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Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 5985 (Entrepreneurship In The Wild), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This capstone course takes an experiential approach to entrepreneurship by challenging students to engage in research-based problem-solving in order to create a solution to a real-world problem. Students will chronicle their experience from idea development to execution and then present the results of their entrepreneurial journey at the end of the course.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3951 (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

This course explores how opportunities for creating new value in new ways are identified. The different pathways to opportunity (i.e., recognition, discovery, and creation) are examined as a function of the interaction between the individual and the environment. Students will develop an inventory of potential opportunities and then identify the one most worth pursuing based on a combination of characteristics of the individual and the opportunity. With the chosen opportunity in mind, students will develop a user-driven value proposition that articulates how they intend to create value, which they will present at the end of the course.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3968 (The Art Of Persuasion), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

Open Educational Resources

The lifeblood of any business activity is communication. This is magnified in an entrepreneurial setting. Entrepreneurs need a higher command of communication in general and of selling and negotiation in particular. Entrepreneurs need to not only sell products and services but must be able to illustrate the value of their dreams, their ventures, their company culture and more. Great ideas are of little value if you can’t persuade someone else of their worth and get their support.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 3971 (Multicultural Entrepreneurial Experiences), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

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This course will explore the reasons individuals become entrepreneurs; how their gender and/or gender identification and expression, ethnicity, family culture, place of birth, and geographic location influence their entrepreneurial journey; the aspects that hinder and/or thrive an entrepreneurial mindset; and the overall reasons for pursuing an entrepreneurial life. Students will develop a sensitivity to the diverse entrepreneurial population worldwide, and learn the necessary skills to succeed in multicultural environments.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Mgt 4954 (New Venture Funding), Baruch College Field Center For Entrepreneurship Faculty

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This course will explore the various ways a business can raise funds for an entrepreneurial venture. The funding sources discussed will be diverse ranging from angel investors to venture capitalists to non-profits to debt financing. The course will identify how these funding sources differ, what the risks and rewards are, and how the nature of the venture affects the funding source. Though quantitative concepts such as forecasting and valuations will be discussed, the class will mainly emphasize the qualitative issues to consider when raising funds.

A Separate Asset Class For Cryptocurrency, Wayne Allen Durr

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative study was to research the need for a separate asset class for cryptocurrency. The researcher found a lack of research on this topic and conducted research that provides more information on the topic than is currently in existence. The researcher examined the effects of classification and lack of classification of cryptocurrency as an asset class. This research provided a greater understanding of how cryptocurrency is working without a separate asset classification and added to the current research on the topic. The researcher interviewed multiple people, all with various forms of involvement with cryptocurrency. The interview …

Effects Of Project Managers Use Of Human Resource Management Tools And Techniques To Plan, Estimate, Acquire, Develop, Manage, And Control Project Teams Within Acquisition Mission-Oriented Organizations Of The United States Department Of The Navy, Gregory Allen Bouton

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Project management (PM) has long been recognized by the United States Department of the Navy (DON) as a necessary function to manage the development of Naval assets. The DON also recognizes the utility of human resources management (HRM) tools and techniques to support the planning, estimation, acquisition, development, management, and control of project teams within acquisition mission-oriented organizations of the DON. However, research indicates that there is ineffective use of HRM tools and techniques by project managers which can result in the potential for the integrity of the processes of a DON commissioned project to be adversely impacted. Therefore, this …

A Quantitative Study Of Relationships Between Compassion Fatigue And Burnout To Turnover Intention In Alabama Trauma Center Nurses, Wendell Waters

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Registered nurses are fundamental members of the care team who provide skilled healthcare services in trauma centers. Research reports that trauma center nurses demonstrate high levels of compassion fatigue, burnout, and turnover. Turnover among trauma center nurses results in patient care challenges and increased healthcare costs. Although there have been multiple studies on burnout, compassion fatigue, and turnover, literature did not reveal research on how compassion fatigue, burnout, and turnover intention relates to nurses in trauma centers. Turnover intention is a concept that assesses why people stay with their job. Turnover intention has been established to rationalize intent to depart …

Inefficient Allocation Of Marketing Budgets: Misunderstanding Corporate Sponsorships, Adam Ryan Stollings

