On October 30, VASOA Ph.D. candidate Valbona Sulcaj presented the paper “Litigation Risk, Financial Reporting Quality, and Critical Audit Matters in the Audit Report: Early U.S. Evidence” at the 2020 PCAOB/TAR Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets. The paper is part of her dissertation work under the guidance of Professors Brian Bratten, Monika Causholli (co-chair), Dave Ziebart (co-chair), and Joseph Waddington.
On November 5 and 6, Darshak Patel was part of a panel session on "Creating Engaging Large-Enrollment Classroom Experiences: Remotely or (again someday) in Person" at the 2020 St. Louis Fed Professors Conference. The panel consisted of Martha Olney (University of California, Berkeley), and Aselia Urmanbetova (Georgia Institute of Technology) and moderated by Gail Heyne Hafer (St. Louis Community College-Meramec).
University of Kentucky MBA alum, Michelle Allen, has been recently promoted to Vice President of Sales, DIY for Valvoline at their world headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky becoming the 2nd woman to be promoted to a VP position at Valvoline. DIY is a division within Valvoline's Core North America Business Unit that is responsible for their consumer package goods.
Allan Chen has been named Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Research.
Beam Suntory, a world leader in premium spirits, has named University of Kentucky MBA and Gatton College of Business alum Victoria Russell as its first Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer effective January 11th, 2021.
John Garen was named a Distinguished Kentucky Economist at the Kentucky Economics Association 2020 Meeting. Dr. Garen also delivered the KEA keynote address, “The Economics of Organizations as Applied to Schools: Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Economist.”
When faced with a crisis, companies should dial up two interdependent drivers — speed and agility — to seize opportunities.
Wally Ferrier and co-authors explore this topic in an article published in MIT Sloan Management Review. In it, they use the example of Etsy, the e-commerce site that allows crafters and artisans to sell their work to the public.
On October 29, twenty four University of Kentucky Wall Street Scholars and Pelissier Scholars met with Nate Morris, founder, chairman and CEO of Rubicon, a software company focused on cloud-based, sustainable waste and recycling services.
In this action-packed October edition of Simon Says, you'll get to come along to our annual Alumni Hall of Fame event and meet our amazing inductees. You'll also see highlights from Gatton's State of the College meeting. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, our college is going strong and looking forward!
Undergraduate student Dylan Baker received Best Undergraduate Paper award for his paper, "The Intersection of Housing Policy and Adolescent Asthma Rates" at the Kentucky Economics Association 2020 Annual Meeting.
