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The Huntsman Post, March 2018, 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.

Customer Satisfaction Index Of Singapore 2017: Full Year Overview, Institute Of Service Excellence, Smu

Research Collection Institute of Service Excellence (2007-2024)

The Customer Satisfaction Index of Singapore (CSISG) computes customer satisfaction scores at the national, sector, sub-sector, and company levels. The CSISG serves as a quantitative benchmark of the quality of goods and services produced by the Singapore economy over time and across countries. The fourth quarter results mark the end of measurement for CSISG 2017. Singapore’s 2017 national score was computed using the data collected during these four quarters.

Identifying Gaps In United States Federal Environmental Policy & Practice Through Greening Big Box Infrastructure, Elizabeth Kubacki

Sustainability and Social Justice

The purpose of this report is to identify policy and practice gaps in resource consumption reduction in the United States, and doing so by using big box retailers as the case study industry.

Through reviewing the history of U.S. federal resource reduction policies, and standard industry practices for greening big box infrastructure, I explore how regulations on sustainability and consumption agree with the Porter Hypotheses. By using the Porter Hypothesis as a theoretical framework for the regulation of green infrastructure in big box retailers, I will identify gaps in both literature and industry practices that can be filled by following …

Organizational Citizenship Behavior--A Study Of The Telecom Industry, Upasna Joshi Sethi Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

Organizational Citizenship behavior is a person’s voluntary commitment within an organization which is not part of the contractual tasks. Various studies suggested that engaging in OCB can enrich the work lives of employees. The Current Paper aimed to study five dimensions of Organizational Citizenship Behavior of employees in Telecom industry. For the study a sample size of 500 employees who are working in Telecom sector was selected using Snowball Sampling Technique in the areas of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. The scale used for the purpose of measuring the responses of the employees for Organizational Citizenship Behavior is the one developed …

Cash Shortages And Black Money: A Look At India's 2016 Demonetization Effect, One Year Later, Amitabh S. Dutta Ph.D., Kishore G. Kulkarni Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

The decision of demonetization announcement in November 2016, by the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi, was surprising to the general public and controversial to the economic thinkers. While the opponents of such a step have gone through actual calculation of the cost of demonetization in terms of potential GDP loss (2% as predicted by the former Prime Minister and Oxford Economist, Manmohan Singh) some supporters have pointed out the big benefits of this step. In recent days a talk of demonetization has become a “hot potato” that very few want to hold on to. Politically this has become …

Colossal Insurance Sector Of India, Anuradha Prasad More

International Review of Business and Economics

Insurance sector has its roots in the Indian economy since 1818 when the first insurance company Oriental Life insurance was established at Calcutta [now Kolkata]. Even the reference can be found in the form of marine adventure trade loans and carrier’s contracts. Industry started taking shape during the British reigning. Since then the insurance industry has undergone the various reforms/changes. Enactment of Insurance Act 1938, nationalization of Life insurance sector in the year 1956, General insurance Sector in the year 1972 and again with the recommendation of Malhotra Committee Report insurance sector reopened for private players in the year 1999. …

Idiosyncratic Risk And Returns: The Case For A More Efficient Class Of Estimators, Mohinder Parkash, Rajeev Singhal, Yun Ellen Zhu

International Review of Business and Economics

Volatility is a key input into many important financial decisions. Therefore, accurateforecast of volatility plays animportant role in making these decisions. Typically, volatility is forecast using realized volatility computed from closing stock prices. Employing expectation of volatilitiessuch calculated, several papers find that expected idiosyncratic risk is positively associated with contemporaneous returns. Yang and Zhang [2000] show that estimators belonging to the class of range-based estimators are more efficient than the estimators derived only from closing prices. Using the more efficient range-based volatility estimates, we find no evidence to support the hypothesis that idiosyncratic risk explains returns.

New Dentist News (March 2018), Ada Committee On The New Dentist

New Dentist News

New Dentist News offers timely information on scientific, social, educational, political and economic developments affecting new dentists. This collection is historical and items may not reflect current standards. For up-to-date information contact the ADA. The New Dentist News was alternately titled ADA Lifeline, 1997-June 2001.

More Than Music: A Case Study On The Marketing Of Outside Lands Music Festival, Emily Haworth

Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration

The evolution of marketing has shown a general progression towards experiential and digital marketing, and away from traditional marketing. Digital and experiential marketing are at the forefront of many company’s marketing strategies due to their ability to form lasting brand relationships with consumers. The purpose of this study was to examine the marketing techniques of the Outside Lands Music Festival and their draw on millennials. Research for this study was gathered using a case study guide established by the researcher, which highlighted the past experiential and digital marketing efforts of Outside Lands and their sponsors. The results of this study …

New Product Launch – Syngenta, Kendra C. Legge

Agricultural Education and Communication

Launching any type of new product poses a risk of failure. To ensure success, it is important to know the audience to which a company is launching a product. In Joshua Grossnickle’s book The Handbook of Online Marketing Research: Knowing Your Customer Using the Net he writes, “It's the first rule of business: Know your customer.” It is significant to not only know what makes up an effective product launch, but what the target customers believe make an effective product launch. The chemical company Syngenta is about to launch a new insecticide “Minecto Pro.” Direct feedback from customers about this …

