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Domestic Violence Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Tiffany Turley, Robbyn T. Scribner Feb 2017

Domestic Violence Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Tiffany Turley, Robbyn T. Scribner

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Domestic violence is a serious and widespread issue affecting women and families in Utah. One in three Utah women will experience some form of domestic violence in her lifetime, and our rate is slightly higher than the national average (32.4% vs 28.8%). According to the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, more than 40% of adult homicides in Utah since 2000 have been domestic violence related. Domestic violence is often presumed to refer only to physical violence, but it also includes many other forms of abuse— emotional, verbal, financial, spiritual, digital/online, and sexual. Domestic violence can be perpetrated against anyone regardless of …


The Huntsman Post, February 2017, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Feb 2017

The Huntsman Post, February 2017, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Huntsman Post Issues Collection

Monthly newsletter for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.


Mere Measurement “Plus”: How Solicitation Of Open-Ended Positive Feedback Influences Customer Purchase Behavior, Sterling A. Bone, Katherine N. Lemon, Clay M. Voorhees, Katie A. Liljenquist, Paul W. Fombelle, Kristen B. Detienne, R. Bruce Money Feb 2017

Mere Measurement “Plus”: How Solicitation Of Open-Ended Positive Feedback Influences Customer Purchase Behavior, Sterling A. Bone, Katherine N. Lemon, Clay M. Voorhees, Katie A. Liljenquist, Paul W. Fombelle, Kristen B. Detienne, R. Bruce Money

Management Faculty Publications

In two studies (a longitudinal field experiment with an established B2C national chain, and a field experiment with a B2B software manufacturer), we demonstrate that starting a survey with an open-ended positive solicitation increases customer purchase behavior. Study 1, a longitudinal field experiment, showed that one-year following the completion of a survey that began by asking customers what went well during their purchase experience, customers spent 8.25% more than customers who completed a survey that did not include the positive solicitation. In Study 2, we utilized multiple treatment groups to assess the step-wise gains of solicitation, measurement, and solicitation frame. …


Research By Huntsman Mis Faculty Magno Queiroz Published In Prestigious Information Systems Journals, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Jan 2017

Research By Huntsman Mis Faculty Magno Queiroz Published In Prestigious Information Systems Journals, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

A research article, published in the September 2016 issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, investigates how organizations pursuing different business strategies can generate performance gains from information technology (IT). The study, co-authored with Paul Tallon (Loyola University Maryland), Tim Coltman (University of Wollongong), and Rajeev Sharma (University of Technology Sydney), finds that traditional approaches for assessing the alignment between IT and business strategy are unable to explain how IT is used to drive new strategies and create future business benefits. The study develops a new approach for measuring the strategic alignment of IT and shows how …


Professor's Book Lands On Best Of 2016 List, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Jan 2017

Professor's Book Lands On Best Of 2016 List, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Huntsman School faculty member Mike Glauserʼs book Main Street Entrepreneur was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the best books for entrepreneurs for 2016. Glauser, the Executive Director of the Jeffrey D. Clark Center for Entrepreneurship, wrote the book as a way to inspire an entrepreneurial spirit in everyone, and to give examples of the scores of people across the country who built businesses by following what they love to do.


Board Members Set Example, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Jan 2017

Board Members Set Example, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Four companies founded or led by members of the Huntsman School of Business National Advisory Board were recently recognized by Utah Business Magazine as some of the Best Companies to Work For in Utah. FJ Management and MassMutual Intermountain were recognized in the small company category, while Academy Mortgage and HealthEquity were recognized in the large company category.


Kathryn Fargam, '09 Receives Uacpa Award, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Jan 2017

Kathryn Fargam, '09 Receives Uacpa Award, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Kathryn Fargam, ʼ09 received the UACPA award for Women to Watch: Emerging Leader at the UACPAʼs Annual Inauguration & Awards Banquet this fall. This award is presented to a woman professional who has made significant contributions to the profession and her community, but who has not yet reached the highest levels of advancement.


