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Zachary Weber: About to Embark on a Microsoft Adventure of a Lifetime
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Come this spring, Zachary Weber will take what will be the biggest step in his life. He begins an internship with Microsoft. The finance and business analytics and information systems double major plans to pursue his project-based internship program in Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, while living in Seattle.
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Luiza Marques: Remote learning from Brazil
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Luiza Marques is a finance major and Muma College of Business 25 under 25 honoree from Brazil. When the university turned to remote learning in March, she went home to continue her studies. Being so far from campus has been hard for Marques. Naturally an extrovert, she misses her friends, professors, and her campus routines. She has taken some positives away from the experience. Using the flexibility to her advantage, she takes five classes, works for AB InBev in Sao Paulo, and she is a peer leader and tutor for business calculus.
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Finance Professor Scott Besley has taught at USF since 1982. Besley was chair of the finance department for 17 years and now teaches the Principles of Finance course, which all business majors must complete, and Principles of Investments, which finance majors are required to take. The most important takeaway he hopes students get from his classes is the ability to think and make decisions rather than simply memorize and regurgitate the material covered in class.
In addition to teaching, Besley keeps busy by participating in sports and writing textbooks. He has co-authored three finance textbooks that are used in colleges around the world. Besley keeps active in the community, serving on several boards, including the board of directors of the USF Federal Credit Union, the Investment Oversight Committee of the Pinellas School Board, among others.
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Nov. 17, 2-3:30 p.m. - Applied Security Analysis pitch competition
Nov. 19, 1-1:30 p.m. - Bark n' Bites virtual pet therapy
Nov. 24, 6-8 p.m. - Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance Stock Pitch Competition, sponsored by the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Center.
Nov. 30, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. - Hindsight in 2020, three panelists virtually talk about their experiences in the workplace and the things they learned along the way. This is part of the GEB 3033 course but all students are welcome for this session.
Dec. 11, 10 a.m.-noon - Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance Brown Bag Virtual Seminar. Three doctoral students present their papers.
- Mario Marshall
- Shaddy Douidar
- Zicheng (Leo) Xiao
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On Oct. 27, Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance hosted its annual scholarship awards event. Forty-four awards were given totaling $133,000. The evening celebrated the scholarship recipients and the generous donors that made it all possible. Watch a recording of the celebration here.
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MS in Finance Scholarship Recipients
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This year the MS in Finance program awarded scholarships to a number of students for their academics and hard work.
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Duckwall recipients
- Nikki Dawson
- Henry Landry
- Garrett Walker
- Khuong Nguyen
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Bernstein recipients
- Ayancy Caicedo Charris
- Hung Dang
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Applied Security Analysis Program Stock Pitch
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On Oct.13: The Student Managed Investment Fund 2021 cohort presented its first fall semester investment pitch. Due to COVID-19, all investment pitches will be conducted virtually this year. This virtual delivery allowed many out-of-state board members to join. The students pitched three stocks: Kirby Corporation, M/I Homes and Applied Materials.
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On Oct. 23, Professor Tina Yang and PhD student Jan Hanousek presented their papers in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance Brown Bag Virtual Seminar. The next seminar will be held on Dec. 11.
Yang's paper is titled “Independent Directors and Active Boards: Evidence from Board Minutes.” Until now, she writes, the research literature has used "what boards look like," such as board size and the percent of independent directors on the board to proxy for board decision-making. Using a unique dataset of board minutes, Yang provided new evidence for "what boards actually do" inside the boardroom including documenting differences in voting behaviors across key proposal characteristics and contrasting independent directors’ voting behaviors against other directors’. The research is the first to link "what boards actually do" to firm performance. For more info, contact Professor Yang.
PhD student Jan Hanousek's paper addresses the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act that the U.S. Senate introduced to increase transparency and combat insider trading in April 2012. The paper examines senator security transactions after the STOCK act between March 2012 and March 2020 to determine whether senators used legislative information that is unknown to the public, to make informed stock transactions. The results show that their investments are significantly outperforming the rest of the market and that other investors face very large information asymmetry during the days when senators trade. Overall, the analysis and results show that 1) there is the legislative problem of the inefficiency of the STOCK Act that needs further discussion and improved regulation, and 2) senators’ use of political inside information represents only the tip of the iceberg, since there are many more politicians, aids and market participants who have access to the same information but are not monitored under the STOCK Act. For more information, contact Jan Hanousek.
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Finance professor Greg Smersh recently hosted the Muma College of Business' Ethics Essay Competition. More than 70 students entered, essays were judged and winners announced last week.
Congratulations to all the winners. All prizes were funded by the Exide Professorship in Business Ethics.
First Place: Denzel Tracey, a junior majoring in supply chain management
Second Place: Taryn Sczyrba, a junior majoring in general business
Third Place: Katya Viegas a senior majoring in biomedical sciences and business analytics and information systems and Luis Blanco a sophomore in accounting
Didn’t get to participate this year? Keep an eye out for the next year’s announcement.
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Smersh, G. (2020) "Pricing Moral Hazard in Residential Properties: The Impact of Sinkhole Claims on House Prices" the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
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USF Muma College of Business
Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance
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