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College Enrollment And Graduation: A Utah Women And Education Update, Susan R. Madsen, Heather Bertotti Sarin

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

This is the second in the 2013 series of Utah Women and Education Initiative (UWEI) Research and Policy Briefs written to help state leaders, educators, legislators, and community members understand the current state of higher education for women in Utah. The first brief on education attainment of the Utah population included information about Utah’s big goal of having 66% of Utah’s population with postsecondary degrees or vocational certificates by the year 2020. The purpose of this second brief is to highlight the current enrollment and graduation data of women and men attending postsecondary institutions in Utah.

Beta Alpha Psi Reaches Out To Boy Scouts, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Beta Alpha Psi members recently conducted a highly successful service event for 82 Boy Scouts and their scout masters educating them about careers in accounting as well as taking them through the steps toward earning their personal management merit badge, one of the merit badges that is required to obtain the rank of Eagle Scout. This particular merit badge is one of the more difficult merit badges to earn because it requires budgeting and tracking personal income and expenditures.

Peruvian Company Honored For Work Done With The Seed Program, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Klydi Heywood

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For five years USU students have been teaming up with a Peruvian agricultural company to help entrepreneurs launch new ventures. The firm's successful work is not going unnoticed; in fact, the company has just received national recognition for the good it has accomplished.

Mshr Courses Now Available Online, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business has teamed up with a Dallas-based company, Academic Partnerships, to make graduate online human resources courses available to more people, especially those living in rural areas.

Steve Gould Completes Five Internships In Two And A Half Years, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Klydi Heywood

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Five. That’s how many internships Huntsman student Steve Gould has completed in the last two and a half years--in Houston, Spokane, St. George, and Cache Valley. He has interned in an oil pipeline company's investor relations department, in redesigning a tire factory's website, with the CFO of an expanding cancer care company, in marketing a software company's presentation program, and in the finance department of a high-end theater and home-automation company.

Promoting The Value Of Sustainably Minded Purchase Behaviors, Edwin R. Stafford, Cathy Hartman

Management Faculty Publications

Corporate environmental responsibility and sustainability have become mainstream. Coca-Cola has been working on alleviating global water scarcity, given that water is the primary ingredient of soft drinks and critical to Coca-Cola’s future. Facebook has made public its “carbon footprint” emitted from its data centers for 2011 (equivalent to 285,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide), declaring that it aims to reduce it by 25% via clean energy by 2015. And Wal-Mart has erected its first commercial-scale wind turbine at its Red Bluff, Calif., distribution center to supply 15 to 20% of the facility’s electricity needs at a substantial cost savings over …

Cold Discoveries In The Mississippi Lead To Life-Changing Insights, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Robert Miller

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When I graduated from Brigham Young University with an undergraduate degree in manufacturing engineering and was working on my master’s degree in computer integrated manufacturing, I had big plans. They didn’t include driving around a forklift outside in the dead of an Iowa winter,

Business School Top Of The Class, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University is one of just 22 schools in the United States now recognized by the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute for the work it is doing to prepare students to earn the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Customer Service And Innovation Are Key Today, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Eric Schulz

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Just about every company pays lip service to “the customer is king” philosophy, but nobody does it as well as Disney. The sign over the entrance to Disneyland Park says, “The Happiest Place on Earth,” but how does Disney make good on that promise?

Usu To Offer Online Master's Program In Human Resources, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business this month will launch a new online Master of Science in Human Resources degree program. The program will offer 12, seven-week courses and is designed to help students living in rural areas advance their careers in human resources.

From Tulip Bulbs To Sub-Prime Mortgages. Analyzing The Sub-Prime Crisis: The Case For A Systemic Approach, Alan A. Stephens, J. Brian Atwater, Vijay R. Kannan

Management Faculty Publications

The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market parallels several earlier failures within the financial services sector, begging the question why the lessons of past failures were not learned. Throughout history from the tulip bulb crisis of the 1600s to the most recent economic crisis, decision-makers keep making the same mistakes. This occurs in part because of a failure to recognize similarities between past and current events. This conceptual paper aims to use systems dynamics tools to examine the crisis and illustrate how seemingly independent events are linked. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides a fundamental review of systems thinking concepts and uses …

The Huntsman Post, January 2013, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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

Students Gain Real-World Experience In Marketing Case Competition, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Allie Jeppson

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It happened on Friday, Nov. 30, however, when students participated in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business’s first-ever Marketing Case Competition, for a client whose specialty just happens to be beards.

Inc. Magazine Introduces Hire Power Awards Honoring America's 100 Top Job Creators, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Logan-based Conservice Utility Management and Billing has been featured in the inaugural ranking of Inc.’s Hire Power Awards, recognizing the private businesses that have generated the most jobs in the past three years.

Dog Eat Dog World: Challenges Of An Entrepreneurial Start-Up, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, David Herrmann

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It was my boss who got me thinking about taking a leap of faith and starting my own business. It proved to be a leap I survived even though I had a faulty parachute.

Professor Ronda Callister Spoke At Tedxusu On “Reducing Barriers To Women’S Contributions”, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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Professor Ronda Callister had to compete to become one of just eight presenters at the first ever TEDxUSU event, held in November. She used her requisite “18 minutes of innovative ideas” to describe the powerful, world-changing effects that would likely ensue from enabling women to become full contributors to human well-being and progress.