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation explored the inefficient allocation of marketing budgets and the misallocation of corporate sponsorships. The researcher opened by discussing the foundation of the study and the underlying lack of understanding and measure of corporate sponsorships in corporate marketing. The study used a flexible multiple-case study design to explore corporate sponsorship allocations and measurements. The researcher provided two research questions to guide the study, along with underlying assumptions, limitations, and delimitations that may impact the study, before concluding the first section with a literature review. The review summarized the current practices of corporations for allocating and measuring sponsorships and revealed …

Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, And Banking Performance In The Cemac Region, Divine Fondem

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This researcher examined the effect of corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on banking performance in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) region. The data was obtained from the Worldwide Governance and the World Bank sovereign database from 2003 to 2018. This study employs the z-score to proxy the CSR factors such as labor force participation rate, population density, and renewable energy. The results reveal that the fixed effects model is superior to the pooled ordinary least square (OLS) and the random-effects model. The findings show that CSR has a significantly positive relationship, while CG has …

A Leader, A Follower, And Some Humor Walk Into A Meta-Analysis: A Review Of Positive And Negative Leader Humor, Richard Hayes

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Although leader humor is a growing research topic, there are still unaddressed issues surrounding this topic. In particular, there is disagreement surrounding the conceptualizations of positive and negative leader humor, conflicting theoretical predictions and empirical findings on the effects of leader humor, a dearth of research on the antecedents and correlates of leader humor, as well as a lack of research on the boundary conditions of these relationships. This qualitative and quantitative review of the nomological networks of positive and negative leader humor addressed these issues based on a meta-analysis of 67 empirical studies (N = 21,121). Results indicate that …

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Using Graph Theoretical Anomaly Detection And Machine Learning, Goksel Kucukkaya

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

The cyber domain is a great business enabler providing many types of enterprises new opportunities such as scaling up services, obtaining customer insights, identifying end-user profiles, sharing data, and expanding to new communities. However, the cyber domain also comes with its own set of risks. Cybersecurity risk assessment helps enterprises explore these new opportunities and, at the same time, proportionately manage the risks by establishing cyber situational awareness and identifying potential consequences. Anomaly detection is a mechanism to enable situational awareness in the cyber domain. However, anomaly detection also requires one of the most extensive sets of data and features …

Managing Value Co-Creation Effectiveness Within The Healthcare Setting Of The Emirate Of Abu Dhabi: Patients’ Perspectives, Mariam Hamad Al Meraikhi

Dissertations

Value co-creation is an emerging trend in the healthcare context, a topic that is attracting increasing attention in modern healthcare settings as the emphasis shifts to encouraging patient engagement in care delivery. Value co-creation seems appropriate for the healthcare setting because of the intrinsic involvement of patients in activities associated with promoting and protecting their health. However, its application in healthcare is still evolving. This study develops a model of how various actors in healthcare delivery can collaborate to improve the delivery and quality of healthcare services. Deeper insights into how to achieve value co-creation in delivering care have received …

Perceived Source Characteristics Of E-Wom Senders Effects On Purchase Intentions And Behaviours: An Experimental Study In The Uae, Hala Saeed Hasan Al Ghusain

Dissertations

The popularity and power of Electronic Word of Mouth (e-WOM) have raised the attention of academia and businesses in the past decade. A plethora of relevant literature investigated the motives of the sender to engage in e-WOM, besides the actual content of the message, leaving unanswerable questions concerning the receiver’s perception of the message and the interpersonal similarities with the sender. This study aimed at filling this gap by assessing the potential impact of e-WOM cues on the receiver experimentally by consulting i) social comparison theory, and ii) social judgment theory. Two experiments were designed and conducted incorporating mixed-method research …

The Influence Of Youth Leaders’ Competencies, Emotional Intelligence, And Climate For Creativity On The Performance Of The Uae Governmental Organizations, Shamsa Saif Suhail Almarri

Dissertations

Nowadays, leadership is an essential asset in youth society. Thus, this study aims to identify the required capabilities to determine their readiness and openness amongst other qualities to be able to identify those youths who are able to take on federal government leadership positions in the upcoming 4th Industrial Revolution which is important for the future economic success of the country. This research utilized the leadership competencies theory to locate the important competencies that are needed to create strong youth leaders. The research has suggested a model and a positivist research philosophy was used to examine the suggested model. A …

