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Barton, Tanner | "Check please": the role of checklists in improving outcomes and patient value in healthcare | The American healthcare system is constantly on the search for ways to improve. There are many ways to achieve this, be it through improving care or decreasing the financial burden placed on patients. One method that has received increased attention in recent years is the implementation of checklist... | | 2021 |
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Chan, Ka Ho | A survey of exchange rate systems with focus on currency boards and on Hong Kong's experience in particular | The choice of an exchange rate regime can make or break a regional economy. While a stable currency is useful to businesses, exchange rate flexibility also has its proponents. This thesis will first describe a brief history of exchange rate systems. Then, it will provide a survey and analysis of the... | Foreign exchange rates - China - Hong Kong; Currency boards - China - Hong Kong | 2014-05 |
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Anderson, Jay T. | Abnormal Stock Returns and Hurricanes Event Study of the five Most Destructive Hurricanes to make Landfall in the United States Since 2005 | This paper tests how stock prices respond to information that may affect a company's value in a material fashion. I evaluate stock price reactions to the five most destructive hurricanes to make landfall in the United States since 2005. The event study aims to analyze short-term stock price reaction... | | 2017 |
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Kehr, David | Abnormal Stock Returns and Venture Capital Funding Event Study of Six Down Round Venture Capital Funding Announcement Dates | This paper analyzes the reaction of stock prices to the announcement of a round of financing raised by a venture capital-backed firm at a valuation lower than in a previous round. The event study is performed to analyze short-term stock price reactions prior to and following the announcement of a do... | | 2018 |
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Jones, David | Accounting in State and Local Governments | Cash-basis accounting, the antecedent of the increasingly popular accrual-basis model of accounting, recognizes economic events in financial statements when the cash inflows or outflows associated with those transactions occur. This framework is intuitive and straightforward to apply, as each transa... | | 2022 |
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Brown, Victoria | Adthing: a Student Experience | The University of Utah is known for their experiential learning experiences for students. The Dean of the David Eccles School of Business (Dean Randall), wanted to further this concept in his own programs, specifically in the marketing discipline. The idea and focus is to create a student advertisin... | | 2018 |
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Maciel, Alexa | An examination of chronic patients receiving psychosocial support through online health communities | People living with chronic diseases are increasingly utilizing the internet for healthrelated reasons. The existence of Online Health Communities (OHCs) allows for chronic patients to easily connect with similarly diagnosed patients and keep track of medical records. The purpose of this thesis is to... | | 2021 |
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Klein, Paxtion Annalee | Analyzing the Implications of the "Tax cuts and jobs act of 2017" on United States Corporations | In December 2017 United States Congress signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). The major elements of the federal income tax reform for corporations include (1) reducing the statutory tax rate to 21% from 35%; (2) changing to a territorial tax system from a global tax system; (3) i... | | 2018 |
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Uchida, Allison Miaki | Analyzing the implications of the accounting standard update, topic 842 | In 2010 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) made a proposal to modify the current United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) rules in regard to leases, summarized in ASC 840. The proposed changes would alter the entire way in which companies reporting in accordanc... | Accounting statements and guidelines; Accounting standards update | 2016-05 |
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Frank, Monet | Antecedents to Social Media Influencer Effectiventess | Marketing is extremely susceptible to shifts within industry techniques, consumer receptivity, and general trends within the consumer-based world in which we live. It is therefore vital for businesses and their marketing applications to respond to the everchanging dynamics within the industry in ord... | | 2020 |
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Carpenter, McKenna | The anticorruption efficacy of the sarbanes-oxley act: examining the impact on fraud, independence, and turnover | This paper investigates the effect of the anticorruption 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on corporate governance characteristics like board independence and, by extension, on executive turnover and other corporate reactions to fraud. Specifically, I compare fraud cases pre- and post-SOX--controlling f... | | 2022 |
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Blake, Bennett J. | Art-secured lending and evaluating the loan-to-value ratio in art and real estate lending markets | I analyze the lending terms for loans with art as collateral. The standard loan-to-value (LTV) ratio offered by private banks is 50% of the value of a piece/collection, while for other tangible assets, such as real estate, LTV is often 80%. I use a linear regression model with common U.S. stock indi... | | 2023 |
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Yu, Stephone Lai Ming | The Belief that Optimism Improves Performance (China) | In 2015, researchers Tenney, Logg, and Moore published their research on the lay belief that optimism improves performance. The research was initially inspired by another study introducing the idea of prescribed optimism (Armor et al., 2008). Their research was spurred by an observation that has bee... | | 2017 |
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Dove-Swisher, Taylor | Bias-Coppected Estimation for singles-event studies | Single-firm event studies used in securities fraud litigation are prone to statistical bias. Brav and Heaton (2015) describe three potential issues: low statistical power to detect price impacts, confounding effects that cannot be averaged out, and an effect bias in the upward direction. The effect ... | | 2017 |
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Wachter, Kira | Career Immersion Prior to Graduation: an Analysis o the Efficacy of Student Marketing Agencies | Modern college graduates are faced with a hiring paradox: employers are more willing to hire workers with experience, but college graduates lack professional experience when they graduate. Many educational disciplines encourage experiential work as a solution to this problem. In the marketing indust... | | 2017 |
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Russell, Sloan | Changing brand perception: Changing university students' attitude toward a company and enabling a talented recruiting pool | Students often participate in internships to gain real-world experience before entering the workforce. This proves beneficial to students, allowing them to apply the skills they learned via higher education and develop problem-solving abilities, while employers find internships allow them to recruit... | Business education (Internship); Marketing | 2015-04 |
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Barker, Adam | Characteristics of salespeople that drive top sales pepformance in techonolgy companies | This paper sets out to determine what drives top sales performance in technology companies. Specifically, this analysis focuses on characteristics of the salespeople in one software company and excludes factors such as the company's incentive structure, customer concentration within regions serviced... | | 2022 |
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Finnegan, McCauley Craig | Checking the Wrong Box: Limitations of the Eeoc's Effectiveness for Supporting Organizational diversity and Inclusion in the 2020S | This thesis explores the impacts of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and federal discrimination laws on organizational diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives. Using an inductive thematic analysis of qualitative data from phone interviews with diversity leaders in a variety of ro... | | 2020 |
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Johnson, Stuart | Connection between price elasticity and Beta: The case of the oil industry | Price elasticity and Beta are cherished variables in Economics and Finance, respectively. Price elasticity is a measure of a percent change in the quantity of a good demanded divided by the percent change in its price. Beta is the covariance of a firm's return with respect to the market, divided by ... | Price elasticity of demand; Beta (Firm); Oil industries | |
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Balagopal, Namisha | Consumer purchasing & behavior: A consideration of the combined influence of culture & conformity on consumer decisions | Formerly, management has been able to understand their consumers simply through the experience of selling and purchasing. However, current growth trends of various industries, firms, and world markets have removed decisions makers from having direct contact with consumers. Firms now highly depend on... | Consumer behavior | 2014-12 |
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Egan, Derek | Coordinating humanitarian operations | Humanitarian operations are critical for saving human life and mitigating financial damages. Natural disasters cause a large demand for humanitarian relief within the United States of America, and create a need for coordination between and within governmental and non-governmental organizations in or... | Humanitarian assistance - United States; Disaster relief - United States; Emergency management - United States | 2014-05 |
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Nazarenko, Elena | Current and future financial wellbeing of old age Russian pensioners | This paper compares pensioners' income with cost of living and subsistence minimum level to gauge financial wellbeing of pensioners. Using data from Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey (RLMS-HSE), I formally test whether pensioners' income covers the cost of living across five regions: Moscow, Sai... | Old age pensions -- Russia; Retirees -- Russia -- Economic conditions | 2015-03 |
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Reiss, Elizabeth | Digital Marketing in the 21st Century: the Evolution of the Department of Marketing at the University of Utah | The world of marketing has transformed significantly over the last few decades. Specifically, digital marketing has completely changed the industry in the 21st century. Digital marketing can be explained as "the marketing of products or services using digital technologies, mainly on the Internet, bu... | | 2018 |
