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Growth experience: 2020, a year in review 

The coronavirus pandemic has triggered massive upheaval in every sector and reshaped the business landscape for the foreseeable future. But one thing hasn’t changed: our community’s commitment to Grow the Good in Business. Looking back at the stories we’ve shared this year, we see this imperative at work again and again in the lives of […]

Mendoza College of Business

Call forward: An MBA gift sends a message

The Notre Dame MBA Class of 2020, whose degrees were conferred virtually in May, gifted Mendoza College of Business with three phone booths.

Carol Elliott

Healthy food from a vending machine? Notre Dame MBAs work with Canteen to reimagine the future of ‘unattended retail’

A project that paired a Notre Dame MBA team with Canteen, the nation’s largest unattended retail company, explores how to provide healthier food options through its extensive vending operations.

Carol Elliott

‘I will never forget the cries of those people’

ND MBA alum Rodion Begliak (MBA ’19) shares his first-hand account of being caught up in the unfolding political maelstrom in Belarus.

Carol Elliott

Gather ’round — at a safe social distance

Mendoza College of Business added two fire pits and new Adirondack chairs to create a warm, campfire-like setting in the courtyard for the students.

Carol Elliott

The next level: A Q&A with Dean Martijn Cremers about his strategic vision for the Mendoza College of Business

In a recent livestream interview with Lou Nanni, vice president for University Relations, Dean Martijn Cremers talks about meeting the challenges of the pandemic, some of the changes he’s been able to make and his vision for taking Mendoza to the next level.

Carol Elliott

‘All Else Equal’ podcast connects students with business, economics professors

Economist and Finance Professor Jason Reed and Forrest Spence, a colleague in the economics department, teamed up to create a weekly podcast “All Else Equal," with the goal to engage students in the era of COVID-19.

Melissa Jackson

Expert says Congressional report condemning Boeing, FAA raises questions of culture, mission

According to James Otteson, the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, "Boeing has paid a significant price for what appears to be too much risk taking and the tragic consequences to which it led.”

Shannon Roddel

Pandemic shapes how B-school students study ‘acts of God’

Each semester, Accountancy Professor Tonia Murphy routinely presents a hypothetical case study to her business law students to demonstrate the process of legal reasoning. It poses a fairly straightforward question: Should a student whose roommate has the flu be granted an extension on taking an exam?

Carol Elliott

Without action by Congress, US Postal Service has about one year to survive, expert says

Without action by Congress to fund a service that is essential to every American, however, the Postal Service has at best a year to survive, according to James O’Rourke, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

Shannon Roddel