Biodiversity and Local Asset Values
Jennifer Liang, Assistant Professor of Finance
Co-Authors: Jess Cornaggia, Peter Iliev, and Qiang Wang
Review of Finance | October 2025
In this paper, we analyze how local wildlife and nature affect property prices across the U.S. We find that in areas where biodiversity, the variety of plants and animals, is lower, property prices tend to go up, most likely to due to development and monetization. However, at the regional level, areas with more species tend to have higher property values, suggesting that people value living near nature and wildlife. Over time, the boost in property prices from destroying nature has gone down, while the value of keeping biodiversity around has gone up. Also, when people are paying more attention to environmental issues, the connection between nature and property prices becomes even stronger. Overall, the findings show that the market is starting to recognize the value of nature and are treating it more like an important asset. This has big implications for how we think about conservation, development, and using land in a more sustainable way.
Falling Down Hard: Gender Differences in Top Management Turnover
Paul Obermann, Assistant Professor of Finance
Co-Authors: Charles J. Hadlock and Joshua R. Pierce
SSRN | August 2025
We find that female non-CEO executives face turnover rates 15–20% higher than men, largely driven by dismissals rather than voluntary exits, and especially pronounced when firms perform poorly. These patterns are consistent with gender bias, as the gap narrows in firms with characteristics linked to reduced bias. After leaving, both men and women usually step down to lower-paying roles, but women face a persistently higher overall risk of negative career outcomes, with only modest signs of improvement over time.
Out of Office: Examining Whether Remote Auditing Can Affect Audit Quality
Kristen S. Thompson, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Co-Authors: Ruwan Adikaram
International Journal of Auditing | June 2025
With a hybrid work model becoming increasingly common, we investigate whether remote auditing can lead to a greater likelihood for auditors to exhibit reduced audit quality (RAQ) behaviour. Further, we look at whether time pressure can have a similar result, and when considered together, whether auditors will be most likely to compromise audit quality when working remotely and experiencing high time pressure. In line with prior literature, we find that auditors facing high (vs. low) time pressure are more likely to engage in RAQ behaviour, consistent with their motivation to speed up testing. More importantly, we find auditors working remotely are more likely to engage in RAQ behaviour than their counterparts who are working non-remotely. This investigation provides important insights towards informing researchers, regulators and practitioners of the negative implications of remote work on audit quality.
Telehealth Revolution: Bridging the Digital Divide
Ruiling Guo, Professor of Healthcare Administration
Co-Authors: Christopher Thompson, Myllissa Reyes
Healthcare Informatics Innovation Post COVID-19 Pandemic | June 2025
This chapter provides a critical analysis of how telehealth helped bridge the digital divide in healthcare systems across the United States and globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a comprehensive review of literature and data analysis, the chapter highlights how the rapid adoption of telehealth technologies significantly enhanced access to patient care, playing a crucial role in saving lives and reducing the spread of the virus. This chapter examines the key benefits, challenges, and barriers that emerged in telehealth utilization during the pandemic. Looking ahead to the post-COVID-19 era, the chapter offers recommendations for expanding broadband infrastructure, improving digital literacy through training, safeguarding patient data privacy and security, ensuring equitable access to telehealth, and continuously evaluating the impact of emerging technologies and innovations on the future of healthcare delivery.
Learning Outcomes of a Three-Day Rural Mental Health Training: A Mixed-Methods Examination
Sonali S. Salunkhe, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Administration
Co-Authors: A. Gantt-Howrey, A. Lettner, S.S. Salunkhe
Teaching and Supervision in Counseling | June 2025
Public Accounting's Gender Ledger: Where Should Audit Firms Target Their Gender Initiatives to Better Balance Representation?
Kristen S. Thompson, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Co-Authors: Sarah A. Judge
Business Horizons | May-June 2025
Although men and women enter the public accounting profession at similar rates, women are not equally represented at the highest leadership levels. One possible contributor to the gender gap is that women and men enter the profession with differing levels of fit with the profession, which is the congruence between what an employee values and what an organization values. Using survey evidence from future public accounting professionals, we find that on average, women experience less fit with the public accounting profession as compared to men in three distinct areas; women desire the public accounting profession to be: (1) more people-oriented, (2) less demanding, and (3) less competitive than they perceive it to be. Based on these results, we provide suggestions that firms can implement to improve fit for women in these areas. Our findings and suggestions will allow firms to develop improved gender initiatives that can help reduce gender disparity in the public accounting industry.