Sexual Harassment: What Utahns Need To Know, Robbyn T. Scribner, Susan R. Madsen, Amber Thackeray

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Although workplace sexual harassment has likely been around since the conception of workplaces, and sexual harassment has been illegal in the U.S. for decades, it is safe to say that the issue has never received as much attention as it has since the autumn of 2017. High-profile instances of sexual harassment in visible industries such as entertainment, politics, the media, and the nation’s largest businesses have put this issue at the forefront of our national conversations surrounding gender and the workplace. The #metoo stories, shared by millions of women worldwide indicating that they had also experienced sexual harassment or sexual …

Haworth College Of Business News (03/2018), Haworth College Of Business

Haworth College of Business News

Sales Lab Naming Gift

Becoming Agile

Mindfulness in Business

Sales Students Win Gold

Regional Economic Vulnerability To Sea Level Rise In San Diego County, San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative, Center For The Blue Economy At The Middlebury Institute Of International Studies At Monterey

San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative

The San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative engaged the Center for the Blue Economy of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey to investigate the potential effects from climate change and projected sea level rise, and coastal storms on the economy of San Diego County. The importance of assessing these vulnerabilities arises because San Diego County is the 17th largest metropolitan area in the country and the 5th largest in California. San Diego County has a GDP that is larger than 25 other states.

Overconfidence In Money Management: Balancing The Benefits And Costs, Jung Hoon Lee, Shyam Venkatesan

Business Publications

Individuals are overconfident, especially those in positions to influence outcomes. The impact of hiring an overconfident portfolio manager is studied here within the standard principal-agent framework. When compensation is endogenously determined, we find that investors can benefit from managerial overconfidence. Overconfidence induces a higher level of effort until the effects of restrictions on portfolio formation take over. Further, by increasing the incentive fee and sharing more risk the investor can curb excessive risk taking. However, excessive overconfidence is detrimental to the investor. We empirically test and confirm the effects of portfolio constraints and incentive fee on manager’s self-attribution bias.

Funding Liquidity Without Banks: Evidence From A Shock To The Cost Of Very Short-Term Debt, Felipe Restrepo, Lina Cardona-Sosa, Philip E. Strahan

Business Publications

In 2011, Colombia instituted a tax on repayment of bank loans, thereby increasing the cost of short-term bank credit more than long-term credit. Firms responded by cutting their short-term loans for liquidity management purposes and increasing their use of cash and trade credit. In industries where trade credit is more accessible (based on U.S. Compustat firms), we find substitution into accounts payable and little effect on cash and investment. Where trade credit is less available, firms increase cash and cut investment. Thus, trade credit offers a substitute source of liquidity that can insulate some firms from bank liquidity shocks.

Private Firms’ Incentives To Manage Earnings: Evidence From A Quasi-Natural Experiment, Felipe Restrepo, Jérôme P. Taillard

Business Publications

We examine the behavior of a large sample of private firms before and after the elimination of an inflation adjustment system in Colombia in 2007. We show that firms avoid reporting small losses by exercising considerable discretion in their use of inflation adjustments, and find that this discretion is greater for firms that rely more on bank financing. Furthermore, we show that firms that manage earnings to report small positive profits are able to issue more bank debt the year following the reporting. After the law change, firms resort to other means to report positive earnings. In particular, the use …

Living In A Gender-Binary World: Implications For A Revised Model Of Consumer Vulnerability, Kim Mckeage, Elizabeth Crosby, Terri Rittenburg

School of Business All Faculty Scholarship

Baker, Gentry, and Rittenburg’s (2005) model of consumer vulnerability outlines the personal, social, and structural characteristics that frame consumers’ experiences of vulnerability in the marketplace. Later applications and enhancements have expanded consumer vulnerability theory. While the theory has been applied in numerous settings, to date it has not been used to examine the ways that gender identity may intersect with market factors to produce vulnerability. Application in this setting also allows for the integration of various model enhancements, and the examination of vulnerability using a more complete formulation of the theory. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews and collages, along with …

Impact Report 2018: Equity And Excellence, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Impact Reports

For over 30 years, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) has pioneered the future of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education through its two legislative charges: 1) to provide a uniquely challenging education for students talented in the areas of mathematics and science; and 2) to stimulate further excellence for all Illinois schools in mathematics and science. IMSA champions these goals through:

• Residential education: Helping talented 10th-12th graders representing over 93% of Illinois counties to date reach their fullest potential.
• Student and educator outreach: Leading the charge to continually innovate K-12 STEM education, creating a strong and diverse …

2018 Updated Tables And Figures For Ec 845 Nebraska Cash Soybean Prices And Basis Patterns, Jessica J. Groskopf, Cory Walters

Extension Farm and Ranch Management News

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Migration From Mexico To The Us: The Impacts Of Nafta On Mexico And The United States And What To Do Going Forward, Ashley A. Elsasser

