Eccles School professor of finance, Andra Ghent, interviewed on national NPR podcast
Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center (IBREC) academic director and David Eccles School of Business professor of finance, Andra Ghent was a guest in November on a 1A podcast episode exploring trends and data around remote working. The podcast, produced by WAMU for National Public Radio and hosted by Jenn White, also featured Emma Goldberg, business feature writer for The New York Times. The conversation covered the push by corporations to get employees back to working on site. According to Goldberg, the real estate, banking, and finance industries are the most aggressive in requiring employees to work in person, while tech and [...]
Eccles School personalities play a prominent role in a BYUtv feature
While this year’s “Holy War” football game between the University of Utah and Brigham Young University provoked the usual passionate response from both sides (and perhaps a bit more, given the controversial conclusion), a BYUtv crew took it as an opportunity to move away from the vitriol and the rhetoric. In advance of the game, BYUtv approached U leadership with a simple premise: Instead of getting involved in the trash talk, they would use their “Big Stories” series platform to showcase what being part of the University of Utah ecosystem is all about. While much of the 6-plus-minute video focuses [...]
“The Accounting Review” publishes paper by School of Accounting Professor Stephen Stubben
Author: Professor Steve Stubben Title: Senior Associate Dean, Research Francis Armstrong Madsen Endowed Professor Department: School of Accounting Co-Author(s): Hengda Jin, Karen Ton Paper Title: Customer Shopping Behavior and the Persistence of Revenues and Earnings Journal: The Accounting Review Summary: Investors value recurring revenue because it indicates financial stability and lower risk, often resulting in a higher valuation multiple for companies with persistent revenue streams. This study examines how customer characteristics and shopping behaviors contribute to revenue persistence. By analyzing GPS location data from over 3 billion customer visits to retail locations, we measure customer behavior patterns, including visit frequency, [...]