Chapter 20 China Health Systems
Ruiling Guo, Professor of Healthcare Administration
Co-Authors: N. Lu, K.C. Huang
Johnson & Stoskopf's Comparative Health Systems | May 2025
All Roads Lead to Rome? A Contingent Configurational Perspective of HRM Systems and Organizational Effectiveness
Yan Chen, Associate Professor of Management
Co-Authors: Meng Xi and Kaifeng Jiang
Personnel Psychology | April 2025
This study shows that organizations can enhance firm performance and employee commitment by ensuring their HR practices are both internally consistent and externally aligned with broader organizational contexts, such as firm ownership, size, innovation strategy, environmental uncertainty, local talent supply, and local government interference.
Staring Into the Abyss: Does Accounting Face a Looming Enrollment Crisis?
Erik S. Boyle, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Co-Authors: Marcus Burger and Rana Mazumder
Journal of Accounting Education | April 2025
We investigate nationwide enrollment trends for accounting students over the period 2008-2021. We find that accounting enrollments underperform those of other business degrees and general university enrollments. We summarize recent changes to accounting academia and/or the accounting profession that have been implemented or proposed and discuss their potential impact on future enrollments.
Quantifying Regional Film Tourism: Impacts of The Hangover on Las Vegas
Karl R. Geisler, Associate Professor of Economics, Department Chair of Economics and Finance
International Journal of Gaming, Hospitality and Tourism | March 2025
Advent
Alexander Rose, Associate Professor of Marketing
Journal of Customer Behaviour | March 2025
Advent situates themes of survival, hierarchy, and cultural memory within a post-capitalist dystopia. The narrative follows Vincent Nakamura and his companion Juice as they depart the relative safety of their community to seek sustenance and restore family honor. Their journey through a desolate, snowbound landscape highlights both material scarcity and the persistence of social competition. Relics of consumer culture—such as ration bars and a gifted rifle—serve as symbols of burden and pride, contrasting with the raw necessities of survival. The appearance of Wraith-like figures and technologically advanced outsiders reframes their struggle, situating local quests for food and status within a larger system of exploitation and control. Ultimately, the story interrogates the commodification of human life and the enduring costs of civilization. By blending allegory with speculative imagery, Advent explores the cyclical nature of collapse and renewal, raising questions of value, power, and the fragile balance between individual ambition and collective need.
Can Sustainability (ESG) Controversies Be Offset with Advertising? An Empirical Investigation into Advertising, Negative ESG, and Firm Value
Nicole Hanson, Associate Professor of Marketing
Co-Authors: Stacey Sharpe
Journal of Risk and Financial Management | February 2025
Can advertising improve firm value following an incident of negative sustainability (i.e., a negative environmental, social or governance (NESG) occurrence?) This study provides an empirical investigation into NESG, its individual domains, and the mitigating role of advertising on firm value. We investigate firm level ESG sustainability violations and any corresponding advertising expenditures, utilized to counter negative opinions. First, we examine whether an NESG occurrence reduces firm value. Next, we investigate if firms experiencing an NESG occurrence alter their advertising expenditures and assess the resulting impact of this advertising spending on firm value. Finally, we determine if certain NESG occurrences benefit more from advertising than others. Using a sample of firms which engaged in at least one NESG event between 1995 and 2019, we find that firms increase advertising as a way to engage in damage control. Increasing advertising expenditures to offset NESG occurrences ultimately impacts firm value. Specifically, increasing advertising helps to reduce the NESG occurrence’s effect on firm value, but the individual domains of ESG do not respond the same to advertising efforts, suggesting that advertising as a mitigation tool remains nuanced, with the greatest positive effect being for environmental crises, no significant effect for social crises, and a negative effect for governance crises.
