‘Trapped Cash’

November 9, 2015

Businessmen Shaking Hands

Are Large Companies Making Poor Acquisition Decisions as a Result of Efforts to Avoid Paying U.S. Taxes?

In their attempts to avoid paying additional taxes, many large, multinational, U.S.-based companies are making dubious foreign acquisitions that may, ultimately, be bad for business.

That’s the research finding of UConn Accounting Professor Todd Kravet, and two of his colleagues, whose work will appear in the forthcoming issue of the journal of Contemporary Accounting Research.Continue Reading

Mimicking the Boss

Nicole Jones Young
Nicole Jones Young (Melissa Ferrigno/UConn School of Business)

Doctoral Student Nicole Jones Young Wins Her Second Award for Research on ‘Trickle-Down Leadership’ and Inclusivity

Management doctoral candidate Nicole Jones Young has won her second prestigious award in two years for research that shows employees pay close attention to their bosses’ actions, more than their words, when it comes to inclusivity in the workplace.

“A Trickle-Down Approach to Inclusive Leadership: The Role of Supervisory Moral Identity,” was recognized by the prestigious Southern Management Association (SMA) as the top doctoral research paper focused on ethics, social and diversity issues.Continue Reading

How Veterans Can Sign Up for Entrepreneurial Training Through College Initiatives

November 6, 2015

New York Post- Last year, Army Reserves veteran Dr. Stephannie L. Addo-Zuniga was knee-deep in the trenches on a daily basis from 8 a.m. to midnight, relying on her tenacity and perseverance to pull her through.

This wasn’t army bootcamp, but an intense learning initiative offered through Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities at the University of Connecticut.

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2015 Ph.D. Student Speaker Series

November 5, 2015

Finance doctoral students with speaker Kent Daniel (Nancy Crouch/UConn School of Business)
Finance doctoral students with speaker Kent Daniel (Nancy Crouch/UConn School of Business)

The 2015 Ph.D. Student Speaker Series launched on Friday, October 2, 2015, as finance doctoral students welcomed Professor Kent Daniel from Columbia University.

Professor Daniel met with doctoral students, faculty, and presented his latest work at a well-attended seminar. Kent is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Finance, as a director of the American Finance Association, and as a director of the Western Finance Assocation.Continue Reading

The Courage to Say ‘No’

November 3, 2015

Air travel is no longer glamorous and sometimes, well, often, just annoying – too many people on oversold flights, crammed into tight spaces, and fighting over whether it is OK to put a seat back.

Add to this weather delays, mechanical problems, TSA screenings, and having to pay for every little extra, and it is not surprising that the flying passenger is no longer a happy, friendly person. Continue Reading

How the NFL Moves the Stock Market

November 2, 2015

Ozy.com- For years it has been a widely held superstition among sports fans that the outcome of key games has an effect on the stock market. With the Super Bowl, it’s called the halo effect — a solid 80 percent of the time, the Dow declines for a year after the AFC team wins, and goes up, also for a year, when the NFC team wins. But, hey, investors: The pundits may be telling it all wrong.

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Dreaming of a Day When Hartford Joins the Ranks of ‘College Towns’

October 28, 2015

Hartford Courant- Can Hartford become a real college town? The Hartford Consortium for Higher Education sure hopes so. The anticipation of two new downtown campuses in the next two years has educational leaders dreaming of a Hartford where college students are more visible, and where city students can aspire for higher education without having to travel to a leafy suburban campus for a peek at college culture.

Research Seminar with Ahmed Khwaja, Yale School of Management

On October 16, Professor Ahmed Khwaja from Yale School of Management gave a research seminar for the School of Business Marketing Department about “firm expansion, size spillovers and market dominance in retail chain dynamics.” This research examines firm expansion and contraction decisions, and in particular, focuses on the role of firm size on future profitability and market dominance. Continue Reading