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Robinhood: a cool app and no commission. What can go wrong?

Finance professor Robert Battalio was quoted in an opinion piece published in Financial Times about Robinhood Securities, a venture-funded, mobile-only platform for trading shares and cryptocurrencies.

Financial Times

Psychopaths may not be as useful in leadership as you think — and women are often punished for dark traits while men are rewarded

Business Insider featured Management & Organization professor Charlice Hurst's research in a roundup of studies about psychopaths in the workplace. Lead author Charlice Hurst, an assistant professor of management in Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, said that this is harmful in the long run because it could enable people who are likely to "perpetuate abusive cultures."…

Business Insider

Notre Dame Stories: Confidence, building

In this episode: Confidence, building. New research from Mendoza College of Business on confidence says nonverbal cues can help people avoid the social penalties of overconfidence. And, a collaboration between Notre Dame’s School of Architecture and the City of South Bend shows how buildings from the past can help plan for the future.…

Andy Fuller

Notre Dame’s new one-year graduate business degree focuses on nonprofit leadership

The U.S. nonprofit workforce ranks third in size among the 18 major U.S. industries, behind only retail trade and manufacturing. The sector includes a dynamic array of industries, from health care and education, to social services and the arts. And many economic experts foresee strong job growth in the future, as nonprofit sector sees increasing demand for vital services.…

Carol Elliott

Let’s Learn from Google’s Irresponsibility

Mike Chapple, academic director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program and associate teaching professor in the Department of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations, weighed in on the current state of federal data breach notification laws in "Let’s Learn from Google’s Irresponsibility…

Mike Chapple

To stem opioid crisis, investment coalition pressures supply chain

Management professor Rev. Oliver Williams, C.S.C., was interviewed for a National Catholic Reporter story about Investors for Opioid Accountability, a secular-sacred coalition that calls for corporate governance reform at pharmaceutical companies in order to address the opioid epidemic.

National Catholic Reporter

Google Plus to close after bug leaks personal information

The Associated Press quoted Mike Chapple, academic director of Notre Dame's Master of Science in Business Analytics-Chicago program and associate teaching professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations…

The Associated Press

GE’s leadership problem goes beyond its CEO

Management professor Tim Hubbard recently participated in a Knowledge@Wharton podcast about General Electric's decision to replace CEO John Flannery.

Knowledge@Wharton

‘Conventional Wisdom’ on Active All Wrong: Academics

Martijn Cremer's presentation on a new paper he co-authored, "Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Active Management: A Review of the Past 20 Years of Academic Literature on Actively Managed Mutual Funds," was covered by Ignites, a Financial Times service. Cremers is interim dean and the Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. Read the story here.…

Ignites

Notre Dame opens design thinking-focused SAP Next-Gen Chapter

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the opening of an SAP Next-Gen Chapter at the University of Notre Dame IDEA Center to help spread the principles of design thinking throughout Notre Dame and other academic institutions. This chapter is one of 100-plus SAP…

Nick Swisher