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A name change for Mendoza’s undergraduate IT major

The change is intended to better describe what Business Technology students actually study, and to emphasize the strategic importance of so many diverse digital technologies to businesses. It also differentiates the major from the IT, Analytics, and Operations Department's other major, Business Analytics.

Carol Elliott

Mendoza Dean Martijn Cremers delivers the 2019 undergraduate commencement speech

On Sunday, May 19, 2019 Mendoza’s undergraduate class heard from Mendoza Dean Martijn Cremers and fellow speaker Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal and author of five New York Times best-sellers. Watch the diploma ceremony here or read a transcript of Dean Cremers’ speech below. Congratulations […]

Carol Elliott

Mendoza commencement features its own special song

As part of the ceremony, the College will show a video collection of campus memories set to the music of a song written by a fellow student especially for the May 19 occasion.

Carol Elliott

Marketing, business analytics majors recognized for leadership

Business Analytics majors Shannon Hendricks and Juan Jose Rodriguez, and marketing major Bethany Boggess were recognized at the annual Student Leadership Awards Banquet, which honors current students who have made exceptional contributions to the Notre Dame community.

Kate Morgan

2019 McCloskey new venture competition results

17 area teams were awarded more than $350,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at the 2019 McCloskey New Venture Competition on Friday, April 12. Resonado and Vital View Technologies split the $50,000 McCloskey Grand Prize, which is awarded to teams founded by Notre Dame students or alumni.

Nick Swisher

Mendoza student named IDEA Week Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Mendoza student Mitchell Kokko (BBA '19), a six-time entrepreneur and an associate on the Pit Road Fund at the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame, won Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Nick Swisher

Notre Dame Undergrad Team takes second place at the Rice Business Plan Competition

Resonado, which aims to redefine the shape of sound with its patented Flat Core Speaker Technology, won the $300,000 GOOSE Society Investment Prize and the $125,000 Finger Interests, Anderson Family Fund, Greg Novak and Tracy Druce Second-Place Investment Prize. The 19-year-old Rice Business Plan Competition, with 42 teams from around the globe and $2.9 million in cash and prizes, is the largest and richest in the world.

Nick Swisher

New minor emphasizes interdisciplinary aspect of real estate

The Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate recently launched an interdisciplinary minor in real estate, which is open to all undergraduate students. “The minor is 15 credits, with an introductory course, three electives of three credits each in a variety of different areas … and the last three credits of the minor are these industry engaging colloquia,” Eugenio Acosta, program director of the Institute for Real Estate, said.

The Observer

Poets & Quants list of best and brightest business majors Of 2019

Niko Stjepan Martinovic (FIN '19) and Emma Wernecke (ITM '19) were named to Poets & Quants list of the best and brightest undergraduate business majors in the class of 2019.

Poets & Quants

Mendoza launches new digital marketing minor for non-business students

“The introduction of new and innovative digital technologies has fundamentally changed customer decision journeys and behaviors,” said Shankar Ganesan, the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., Professor of Business and chair of the Marketing Department. “The digital marketing minor provides the skills necessary to acquire, retain and engage with customers in this dynamic marketplace."

Carol Elliott