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TBS should tell Samantha Bee to buzz off and fire her
Business ethics professor Joseph Holt, who teaches in the Department wrote an opinion piece for Fox News about talk show host Samantha Bee's vulgar reference to Ivanka Trump. Read the full commentary here. The Time Warner 2016 corporate social responsibility report includes the aspiration that the company’s original content “helps to deepen the conversation on issues that matter in society.” Bee had the opportunity to do that with respect to the pressing immigration issue. Criticizing President Trump or Ivanka Trump is fine, if Bee believes such criticism is needed, but why do it with a sexist slur? …
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Rex Tillerson’s failures should send corporate leaders soul searching
In a commentary piece for Fast Company, Notre Dame business ethics professor Joseph Holt, who teaches in the Department of Management and Organization in the Mendoza College of Business, examines the corporate leadership model in light of Rex Tillerson's tenure as U.S. Secretary of State. …
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Goodbye, Newspapers. Hello, Bad Government.
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith wrote a piece about finance professor Paul Gao's paper detailing what happens to government borrowing costs when a city's newspaper closes.
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Here’s another reason to keep local journalism alive — it helps keep local government spending down
A Los Angeles Times editorial writer wrote about a working paper "Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance" coauthored by finance professor Paul Gao, the Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Finance at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
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The hidden costs of losing your city’s newspaper
A segment of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” inspired Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business finance professor Paul Gao to research what happens to cities when their local newspapers shut down. His research was featured in a recent CityLab article. Read the full story here…
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Sports analytics podcast features Scott Nestler
Scott Nestler was a guest on a sports analytics podcast hosted by the Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference. Nestler, an associate teaching professor in the Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations Department…
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Here’s the only way Trump can win the two-front trade war with China and the EU
In a commentary piece for CNBC, Jason Reed, an assistant teaching professor in the finance department, looks at the latest in U.S. trade talks with China in light of tariff negotiations with the European Union. Read the full piece here…
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Notre Dame Mendoza Dean Roger Huang to step down
Poets & Quants wrote an article about the decision by Roger D. Huang, the Martin J. Gillen Dean of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, to step down on June 30. He will take a year-long sabbatical before returning to his endowed professorship in finance. K.J. Martijn Cremers…
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Sears explores what assets it might sell
Management professor James S. O'Rourke IV, a teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, was interviewed by NPR senior correspondent Amy Scott for a Marketplace piece on Sears as it considers selling off assets…
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Facebook: We’re better at policing nudity than hate speech
Timothy Carone was interviewed for an Associated Press story on Facebook's self-assessment of its ability to police offensive content and fake accounts.
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