Failure is more likely to encourage positive change if blame is hard to assign. CU Denver Business School Associate Professor Vinit Desai analyzed failures in a life or death situation and published his results in Academy of Management, one of the world’s foremost scholarly management periodicals. A study based on hospital mortality rates For this study, Desai analyzed failures by analyzing death rates from cardiac-bypass surgery in over 115 Californian hospitals.  Read more

Failure teaches best when blame is hard to pin down a study by CU Denver Business School Associate Professor Vinit Desai finds. The study was recently published in Academy of Management Journal, one of the world’s foremost scholarly management periodicals. For this study, Professor Desai analyzed failures in a life or death situation by looking at death rates from cardiac-bypass surgery in over 115 Californian hospitals.  Read more

The University of Colorado Denver Business School is pleased to announce the third round of faculty awards from the Tom and Jane Petrie Faculty Development Fund.  The selection committee, comprised of Chairwoman Dr. Marcelle Arak, Dr. Ajeyo Banerjee, and Business School Interim Dean Dr. Gary Kochenberger, selected the following recipients for the award:

• Yosef Bonaparte was given an award to pursue the project “Oil Price Uncertainty Index”
• Lawrence Cunningham was given an award to work on the topic “The Role of Country of Origin on Commodity-like Products Among Millennial Cohorts”
• Dr.

In August, Accounting Professor Michael Roberts and Theresa Roberts, an MS in Accounting student, won the Innovative Research Award for the 20th Annual Symposium on Ethics Research in Accounting, presented by the American Accounting Association (AAA).  The award was made jointly by the Professionalism and Ethics Committee and by the Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association.   Read more

After you make a purchase, do you notice the sales tax printed on the receipt? What would happen if that amount increased?  Based upon the newest research from Dr. Michael Roberts, Director of the Accounting Program at the University of Colorado, in collaboration with Dr. Cynthia Blanthorne of the University of Rhode Island, you might not notice.  What’s more, if you did, you probably would adapt to the increased tax fairly quickly.  Read more

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver Business School, found that colleges and universities typically get what they pay for when it comes to hiring top tier football coaches. The study, published in the May edition of the Journal of Sports Economics, found a positive relationship between the amount a coach is paid and the football team’s performance  and that, when schools change coaches, higher pay is associated with improved performance.  Read more

Wayne Cascio, PhD, who holds the Robert H. Reynolds Distinguished Chair in Global Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver Business School and professor of management, was recently awarded the Western Academy of Management’s Outstanding Scholar Award, sponsored by the Journal of Management Inquiry. This is a lifetime achievement award given once a year by the Western Academy of Management.  Read more