Vivek Sah (Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies) was ranked the 34th most prolific real estate author in the world based on the most recent version of the Journal of Real Estate Literature’s annual publication of the real estate academic leadership (REAL) rankings. The rankings were based on publications in the three most respected real…

Danny Siciliano (Accounting) recently was named a Deloitte Faculty Fellow. Also an alum, Siciliano, '90 BS Business Administration - Accounting and '92 MBA, started his career at Deloitte in Las Vegas and moved on to several prominent positions before joining the accounting faculty at the Lee Business School. He is an award-winning instructor and…

Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and Erin Hamilton (Accounting), along with Michael Cummings (University of Arkansas) and Silvio Vismara (University of Bergamo) recently had a paper, "An Equity Crowdfunding Research Agenda: Evidence from Stakeholder Participation in the Rulemaking Process" accepted at a top…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and his co-authors' paper "Regional Integration, Multinational Enterprise Strategy and the Impact of Country‐level Risk: The Case of the EMU" was published in the British Journal of Management. This study shows that regional integration (European Monetary Union) has altered the impact of…

Students in John Starkey’s Fall BUS 103 Classes (Business) raised nearly $9,000 for local charities during the fall semester. The charities receiving funds were: The Poppy Foundation ($1,000) JAG Nevada ($1,144) The Cupcake Girls ($1,005) Helping Hands of Vegas Valley ($1,014) Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) of Southern Nevada, Inc. ($1,…

Numerous UNLV Students won awards at the Media Innovation Hackathon sponsored by the Beasley Media Group in collaboration with UNLV at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. Student teams aimed to generate potential commercial products. Winners include: First Place: Converting Radio Waves to Energy. Matias Allieti (Mechanical…

Vivek Sah (Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies) recently presented a seminar on current trends in the Nevada housing market to local real estate professionals at an event hosted by Pinnacle Lending Group and Chicago Title.

Wonyong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) is the lead author on the case that on Netflix became the No. 1 bestseller case on Ivey Publishing, the leader in providing business case studies with a global perspective, for October 2018. This case study describes Netflix's recent internationalization strategy. His co-author is Duane…

Sutirtha Chatterjee (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) recently received the Best Reviewer Award of the year from the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). JAIS is one of the top journals in information systems/management information systems discipline and is the flagship journal of the Association for…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (both Center for Business and Economic Research) had their paper "Firm Size, Corporate Debt, R&D Activity, and Agency Costs: Exploring Dynamic and Non-linear Effects" selected by the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) for the 2018 Polzin Prize as Best Paper at AUBER's…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) and Giorgio Canarella (Economics) recently received an Abramson Scroll from the National Association of Business Economists for a paper that was published in Business Economics. The Adolph G. Abramson Awards recognize exceptional articles published in Business Economics in the four…

On Sept. 5 the Academic Success Center (ASC) celebrated its 10-year anniversary and as part of its celebration recognized former students, faculty, departments, and community leaders that have made the ASC such an exemplary center. They are: Dean’s Award - Carl Reiber (formerly of the provost's office) Dean’s Award - Regent…