The August episode of Simon Says is our "Back to Uni" (that's Australian for college!) edition. This year, we welcomed our largest freshman class to date - a total of 864 students!
The Castellan Group LLC, is bringing 12 new business ideas to the 2019 Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship (VACE) Bootcamp. These ideas have been generated by current clients of this family office based in Louisville, Ky. The VACE Entrepreneurs Bootcamp is a successful initiative that reaches across undergraduate and graduate programs to promote community engagement.
Will Gerken was cited by SEC commissioner Robert Jackson in his public statement on the Final Rules Governing Investment Advice Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI). In it, Jackson states that, "The well-known study shows that conflicted advice is the kind that leads to fraud that can hurt investors."
Huiwen Lian has recently published a paper in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP) titled, “Being Sensitive to Positives has its Negatives: An Approach/Avoidance Perspective on Reactivity to Ostracism."
Matt Zook (Geography) and Steve Borgatti have recently received $285,806 from NSF to study "Cryptocurrencies and New Spaces of Finance”, in which they look at exchanges among thousands of wallets.
New research from Dan Sheehan has been accepted by the Journal of Consumer Research.
In this paper, titled "Saving Your Self: How Identity Relevance Influences Product Usage,” Sheehan documents an "identity conservation effect," in that consumers are less likely to use products related to their identity (such as notepads or candy that display a University of Kentucky logo) compared to nonidentity products because the tradeoff between how it feels to own and use such a product.
Ram Pakath’s article, “Numerical, Secondary Big Data Quality Issues, Quality Threshold Establishment, & Guidelines for Journal Policy Development,” authored jointly with Anita Lee-Post, is forthcoming in Decision Support Systems.
Hong Xie’s paper (co-authored with Xiaohua Fang, Le Hua, and Jeffrey Pittman), “CEO Sensation Seeking and Accounting Conservatism” was presented at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California on August 13, 2019.
Accounting PhD student Meng Huang presented her paper (co-authored with Nicole Jenkins and Hong Xie), “Mandatory Repurchase Disclosure, Opportunistic Repurchases, and Their Real Effects” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California on August 12, 2019.