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Moore, Kurt | Disproportionate associations between the financial crisis and firm valuation | In this thesis I assess the role of stock market valuation of publicly listed US firms through the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2011. To do so, for each firm in a large sample I apply the Rhodes-Kropf, Robinson, and Viswanathan(2005) approach to decompose the ratio of the market value of th... | Corporations -- United States -- Valuation; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | 2014-12 |
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McNatt, Shannon D., | Do Family Demographics Explain Middles-Class Status? Utah VS United States | Using United States Census data from 1980 to 2010, I analyze the role demographics play in a family attaining middle/upper-class status versus being economically lower-class. My study looks at age, race, education, parental structure, and family size, the influence each has on a family's status, and... | | 2019 |
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Marvasti, Yasamin | Does the future of streaming look like cable? | For over four decades, TV and movie content producers were able to monetize their products through various channels across multiple timelines using Cable TV. A hit TV show would have its first run on commercial network TV stations, then the same content would be sold overseas and then to cable chann... | | 2024 |
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Chisholm, Zachary | The effect of ASC 842 on Asset acquisition by publicly traded U.S. companies | This thesis examines how U.S. companies responded to a change in lease accounting rules (ASC 842), which requires most leases to be reported in corporate financial statements with the goal of providing transparent disclosure of companies' noncancellable future financial obligations. Prior to ASC 842... | | 2020 |
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Astrid Ji | Effective portfolio diversification strategies in variouse economic conditions | This thesis examines the effectiveness of portfolio diversification strategies in inflationary periods by analyzing the performance of various portfolios in economic conditions before, during, and after inflationary periods. By analyzing historical data to a variety of 10 asset classes, this study p... | | 2023 |
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Hunter, Jessie Rabe | Effects of British Columbia's Carbon Tax on CO2 Emissions and Net Gasoline Sales | In 2008, British Columbia implemented the first comprehensive carbon tax in North America which covers nearly three quarters of all emitters in the province. This paper analyzes the effects of British Columbia's carbon tax on CO2 emissions and net gasoline sales using differences-in-differences and ... | | 2020 |
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Seymour, Bayley | The Effects of Recent Changes in Grocery Sales Tax by State Governments | The issue of whether grocery items should be subject to sales tax has been hotly debated, especially in the last several decades. As of the time of writing, only thirteen U.S. states out of fifty implement a statewide level of grocery sales tax at all. Of those that do, six tax groceries at a reduce... | | 2018 |
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Juarez, Sergio Arturo | Empirical Analysis of the Participation Behaviors of Investors on Crowdfunding Platforms | This project examines the phenomenon of crowdfunding, which allows individuals to seek investments for a project, campaign, or venture. Typically this is done via the Internet, through the participation of large numbers of investors (or backers) who invest or donate small amounts of money. The reaso... | | 2017 |
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Shaaban, Karim | Examining the Efficiency of Securities Ownership in the United States | The disastrous years following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 led to a series of reforms by President Roosevelt to stabilize the failing economy. The passing of the New Deal laws coupled with more recent laws passed by President Bush and President Obama have led to extensive regulation of the financ... | | 2019 |
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Hansen, Luke Freedom | Exploring the Effects of Virtual Reality on Empathy and Charitable Fundraising | The focus of this Honors thesis is to explore the effects of Virtual Reality ("VR") on empathy. More specifically, the purpose is to compare and contrast the ability of VR to evoke empathy against that of traditional two-dimensional media ("2D"). To accomplish this I (alongside a group of my peers) ... | | 2018 |
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Howard, Connor | FASB proposed revenue recognition and the impact upon United States corporate financial statements | The objective of this paper is to better understand how proposed revenue recognition principles by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will impact financial reporting in the United States. This thesis focuses on current revenue reco... | Financial Accounting Standards Board Financial statements -- United States Corporations -- United States Corporations -- Finance | 2015-05 |
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Varanese Gregory James | The feedback paradigm: how positive and negative feedback affects small group dynamics | As a manager, it is imperative to be able to deliver succinct and timely feedback. The key to success, is to ensure that there is a environment built around giving and receiving feedback. Creating a culture where feedback is perceived positively, openly received, and sought out is crucial. This feed... | Feedback control systems; Management style | 2012-05 |
