Even if an audit firm follows all the standards for a high-quality audit, they can be sued if their client believes the firm made a mistake. This can include errors, fraud, or miscommunication. And that can be a big financial risk for audit firms.
Gies research reveals that crowd-sourced fact-checking can effectively curb misinformation, as users are more likely to retract false or misleading tweets when peer-reviewed corrections are added.
Professor Olga Khessina’s paper focuses on high-velocity markets, characterized by rapid rates of product change and turnover. The research examined the relationship between the names of optical disk drives and their success in the marketplace.
In what may be the first ever systematic study looking at the likelihood of survival of ventures from all five knowledge sources, Gies professors Sonali Shah and Shinjinee Chattopadhyay examine the world of medical imaging and unpack how an origin story can predict if a company will stand the test of time.
You might expect that managers at local stores know best about how to price products to improve sales revenue locally, but new research by Gies professor Iris Wang suggests that may not always be the case.
The paper, coauthored by Gies professor Maria Rodas, is based on a series of taste-test experiments, each involving a nearly universally-beloved food: cheese, coffee, and, of course, chocolate.
In the paper, “ChatGPT, Help! I Am in Financial Trouble,” Professor Sterling Raskie and his coauthors find that at first glance, ChatGPT’s advice appeared reasonable. But when they dug in, that advice seemed to be less helpful than it initially seemed.
Dmitriy Muravyev graduated from Gies Business with his PhD in 2012. Now he is back as an associate professor of finance and Conrad W. and Shirley A. Hewitt Faculty Fellow, ready to teach and continue the research excellence he experienced as a student.
Gies researchers Deepak Somaya and Joseph Mahoney expected that if cheating helped the Astros win, it would manifest in a bigger home field batting advantage during the cheating period. However, they found no such effect in the data.
Associate Professor of Finance Mathias Kronlund was a faculty member at Gies from 2012-2020, after which he spent four years at Tulane University before finding his way back to Gies this year.
Dylan Nelson joins Gies this fall as an assistant professor in business administration. He was drawn to a community of people that are invested in linking questions of performance and productivity, to questions of purpose, worker experience, and workers’ job mobility.
Gies assistant professor of accountancy Stacey Choy says diversity can be even beyond the background of individuals – it can also be the approach to research. For Choy, that research involves using unique, innovative methodologies to answer accounting and finance questions.