Preventing Needle Stick Injuries: A Quality Improvement Project, Adrianna Kerns, Emilea Pitts, Grace Richman, Katie Rawlings, Megan Riley, Mary Suzanne White

2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Poster Presentations

"Needlestick injuries (NSI) affect approximately 1,000 people per day across U.S. hospitals. Needlestick injuries cost an estimated $3,042 per victim annually, according to the report. The costs go toward laboratory fees for testing exposed employees, associated labor and counseling and post-exposure follow-ups." (Beckner's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control, 2020). It was noted at an urban teaching hospital that needlestick injuries are an issue. Researchers believe this number is an underestimate of the actual amount of needle stick injuries. The purpose is to increase the education of staff nurses on the topic of needle stick injuries. We thoroughly reviewed 56 studies …

Cultivating Gratitude And Learning: Virtual Agriculture Education For Elementary School Students, Heather Smith, Joy Gritton

2021 Celebration of Student Scholarship - Oral Presentations

In a time when the majority of young children know more about a computer than agriculture, this project brings agriculture to them in a unique way. This presentation introduces a program that aims to connect elementary students with the vast agriculture industry in the digital age using appropriate technology. The project consists of teaching children in Eastern Kentucky and beyond about agriculture and land use through the virtual dissemination of relevant stories, facts, and activities. In this way children can learn how agriculture is vital to their everyday life. Featured topics include horticulture crops, agronomic crops, livestock, and the history …

Modeling The Stock Market Through Game Theory, Kylie Hannafey

Honors College Theses

Game Theory is used on many occasions to help us understand interactions between decision-makers. The famous Nash equilibrium is a steady state in a model that shows the interaction of different players, in which no player can do better by choosing a different action if the actions of the other players do not change. These two concepts can be applied to numerous situations that vary in types of players, but for our research, we are focusing on businesses in the stock market. The main objective is to use Game Theory to analyze data collected from the stock market, model our …

Cross-Border Acquisitions: A Country-Level Analysis, Jenny M. Heller

Honors College Theses

Country-level factors play an important role in the success or failure of cross-border acquisitions (i.e., acquisitions where the acquiring and target firms are in two different countries). If we are to understand and improve the success rates of these acquisitions, we must explore this issue in more depth. As globalization continues to emerge around the world, cross-border acquisitions have become a common way to enter a new foreign market. There is limited research available so far for these acquisitions on the country-level. Currently, cross-border acquisitions have failure rates of up to 70%. We analyze acquisition premium and use three dimensions …

Estimating The Economic Contribution Of The Hispanic Community In Tyler, Manuel Reyes-Loya

Hibbs Brief

In this issue of the Hibbs Brief, we discuss the economic contribution of the Hispanic community in Tyler during National Hispanic Heritage Month. Hispanic is considered an ethnicity, not a race, and has been included in the census surveys since the mid-2000s. Today, this group is the second largest category in the nation, outpacing Black Americans, with more than 62 million people.

Elements Of Effective, Engaging, And Enjoyable Education Environments, Ivan Harjehausen

Senior Theses

I explore three elements of effective education that promote student development. First, a classroom culture that encourages students to be responsible for managing their own learning rather than relying on the teacher can boost student learning. Two ways of accomplishing this are teachers communicating high expectations for students and teachers normalizing the concept of failure by acknowledging that making mistakes is an essential part of learning.

Second, teachers can model the skills and attitudes they hope to cultivate in students. Children learn by observing behavior of parents then imitating; these same learning mechanisms do not stop in childhood but rather …

The Budding Disruption Of Blockchain Technology Upon The Current Structure Of The Music Industry, Bradley Rauman

Senior Theses

One of the most pertinent opportunities within the music industry, and many other industries as well, stems from the use of blockchain technology. Blockchain’s core technology, which enables smart contracts and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), could be used to restructure and decentralize the music industry to be in alignment with the best interests of artists - the individuals responsible for driving the success of this industry.

