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2019 ‘Fraud Day’ to feature experts in corporate fraudThree experts in corporate fraud will present their unique perspectives and experience as part of “Fraud Day” at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place 10 a.m.-5 p.m. April 26 (Friday) in Jordan Auditorium.
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Four new minors intended to expand access to business educationTo broaden the access to undergraduate business education at the University of Notre Dame, the leadership of the Mendoza College of Business is launching four new minors for the 2019-2020 academic year. Two are intended for non-business majors and two can be taken by any Notre Dame undergraduate, including business majors.
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Notre Dame graduate business students take top prizes in case-writing competitionTwo teams of University of Notre Dame graduate business students took top prizes in the Arthur W. Page Society Case-Writing Competition in Corporate Communications, an event judged by some of the top communication officers and academics. The annual competition is designed to promote the practical applications of corporate communications as a critical management function. Participants submit a case study of an event that had implication for the organization’s public relations, particularly in the area of reputation management.
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Signing Mike Trout: The most expensive contract in sports history is a bargain, expert saysFinance professor Richard Sheehan says Mike Trout's 12-year contract extension, said to be worth a record $426.5 million, is a bargain for the Angels if how long Trout can perform at his current level is taken into account.
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Martijn Cremers appointed dean of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of BusinessCremers, the Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance and interim dean of the college since July, was selected from among a number of eminently qualified candidates who were considered during a six-month national search.
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ND MBA’s innovative Business on the Frontlines course receives two research grantsBusiness on the Frontlines (BOTFL) recently received two grants to support the economic impact research associated with projects in Brazil and Colombia. BOTFL launched in 2008 with a unique and audacious vision: to harness the dynamism of business to rebuild war-torn societies and help bring about economic stability and peace.
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Notre Dame finance professor wins research awardUniversity of Notre Dame assistant finance professor Huaizhi Chen’s research paper took first place in the 17th annual Dr. Richard A. Crowell Prize, which recognizes new and cutting-edge academic research that connects theory and practice in the field of quantitative investing.
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Following the crowd: New study shows how to improve group consensusThe growing number of crowd-sourcing sites shows the extent to which consumers rely on popular opinion. New research by professor of finance Zhi Da and Xing Huang of Washington University in St. Louis has found a way to improve their accuracy.
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Mendoza creates undergraduate advising appPicking a major isn’t easy. Neither is helping a 19-year-old discern what course of study to pursue, as Alison Levey, associate director for advising services at Mendoza College of Business, can attest. But now there’s an app for that, thanks to a collaboration between Levey and the Mendoza IT Operations Group’s Diego Wang, operations project manager, and Mark Kimmet, senior systems engineer.
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Notre Dame convenes first Women’s Investing Summit March 22Women historically don’t invest as much as men do, nor are they well represented at executive levels and boards of investment services companies. As part of an effort to reverse these trends, the University of Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing (NDIGI) is hosting its inaugural Women’s Investing Summit March 22.
Carol Elliott