Carlos Lewis was one of two University of Kentucky students who have been named 2019 Forbes Under 30 Scholars — among the world's best and boldest young leaders, creators and thinkers. Lewis is an integrated strategic communication major, business minor, and Vice President of Gatton's student organization, National Association of Black Accountants (NABA).
University of Kentucky Information Technology Services (ITS) recently announced the recipients of their annual Customer Excellence Award for Leadership in IT Advancement.
On October 12, Anthony Creane presented "Informative Advertising in Monopolistically Competitive Markets" at the Midwest Theory Conference at Washington University in St. Louis.
Assistant professor Ben Commerford (second from right) traveled to Washington D.C. this week with his research colleagues to present their paper at the PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets. The research that he presented investigates how auditors rely on artificial intelligence when auditing complex accounting estimates. The coauthor team includes Jenny Wang, a current Ph.D. student at the University of Kentucky, Jennifer Joe from the University of Delaware, and Sean Dennis from the University of Central Florida.
"Whom to Hire and How to Coach Them: A Longitudinal Analysis of Newly Hired Salesperson Performance" by Alexis Allen and others, was recently published in The Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management.
“The Price of Power: How Firm’s Market Power Affects Perceived Fairness of Price Increases” by Lu Zhi, Lisa Bolton, Sharon Ng, and Haipeng (Allan) Chen has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Retailing. Abstract below.
On Friday, September 13, Kristine Hankins presented "Corporate Responses to Stock Price Fragility" (co-authored with Richard Friberg, Stockholm School of Economics, and Itay Goldstein, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) at Syracuse University.
Monika Causholli presented her paper titled, “Accounting Firm Size and Culture: An Institutional Theory Perspective” at the European Auditing Network Conference held in Parma, Italy. The paper is co-authored with Aleksandra Zimmerman at Florida State University and Candice Hux at Northern Illinois University.
Ana María Herrera’s paper, “The Quantitative Effects of Tax Foresight: Not All States are Equal” (joint with Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju, UK alumnus) is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.