Are there toxins in those tater tots? Probably, if recent research by a Zicklin School of Business professor is any indication. But what she subsequently learned about the new leadership in Washington was worse, galvanizing her to pen an article... View Article
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The University of Texas at Dallas tracks publications in the top 24 business research journals. Three of these journals specialize in accounting: The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Accounting Research. In 2025, the Zicklin School of Business ranked... View Article
Maria Halbinger, an associate professor in the Lawrence N. Field Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has watched in recent years as digital competitions across various platforms have become highly popular tools for platform managers to generate new content, attract users... View Article
To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, Zicklin School prof Jooho Kim has looked at “cloud” from both sides now. Dr. Kim, an assistant professor in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics, recently published an article in the Journal... View Article
What if you could help end world hunger by trading futures contracts? Not just any contracts, but U.S. agricultural futures—contracts to buy and sell specific amounts of corn, wheat, soybeans, and other farm commodities on a future date at a... View Article
Remember in the “before times,” when Amazon announced it would be opening a second corporate headquarters in Long Island City, Queens? (Spoiler alert: The company changed its mind.) The Zicklin School’s Maggie (Rong) Hu, PhD, wasn’t living in New York... View Article
Zicklin News spoke with faculty members who recently completed year-long fellowships that enabled them to focus exclusively on their research. Here’s what we learned. Xi Dong (associate professor, Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance): “I spent a summer... View Article
Despite a challenging funding environment, Associate Professor Chung Eun Lee (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) has won a National Science Foundation grant for her project, entitled “Novel Dependence Metrics in Spectral Analysis for Modern Time Series... View Article
Several Zicklin faculty members on academic leave recently returned from completing fellowships that gave them a break from teaching responsibilities while they took a deep dive into their own research. They spoke to Zicklin News about their projects. Aditya Jain... View Article
Executive alumna Heather Marso, who earned her Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from the Zicklin School of Business in May 2025, was recently promoted to vice president of engagement strategy at MetLife. in part based on her dissertation. She... View Article