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Spring 2018 Buffalo Business 19 Program, has completed two semesters of independent research projects that ulti- mately changed his career goals. With Dominik Roesch, assistant pro- fessor of finance, Leung examined all stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange for a 10-year period to evaluate a strate- gy of buying stocks with the lowest over- night returns and short selling those with the highest. He further honed his program- ming skills working with Cristian Tiu, as- sociate professor and chair of the Finance further research undergrads conducted recently: The cost of credit Guided by faculty advisor Laura Amo, Zachary richheimer analyzed the perfor- mance of loans issued by a peer-to-peer lending platform in Estonia. He created a model to predict loans with the highest probability of repayment and compared the premiums Estonian borrowers paid to Americans on another platform. "The project was a good exercise to evaluate global investment opportunities," says richheimer, BS '17, product manager at NSr Invest. Seo ethics ramzi Ganou worked with faculty advisor David Murray to research the risks of uneth- ical search engine optimization practices, like hidden keywords. "I'd like to work for a technology-based company," says Ganou, an honors student in accounting and computer science. "This gave me more insight into how technology can enhance businesses." accounting for goodwill With guidance from faculty advisor Jing Chen, accounting seniors Gyunbeom (Tom) Park and Luuly Park completed a literature review to evaluate the effect of 2001 guidance from the Financial Accounting Standards Board on the reporting of acquired goodwill and intangible assets. The pair, who will begin the accounting master's program this fall, gained in-depth experience with accounting standards and research methods. narcissism in teams Luuly Park added more skills when she worked with professors Timothy Maynes and Emily Grijalva on their research to assess the impact of individual team members' narcissism on overall team functioning. Park combed through 12,000 tweets to score every NBA player's narcis- sism level. "The knowledge I gained can be applied to any team setting," she says. x Department, on Tiu's research exploring the trading of real estate investment trust options. "Before these projects, I didn't realize the sheer amount of data in existence and the insights we can draw from it," Leung says. "Now I hope to work in a data- focused role and eventually move into arti- ficial intelligence to do work that makes an impact." Sounds like another 'Aha!' moment. x