Catholic college rooted in the Dominican tradition and its mission includes the four pillars of study, spirituality, service, and community. This capstone course integrates these mission pillars by immersing the students in a real consulting problem that provides actionable solutions for a not-for-profit organization serving society. This paper summarizes the work completed by an MBA capstone consulting project to help the …

Marketing And Delivering Child Care Programs To Nassau County, Daniel R. Ball, Fabian Dichristina, Dawn Armand

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

The MBA capstone program at Molloy College requires students to apply what was learned in the classroom to a real-world consulting project that assists a non-profit organization serving society. This capstone experience supports the mission of Molloy College that is rooted within the Dominican tradition and emphasizes the four pillars of study, spirituality, service, and community. This project exposes students to an industry outside of their typical experiences and encourages them to create real solutions that have a direct benefit on the local community. This paper summarizes the work of this MBA capstone group as they designed a comprehensive marketing/awareness …

Building Brands Through Social Listening, Meryl Rosenblatt Mba, Taylor Curran, Jessica Treiber

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

Marketers are using social media as a way to promote their brands and build consumer relationships. Research has shown that brand relationships can provide consumers with resources in making decisions, meeting their needs, and motivating them. With a growing number of marketers reporting that social media is important to their businesses, keeping a watchful eye on what the customers are saying on social media, and what competitors are doing, is critical. Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook enable the creation of virtual customer environments, where online communities form around specific firms, brands, or products. For this project we …

Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: Legal Attempts To Resolve A Cultural Problem, Bruce Haller

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

This paper is going to detail the legal definitions and imposed liability for sexual harassment in the workplace. A historic discussion of harassment and the courts attempts to ameliorate the prevalence of this pervasive societal problem will be analyzed. Social and psychological factors in the under and delayed reporting of workplace harassment will be explained. Finally, proposed solutions, both legal and cultural, will be examined and proposed.

Rebranding A Special Needs School Through Marketing And Entrepreneurship: An Mba Capstone Consulting Case Study, Daniel R. Ball, Hadia Khan, Omolola Oyelude

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

The MBA program at Molloy College emphasizes a curriculum that creates ethically-minded leaders with a mindful disposition toward serving the local community. This pedagogical philosophy is consistent with the school’s mission that is deeply rooted in the Dominican tradition emphasizing the four pillars of study, spirituality, service, and community. This program culminates with the students applying what was learned in the classroom to a real-world consulting problem, often outside of their industry background comfort zone. The solutions need to be fully implementable and have a direct impact on the welfare of the local community. This paper presents the consulting recommendations …

New York State Ela Opt-Out Rates: Understanding The Impact Of Race, Robert Goch

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

In 2009, 48 states established the Common Core Standards in response to the growing movement by state governors and corporate leaders who believed that high school exit expectations fall short of employer and college demands. Soon thereafter standardized assessments were developed that were geared to the more rigorous standards. In New York State (NYS), resistance slowly started arising shortly after the new assessments commenced in 2013. By 2016, nearly 22% of all third-to-eighth graders in NYS opted out of taking the ELA, making NYS one of the highest opt-out states in the nation. Data from the New York State Education …

Transformative Business Education: Heart, Hands, Head - All In!, Dawn Distefano Mba, Maureen L. Mackenzie Ph.D.

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

This paper emerges from a pedagogical philosophy that business students should experience real-world problem solving that allow them to demonstrate evidence of learning and its application to the world of business. This paper builds the case that business education must lead the student toward a professional outcome where he or she can apply the knowledge and skills gained during the college journey so that he or she is prepared for all that is expected of the student as a business professional.

Evolving Processes Of Entrepreneurship Networks, Meryl Rosenblatt Mba

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

Throughout the entrepreneurship literature there is consensus that the network plays a critical role in the entrepreneurial process, as it provides the entrepreneur with access to resources that can facilitate the likelihood of the firm’s emergence and growth. There is also agreement among entrepreneurship scholars of the need to develop a more complete and integrated understanding of network development and change processes. This paper proposes a study of entrepreneurship network development, using survey research to capture data on interrelationships and network structure. The focus is on the transformation of entrepreneurship networks, and how they develop over time. This research addresses …

Preferences And Learning Behaviors Of Digital Natives, Meryl Rosenblatt Mba, James Marchetta, Michael Masiello

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

Because students’ lives today are saturated with digital media at a time when their brains are still developing, several popular press authors suggest that media use has profoundly affected students’ abilities, preferences, and attitudes related to learning. They claim that “digital natives” (often defined as those born after 1980) have a distinctive set of characteristics that includes preference for speed, nonlinear processing, multitasking, and social learning, allegedly developed through immersion in digital technology during childhood and adolescence. The purpose of this project is to explore claims that the digital “native” generation as learners demonstrate different learning behaviors, by exploring relationships …

Management Structure That Supports And Facilitates Social Good: Phase Ii For Paths Of Hope, Inc., Maureen L. Mackenzie Ph.D., Margaret Holoder, Michael Mauro, Stacy Runne-Garcia, Joanna Totten

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

In fall 2012, Molloy College embarked on an educational experiment that has now been fully integrated into the curriculum of the business programs. Over these past five years, a pedagogical philosophy has developed; students learn by doing and the evidence of learning must be demonstrated. Accreditors demand that program level outcomes reflect evidence of learning. There is no better evidence than the students’ self-report and demonstration in the real world that the knowledge and the skills acquired within the learning environment can be applied. The documentation has been published in a series of conference papers coupled with student presentations at …

