a letter from the dean table of contents

Over the past year as Dean of the David Eccles School of Business, I have been continually impressed by the wide variety of remarkable things happening at the school. We have top-ranked centers and institutes, active and engaged student organizations, and cutting-edge experiential learning opportunities.

The foundation of all of this is the high caliber faculty at the Eccles School. As a professor myself, having joined the accounting faculty here in 2005, am well acquainted with the globally relevant research being conducted by our faculty members, and their innovative e orts to share their expertise in the classroom. This report is a great opportunity for you to become acquainted with this timely and relevant research as well.

Within the pages of this report, you can learn more about hot-button topics such as student loan forgiveness and the real estate impacts of the post-COVID return to work, explore unique insights into the need for accounting transparency, and even get some tips for bringing dignity back to our political and public discourse. I know you will be as impressed by the work of our Eccles School faculty as I am!

The faculty at the Eccles School have the skill, expertise, and recognition to teach just about anywhere, but they choose to be here because of the great opportunities for exploration and innovation both within our school and our state – and our students and our community are better o for having these great leaders and thinkers among us.

Rachel M. Hayes

Dean and George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Presidential Chair in Ethical Financial Reporting David Eccles School of Business