Teaching Evidence-Based Management to Graduate Students in a Master of Healthcare Administration Program
Ruiling Guo, Professor of Healthcare Administration
Co-Authors: Lori R. Austill, Richard Ginnetti, Liang Yan
Evidence-Based Management Teaching Handbook | January 2025
Healthcare leaders and administrators in the current United States healthcare environment are facing many challenges in improving quality patient care and reducing high healthcare costs in their organizations. To meet the challenges of this fast-changing field, the researchers believe that it is extremely important for academic programs and faculty in the Healthcare Administration discipline to teach graduate students the evidence-based management (EBMgt) model. This model will better prepare the next generation of health leaders and administrators to apply EBMgt knowledge and skills for making competent decisions, which may result in positive impacts on their future healthcare organizations. This chapter presents our experiences teaching evidence- based management skills to graduate students in the Master’s Healthcare Administration Program (MHA) at Idaho State University’s College of Business. The rationale for teaching EBMgt, the content and teaching methods, and the assessment of EBMgt learning outcomes are shared and discussed in this chapter. Through EBMgt education and hands-on exercises, our graduate students increased their EBMgt knowledge, skills, and confidence in applying EBMgt to decision-making in healthcare settings. Our pre- and post-assessment results demonstrated the impact of effective EBMgt teaching on student learning outcomes. It is suggested that our EBMgt teaching approach can be applicable to graduate students not only in healthcare management but also in other fields such as business administration, management, and allied health (e.g. nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, and public health).
The Impact of Speed Limits on Labour Sheds in the Mountain West United States
Karl R. Geisler, Associate Professor of Economics, Department Chair of Economics and Finance
Co-Authors: Benjamin Whipple
Regional Science Policy & Practice | November 2024
This paper looks at how speed limits impact the distances people are willing to commute in the mountain west United States. We find empirical evidence for an intuitive outcome: higher speed limits lead to larger accepted commuting distances. This is a useful finding for policy makers as it explicitly identifies a tool that can be used to help alleviate labor shortages. However, while increasing speed limits does increase the number of possible commuters, the resulting increase in available labor is relatively small, which makes speed limit changes a low-level priority when attempting to increase an area's effective level of labor.
Employee Ratings and Reviews Data from Glassdoor
Ashley (Yaxuan) Li, Associate Professor of Accounting
Co-Authors: Mi Zhou (Jamie), Zhilei Qiao (George), Bowen Shi
Journal of Information Systems | November 2024
This paper presents the employee ratings and reviews data from Glassdoor and the R codes used to collect, clean, and organize the data. We collect three types of information for each Glassdoor review: review metrics, content, and reviewer information. We also calculate some commonly used textual metrics, such as sentiment, readability, the number of uncertainty words, etc. The datasets include necessary identifiers that can connect to other financial data sources. All the variables and metrics are provided at the review level, which enables researchers to aggregate the data from different levels and angles. As a demonstrative example, we use a simple word list to measure how often employees mention COVID-19 in review comments. The R codes provided as an RStudio project are self-contained and can also be modified and applied to other data sources of interest.
Gender Representation in Case Study Research
Ann Hacker, Professor of Finance
Co-Authors: K. Foust, J. Magalid
Business Case Journal | Fall 2024
Time Unmasked: Illuminating the Hidden Dimensions of Economic Stratification during COVID-19 in the United States
Iris Buder, Associate Professor of Economics
Co-Authors: Natalie Mortenson, Emma Watts
Forum for Social Economics | October 2024
This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on time use activities in the United States, focusing on gender and parental status differences. Using data from the 2018-2022 American Time Use Survey, the study examines six key time use categories: unpaid care work, leisure, employment, personal care, childcare, and household activities. Findings highlight the pandemic's disruption of established time use patterns, challenging traditional gender roles and caregiving dynamics within households. Although initial shifts suggested a more equitable distribution of household tasks, particularly childcare, this analysis reveals that the caregiving burden continued to fall predominantly on women and mothers. Persistent gender disparities in unpaid care work limit women's engagement in paid employment, exacerbating economic stratification. While minor reductions in gender gaps were observed in some activities, the data suggest that the pandemic has not led to substantial, enduring changes in the allocation of household responsibilities.