Behavioral Life-Cycle Models Under Alternative Demographic Regimes, Timothy F. Harris

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

Social security in the United States will encounter financial strains due to an aging population. The decreasing worker to retiree ratio will reduce retirement benefits relative to today’s benefits so long as the tax rate and eligibility age are not altered. Policy makers assume that they should make policies to maintain the current benefit levels.

In contrast to this assumption, this paper does not presume that policy makers should preserve current benefits. An analysis of the required tax rate to maintain lifetime utility across the current and future demographic regimes is undertaken rather than just a calculation of the tax …

Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Fall 2012, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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

Innovative Resources For Teaching Professional Ethics, Susan R. Madsen, C. S. Wong

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

With the fairly recent and highly publicized breaches of ethics among members of the business community, there is a need to re-examine specific strategies employed in all kinds of organizations. Many business faculty members are comfortable teaching ethics in the classroom, but are we (as scholars and educators) appropriately challenging our own ethical practices? To assist in raising awareness of ethical concerns within the AAOM, we believe it is important to focus discussions on challenging our own ethics, particularly as faculty members in our various roles. Although there are professional ethical codes, there have been few venues for dialogue. This …

Tarp Repayment, Lobbying And Political Connectivity, Ian Simmons

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

In their paper "Corporate Lobbying, Political Connections, and the Bailout of Banks," Blau, Brough, and Thomas (2012) present significant evidence that firms that engaged in lobbying and maintain political connection with the federal government were more likely to receive funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), received more funds on average, and received the funds earlier than those firms that did not lobby or maintain political connections. These results fit into a large body of work showing similar results showing that lobbying has positive economic benefits to lobbying firms (Chen and Yang, 2010; Cooper and Ovtchinnikov, 2010; Faccio, 2010; …

Observational Research In A Marketing Classroom: A Guidebook, Kristen Winterton

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Qualitative research plays an integral part in marketing research (Denzin and Lincoln, 1998). In fact, a search of the website for the American Marketing Association for the term “qualitative research” reveals literally hundreds of documents (white papers, case studies, etc) discussing methods of conducting observational research, examples of observational research studies, and the importance of observational research in marketing. Interestingly, though qualitative methods are used frequently by practitioners, they receive very limited attention in marketing textbooks. This seems particularly true of observation research, which is among the least expensive and easily conducted qualitative methods (Mann, 2003). The purpose of this …

Open Political Discussion At Work Can Have Benefits, Drawbacks, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Christine Arrington

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Political discussion at work can actually strengthen an employee’s job satisfaction and commitment to the organization, but only if the discussion is characterized as “an exchange of perspectives” with “give and take,” rather than as “political pressuring” to agree with a supervisor’s political ideas. This was the surprising preliminary finding of an innovative, nationally representative study of couples in which both the employee and spouse were surveyed on how political discussions at work can impact the work and home life of employees.

Nate Stephens Earns Two Best Paper Awards, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Allie Jeppson

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It is a rare thing for an author to win a best paper award for his or her published research. It is even more unusual, however, for an author to win two of those awards in the same year. Yet Nate Stephens, assistant professor of accounting, has done just that for research published in the Accounting Horizons and Issues in Accounting Education journals.

Huntsman School Recognized By The Cfa Institute, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Nadiah Johari

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he Jon M. Huntsman School of Business is one of just 20 schools in the United States to be recognized by the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute for the work it is doing to prepare students to obtain the Chartered Financial Analyst© designation, which has become the most respected and recognized investment credential in the world.

Glenn Mcevoy Earns Library Faculty Award, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Allie Jeppson

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The Merrill-Cazier library has recognized Dr. Glenn McEvoy for his contributions to the library with the Library Faculty Award, a recognition earned by only one faculty member each year.

Company With Huntsman Roots Predicts 91% Of Political Races Correctly, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Steve Eaton

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After traveling by bus for three months to 48 states logging 18,000 miles, contacting more than 3,000 politicians, participating in a drag race with a pig bus and a “slow walk” with a presidential candidate, the leaders of PoliticIt decided to take a break this week.

Huntsman Lecturer Tells Of Unexpected Ethical Test, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Alan Warnick

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Several years ago, when I was a company’s affirmative action officer, I found myself in an awkward position when I found out that company leaders wanted to know if a leading candidate for an open position was Jewish before they made their hiring decision.

Watch Some Of The Excellent Presentations From The 36th Annual Accounting Conference, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

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The 36th Annual Accounting Accounting Conference was an outstanding success thanks to a blockbuster lineup of presenters.

Vijay Kannan Tells About Scary Night In Vietnam, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Vijay Kannan

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Even experienced overseas travelers can slip up, and this can lead to interesting adventures. Yet, when I found myself in a police station in rural Vietnam late one night, I wasn’t sure how much I would enjoy that one particular “adventure" I had.

Tim Gardner Says Liberal Studies Degree Proved Good Foundation, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, Allie Jeppson

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Tim Gardner is skilled at Jeopardy. His knack for remembering bits and pieces of random knowledge is a hidden talent he developed, in part because he earned his undergraduate degree in liberal studies.