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JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2015 BizEd 17 new projects OSHA ANALYSIS A team of three business professors are among the winners of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy's Random Con- trolled Trials (RCTs) competition. They include economist David I. Levine of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley; Michael W. Toffel, associate professor of business adminis- tration at Harvard Business School; and Matthew Johnson, a doctoral candidate in the economics department at Boston University. The researchers received a US$96,000 grant to offset the $153,000 cost of their study, "The Effects of OSHA Inspections: Results from a Natural Field Experiment." The team plans to use a sample of 29,000 businesses to determine whether inspections by the U.S. govern- ment's Occupational Safety and Health Administration are effective in promoting safe workplace practices. IPOS & SOCIAL MEDIA Samir Saadi, an assistant finance profes- sor at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa in Canada, has been awarded a grant for CAN$74,718 (US$65,967) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for his study, "Social media, investor senti- ment, and initial public offerings." Saadi's team of researchers will study how social media platforms can be used to accurately capture public sentiment about a company before its IPO, as well as predict post-IPO stock performance. IMPROVING VIRTUAL TEAMS The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada also recently awarded a grant to Magda Donia, assistant professor of human resource management and organizational behavior at the Univer- sity of Ottawa's Telfer School of Manage- At Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business, entrepreneurship is in our DNA — and our new Center for Entrepreneurship is the gateway to opportunity. n Fostering entrepreneurship by awarding millions to ASU students so they can pursue their passion n Recognizing, mentoring, and funding students, alumni, and industry via three annual award programs n Combining their hard work and imagination with resources across ASU, our student entrepreneurs are nationally recognized by Forbes and Entrepreneur year after year of innovation. My business definitely succeeded because of access to tools and resources from the Center for Entrepreneurship." — Devesh Tuteja, W. P. Carey '14 wpcarey.asu.edu/entrepreneurship an ecosystem "