The Effects of Work Division and Technology on Auditor Engagement and Performance
Christopher A. Pearson, Assistant Professor of Accounting
International Journal of Auditing | October 2024
In this study, I report the results of an experiment that considers how inexperienced auditors respond to work division and whether they respond to work differently when they divide it with technology instead of a colleague. Although work division may benefit audit efficiency and effectiveness, prior research suggests potentially worse performance when auditors divide work with their colleagues. However, the underlying mechanisms driving these adverse effects are unclear. Likewise, it is unclear whether findings extend to settings where auditors divide work with technology instead of their colleagues. Using a 3 × 1 between-subjects experiment that uses accounting students as proxies for inexperienced auditors, I find significantly worse performance when auditors divide work with a colleague compared with when they divide work with a technological tool or complete work independently. Additional analysis indicates that work division indirectly impacts performance through engagement, as experimental participants were less likely to engage with their work when it involved a colleague compared with when it involved technology or themselves. This study contributes by documenting how work division affects auditor performance, particularly how inexperienced auditors respond to work division involving technology compared with when involving a human colleague.
Educational Equivalency of Raspberry Pi Clusters in High-Performance Computing
Robert F. Houghton, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology | September 2024
High-performance computing is a difficult subject to teach in an academic setting, given the exorbitant costs and technical difficulties. Raspberry Pi single-board computers have been used in recent years to create clusters that function as mini high-performance computers. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the educational equivalence of building a Raspberry Pi cluster in comparison to running a high-performance computing environment. For this research, an eight-node cluster was built and tested in comparison to a laptop. Through the process of building the cluster, skills learned were documented to evaluate the educational value. This research concludes that the adequacy of building the Raspberry Pi cluster to provide an educational equivalent for running a traditional computer is dependent on teaching goals. The educational equivalency for using a Raspberry Pi cluster, meaning focusing education on software implementation, data science, and security, are areas that could be educationally worthwhile and warrant further research.
Athletic Identity and Discretionary Effort at Work
Tyler Burch and Alex Bolinger, Department of Management
Organizational Management Journal | September 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether athletic identity contributes to discretionary effort among employees. Athletic identities have long been associated with “giving 110 percent” by exerting high levels of discretionary effort. In response, a growing number of organizations have enacted recruiting programs to specifically seek out prospective employees among individuals who are likely to exhibit strong athletic identities. However, the belief that strong athletic identities will spill over to greater discretionary effort at work has not received systematic examination.
For Whom Does One Toil? Time Use Differentials, Social Reproduction, and Occupational Prestige
Iris Buder, Associate Professor of Economics
Co-Authors: David M. Fields, Jacqueline Strenio, Odile Mackett
Forum for Social Economics | August 2024
Research has shown that women and girls do most of the unpaid household work, but few studies, to date, have analyzed how this unpaid work might vary with social class. In this paper, we analyzed data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how occupational prestige influences the time spent on housework, with a focus on gender and race/ethnicity, through the lens of social reproduction theory. We find that women with higher occupational prestige tend to spend less time on housework compared to their lower-ranked counterparts, while men with higher prestige spend more time on housework relative to lower-ranked men. Our findings underscore the complexity of unpaid work under capitalism and highlight the need to consider social class when examining inequalities in unpaid labor.
Cues of Caring: How Students Perceive that Faculty in Online Classes Do (or Don’t) Care
Alex Bolinger, Professor of Management
Co-Authors: Mark T. Bolinger, Kelsey Conner, Jeffrey Morgan, and Sophia Perry
Journal of Management Education | July 2024
This paper used qualitative data collected by a team of three former ISU MBA students: Kelsey Breer-Conner, Jeff Morgan, and Sophia Perry. They conducted qualitative interviews that were analyzed using concept mapping and hierarchical linear modeling to explore themes that students use to describe faculty who teach online classes who are perceived to care (and those that don't). Among the important takeaways was the insight that caring and not caring are not opposite ends of the same continuum, but rather qualitatively distinct. We discuss a variety of implications for faculty who seek to engage in behaviors that students in online classes appreciate - and to avoid behaviors that are associated with inferences of not caring.
The Effect of Time Dilation on the Strong Force Offers the Theory of Everything
Robert F. Houghton, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Co-Authors: George F. Houghton
Archives of Physics Research | June 2024
Understanding gravity opens the door to mathematically describing the movement of all mass. With gravity shown to be the strong force affected by gravitational time dilation, this paper proposes the theory of everything. The theory of everything explains why all mass moves from faster time to slower time. The time dilation described by Einstein accounts for a slower time with both energy (mass) and speed. Einstein’s time dilation applied to the strong force accounts for gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force and explains the strong force. All forces of nature are shown to have a base of time dilation multiplied by the strong force.
