Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – April 24
Apr 28, 2009
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending April 24, 2009.
BC Election
- The North Shore News wrote that the provincial election will be decided on the economy. Among those quoted was marketing prof Lindsay Meredith: “Whenever elections run (during) major economic downturns, guess what? Issues of economics and money are high on the agenda. It has a lot to do with everybody’s dinner time budget and what they’re going to have on the table.”
National & International News
- Peter Tingling, assistant prof in SFU Business, wrote a guest column in National Post on management decision-making. “Do people really gather facts before making a decision, or, as Francis Bacon described nearly 400 years ago, do we ‘adopt an opinion [and] draw all things else to support and agree with it’? Despite mountains of evidence that analytic decision making results in better outcomes, research seems to suggest that Bacon’s observation was correct.”