The current system is outmoded. It evinces a disparity in the level of information held by artists and intermediaries (i.e. labels, publishers, and streaming services) and this disparity enables intermediaries to deduct egregious fees that …

The Role Of Female Directors In The Boardroom: Examining Their Impact On Competitive Dynamics, Kalin Kolev, Margaret Hughes-Morgan, Kathleen Rehbein

Management Faculty Research and Publications

This study contributes simultaneously to research on women board members and competitive dynamics by investigating two unresolved research questions: What is the effect of female directors on the firm’s competitive repertoire? Under what conditions is this effect more pronounced? Leveraging the “Awareness-Motivation-Capability” (AMC) framework, we predict that having women on the board of directors should impact the complexity, heterogeneity, and volume of the firm’s competitive moves. Relying upon a sample of U.S. pharmaceutical firms for the years 2000 to 2017, we find that adding female directors on the board positively affects the complexity and volume of a firm’s competitive moves, …

2021 April, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for April of 2021.

The Impact Of Subreddit Comments On Daily Return And Volume, Joey Wong

Honors College Theses

This paper examines the subreddit WallStreetBets and its online weekday posts discussing stock market trades. By collecting data from the subreddit and Yahoo Finance, linear regression models are done using Rstudio to determine the relationship and impact that the number of comments has on percentage change in return and volume. This study concludes that when it comes to the relationship between returns and the number of comments, it is insignificant. However, we find that trading volume is positively and significantly related to the number of comments.

Let's Talk About (Cred)It, Taylor J. Anderson

Honors Thesis

This thesis observes the credit system’s communicative patterns and stigmas that have fueled consumer ignorance and discouraged valuable financial discourse and education. For generations, credit consumers have been kept in the dark from imperative personal finance topics. Parents and guardians are not having conversations with their children about credit at home, and neither are a majority of educators. The lack of credit communication at home and in the classroom has ultimately created a massive population that is vulnerable to the manipulation of credit issuers and companies. Consumer ignorance and vulnerability due to the exclusion of credit from conversations and curriculums …

Auditor Response To Changing Risk: Money Market Funds During The Financial Crisis, Kyle D. Allen, Drew B. Winters

Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

Audits provide monitoring for investors. The collapse of markets across the financial crisis made assets more difficult to value, which increased risk for auditors. The money markets were at the center of the financial crisis increasing audit engagement risk on money market funds, which at the time of the crisis were highly opaque. Measuring the response to increased engagement risk with audit fees, this study finds that auditors increase their fees for the riskiest class of funds. However, no evidence was found that audit fees increased as funds increased their holdings in the riskiest class of securities.

Cost Optimization Modeling For Airport Capacity Expansion Problems In Metropolitan Areas, Woo-Jin Choi

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

The purpose of this research was to develop a cost optimization model to identify an optimal solution to expand airport capacity in metropolitan areas in consideration of demand uncertainties. The study first analyzed four airport capacity expansion cases from different regions of the world to identify possible solutions to expand airport capacity and key cost functions which are highly related to airport capacity problems. Using mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP), a deterministic optimization model was developed with the inclusion of six cost functions: capital cost, operation cost, delay cost, noise cost, operation readiness, and airport transfer (ORAT) cost, and passenger …

Taking Flight – April 2021, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• Message from the Dean
• Alumni Spotlight: John Shumanr
• Yuminami to Play and Coach for Pro Team in Japan
• Pi Sigma Epsilon Virtual National Convention
• Finance Association Hosts Guest Speakers from Bloomberg and CAT Financial
• SEF Top Sales Award
• Fidelity Investments VP Is Guest Speaker for Classes
• Faculty/Staff News

Dentistry And The Law: Unreasonable Non-Compete And Damages Provisions In Employment Contracts, Dan Schulte Jd

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

Non-compete and liquidated damages clauses in dental employment contracts must adhere to specific limits for enforceability. Courts require reasonable geographic and temporal constraints on non-competes, typically within patient-served areas under two years. Liquidated damages should reflect actual losses, especially in cases where damages are difficult to gauge. Courts may still reject these provisions if they find breaches or inequity. Employers are advised to strike a balance between safeguarding their interests and fostering positive work environments.