Three teams presented real estate development proposals for the ballpark neighborhood of Salt Lake City at a luncheon on Thursday, April 11 at The Grand America Hotel. The teams were the finalists in the annual Utah Real Estate Challenge (UREC), which is supported each year by the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center and the David Eccles School of Business Master of Real Estate Development program. [...]
Samantha Christensen (far right in photo) and her team (all students in audiology, special education, and healthcare administration programs) took the first-place prize in the research competition at the annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) conference. The team worked for over a year on the project, which evaluates the effectiveness of the MED-EL LittleEARS auditory questionnaire, and categorizes the skills for easier digestion [...]
The case competition team of three second-year Master of Healthcare Administration students from the David Eccles School of Business recently placed second of 41 teams in the 18th annual University of Alabama Birmingham Health Administration Case Competition. Under the team name Highway to Health, Samantha Christensen, Sabrina Franks, and Miquelle Leslie-Cheng, and their faculty advisor, Larry Hancock, are proud to have matched the record for [...]
In February, the Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program hosted its annual Women in Healthcare Luncheon. Each year, the MHA program invites a slate of impressive panelists to lead a discussion about important issues related to women in healthcare. This year was no exception, with panelists exploring the topic, "Breaking Down Barriers to Healthcare." Panelists included: Dr. Jessica Jones, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Division [...]
Two graduate programs at the David Eccles School of Business have risen to the top 10 and top 5 of rankings in their respective categories. According to the annual rankings published by TFE Times, the Master of Science in Finance program is ranked #9 in the nation, moving up one spot from #10 last year, while the Master of Science in Business Analytics program came in at #5, up [...]
School of Accounting Faculty Publishes New Research Atif Ellahie, Associate Professor in the School of Accounting, recently had a paper accepted for publication in Management Science, a leading academic journal. The paper titled “Measuring the Quality of Mergers and Acquisitions” is co-authored with Shenje Hshieh at City University of Hong Kong and Feng Zhang at Southern Methodist University and develops a novel accounting-based measure [...]
University of Utah’s team of five students was named as one of nine regional winners of Deloitte FanTAXtic, Deloitte’s student Tax Case Study Competition. More than 60 teams representing more than 40 colleges and universities participated in the regional event from October 26 - 27, held at Deloitte offices across the U.S. The team from the University of Utah demonstrated the ability to work [...]
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 [...]
Don't miss the latest episode of the School of Accounting's A...Count Me In podcast with host, Brian Cadman, School of Accounting Chair. In this episode, Cadman speaks with Justin Martinez (EMBA'17) who serves as the U.S. Marshal for the District of Utah. Martinez who was formerly Sheriff of Summit County shares how his master's degree helped him forge a successful career in law enforcement. [...]
According to the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings, the Eccles School of Accounting places significantly in the Rankings by Journal category, which bases rankings on knowledge creation. When searching for rankings based on the three most prominent accounting journals, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research, the Eccles School of Accounting has ranked well [...]