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Pricing Disintermediation: Crowdfunding And Online Auction Ipos, A. Christine Hurt

Faculty Scholarship

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Decreasing Clostridium Difficile Health Care - Associated Infections Through Use Of A Launderable Mattress Cover, Edmond A. Hooker, Mark Bochan, Troy T. Reiff, Catherine Blackwell, Kevin W. Webb, Kimberly W. Hart

Faculty Scholarship

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Student Evaluation Instruments: Online Vs. Paper, R. Brian Balyeat, Julie Cagel

Faculty Scholarship

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Workplace Dignity: Communicating Inherent, Earned, And Remediated Dignity, Kristen Lucas

Faculty Scholarship

Extant research on dignity at work has revealed conditions that contribute to indignity, employees’ responses to dignity threats, and ways in which employees’ inherent dignity is undermined. But while dignity – and specifically indignity – is theorized as a phenomenon subjectively experienced and judged by individuals, little research has privileged workers’ own perspectives. In this study, working adults reveal how they personally experience and understand meanings of dignity at work. I describe three core components of workplace dignity and the communicative exchanges through which dignity desires commonly are affirmed or denied: inherent dignity as recognized by respectful interaction, earned dignity …

Process Improvement Consulting Teams: Creating An Undergraduate Capstone Experience, Eileen Steinle Alexander, Frederick Browne

Faculty Scholarship

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Time To Lift The Veil Of Inequality In Health Care Coverage: Using Corporate Law To Defend The Affordable Care Act, Seema Mohapatra

Faculty Scholarship

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Mirr: The Means To An End? Reinforcing Optimal Investment Decisions Using The Npv Rule, R. Brian Balyeat, Julie Cagel

Faculty Scholarship

Unlike other investment decision techniques, Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) has yielded mixed academic opinions. MIRR is sometimes heralded as a superior decision rule, sometimes seen as having little value, and sometimes ignored altogether. We offer an alternative view; that the value of MIRR lays in improving students’ understanding of net present value (NPV) as the primary decision criteria for investment decisions. Results of a classroom experiment support MIRR’s pedagogical value for reinforcing the NPV rule.

Applied Experiential Field Experience In Accredited Graduate Programs For Healthcare Administration, Edmond A. Hooker

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Impact Of Population Stratification On Family-Based Association In An Admixed Population, Eileen Steinle Alexander

Faculty Scholarship

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Impact Of Non-Audit Assurance Level (Compilation Versus Review) On Production Management Of Private Manufacturing Companies, Benjamin P. Foster

Faculty Scholarship

Private small companies have been the subject of much interest by accounting regulators recently. The AICPA issued SSARS 19 and the Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities in 2009 and 2013, respectively. The Financial Accounting Foundation issued the Blue Ribbon Panel Report on Standard Setting for Private Companies in 2011. This is apparently the first study to compare reporting practices of small private companies whose financial statements are compiled or reviewed.

Overall results indicate that reviewed companies tend to exhibit positive abnormal production while compiled companies tend to exhibit negative abnormal production. However, for the companies most likely …

Law Firm Selection And The Value Of Transactional Lawyering, Elisabeth De Fontenay

Faculty Scholarship

Following the contraction in demand for law firms’ services during the Great Recession, “Big Law” was widely diagnosed as suffering from several maladies that would spell its ultimate demise, including excessive fees, excessive size, increased competition from in-house counsel, the commoditization of legal work, and the decline in demand for “relationship firms.” While each of these market pressures is only too real for certain segments of the law-firm population, their threat to the most elite U.S. law firms has been largely misunderstood. Even as many firms reduce their fees and contract in size, we should expect certain firms to continue …

Brief Of Corporate Law Professors As Amici Curie In Support Of Respondents, John C. Coates, Lucian A. Bebchuk, Bernard S. Black, John C. Coffee, James D. Cox, Ronald J. Gilson, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Lawrence Hamermesh, Henry B. Hansmann, Robert J. Jackson Jr., Marcel Kahan, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, Michael Klausner, Reinier H. Kraakman, Donald C. Langevoort, Brian Jm Quinn, Edward B. Rock, Mark J. Roe, Helen S. Scott

Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court has looked to the rights of corporate shareholders in determining the rights of union members and non-members to control political spending, and vice versa. The Court sometimes assumes that if shareholders disapprove of corporate political expression, they can easily sell their shares or exercise control over corporate spending. This assumption is mistaken. Because of how capital is saved and invested, most individual shareholders cannot obtain full information about corporate political activities, even after the fact, nor can they prevent their savings from being used to speak in ways with which they disagree. Individual shareholders have no “opt …

Corporate Risk-Taking And Public Duty, Steven L. Schwarcz

Faculty Scholarship

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Relationships Of Trust And Confidence In The Workplace, Deborah A. Demott

Faculty Scholarship

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"We're Cool" Statements After Omnicare: Securities Fraud Suits For Failures To Comply With The Law, James D. Cox

Faculty Scholarship

As part of a symposium celebrating the multiple contributions of the late Alan Bromberg, this article examines implications flowing from the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Omnicare Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund. Because Omnicare lands so squarely on the Court’s earlier opaque opinion in Virginia Bankshares, Inc. v. Sandberg addressing the treatment of the materiality of opinion statements, Omnicare is the new currency in the realm that will have far-reaching implications. In Virginia Bankshares, the Supreme Court quickly concluded shareholders would attach significance to the board of directors’ statement that the cash-out merger …