Unpaid Care Work Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Robbyn T. Scribner Jan 2017

Unpaid Care Work Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Robbyn T. Scribner

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Unpaid work, including childcare, eldercare, housework, and other tasks, is vitally important to the creation of strong families, communities, and nations; in fact, such domestic work has been called “the work that makes all other work possible.” According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the monetary value of women’s unpaid work is estimated to be $10 trillion each year, and women worldwide spend a significantly larger portion of their time than men performing this critical work. This happens for many reasons, including personal values and choices, cultural and social norms, unconscious biases, and specific economic and employment considerations. The global average …


The Status Of Women In Utah Politics: A 2017 Update, Susan R. Madsen, D. Candice Pierucci Jan 2017

The Status Of Women In Utah Politics: A 2017 Update, Susan R. Madsen, D. Candice Pierucci

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

In 2014, the Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) released four research and policy briefs on the status of women in Utah politics, education, nonprofits, and business. These were initially prompted by the Center for American Progress report titled “The State of Women in America: A 50-State Analysis of How Women Are Faring Across the Nation” that ranked Utah last in terms of women being in positions of decision making and leadership. Soon after, a series of other national reports also gave Utah poor rankings, and most used the following four criteria: 1) gender wage gap, 2) educational attainment, 3) …


The Huntsman Post, January 2017, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Jan 2017

The Huntsman Post, January 2017, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Huntsman Post Issues Collection

Monthly newsletter for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.


Detecting Discrimination In Small Business Lending, Sterling A. Bone, Glenn L. Christensen, Jerome D. Williams, Stella Adams, Anneliese Lederer, Paul C. Lubin Jan 2017

Detecting Discrimination In Small Business Lending, Sterling A. Bone, Glenn L. Christensen, Jerome D. Williams, Stella Adams, Anneliese Lederer, Paul C. Lubin

Management Faculty Publications

With limited financial sophistication, entrepreneurial consumers approach the financial marketplace more like retail financial consumers than business customers. However, the assumption of both legislators and regulators is that business-borrowers are more financially savvy than consumer-borrowers, and thus do not require as broad-reaching protections. This gap between marketplace policy protections and the lived reality of the vast majority of small business entrepreneurs sets the stage for entrepreneurial consumers to fall through the regulatory cracks and sets the stage for possible exploitation and abuse. This situation is potentially exacerbated for minority entrepreneurs who belong to protected classes that are generally more vulnerable …


Labor Force Participation: Impact Recommendation Report, Erin Jemison, Susan R. Madsen Dec 2016

Labor Force Participation: Impact Recommendation Report, Erin Jemison, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Participants: Carrie Mayne (DWS), Lecia Langston (DWS), Jennifer Seelig (SLC), Pamela Perlich (Director of Demographic Research, Kem C. Gardnes Policy Institute, University of Utah), Anne Burkholder (CEO, YWCA Utah, WIEC Member), Rep. Becky Edwards (Utah House of Representatives, CoChair of the WIEC), Rebecca Chavez-Houck Utah House of Representatives, Co-Chair of the WIEC), Susan Madsen (UWLP Director), Erin Jemison (Director of Public Policy, YWCA Utah)


Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Fall 2016, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Dec 2016

Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Fall 2016, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Huntsman Business Magazine

Alumni magazine for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.


Options Pricing Through Computational Methods, Robert Petty Dec 2016

Options Pricing Through Computational Methods, Robert Petty

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The purpose of this paper is to show the practical application of computational methods to price options. Emphasis is especially given to the use of the Longstaff-Schwartz method for pricing American and exotic options. An implementation of these pricing methods in a computer program are demonstrated. The advantages of using object-oriented programming design patterns to make pricing programs more flexible and useful is also discussed.


