Brian Murtha’s paper, “Clustering, Knowledge Sharing, and Intrabrand Competition: A Multi-Year Analysis of an Evolving Franchise System,” (with Moeen Butt, Kersi Antia, and Vishal Kashyap) was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Marketing.
Dan Sheehan and Aaron Garvey each received annual awards this month from the department of Marketing & Supply Chain. Dan received the Teaching Excellence Award for 2017, and Aaron received the Research Excellence Award for 2017. Congratulations to both!
Several faculty and PhD students participated in the recent Academy of Management Annual Meetings in Atlanta, August 10-16.
Ji Youn (Rose) Kim received the CGIO Best Paper Award in International Corporate Governance from the International Management Division of the Academy.for her research: Xu, K., Kim, J., Withers, M. & Howard, M., "The evolution of board interlock network: A comparative study of U.S. and China."
The MBA Advisory Council at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics is a group of individuals that are vested in advancing the UK MBA program and the professional development of its students.
The University of Kentucky's One Year MBA program at the Gatton College of Business and Economics welcomes their new corporate sponsors to the built-in internship experience, called Project Connect. For 32 weeks, One Year MBA student teams are paired with companies to work on projects of importance to their corporation or organizatio
The MBA Center at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics recently hosted a successful, three-day certificate on Project Management which was open to the entire UK MBA student body, alumni and other partners of the program.
Leonce Bargeron’s paper, “What is the shareholder wealth impact of target CEO retention in private equity deals?” (with Frederik Schlingemann, René Stulz, and Chad Zutter) has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Corporate Finance.
David Hardesty and Brian Murtha have recently been appointed to the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Services Research.
Olga Malkova's paper "Can Maternity Benefits Have Long-Term Effects on Childbearing: Evidence from Soviet Russia" was accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Andrew Jonelis, an Economics Ph.D. student, recently had a paper on which he was a co-author cited in the Finanical Times. The paper, on African government debt, was written while Andrew was an intern an the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the summer of 2016.
