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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |