Rujuta vaidya biography of alberta

I had the opportunity, in the Autumn of 2022, to visit the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

While at the department I got the chance to present my work, collaborate on new projects and audit classes.

Seminars and presentations

My research broadly focuses on strategic decision making in firms.

While in Salt Lake City, I presented two of my working papers, one on the strategic reallocation of idle employees during the Oil Crisis (2014/2015), and a panel study on the antecedents of labour hoarding.

The feedback I obtained on the papers proved to be instrumental in refining their content and structure.

We discussed at length that one of the interesting consequences of the pandemic, is the resurgence of the labour hoarding (retaining idle capacity) concept.

As tech firms are firing employees, leading publications such as the New York Times, Reuters, and Blo