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Rampant misclassifications make bond mutual funds appear far less risky, significantly impacting investors, study shows

Some mutual fund managers appear to be overestimating the safety of their holdings, resulting in misclassifications by Morningstar that have a significant impact on investors, according to new research from finance professor Huaizhi Chen and his co-researchers.

Shannon Roddel

MBA student, Navy veteran shares passion for painting

The Observer profiled Jacob Mazurek, a second year Mendoza MBA student, who stands out among his peers not only as a Navy veteran of 23 years, but also as a devoted and accomplished painter.

The Observer

Notre Dame Stories: Of Analytics and Art

Notre Dame Stories interviewed grad student Peter Zanca for their podcast. Zanca, who is pursuing a dual MBA/Master of Science in Business Analytics degree, is helping the NBA understand a new rule change with analytics and recently won the NBA Hackathon competition.

Andy Fuller

NYT bestselling author Daniel Coyle to talk at Notre Dame about ‘The Culture Code’

Daniel Coyle, New York Times bestselling author of “The Talent Code” and contributing editor for Outside Magazine, will discuss his newest book, “The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups,” as part of the Thomas H. Quinn Lecture Series.

Carol Elliott

Bloomberg Business Weeks’ best B-schools of 2019-2020

Bloomberg Businessweek has released its MBA rankings and Mendoza is ranked No. 28, up from No. 31 in last year's ranking.

Bloomberg

‘Bad Blood’ author unpacks Theranos story for ethics lecture series

John Carreyrou, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of Bad Blood, spoke October 29 in DeBartolo Hall as part of the 2019 Berges Lecture Series in Business Ethics hosted by the Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership. Bad Blood tells the inside story of the rise and collapse of Theranos, a multibillion-dollar biotech startup.

Margaret Fosmoe

In memoriam: John ‘Jack’ Keane, Mendoza dean emeritus

John “Jack” Gorman Keane, Martin J. Gillen Dean Emeritus and Korth Professor of Strategic Management Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, died Thursday (Oct. 24). He was 89.

Carol Elliott

WSJ reporter and ‘Bad Blood’ author John Carreyrou to talk at Notre Dame

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou will speak about the fraud case involving blood-testing startup Theranos as part of the John A. Berges Lecture Series in Business Ethics, organized by the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership.

Carol Elliott

Notre Dame students intern with St. Joseph County Cyber Crimes Unit

BTech senior Lexie Van den Heuvel is quoted about her work in the Cyber Crimes Unit for a South Bend Tribune piece. Student interns in the program are official investigators with the St. Joseph County Cyber Crimes Unit, allowing them to be involved in police investigations, write search warrant affidavits and appear in front of a judge to obtain search warrants.

South Bend Tribune

How NBA coaches are approaching their new challenge capabilities

Dual MBA/Master of Science in Business Analytics student Peter Zanca's NBA Hackathon win was cited in an article for Forbes about the use of data analytics to help coaches find the best way to navigate new challenge rules.

Forbes