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Starving The Watchdog: Who foots the bill when newspapers disappear?
NPR's Hidden Brain Podcast discusses the free availability of internet news sources that drive paid subscribers away from traditional newspapers. Finance professor Paul Gao…
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ND Impact Partners: Five Years In and Growing
It started in 2014 with a modest question: How could Mendoza alumni continue to use their business skills and acumen to benefit local nonprofits? Five years later, there’s a strong answer in the form of the Notre Dame Impact Partners initiative. The program pairs Mendoza alumni with a nonprofit in their own community for four months of work on a strategic project. Annual closing dinners were recently held for the Mendoza volunteers to present their recommendations to the organizations they collaborated with and to celebrate the teamwork. Most teams are comprised of 6 alumni, who collaborate and also spend time working on individual portions of the project that leverage their specific skill-sets and expertise.…
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How to stop insider threats
IT, Analytics and Operations professor Mike Chapple was quoted in a Business News Daily article about network security and the insider threat employees can pose either by accident or intent.…
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Business analytics major receives prestigious Gilman scholarship to study abroad
Avian Rabenberg-Robinson, a junior business analytics major at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, is one of more than 800 American undergraduate students across the U.S. selected from nearly 3,400 applicants to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship…
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Keep an eye on the road ahead when estimating cost of equity capitalEstimating investment returns is tricky — especially, to paraphrase an old Danish saying, when dealing with the future. Still, it comes with the territory when you're a financial manager tasked with evaluating the capital investment opportunities that will drive your firm’s strategies and determining which ones will maximize returns. One of the standard tools of the trade is cost of equity capital estimation (COEC). While this estimate strongly influences corporate capital budgeting decisions, exactly how it’s calculated and what assumptions drive the estimate can vary. …
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USMCA has important predecessor: NAFTA, professor saysNotre Dame trade expert Jeff Bergstrand testified before the international trade commission that many of the expected effects of the proposed US-Mexico-Canada Agreement can be estimated using what we’ve already learned about the effects of free trade agreements. As the Nov. 30 deadline approaches for signing the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), University of Notre Dame finance professor Jeffrey Bergstrand…
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Pay, Power and Politics: Where did Carlos Ghosn go wrong?
Management & Organization professor Tim Hubbard discussed Carlos Ghosn's downfall on Knowledge@Wharton. Many people view Ghosn “as one of the saviors of the auto industry” and the accusations against him are upsetting, according to Tim Hubbard…
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Walmart wants campaign donation back from Sen. Hyde-Smith
Management & Organization professor Joseph Holt was interviewed by the Washington Post for a story on the decision by several corporations to ask for the return of campaign donations from a Mississippi politician in light of her comment that she would stand in the front row of a public hanging.
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Nissan to sack chairman Carlos Ghosn over ‘serious misconduct’ – as it happened
The Guardian quoted professor of management & organization Tim Hubbard in an article about Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn's arrest for under-reporting his salary for years.…
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Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi: Discipline and organization will lead you anywhere
Management & Organization professor Tim Hubbard was interviewed live on CNN about the chairman of Nissan's arrest. I think the board of directors, they really have a lot more independence, a lot more power to be able to, you know, push the CEO in a way that they need to be able to be pushed. And for example CEO dismissal I think is the ultimate way in order for a board of directors to start to impact those firms that they're overseeing. And as time goes on, I'm hopeful that we'll see more dismissals because I don't think that there are very many other punishments that have quite the same esteem for a chief executive officer as being fired from their company. …
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