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Tibolla, tyler | Gendered differences in advertisting | A growing number of consumers find it important that companies take a stand on social issues and begin to support those businesses more who align with their personal views. If corporations continue to ignore large percentages of the population, they cannot meet the needs of those consumers. There is... | | 2022 |
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Kleinman, Megan | The green bond revolution: is it sustainable? | Green bonds, innovative financial instruments that have entered the bond market in recent years, have sparked a revolution for activists, investors, and issuers with their use of proceeds model. I examine corporate green bonds through historical research, investigation of the certification process, ... | | 2020 |
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Bacon, Brandon Todd | Healthcare culture and the innovation climate of the Salt Lake Valley | Healthcare innovation has become an important issue over the past ten years in the health industry. However, consistently fostering the development and integration of new ideas and technologies into healthcare often runs counter to long held organizational norms and values. Many healthcare systems b... | Medical care - Utah - Salt Lake Valley; Organization change - Utah - Salt Lake City | 2013-05 |
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Inglesby, Kelsey | Healthcare innovation: An examination of process improvement | The term healthcare innovation has been floating around different healthcare systems for quite some time, but it is becoming more and more common for healthcare systems to place an emphasis on innovation in their company. There are many forms of healthcare innovation, three forms of innovation will ... | Health care reform; Healthcare innovation | 2015-05 |
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Carroll, Steven Michael | High-frequency trading: a survey of market impact | The May 6th "flash crash," the result of an overly large sell order in "e-mini" futures on the S&P 500 index, caused American share and future indices to drop approximately 10% in a matter of minutes, only to recover most of the loss by the end of the trading day. At the time, market volatility was ... | High-frequency trading; Financial market - United States | 2012-08 |
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Kiel, Drew | How branding influences our willingness to pay for necessity products | Though marketing has existed in one manner or another for the duration of human history, the field has only seen strong development since the beginning of the 20th century. Marketing is now an inescapable part of everyday life and companies across every industry advertise of to us as potential custo... | | 2021 |
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Jin, Zhao | How is the company's stock risk associated with its demand elasticity? | I examine a sample of 20 companies to see if individual total stock risk is associated with its product or service demand elasticity. My evidence is consistent with my first hypothesis that elastic firms' stock prices are more strongly affected by the changes in the input cost than are inelastic fir... | Elasticity (Economics); Risk; Stocks; Stock risk | 2014-05 |
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Guzman, Kristina | How personal characteristic influence shopping habits post covid-19 | The pandemic altered the way of life permanently for people around the world, coining the phrase, "new normal," as we adjust to post-pandemic life. For my honors thesis, I chose to focus on consumer behavior changes associated with this "new normal." Specifically, I studied the impact of various for... | | 2023 |
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Terry, Anna | How social media influencers affect consumer's willingness to pay and their idealized self | While influencer marketing first dated back to the Gladiators in Ancient Rome and has been utilized to sell products in the modern era since 1890, the term "influencer" has gained new life with the rise of social media. Through continually exhibiting their lifestyle, Influencers earn a living by cul... | | 2022 |
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Kargi, Sahana | How the distribution of a society's prior beliefs affects the virality of information | Information diffusion is the process by which a piece of information disperses through a network. Whether it be computer viruses spreading via the internet or diseases transmitting through a school, understanding how information diffuses is extremely relevant to fields such as marketing, emergency m... | | 2023 |
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Stevens, Fergus D. | Human-Algorithm Interactions with Fundamental and Predatory Trading Robots | Algorithmic participation in financial markets has been a growing phenomenon since the early 1990s. This paper uses experimental data and simulations to analyze the interaction between humans and trading algorithms. Interactions between humans and algorithms are observed through laboratory sessions ... | | 2020 |
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Herman, Ryan | The Impact of Dodd-Frank Legislation on the Mortagage Market Risk Environment: A Quantitative and Qualitative Examination | Within the last decade, the United States endured what is contemporaneously considered to be the most devastating economic recession since the Great Depression. While a complex array of factors contributed to the downturn, a significant and material contributor was the collapse of the housing market... | | 2018 |
