Ashlyn Burnsed

Footloose Business Plan

Management

Mentored by Dr. William Norton

Savannah, Georgia has over ten million visitors that spend over three billion dollars each year. The streets of Savannah are filled with countless retail stores to meet the needs of every tourist and local. Unfortunately, even with all of these stores there is still an unmet need. There is currently no store in Savannah that offers a trendy and affordable shoe. The following business plan presents a way to capitalize on this unmet market need. Our company, Footloose, has the potential to have a competitive advantage in a unsaturated shoe market. Footloose will cater affordable shoes to any women looking to elevate their style for whatever occasion.

Santiago Campo Ortega

SuccessWay

Management

Mentored by Dr. Curtis Sproul

SuccessWay believes studying abroad is about more than getting another bullet on your resume. It is about self-development, finding yourself while connecting with different cultures, and getting out of your comfort zone. The best way to grow as a person is by pushing yourself to study abroad. SuccessWay will provide opportunities for students to develop themselves through an honest opportunity for real growth and self-discovery in a way never offered before. Study aboard programs are typically managed by agencies outside of universities. These agencies primary goal is profit. SuccessWay’s mission is to bring students closer to real self-development opportunities, thinking first on helping them achieve their study abroad dreams and then on making a profit out of it. It would be a unique approach to the market. We will provide honest and affordable guidance towards success.

Other agencies are used to provide standard pre-selected programs in which they can overprice fees and made the most profit, not considering the dreams and efforts of their client. We will put the dreams and aspirations of our customers first.

SuccessWay will provide a unique and new approach to the industry. It will expose new program options, lay out all variables, and put the customer first. In the presentation, you will find how we are going to make this happen.

Shirlysia Daniel

The impact of COVID-19 on China's Luxury Retail Market

Marketing

Mentored by Hope Wallace Simpara

The Coronavirus outbreak that occurred in 2020 negatively impacted the whole world. China handled the pandemic better than other countries due to their experience with prior virus outbreaks, SARS and MERS. It is important to research how the Coronavirus outbreak affected and is still affecting China’s economy, as it is a leading role in other countries’ economies as well. Prior to COVID-19, Chinese consumers made up one-third of global spending on luxury goods. Global luxury spending decreased drastically as many were impacted financially, emotionally, and physically. However, China’s success during the pandemic has been predicted to be the largest luxury retail market by 2025. Since traveling measures were restricted during the pandemic, Chinese consumers spent heavily in their luxury retail market instead of other countries which boosted their luxury sales. China has put several measures in place to stay on the top to continue growing and taking over the luxury retail market. They used the pandemic effects to their advantage over other countries from previous experience and having to adapt to drastic circumstances.

Jenny Heller

Cross-Border Acquisitions: A Country-Level Analysis

Management and Spanish

Mentored by Dr. Katia de Melo Galdino

Country-level factors play an important role in the success or failure of cross-border acquisitions, defined as acquisitions where the acquiring firm and the target firm are in two different countries. If we are to understand and improve the success rates of these acquisitions, we must explore this issue in more depth. As globalization continues to emerge around the world, cross-border acquisitions have become a common way to enter a new foreign market. There is limited research available so far for these acquisitions on the country-level. Currently, cross-border acquisitions have failure rates of up to 70%. We analyze acquisition premium and use three dimensions of distance administrative, economic, and financial, to understand how these country-level factors affect the performance of cross-border acquisitions. We collected data on acquisitions announced between 2011 and 2014 from the SEC database. We have 108 deals in our final sample used to conduct the statistical analyses. We found that while premium is negatively related to acquisition performance, this relationship is contingent on administrative and financial distances.

Evan Page

Determinates of Georgia White-Tailed Deer Harvests

Economics

Mentored by Dr. Michael Toma

This research provides recent evidence regarding the determinates of white-tailed deer harvest densities in the state of Georgia. The data from the 2016/17 - 2020/21 deer hunting seasons indicates total deer harvest density is positively influenced by the prior year's mature buck harvest density, the turkey harvest density, higher unemployment rates, higher median incomes, and a higher level of education. Deer harvest density was found to be negatively impacted by larger public land harvests the year before and greater human population densities.

Zachary Weiner

Influence Tactics as a Function of Supervisor Age

Management

Mentored by Dr. David Sikora

Within the field of Human Resource Management, the topic of age related differences within the workforce has been of interest as a method of understanding the dynamics of workforce management. This study aims to develop a deeper understanding in age related differences by focusing specifically on influence tactics subordinates use to influence their supervisors. The current research shows gaps in the understanding of how the comparative age of a supervisor (the age of a supervisor compared to the age of a subordinate i.e. older, younger) affect the use of influence tactics. This study shows how the comparative age of a supervisor affects the use of influence tactics. This study additionally looks at the relationship between influence tactics and organizational commitment.

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