Browsing Washburn Faculty Research by Title
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Making a Case for Employment Law as a Core Requirement in the Undergraduate HR Curriculum
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-09-1)Surveys of senior HR-practitioners, academicians, and students consistently agree that individuals seeking to enter the HR profession should be knowledgeable in employment law. Most university HR programs, however, do not ... -
May Company, Inc.: Examining the Outcomes of Corporate Strategic Change Applying an Expanded DuPont Model
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2004-12-1)This case employs a model for conceptualizing and analyzing the financial statement impact resulting from major corporate structural changes in the form of divestiture of an operating segment. The corporate case included ... -
Measuring Alpha-Based Performance: Implications for Alpha-Focused Structured Products
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2008-02-1)We propose that the muted demand for investment innovations such as Portable Alpha arise, at least in part, from a lack of clarity and transparency regarding the way alpha is defined and measured. We show that the profession ... -
Medtronic PLC and Corporate Tax Inversions
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2016-08-1)This case deals with the very topical subject of tax inversions. In the case, students are initially introduced to the concept of the tax inversion, the process by which a U.S. company reincorporates in another country, ... -
A Model for Review of Ethics Instruction
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2008-12-1)"Assessment of Learning" is a key phrase well known to all quality business schools. This paper presents a detailed description of the processes undertaken by one university's school of business to assess its ethics ... -
Modeling Atmospheric Effects Of The September 1859 Solar Flare
We have modeled atmospheric effects, especially ozone depletion, due to a solar proton event which probably accompanied the extreme magnetic storm of 1-2 September 1859. We use an inferred proton fluence for this event as ... -
Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership
The MSL is comprised of over 400 variables, scales, and composite measures representing students’ demographics and pre-college experiences, experiences during college, and key outcome measures. It is adapted from the ... -
Negotiating Ritual Participation: Experiencing Ritual Gifts as an Outsider
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-08-1)This paper examines how people become participants in a ritual that has historically been dominated by people outside their group. We first demonstrate how participatory golf is a ritual, that there is apprehension when ... -
Nonprofits and Pass-Throughs: Performance Comparison
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2020-11-1)Nonprofits (NPs) resemble pass-throughs (PTs) in size. While not profit-seeking like PTs, NPs should still seek to achieve maximum firm value (max VL). Using a historical growth rate of 3.12% and the same risk class, we ... -
The Operation of Social Capital and Co-Production in Rural Economic Development: The Case of a Kansas Farm Winery
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2007-08-1)This paper reports the findings of a study on the operation of social capital and co-production in a rural vineyard in the state of Kansas in the Midwestern United States. Findings suggest that consumers' social networks ... -
Optimal Target Rating and C Corp Valuation
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2019-08-1)We use data from Damodaran (2019) as inputs in the Capital Structure Model (CSM) to compute firm value (VL) for debt-for-unlevered equity choices. Because each VL is matched to a debt-to-firm value ratio (DV) and a credit ... -
Origins of the Economic Order Quantity Formula
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-01-1)This paper speculates on how the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) formula was developed. These speculations are interesting and useful for several reasons: 1.) The speculations help scholars understand the creative process ... -
Overview Critical Thinking - Multiple Sources of Evidence
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Ozone Abundance In A Nitrogen-Carbon Dioxide Dominated Terrestrial Paleoatmosphere
We compute the ozone distribution for a model terrestrial paleoatmosphere in which the present oxygen abundance is largely replaced by carbon dioxide, which we argue is a reasonable working assumption. In principle, the ... -
Partnership Formation and GAAP
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2018-08-1)This article explains the importance of partnership formation in the U.S. economy, presents the basis for GAAP accounting for partnership formation based on the Codification, and provides a set of teaching materials that ... -
Pass Through Valuation
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2014-10-1)We fill in missing gaps in small business valuation by investigating a pass-through owner managed enterprise undergoing a debt-for-equity exchange to determine its maximum gain to leverage (GL), maximum firm value (VL) and ... -
Pass-Through Valuation with Growth
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2018-11-1)We build on the nongrowth pass-through capital structure model (CSM) research by adding growth and changes in tax rates. We begin by deriving CSM pass-through gain to leverage (GL) equations for nongrowth and growth when ... -
Pay Now or Pay Later: An Experiential Learning Exercise in Determining a Firm's Dividend Payout
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2005-07-1)We develop a classroom exercise simulating the cash dividend payout decision. The benefits to business students include (i) a thorough investigation of the complex payout issues managers must consider when determining ... -
Paying for Undergraduate Education: Recent Trends in Tuition, Income, Institution Choice, and Debt
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2016-08-1)In 1999-00, business students borrowed substantially less to pay for their educations than non-business students. By 2011-12 this difference had disappeared. We describe changes in tuition, incomes, and choice of institution ... -
Pedagogical Praxis for Reflection on Issues in Financial Crises
(Washburn University. School of Business, 2018-12-1)This paper illustrates how a Freirean pedagogical framework can be applied to promote a praxis of critical reflection on financial crisis and its educational impact. Freirean pedagogical praxis eschews the 'banking' approach ...