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Brown, Athena | The impact of social media on behaviors and attitudes toward television advertsiing | Since the year 2000, the average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to eight seconds (Microsoft, 2015). This weakened ability to focus may be the result of an increased use of social media by today's society. On social media platforms, the content shared is mainly short-form content, meaning... | | 2023 |
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Hughes, Emma | The implications of carbon abatement for industrial composition and firm value | Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) serve as a representation of the costs or savings associated with various actions aimed at reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions. This thesis investigates whether investors could have earned abnormal stock returns by constructing portfolios that exploit diff... | | 2023 |
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Johnson, Kent | In search of a universal model for personal data | A comprehensive model of personal data provides citizens across the globe with protections to breaches of personal data and facilitates the sharing of valuable data. Personal data are valuable to those who create it and those who use it. Creating a universal model for personal data enables that valu... | Personal data protection; OpenID; Facebook Connect | 2012-05 |
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Denna, McKell | The influence of operational changes on employee engagement and customer satisfaction: an exploratory study | Due to intense financial pressure companies are increasingly adopting operational changes to cut costs by increasing an organization's efficiency. While such changes have been proven to provide some competitive advantage for organizations that implement them effectively, they may also have a negati... | Success in business; Consumer satisfaction; Customer services | 2016-04 |
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Ramirez, Luis | The intersection of entrepreneurship theory: an analysis of revenue performance and loan approval of construction contractors in Utah | The Latinx population accounts for 19% of the United States population. This study seeks to understand how a Latinx identity impacts entrepreneurial outcomes since disproportionate outcomes exist in entrepreneurship based on the identity of the founders. Using Latinx Critical Theory as framework, th... | | 2023 |
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Tran, Amy | Investigating the strategic patterns in LBO funds | In the mid-2000s, public-to-private transactions reappeared when the United States experienced a second leveraged buyout boom. Most sponsors are paid a management fee of 2% on the fund's capital and receive a carried interest of 20% of the profits realized by the fund. Two literature reviews serve a... | Leveraged buyouts--United States--Finance | 2014-08 |
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Lyne, Conor | ISILl, INC. the Finance of Terror | Founded out of religious extremism, ISIL has established itself as a formidable terrorist organization through various forms of financial strength. This paper analyzes the ISIL's beginning as a radical ideology and the political turmoil it took advantage of to gain power throughout the Middle East. ... | | 2017 |
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Maughan, Shannon | Let's be blunt: how recreational marijuana legalization has impacted disability compensation | Social Security disability compensation programs cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars each year. With the fragile state of funding for Social Security disability benefits, it is important that new laws do not cause drastic budget changes for disability compensation programs. One su... | | 2023 |
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Caine, Benjamin | Low Cost Carriers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects and Strategies | This paper assesses the economic opportunity for low-cost carriers (LCC) to successfully enter the sub-Saharan African (SSA) air transit market. To accomplish this, I address the future growth in passenger demand, the current state of African air travel infrastructure, and governmental barriers to s... | | 2019 |
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Chong Oh | Marketplacement: an application of al agents in procurement management | | | 2024 |
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Foote, Charles R. | Measuring an ideas-based economy: an assessment of total factor productivity | This study presents a new empirical assessment of the ability of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) to measure the effects of innovation in aggregate and across different industries. Typically, TFP is estimated as a scale parameter of a production function fit to output and input data from industries o... | Industrial productivity; Total factor productivity | 2015-04 |
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Siu, Grace | Medicaid expansion's ambiguous effects on abortion rates from 2009-2019 | This paper analyzes the effects of the Affordable Care Act, specifically Medicaid expansion, on abortion rates from 2009-2019. I start off the analysis with a Difference-in- Difference model, move on to a Two-Way Fixed Effects model, and then alter the model to include event time, where the event ye... | | 2023 |