Econometric Modeling Of The Public Grazing Fee's Impact On The U.S. Sheep Industry, Ryan C. Feuz Dec 2016

Econometric Modeling Of The Public Grazing Fee's Impact On The U.S. Sheep Industry, Ryan C. Feuz

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The U.S. sheep and wool industry is one of the oldest agricultural industries within the country. Since the mid 1940’s the industry has witnessed dramatic annual declines in sheep inventories. Many factors have contributed to the decline of the sheep industry including declining consumption of lamb and mutton, the growth in man-made fiber use, scarcity of labor, and predator losses. The U.S. congress has attempted to slow this decline throughout the years with various policy including the use of wool marketing loan programs. Such programs are intended to help bring stability as well as to mitigate price risk within the …


School Of Accountancy Tax Team Takes 2nd Place!, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Nov 2016

School Of Accountancy Tax Team Takes 2nd Place!, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

The second weekend of November, a team of students from the School of Accountancy competed in Deloitte’s FanTAXtic regional competition in Salt Lake City and received a second place finish right behind UT Austin, the number one accounting school in the nation. The team consisted of two sophomores, Shannan Peel and Ashley Hernandez, two upper division undergraduates, Slater Duncan and Kyle Merrill, and one graduate student/team leader, Derek Droesbeke. Bonnie Villarreal served as advisor to the tax team.


Managing Entitled Employees, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Nov 2016

Managing Entitled Employees, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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In today’s workplace, more and more employees are displaying feelings of entitlement which is creating problems and frustrations for managers. Entitled individuals have a unique way of interacting and communicating with others, including managers. On the one hand, they have a strong desire for autonomy. Entitled individuals dislike the idea of being beholden to others or being told what to do. On the other hand, they also exhibit a strong preference for what is known as sociotropy, meaning that they place a high value on the approval and affection of others. These dual—and somewhat conflicting—preferences for interaction and communication create …


#Huntsmangivesback, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Nov 2016

#Huntsmangivesback, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Service is an important part of the experience at the Huntsman School of Business. We are encouraged to look for ways to serve and to give back, whether on campus or to our communities. As part of the annual Business Week service project, students planned a three-hour service challenge entitled Huntsman Gives Back. Huntsman students gathered donations from companies throughout the State of Utah for items to create cancer comfort kits. Hundreds of students from across campus participated in the service challenge to build comfort kits with lip balm, granola bars and personalized greeting cards.


Huntsman Bolsters Faculty In Ethical Leadership, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Nov 2016

Huntsman Bolsters Faculty In Ethical Leadership, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Dr. Julena Bonner joins the Huntsman School of Business faculty this year as the winner of the Best Student Paper in the Social Issues in Management Division at the 2016 Academy of Management meetings. This is the second year in a row that she has received this honor. The Academy of Management is the leading academic society in the field of management, and her award-winning research focuses on management practices and unethical behavior in the workplace.


Huntsman Marketing Professor’S Research Is Cited In Wall Street Journal Article, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Nov 2016

Huntsman Marketing Professor’S Research Is Cited In Wall Street Journal Article, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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This article reports on disheartening trends regarding the disparate access to capital financing faced by Black-owned businesses. Bone’s research published in the August 2014 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research with his co-authors Glenn Christensen (Brigham Young University) and Jerome Williams (Rutgers University) is used to provide an explanation for why Black-owned businesses are not seeking traditional small business loans compared to their White counterparts.


Sexual Assault Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Tiffany Turley, Robbyn T. Scribner Nov 2016

Sexual Assault Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Tiffany Turley, Robbyn T. Scribner

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Nearly one in two women in the U.S. will experience some form of sexual violence victimization in her lifetime (broadly defined), and Utah has the same overall rate. According to the most recent Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice report, when considering more specific definitions, one in three Utah women has been sexually assaulted, and one in six women report having been raped. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, rape occurs in Utah at a rate higher than the national average. Hence, sexual assault is a serious problem within the state.


