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    Finding a seat: 2 business profs and a grad student built an app to help sports venues with physical distancing

    Scott Nestler and Seth Berry, both professors of IT, Analytics and Operations, and MSBA/MBA candidate Joe Jenkins developed a cloud-based tool to help venue managers plan out the optimum seating configuration that aligns with their physical distancing and reduced capacity mandates.

    Melissa Jackson

  • Growing the Good, One Micro-Loan at a Time

    University of Notre Dame undergraduate students grow the good in business through the Jubilee Initiative for Financial Inclusion, a micro-lending nonprofit founded by Mendoza College of Business alumnus Peter Woo (B.B.A '14).

    Amanda N. Jacobson

  • Hand-held Indiana Whiskey hand sanitizer bottles
    Good spirits: ND MBA grad shifts distillery production to hand sanitizer

    Barely a week after federal regulators gave distilleries the green light to begin production in the wake of the shortage caused by coronavirus, the first bottles of Indiana Whiskey hand sanitizer rolled out for distribution to essential workers in the region.

    Melissa Jackson

  • Pandemic prayer

    Every day of the week, in the small chapel on the second floor of Mendoza College of Business, MBA candidate Father Arthur Joseph Ssembajja prays alone.

    Carol Elliott

  • professor in Hawaiian t-shirt
    Aloha, e-learning: Notre Dame professor tackles online teaching with style

    Associate teaching professor of management Chad Harms is no stranger to the challenges and opportunities presented by online learning. So when the coronavirus pandemic shifted courses online in March Harms donned a floral patterned button-up shirt and got to work.

    Melissa Jackson

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    How to prioritize ethical leadership amid the pandemic

    Three insights that approach crises as opportunities for ethical leadership, not opportunism. As COVID-19 crept toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, Matt Colvin and his brother Noah saw a business opportunity. They drove […]

    Brett Beasley and Christopher Adkins

  • A Leap of Faith



    Ryan Millbern

  • The Key to a Successful MSBA Career: Know Thyself

    Lindsey McIntyre MNA ‘16, Associate Director of Graduate Business Career Services, is helping MSBA students discover who they are, what they want, and how to create targeted pathways to success.

    Ryan Millbern

  • Hoop dreams do come true

    Through his internship with the Indiana Pacers, Peter Zanca MBA/MSBA ’20, took the first step toward realizing his dream of working in analytics with an NBA franchise.

  • computer screen of the facebook login site
    Facebook’s Libra might be the best bet for cryptocurrency

    Finance Professor Bill McDonald analyzed Facebook's whitepaper on Libra, a new, simple global currency and financial infrastructure that is intended to empower billions of people. McDonald, the Thomas A. and James J. Bruder Chair in Administrative Leadership at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, previously worked as a vice president at the Schwab Center for Investment Research in San Francisco during the Internet boom/bust, and he has consulted for major investment banks, brokerages and stock exchanges, and served as an expert witness.

    Carol Elliott