Marketing & Supply Chain Department Chair, David Hardesty, has an upcoming article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Adam Farmer, Blair Kidwell, and David M. Hardesty (2020), “Helping a Few a Lot or Many a Little: Political Ideology and Charitable Giving.” The abstract is as follows:
Study.com has done the research to determine the top 50 marketing schools in the United States. After looking at information like degrees offered, concentration options, accreditations, clubs and networking opportunities available to students, and information from the U.S. Department of Education, the University of Kentucky is ranked #17!
Dan Brass was recently featured on the most recent edition of Talking about Organizations, a podcast about organizational theory. The topic was Power, Influence and Networks. Listen to Podcast
Companies are adopting Enterprise Social Media, like Slack, to democratize social networks and foster communication and creativity. In a recent paper, co-authored with computer scientists based in Italy, Prof. Ajay Mehra examined how gender and rank shaped emergent social networks on an Enterprise Social Media platform.
Steven Lugauer was named a research affiliate at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Aging Research (CEPAR). Steven joined the Department of Economics in 2016. He received a PhD and MS in Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA in Economics and Finance at the University of Miami, and a BA in Economics at the University of Chicago. His primary research interests are in macroeconomics and demographics.
Ph.D. candidate Evisa Bogdani presented her paper titled, “The Role of Assurance in Equity Crowdfunding” on January 18, 2020 at the Audit Midyear Meeting in Houston, Texas. Her research interests are in audit and financial accounting using archival methods. Specifically, she is interested in examining the role of assurance and disclosure’s features in emerging new financial markets such as equity crowdfunding.
In a ceremony held on Tuesday, March 3, Economics Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies Darshak Patel was presented with the UK Alumni Association 2020 Great Teacher Award. Initiated in 1961, UK’s Great Teacher Award is the longest-running UK award recognizing teaching. In order to receive the award, educators must first be nominated by a student. The UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award Committee, in cooperation with the student organization Omicron Delta Kappa, then makes the final selection. Recipients receive an engraved plaque and stipend.
The University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics presented the 6th Annual Commonwealth Supply Chain Innovation Award, to Misty Doan-Eldridge, Supply Planning Manager, and Steve Bauer, Senior Manager of Forecasting, at Escalade Sports Inc., headquartered in Evansville, Indiana.
Kristine Hankins presented "Do Firms Hedge During Distress?" at the University of Colorado - Boulder on February 14. The paper is co-authored with Heitor Almeida (Illinois, NBER) and Ryan Williams (Arizona). Hankins is the William E. Seale Professor and Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include corporate finance, corporate risk management, and methodology issues and she is a prior winner of the Jensen Prize.
Gatton Professor Dan Stone's data visualization case (with Ann O'Brien of University of Wisconsin - Madison), titled, "Yes, You Can Import, Analyze, and Create Dashboards and Storyboards in Tableau!" has been accepted for publication at the American Accounting Association's Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting. Dr. Stone serves as the Director of the Minor in Business Analytics. He is an author of the corporate governance and information technology sections of Wiley CPAExcel.