Public Policy Consideration Of Workplace-Based Rotating Savings And Credit Associations (Roscas) Use By Immigrants For Asset Building, Linda Silva Thompson

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

When immigrants need to save a large lump sum to purchase of home or for entrepreneurial efforts, many turn a “susu” or “partner” to build assets and secure middle-class status rather than mainstream financial services. This financial practice of pooling savings and credit based on an individual’s social connections is known as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs). In these underground organized associations; participants agree to make regular contributions to an unregulated fund that participants then distribute, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation. Policymakers view ROSCAs as an informal or alternative financial service operating under the …

Management Practices For An Art-Based Community Program: How To Design A 100 Year Company!, Maureen L. Mackenzie Ph.D., Morgan Christophersen, Priscilla Dujardin, Roberto Arevalo

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

Over the past six years, Molloy College students and faculty have presented at the Northeast Business & Economics Association Conference the outcomes of a pedagogical process that allows students to demonstrate evidence of learning. This paper reports on the student consulting work presented to the leadership team and the Board of Directors of a local not-for-profit organization. The consulting problem identified by the leaders of the organization is that ‘they are new to running a corporation’. The Officers are not traditional managers. The work of these organizational leaders had been focused on the corporation’s cause. Therefore, these organizational leaders need …

Business Education: Real-World Capstone, Maureen L. Mackenzie Ph.D., Dawn Distefano Mba

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

This paper emerges from a pedagogical philosophy that a business student should experience real-world problem solving that allows him or her to demonstrate evidence of learning and its application to the world of business. This paper builds the case that business education must lead the student toward a professional outcome where he or she can apply the knowledge and skills gained during the college journey so that he or she is prepared for all that is expected of the student as a business professional. The outcome of this paper is one college’s journey to develop a capstone consulting experience that …

Kneel And You're Fired: Freedom Of Speech In The Workplace, Bruce Haller

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

The divisiveness of race relations, using sports as a political platform and President Trump himself aside; does the National Football League have the right to terminate their employee for kneeling during the National Anthem? Does an NFL employee have a protected right to “Freedom of Speech” without putting their employment at risk? This paper will examine the legal rights of employers to terminate employees for engaging in workplace speech. Part One of the paper will examine job security and an analysis of employment as a protected property interest. Part Two will analyze freedom of speech in the workplace. Part Three …

Wide Dispersion Of Price Changes Limits The Accuracy Of Measured Inflation, Peter L. D'Antonio Ph.D.

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

It is generally accepted in the economics literature that there is an underlying inflation rate that raises the general price level and simultaneously degrades the value of money. This common force purportedly influences prices of all goods and services in the economy. Price changes of individual items can vary based on short-term, idiosyncratic fluctuations, but they are assumed to gravitate to the dominant underlying inflation rate over time. All government and private inflation measurements are based on this concept of inflation. This paper takes a sectoral approach to assess this basic assumption of a common force pulling all individual prices. …

Managing Conflict: Reconciling Being Always-On And Concurrent Desire To Protect Personal Information –A Mixed Methods Study Of Connected Consumer, Donna M. Iucolano

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

Poster Presentation at the Engaged Management Scholarship Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 6-8, 2018. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Bilateral Trade Actions Trumped By Insufficient Us Savings, Peter L. D'Antonio Ph.D.

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

The US trade deficit with China was $336 billion in 2017, representing more than half the overall US trade deficit (Census, 2018). So, it is no wonder that policymakers, the press, and the public are focused on this trade relationship. The Administration has stepped up its criticism of China and imposed tariffs in response to unfair trading practices regarding intellectual property (Price, 2018), and China’s reluctance to open markets to US producers. The Administration has also engaged in trade spats with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Germany, and others. While the goals of protecting US intellectual property rights and expanding export markets …

Wide Dispersion Of Price Changes Limits The Accuracy Of Measured Inflation, Peter L. D'Antonio Ph.D.

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

It is generally accepted in the economics literature that there is an underlying inflation rate that raises the general price level and simultaneously degrades the value of money. This common force purportedly influences prices of all goods and services in the economy. Price changes of individual items can vary based on short-term, idiosyncratic fluctuations, but they are assumed to gravitate to the dominant underlying inflation rate over time. All government and private inflation measurements are based on this concept of inflation. This paper takes a sectoral approach to assess this basic assumption of a common force pulling all individual prices. …

Connecting With Brands: Brand Personality And Brand Outcome, Valuing Persons With Special Needs (Psn), Dawn Distefano Mba, Pradeep Gopalakrishna

Faculty Works: Business (1973-2022)

There are many individuals with developmental disabilities who have the capability to make independent purchases and who frequent particular brands. Studies on buying trends of individuals with physical disabilities is available; however, there is a need for academic study to explore how individuals with developmental disabilities connect to various brands via brand personality.

The proposed embryo case study will investigate how individuals with developmental disabilities associate with particular brands utilizing the Brand Personality scale (Aaker, 1997) to predict brand outcome (e.g. brand connection, purchase likelihood, and brand choice) as well as promote inclusive marketing methods for the above-mentioned purpose.