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Opportunity Scholars explore Kuleana at annual leadership retreat
Opportunity Scholars recently held its annual leadership retreat in Park City, UT. This year's theme centered around Kuleana, a Hawaiian value that translates to responsibility and privilege, and how reciprocity is key to successfully leading others. This focus on integrity in action is core to the Opportunity Scholars program, and the leadership retreat allows time for reflection, community, and building the leadership skills necessary for a thriving career. The retreat was filled with team-building activities, workshops, and a keynote from Koloa Wolfgramm, a nationally recognized hotelier (the youngest Waldorf hotel owner at 27) and co-founder of Wolfgramm Capital, a [...]
Media Coverage of School of Accounting Faculty Research
On October 19, 2023, The Economist, a leading weekly newspaper, published an article about the role of luck in career success. The article highlighted a recent paper written by Atif Ellahie, Associate Professor at the School of Accounting, with co-authors Martina Andreani and Lakshmanan Shivakumar. In their paper, Professor Ellahie and his co-authors examine the nonrecurring effects of the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 on the remeasurement of deferred taxes. They find that CEOs of firms that had tax windfall gains and were weakly scrutinized by investors rewarded their CEOs for these “good luck” gains but firms [...]
Empowering Women in Tech: Eccles Adobe Social Impact Challenge
The Eccles Adobe Social Impact Challenge brought together students from the University of Utah to draw on their creativity, digital skills, and entrepreneurial spirit in support of a worthy cause. The Information Systems program at the Eccles School partnered with Adobe and Tech-Moms to host a competition where student teams created a website to promote Tech-Moms’ mission. Tech-Moms is a non-profit organization focused on empowering women transitioning into tech roles and achieving long-term career success. Students used Adobe Express to create compelling recruiting websites using the data and assets from Tech-Moms. These teams not only gained valuable digital storytelling [...]
