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Black, Emily | Socially responsible investing: Robinhood users and their response to ESG-related announcements | This paper investigates the behavior of millennial investors in response to socially responsible announcements made by select S&P 500 companies. This research was conducted using the event study method, gathering the dates of significant social or environment-related press-releases and examining the... | 2021 | |
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Hernandez, Joshua L. | Surveying Preparedness in Operations management and information systems students and evaluating the importance of soft skills in the Job Market | Organizations around the world are becoming progressively more multinational, and complex as they seek competitive advantages in markets that experience changing consumer tastes, shifting technologies, and economic challenges. As a result, hiring managers do not seek merely to fill positions, but in... | 2018 | |
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Mead, Brodie | Sustainability and Organizational Mindulness in the Outdoor Industry | This research theorizes that characteristics of mindfulness can be cultivated in organizations through a focus on environmental sustainability. It thematically evaluates sustainability goals that correlate to organizational mindfulness and mindful organizing. The research examines organizations in t... | 2020 | |
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Harris, Maxene | Targeting generational segmentations in advertisements through psychoraphic attributes: the coca-cola company | Millennials have become the largest segment of consumers in the United States as of 2019, surpassing the Baby Boomer generation by over half a million people. Generation Z, while not as large in size, has become a driving influence in targeted marketing segmentation because of how influential their ... | 2021 | |
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Pierce, Curtis | Technology Adoption as a Predictive Measure of Financial Performance | This study examines the connection between technology adoption and the financial performance of firms measured as daily stock returns. Using an event study methodology, I test the hypothesis that technology adoption is a statistically significant predictor of abnormal returns. Specifically, I analyz... | 2017 | |
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Savage, Erica | Total Factor Productivity in the Construction Industry | Conventional wisdom asserts productivity growth within the construction industry has been in decline for decades in comparison to other US industries. If productivity is indeed low, there is an enormous opportunity for construction firms to create value. The purpose of this study is to test the conv... | 2018 | |
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Bunting, Abraham | Towards water sustainability - improving water usage disclosure | As the amount of interest and capital invested in sustainable companies, indices, and funds has ballooned, the demand for sustainability data on which to base investment has increased significantly. Investors, companies, and regulators have all petitioned the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC... | 2023 | |
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Corcoran, James | Transfers in professional soccer: how they create value | Soccer, the world's most popular sport, continues to see immense growth. Clubs, now with more money at their disposal than ever before, seek any marginal advantage they can get over their competitors. One such way clubs seek to gain an advantage is by acquiring players through transfers. For teams c... | 2024 | |
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Schmutz, Emily | Transportation alternatives for little cottonwood canyon and their operational implications | Beginning in 2017, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has worked on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which provides transportation improvement alternatives for the heavy congestion that takes place in Little Cottonwood Canyon and feeder streets during the winter ski season. U... | 2021 | |
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Liddell, Nicholas | Undergraduate Recruiting for Accounting Majors | The objective of this paper is to describe the process of recruiting for undergraduate accounting and finance majors. Because human capital that comes from U.S colleges is an immensely important resource for businesses across the globe, students have stress and pressure placed on them from their ear... | 2020 | |
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Green, Philip | US venture capital and the effects of diversification | This paper is a discussion of the effects of diversification in venture capital (VC) portfolios. The venture capital structure is formed by three components: the firm, a fund (or funds), and portfolio companies within each fund. One single firm can have simultaneous active funds, which typically las... | Diversification in industry; Venture Capitalism | 2012-05 |
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Warner, Travis John | Using Term Spreads to Predict Recessions: a Comparison | Recessions have been a concern for government and business leaders and the populace in general for hundreds of years. From the Tulipmania in 1634 to the Great Depression in the 1930's to the Dot Com bubble to the Great Recession in 2007 they have all instilled fear and anxiety in the populace becaus... | 2017 | |
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Laverty, Morgan | Utilizing Intensive Outpatient Care in Health Systems for High-Risk, High-Cost Patients to Address the Growing Healthcare Problem in the United States | The healthcare industry in the United States of America is in desperate need of change, as healthcare expenses continue to rise at an unsustainable rate. One critical component of this problem is the healthcare super utilizer, or "super user," population. Though it comprises only 10% of all patients... | 2017 | |
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Dean, Chandler | Virtual reality and its effects on empathy and leadership theory | Over the last twenty years, organizations have become increasingly interested in the power of emotional intelligence (EI). EI is not static. Indeed, over time, the EI of any given individual can increase or decrease dramatically. Considering it has been continually demonstrated that members of an or... | 2018 | |
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Chau, Hy | The vix and its applications in the market | Since its first introduction in 1993, the Chicago Board Option Exchange's (CBOE's) Market Volatility Index, the VIX, has become more and more popular among traders and investors in the market. If used correctly, not only is the VIX able to provide traders with useful information to evaluate the mark... | Chicago Board Options Exchange.; Market Volatility Index; Hedge funds - United States - Management; Corporate finance | 2012-05 |
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Ryder, Keenan | Where Industry Meets Academia: An Analysis of Software Development Methodologies in Practice | This thesis examines the three main software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, and Spiral) in academic thought and industry implementation. Data and observations for this thesis have been gathered from industry research journals, academic reports, theses, Department of Defense Reports and... | 2020 | |
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Ford, Zippy | Why the Wage GAP? | Why does it seem as though women are still paid less than their male counterpart? That is because they are. The wage gap still exists and is not estimated to fully close until 2152. There are many reasons why women are paid less than men. The first is the lack of transparency in companies, sometimes... | 2017 |