The award recognizes individuals and entities that work to help the community prosper. April 16, 2024 (Salt Lake City) - Each year, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute recognizes individuals and entities that work, often behind the scenes and with little fanfare, to help our community prosper. We call them “Informed Decision Makers” and select them based on criteria consistent with the Institute’s [...]
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. [...]
In a thought-provoking event hosted by the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis, economist and author Melissa Kearney delved into the profound advantages children gain from having two married parents. The event centered around Kearney's insightful book, "The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind," where she skillfully presents a data-driven case for the economic benefits [...]
Ivory Innovations is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the 2024 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability. The prize seeks to elevate ambitious, feasible and scalable solutions to the challenges facing the U.S. housing industry, with the goal of making housing both affordable and accessible for all Americans. Any organization or entity that is actively engaged in the pursuit of this mission, including [...]
Professor Stephen C. Alder was a special guest keynote speaker at the International Relations, Diplomacy, and Human Rights Virtual Summit 2023 on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The summit was hosted by the International Human Rights Commission African office (IHRC AFRICA) in Accra, Ghana, with the theme of “Assessment of Unjust Wars and Global Instability on Human Rights.” Professor Alder’s talk was titled Health as [...]
Speakers for the School of Accounting, 2023 Spring Seminar Series announced. Friday, March 17, 2023 Matthias Breuer, Associate Professor of Business Columbia Business School 12:45 p.m. MT, Spencer Fox Eccles Building, Room 3160 Friday, March 31, 2023 Nemit Shroff, Distinguished Professor, School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12:45 p.m. MT, Spencer Fox Eccles Building, Room 3160 Friday, April 14, 2023 Austin Moss, Asst. [...]
Utah legislators are once again debating whether to eliminate the sales tax on food, in hopes of giving a break to lower-income households. But Eccles School professor Adam Looney argues in a new op-ed that while the proposal is laudable in its aims, it is based on a misinterpretation of economic data. Most of the benefit from eliminating the 1.75% state sales tax would [...]
Students from the David Eccles School of Business participated in near-record numbers in this academic year's Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Undergraduate Case Competition. Fourteen teams participated in the competition, which was held in the GARFF Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 18. Student contended with a hypothetical, real-world situation regarding private medical information overheard in a workplace. The teams each had a couple of weeks [...]
Yale Associate Professor Thomas Steffen addressed the importance of CEO integrity to business success on Nov. 4, 2022. Steffen presented findings from his research on the importance of integrity for CEOs. In an IBM survey from 2010 of 1,500 CEOs in 60 countries and 33 industries, the top two traits CEOs valued in their leadership qualities were creativity first and integrity a close second. [...]
The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative and the Ethics Club hosted Kenzie Rees, an assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resources at Brigham Young University to discuss “Being an Ethical Negotiator: The Benefits and How to Get Them.” During her Nov. 2 presentation to more than 300 students in-person and online, Rees emphasized that everyone engages in negotiations on a nearly daily basis. She [...]