Linkages Between Firm Innovation Strategy, Suppliers, Product Innovation, And Business Performance: Insights From Resource Dependence Theory, Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja, Vijay R. Kannan, Shaukat Ali Brah, Syed Zahoor Hassan Nov 2016

Linkages Between Firm Innovation Strategy, Suppliers, Product Innovation, And Business Performance: Insights From Resource Dependence Theory, Muhammad Shakeel Sadiq Jajja, Vijay R. Kannan, Shaukat Ali Brah, Syed Zahoor Hassan

Management Faculty Publications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use resource dependence theory to hypothesize that a buyer’s innovation strategy enhances supplier innovation focus and a buyer-supplier relationship that supports product innovation. These in turn positively impact buyer product innovation outcomes and business performance. Moreover, it is argued that the buyer-supplier relationship positively moderates the impact of supplier innovation focus on product innovation. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeling and hierarchical linear regression are used to test hypotheses. Findings The results support all hypotheses and suggest that company (buyer) age and variables related to buyer engagement with international markets directly influence performance. The …


Poverty Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Robbyn T. Scribner Nov 2016

Poverty Among Utah Women, Susan R. Madsen, Robbyn T. Scribner

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Although Utahans in general experience lower rates of poverty than the national average (11.3% in Utah vs. 14.7% nationwide), Utah women are more likely than Utah men to live in poverty, especially women who are heads of households and/or single parents. Many factors influence the levels of poverty among Utah women. The gender wage gap in Utah is one of the highest in the nation; women are much more likely to work minimum wage jobs, and women in Utah have lower levels of educational achievement—particularly at the bachelor’s degree level and higher—than women across the nation. Utah women within specific …


The Huntsman Post, November 2016, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Nov 2016

The Huntsman Post, November 2016, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Huntsman Post Issues Collection

Monthly newsletter for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.


What Are Your Employees Saying About You?, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Oct 2016

What Are Your Employees Saying About You?, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

In an article published in the Harvard Business Review, Huntsman School Associate Professor Nate Washburn, along with Ben Galvin from BYU, provides some suggestions for leaders to develop powerful and inspirational leadership.


Pam Dupin-Bryant — Passion For Higher Education, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Oct 2016

Pam Dupin-Bryant — Passion For Higher Education, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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In a constantly changing world, where the concept of working in one field, let alone for one employer, for a lifetime, is becoming a rare thing, Dr. Pamela Dupin-Bryant has been a ‘True Blooded Aggie’ for over twenty years. She completed both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Utah State and has held academic positions at USU since 1994. Dr. Dupin-Bryant attributes this longevity to her passion for teaching young people and for her love of Utah State. This dedication to teaching has brought numerous accolades throughout her career, with the latest the recognition by USU as the 2016 Eldon …


New Editorial Position Brings International Visibility, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Oct 2016

New Editorial Position Brings International Visibility, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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“Governments spend billions of dollars on social programs each year. To what extent are these programs successful at helping individuals, and how can our resources be put to more efficient use?” asks Dr. Scott Findley, associate professor of Economics and Finance.


Lead With Distinction, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Oct 2016

Lead With Distinction, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business News Collection

A few weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of spending a day with Dick Motta, a great Aggie who spent a lifetime teaching young men about basketball and life. Motta won at every level of coaching, leading Grace High School to the Idaho state championship, Weber State College to three conference championships, and the NBA Washington Bullets to their only championship, in 1978. He was known as a players’ coach, and his players, including former Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan, were fiercely loyal to him. This from a man who never actually played the game beyond high school.


The Holy Grail Of Information Security?, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Oct 2016

The Holy Grail Of Information Security?, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Patent #9391962, “Multi-node Encryption”, is an idea that could potentially upset the entire internet industry. Describing the genesis of his idea, Huntsman Associate Professor Jeff Johnson offered the following analogy, “In the cyber world we have bad guys who are constantly trying to hurt us. Our defense against these bad guys is to build great stone walls that act as a shield. Unfortunately, over time the bad guys obtain machines that can crush stone. Surprisingly, our solution is to simply use more stones in the wall.” So, why then are we building our defenses out of the very source of …


Focused Fridays Sharpen. Explore. Aspire., Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Oct 2016

Focused Fridays Sharpen. Explore. Aspire., Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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A new initiative at the Huntsman School, Focused Fridays provides programming to build skill sets and explore opportunities for life after school. After considerable conversations between students, faculty, and USU administration, the Huntsman School altered class schedules to a M-W and T-H schedule, with Fridays devoted to extracurricular programming to better prepare students to enter the workforce.