Jenna Pieper, associate professor of management, co-authored “Collective Turnover Response Over Time to a Unit-Level Shock” published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Pieper found a major change in a workplace might lead to significant employee turnover, but companies should be aware that it can play out over time rather than immediately.

Julie Wu, associate professor of finance, published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. She found that firms under negative stock price pressure increase corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities compared to similar firms when testing the signaling view of CSR engagement using two complementary quasi-natural experiments that impose non-fundamental-driven negative pressure on stock prices. Firms under such price pressure improve CSR strengths, including costly environmental investments. CSR engagement attracts socially responsible investors and lowers the cost of capital for signaling firms.

Brenden Timpe, assistant professor of economics, and co-authors were cited in the March 2023 Economic Report of the President. The White House report to Congress cited their research on how the federally funded Head Start preschool program greatly improves the likelihood those children who participated obtain financial self-sufficiency in adulthood.

Tom Kubick, ’05, ’08 & ’11, Ellsworth L. Fulk Chair and professor of accountancy, was featured in Forbes about his work exploring whether executives who experienced accounting-related problems at a former company were more or less likely to experience similar problems at their next employer.

Learn more about college of business faculty research at, business.unl.edu/research/.