Mays Trophy Case

First Place

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion sponsored and coached a group of students in the National Diversity Case Competition at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. The team from Mays competed against 32 other teams from across the country and won first place!
Congratulations to Emori Reece ’23, Mattison Gonzales ’26, Filbert Presley ’26 and Akorede Ademola ’26 on their success!”

Students in Texas A&M’s Master of Science in Human Resource Management program took first place in the 2022 Purdue HR Case Competition hosted on Purdue’s campus in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Students Abbey Dethloff ’22, Joanna Moran ’22, Abby Patterson ’22, and Bailey Wilkins ’22 worked in advance of the competition to present a potential solution for PepsiCo’s desire to attract and retain more females in front-line roles at several sites in their NorthCentral region.

Best Paper

Congratulations to Emily Shafron, Christopher Yust, and their co-authors for their paper, “‘No Comment’: Language Barriers and the IASB’s Comment Letter Process,” receiving the Best Paper Award for the 2023 The Public Interest Section (PI) of the American Accounting Association International midyear meeting! This is awarded annually to the paper that best addresses and provides guidance for important public interest questions at each of the AAA’s midyear meetings. With this paper, they are the first to examine the effect of language barriers on formal participation in the standard-setting process.