International Review of Business and Economics

Research indicates four main causes for migration from Mexico to the United States: Incredibly high crime rates, unemployment, poverty rates, and natural disasters. The first two are especially important in regards to trade between the two border sharing countries. Since agreeing to virtually total free trade, the United States has been able to take advantage of Mexico in such a way that has created further deterioration of the state. If the government of Mexico cannot resurrect the thousands of personal business that were effected do to NAFTA, the U.S. cannot expect for migration from Mexico to deteriorate or halt. By …

2018-March-Art And Design Student And Alum To Exhibit Work At Wcu.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Congratulations to student Lizzy Rees and alum Marie Porterfield Barry for being included in EXTRA Millennial Art Exhibit at Western Carolina University. EXTRA is a celebration of artwork created by a complex and introspective generation of artists. The exhibit will be on display at the Bardo Arts Center and will run from March 22 - April 6, 2018.

For more information on the exhibit please follow this link: http://www.chelseadobertkehn.com/extra

2018-March-Art For Change - Call For Entries.Pdf, College Of Arts And Sciences, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Art for Change work must be made by ETSU students or alumni. Call for submissions is open to all media and no theme, but inspired by the concept of 'Art for Change'. The selected works for purchase will be displayed on ETSU campus. Price must be listed for possible purchase award, maximum of $400.00 is preferable. Bring actual work to room 213 Ball Hall from March 23 - April 6, 2018, with completed entry forms and label the actual art work.

Please click on this link to download the entry form: Art for Change

2018-March-01-Ally Wells, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2018-March-01-Boone Dam Tour, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2018-March-01-University Health Center, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Co-Integration Between Savings And Investment In India And The Us: An Econometric Analysis Of Feldstein-Horioka Hypothesis, Narender Thakur Ph.D., Vishnu Das Gupta

International Review of Business and Economics

This paper econometrically tests the Feldstein-Horioka hypotheses. It uses the domestic savings and domestic investments variables in India and the US in the period 1960- 2014. The Feldstein-Horioka hypotheses states that the cointegration relationship between domestic savings and domestic investments weakens in a country with higher foreign capital mobility and vice-versa. We find that the co-integration relation between the two time-series variables is weakened in the case of the US economy as compared to the Indian economy. These results have policy implications for India as it is opening itself up more to inward foreign investment.

Democratizing Innovation: How Consumer Electronics Is Revolutionizing Rocketscience, Abhith Pallegar

International Review of Business and Economics

The traditional flow of cutting-edge technologies observed over the last 100 years was from government supported defense space to its broader application in the civilian domain. We have seen technology flow into consumer products years after its introduction in defense applications. Most common examples of this movement were the invention and incubation of the Internet and Global Positioning System in prestigious national labs, which later trickled down to benefit millions. But there seems to be a shift in the tide of innovation where consumer market has been influential in developing a range of technologies which have flown the other way …

Corporate Governance And Accounting Information Disclosure In The Nigerian Banking Sector, Igbekoyi Olusola Esther, Agbaje Wale Henry

International Review of Business and Economics

The study examine the effect of corporate governance on the quality of accounting information disclosed in Nigerian banks. The study covers banks that are quoted in the Nigeria Stock Exchange. Data were collected from secondary sources using the annual reports and factbook of selected banks during the period of 2006-2015. Data collected were analyzed using statistical tools; unit root, co-integration and error correction model. The corporate governance indices used in the study include; Audit committee meeting (ACM), Audit committee qualification (ACQ), Board size (BS), Directors in audit committee (DAC), Ownership structure (OS) and Corporate board members (CBM). The study revealed …

India's Higher Educator Sector: Challenges And Opportunities, Anand Kulkarni

International Review of Business and Economics

For both developed and emerging economies, knowledge and innovation will increasingly drive competitive advantage, according to a great deal of analysis conducted by the OECD and other Institutions. Higher Education is a key component of future competitive advantage in the knowledge and innovation spheres. This paper will examine the challenges and opportunities for the Indian Higher Education Sector, as it grapples with meeting the needs of a changing economy, and providing access and opportunity for millions of its population. Drawing on a variety of data sources and benchmarking India against a number of nations around the world, this paper contends …

Mundësitë Dhe Kufizimet E Tërheqjes Së Investimeve Të Huaja Në Kosovë, Adea Mala

Theses and Dissertations

Investimet e huaja kanë tërhequr interes në rritje nga vendet ne zhvillim për shkak të përfitimeve të përceptuara në aspektin e injektimit te kapitalit,teknologjisë dhe njohurive. Ky punim diplome analizon bazat kryesore analitike në lidhje me marredhëniet ndermjet investimeve të huaja dhe zhvillimit ekonomik në Kosovë.

Do të ndermarre një përmbledhje të shkurtër të studimeve empirike mbi cështjen e procesit të rritjes së investimeve te huaja. Rritja e IH nuk është një proces që ndodh automatikisht në Kosovë dhe kjo pasqyron natyrën komplekse të marredhënieve midis ndërmarrjeve shumëkombëshe dhe agjentëve ekonomikë te vendit tonë.

Do të shtjellojme motivet qe nxisin …