Love School of Business

C. Catherine Chiang, assistant professor of accounting in the Love School of Business, recently published an article, “Measuring the Usefulness of Information for Investors’ Inference – the Case of Quarterly Earnings Announcements,” in the July 2010 issue of Journal of Business and Economic Research.

Anthony Amoruso, assistant accounting professor, and Neeraj Gupta, assistant finance professor in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, compiled a list of the top 75 public companies in North Carolina by market capitalization for a feature article in the August 2010 edition of Business North Carolina.

Conventional wisdom has it that a professional baseball player reaches his peak batting performance at age 27. Research by two Elon University alumni, whose work in a general studies seminar last spring led to a presentation for the Society for American Baseball Research, shows otherwise, with what they hope is potential for changing the way Major League Baseball teams structure future contracts.

Mark Kurt, assistant professor of economics, was interviewed by the High Point Enterprise for an article about the impact of corporate earning on the job market.

The Elon chapter of Beta Alpha Psi is hosting a Meet and Greet on Monday, September 13 from 6 to 8 p.m in McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center. The Meet and Greet brings together accounting and finance students and accounting firms to network in a professional and social setting. The annual event is organized by members of Beta Alpha Psi, the international honorary organization for financial professionals. Representatives from firms including KPMG, RSM McGladrey, Credit Suisse and IBM will be on hand to talk to students about internship and job opportunities.

John Burbridge, a professor of operations and supply chain management, explores the role Jersey City, N.J., played in trying to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn in “The Brooklyn Dodgers in Jersey City,” which appears in the Summer 2010 issue of The Baseball Research Journal published by the Society for American Baseball Research.

Earl Honeycutt and Sharon Hodge co-authored an article, “Turnover in the Sales Force: A Comparison of Hunters and Farmers,” published in The Journal of Selling & Major Account Management, Volume 9, Number 2 (Spring).

In the 1970s and early 1980s Gary Bailey, former Elon faculty member in human service studies and currently counselor in Health and Counseling Services, was a member of a popular regional R&B group called “Brief Encounter.” A couple of years ago Gary discovered that Brief Encounter has become one of the leading cult R&B groups among record collectors. He was shocked when he noticed that copies of their first album were selling for over $2,000 on eBay. The most recent sale was over $2500. Brief Encounter is back in business and about to release its first recording in nearly 30 years, all for the benefit of Haitian Earthquake Relief.