Ram Pakath and Shih-Hui Hsiao will present their paper, "Influencers in Social Media: An Assessment of Algorithmic Approaches in Big Data Environments," at the 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 13-16, Nashville, TN.
Kristine Hankins is currently in Dartmouth at the FOM Conference where her paper with Mike Faulkender and Mitchell Petersen entitled "Understanding Precautionary Cash" is on the program.
The department welcomes two new faculty beginning this Fall. Joonwook Park joins the department as an Assistant Professor, and was most recently with Iowa State University. Leslie Vincent joins the department as a Lecturer, and was most recently with Eastern Kentucky University.
Faculty and PhD student activities and research presentations at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings in Anaheim, CA, August 6-10: Wyatt Taylor, Eric Gladstone, and Ajay Mehra with T. Grosser and R. Assudani presented " Employee Perceptions of Network Change Following an Organizational Change."
Assistant Professor Ben Commerford presented a paper at the International Symposium on Audit Research in Singapore. The paper is titled, The Effect of Real Earnings Management on Auditor Scrutiny of Management’s Other Financial Reporting Decisions and it is coauthored with Rick Hatfield and Rich Houston, both at the University of Alabama.
University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Outreach Kenneth R.
University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Outreach Kenneth R. Troske has been appointed to serve as a member of the newly established Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, part of the executive branch of the federal government.
Gordon Holbein's latest book, "500 CEOs: Lessons From The Heart," was recently published and is now available on Amazon