Athletic Identity and Discretionary Effort at Work
Tyler Burch, Associate Professor of Management and Alex Bolinger, Professor of Management
Co-Authors: Rob Lion
Organization Management Journal | May 2024
Protecting Your Friends: The Role of Connections in Division Manager Careers
Paul Obermann, Assistant Professor of Finance
Co-Authors: Charles J. Hadlock, Jing Huang and Joshua R. Pierce
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis | March 2024
We look at CEOs of S&P 1500 firms with multiple segments/divisions and how their social connections to their division managers affect labor market outcomes and job performance. In particular, division managers who share a social connection with the CEO are less likely to be dismissed and more likely to be promoted even after controlling for performance. A major part of the paper looks at whether this is efficient for the firm. However, most evidence points toward a favoritism/cronyism effect that is inefficient rather than soft information flow between connected pairs being able to produce superior performance. We show some evidence that connections can be beneficial in situations with more intrafirm information problems.
Teaching in and for the Hinterlands: a Commentary
Alex Rose, Associate Professor of Marketing
Taylor & Francis Group | February 2024
A commentary in which I provide a brief explanation of why I enjoy teaching in a "red state" and I encourage colleagues to consider academic posts outside of liberal areas. I focus on students' receptivity to material analysis and genuine need for economic mobility.
Mental Health Among College Students: Relationships with Actively Open-Minded Thinking, Spirituality, and Psychological Wellbeing
C. Shane Hunt, Professor of Marketing
Journal of Education for Business | February 2024
Mental health, like many other physical diseases can contribute to a significant loss of output in our economy. Higher education institutes can play a significant role in enhancing the mental wellbeing of college students. In support of this endeavor, this research investigates how actively open-minded thinking (AOT) and spirituality (SP) relate to psychological wellbeing (PWB). Data revealed that both AOT and SP have a positive impact on most dimensions of PWB and in some instances, SP acts as a moderator. Our study highlights the importance of SP in the PWB of college students.
How do Auditors’ Use of Industry Norms Differentially Impact Management Evaluations of Audit Quality Under Principles-based and Rules-based Accounting Standards?
Erik Boyle, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation | January 2024
I find that when auditors and clients have disagreements about the appropriate accounting treatment for a transaction, management will evaluate the quality of the auditor’s decision differently based on whether the applicable accounting standard is more rules-based or principles-based. Under a more rules-based accounting standard, the client will evaluate the auditor’s decision based on the underlying characteristics of the transaction; as the standard becomes more principles-based, the client is more likely to be influenced by the presence of industry norms.
Downtown Revitalization Success in Tupelo, Mississippi
Chris Chatwin, Clinical Professor of Finance | Nikole Layton, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management
Co-Authors: L. Daniel Cravens, Tesia Kellar, Ritesh Yadav, Masoom Agrawal, Konstantin Ritter
Journal of Case Studies | January 2024
This case highlights the transformative efforts led by Debbie Brangenberg, who revitalized Tupelo's downtown over a 30-year period. Through strategic partnerships with Main Street America, local organizations, and government entities, Brangenberg's leadership turned a declining business district into a vibrant economic and cultural hub, serving as a model for similar revitalization efforts in other U.S. cities.
Customer Trust or Business Realities: Trying to Keep a Small, Family Firm Alive in Puerto Rico
Neil Tocher, Department Chair of Management and Marketing, Professor of Management | Tyler Burch, Associate Professor of Management
Co-Authors: Pedro Mena
Journal of Critical Incidents | January 2024
This decision-based critical incident describes Jorge’s concern about how to deal with the double bind of customer backlash caused by charging large deposits for propane tanks while facing a severe labor shortage. The double bind of customer backlash and a labor shortage threatened the viability of Gutierrez Gas, which Jorge had operated since graduating from university. Jorge needed a miracle solution to help prevent the loss of propane tanks, retain his customer base, and keep his firm appropriately staffed.
Disparities in Mortality Between Appalachian and NonAppalachian Regions of Kentucky
Sonali S. Salunkhe, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Administration
Co-Authors: Sahal Alzahrani and Beatrice Ugiliweneza
Journal of Appalachian Health | December 2023
Although drug overdose fatalities have risen nationally, some geographical regions have been disproportionately affected. The study demonstrated significant intra-state geographical disparities in Kentucky in all-cause, drug-related, and opioid-related mortality, with the Appalachian region having significantly higher rates when compared to the non- Appalachian regions of Kentucky. The findings from this study will be beneficial in identifying trends of drug use in Kentucky to develop interventions and strategies which could shift the substance use epidemic in the future. Also, the information on geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic factors related to these types of mortality can be factored into the interventions’ design specific to targeting population's socio- demographics.
The ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Chatbot: How Well Does It Answer Accounting Assessment Questions?
Erik Boyle, Assistant Professor of Accounting | Christopher Pearson, Assistant Professor of Accounting | Kristen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Co-Authors: David A. Wood, Muskan P. Achhpilia, Mollie T. Adams, Sanaz Aghazadeh, Elizabeth D. Almer, and multiple additional authors
PDXScholar | November 2023
Our paper looks at the performance of ChatGPT on accounting exams. We find that students, on average, outperform ChatGPT by roughly 20-30%. We also discuss positive and negative effects of AI on accounting academics and in the field.
Academic Embeddedness and College of Business Student Outcomes
Tyler Burch, Assistant Professor of Management | Greg Murphy, Professor of Management | Neil Tocher, Professor of Management
Organization Management Journal | November 2023
This study found that embeddedness (a metric of how integrated a person is into an organization) likely plays a large role in why students stay and thrive within academic programs. Factors that bind students to their colleges likely vary as campus life and athletic teams may bind certain students while faculty relationships, experiential learning opportunities and daycare availability may embed other student subpopulations. Therefore, colleges/universities may be far better off by figuring out what binds their student base to the college/university and emphasizing those factors in recruiting and retention efforts. In short, play to your strengths and don't try to be the same as all other programs.
Socioeconomic Status & Health Disparities: Utilizing a Composite Index Across Health Datasets
Iris Buder, Associate Dean, MHA Program Director, Associate Professor of Economics
Co-Authors: Jacob Jennings, Dae Hyun Kim and Norman Waitzman
Forum for Social Economics | August 2023
In the US, socioeconomic status (SES) is often measured using individual proxies such as income, rather than the interaction of income, education, and occupation. In this article, we examine the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health outcomes utilizing a composite SES index. To assess whether this composite SES index holds, we evaluate its consistency across four national datasets. The results reveal that the generated composite SES index provides similar SES classifications across the four datasets and offer greater insights into the components of SES for a given group. This is particularly important due to the challenges inherent in measuring SES and its multifaceted impacts on health outcomes.
The Influence of Uncertainty on Financial Reporting Behavior: The Case of P&C Insurers
Justin Wood, Department Chair, Associate Professor of Accounting
Co-Authors: Daniel Ames, Brent Lao, Jomo Sankara
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting | August 2023
We examine how uncertainty about a firm’s future cash flows influences the quality of its accounting information. As uncertainty increases, information asymmetry between managers and stakeholders will almost certainly increase, amplifying the potential influence of uncertainty. We focus on a specific setting where severe levels of uncertainty can influence financial reporting, the property-casualty (P&C) insurance industry and use catastrophes as a shock to the level of uncertainty regarding P&C insurer’s future cash flows.
Does Rocky Mountain Credit Union Competition Still Affect Commercial Bank Interest Rates?
Robert Tokle, Professor of Economics
Co-Authors: Thomas M. Fullerton, Bryce Jones, Steven L. Fullerton
Journal of Regional Economics | February 2023
Cyber Terrorism Cases and Stock Market Valuation Effects
Erik Boyle, Assistant Professor of Accounting
Co-Authors: Katherine Taken Smith, Lawrence Murphy Smith, Marcus Burger
Information and Computer Security | January 2023
We analyze publicly reported cyberattacks on companies that occurred during the period of 2010-2019. We find that company stock price value is significantly negatively impacted in the time period following these attacks, which helps to document one cost of cyberterrorism in today’s markets.
Instant Oil Change Strategic Evolution: How Can Valvoline Balance Maintaining Growth and Profitability with Market Adaption?
Neil Tocher, Professor of Management | Nikole Layton, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management | Tyler Burch, Associate Professor of Management
Journal of Case Studies | 2023
This case study examines Valvoline's strategic challenges as it navigates the evolving automotive market. As Valvoline faces the rise of electric vehicles, connected car technology, and mobile service options, the company must determine how to adapt while continuing to grow its traditional oil change services, which have been central to its success.