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Mizero, Daniel | The political and regulatory challenges of effectively implementing an international accounting system | These are pivotal times in accounting history. Globalization, world trade and financial market integration have given international accounting standards increased relevance and priority. The possibility of worldwide use of a single set of international accounting standards could provide tremendous v... | International accounting standard | 2014-07 |
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Richins, Luke | Preventing corporate fraud | This thesis is written with the purpose of exploring employee's perception of the effect of different methods of corporate fraud prevention on their own behavior. To accomplish this, this paper will explore the definition of fraud, potential prevention methods, and analyze data retrieved from a surv... | Corporations - Corrupt practices - Prevention; Fraud - Prevention | 2014-04 |
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Jeffs, Anthony | Priniting Money to Combat a Changing Climate | In 2015, Combes, et al. produced an empirical paper on the tradeoffs for developing countries in substituting revenues from deforestation with those from seigniorage, revenues obtained from the printing of money. The importance of this study was to equip policy makers with the ability to mitigate de... | | 2020 |
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Romero, Dana | The process improvement initiative at the University of Utah hospitals and clinics in period 2011-2014 | Due to increasing financial pressures, which have been further magnified by the recently-enacted Affordable Care Act, health care organizations have been on a lookout for a long-term solution to their questionable prospects in regards to their financial sustainability. In recent years, the Universit... | University of Utah. Health Sciences Center; Hospitals -- Utah -- Administration Hospitals -- Utah -- Cost control | 2015-04 |
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Child, Christopher Davis | Professional estimation of value | Business valuation experts are often asked to provide litigation consulting for cases involving disputes between two or more interested parties where claimed damages are determined based on a total firm value. The judgment or settlement amounts in these cases are largely determined by the standards ... | Business - Valuation | 2012-05 |
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Ballard, Truman R. | The Pros and Cons of Microfinance: Personal Observations from Ghana, Guatemala and Peru | Microfinance is defined as "financial services especially in the form of micro loans provided to impoverished individuals and groups in poor and developing regions".1 While social entrepreneurs strive to solve social problems by using a variety of businessrelated techniques, this paper will focus sp... | | 2017 |
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Djokovich, Alexander Cataldo | Reducing waste in supply chains in pursuit of a sustainable and socially responsible future | The purpose of this research project is to propose solutions for reducing waste to optimize supply chains that are both workable and yield tangible results when applied by firms as theorized. In addition to the well-established cost-saving rationale behind reducing supply chain waste, the pressing i... | | 2023 |
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Kleinman, Rachel | The rise of the big three: are institutional investors proactive environmental and social change agents? | | | 2022 |
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Mumford, Jacqueline | The Role of Accounting and Finance Professors in U.S. Government Spending Education | The national debt, and related government spending, of the United States is a dangerous, growing problem. A mix of unaccountable decision makers and uninformed public allow the perpetuation of this important issue. Finance and accounting professors have the unique opportunity and background to educa... | | 2020 |
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Kurumada, Colten | Salary cap accounting: The unique financial constraint for professional sports organizations | The objective of this thesis is to better understand how salary caps affect the financial management of organizations in professional sports leagues, with a primary focus on the National Basketball Association (NBA). There are certain rules related to the salary cap that are specified in the NBA's... | Sports administration; Sports - Finance | 2016-04 |
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Goates, Elizabeth | Scrm at Intermountain Heathcare: Hurricane Maria | On September 20, 2017 Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico. The effects of the hurricane halted production at Baxter Medical's three plants located on the island. This document takes a look at how Intermountain Healthcare, headquartered in Salt Lake City, dealt with the effects of the hu... | | 2019 |
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Owens, Spenser | Shareholder Activism and Gender Diversity | This paper will study gender diversity on corporate boards and in management positions within S&P 500 firms. I will review the literature on shareholder activism, and introduce anecdotes on what activist investors have done to influence gender diversity in firms. I will then perform quantitative ana... | | 2018 |
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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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Bryan Bonner | Virtual reality and its effects on empathy and leadership theory | | | 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 |