Family business. Hockey vs. climate change. Working sick. Pharma image.

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• The Wall Street Journal publishes a piece co-authored by Peter Jaskiewicz, CIBC distinguished professor in entrepreneurship and family business and associate professor in the Department of Management, and James G. Combs of the University of Central Florida. The authors write about their findings in a study of 21 family-owned wineries in Germany that examined the factors that can keep a family business alive through generations.
• An article in the Toronto Star listing climate change among the threats to the supremacy of ice hockey n Canada references a study co-authored by Damon Matthews, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment. It says Matthews suggests global warming could make outdoor skating in Canada almost impossible within three decades. 
• A study of the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, co-authored by management professor Gary Johns, is referenced in an article in Jezebel, which does not name the researchers.
• Pharma Phorum publishes a piece by marketing professor Lea Prevel Katsanis about the pharma industry's negative public image and the need for companies in that sector to employ Chief Values Officers to ensure ethical behaviour in marketing and pricing activities.

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