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August 1, 2020Does the mail seem slow? You’re not imagining itManagement Professor James O'Rourke was quoted by the Morning Call, saying a further loss of business could mean the end for the Postal Service, whose leaders predict it will run out of money by next spring.
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July 31, 2020Slashing $600 unemployment benefits would be ‘absolutely devastating’ for U.S. economyForbes quoted Finance Professor and Economist Jason Reed who said, “If you really wanted to jumpstart the economy, it would take at least $600-per-week in federal unemployment insurance.”
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July 30, 2020COVID-19 crushes U.S. economy in second quarter; rising virus cases loom over recovery"Not only do we need Americans to take serious action preventing the spread of the disease, but we also need Congress to agree on another stimulus package and quickly," Finance Professor and Economist Jason Reed said in a New York Times piece.
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July 30, 2020A goodwill gesture constructed with a 3D printer and a little extra timeKevin Zufelt (EMBA ’21) found an opportunity to help the medical community by putting the 3D printer he purchased a few years earlier into good use, making ear savers.
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July 29, 2020Wall Street gets its finance MBAs from these schoolsWall Street has always gotten most of its MBAs from a handful of elite schools. That didn’t change in 2019 — but the top school for finance MBAs by percentage of graduating class did. The biggest jump in 2019 occurred outside the top 25, at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, which grew its finance class by two-thirds, from 14.1% to 23.5%.
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July 29, 2020The United States will lend Kodak $765 million to make drug components
The pandemic has revealed the extent to which domestic companies rely on foreign suppliers, which may be risky in industries like pharmaceuticals, said IT, Analytics and Operations Kaitlin Wowak in a New York Times article.
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July 28, 2020Finding a seat: 2 business profs and a grad student built an app to help sports venues with physical distancingScott Nestler and Seth Berry, both professors of IT, Analytics and Operations, and MSBA/MBA candidate Joe Jenkins developed a cloud-based tool to help venue managers plan out the optimum seating configuration that aligns with their physical distancing and reduced capacity mandates.
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July 28, 2020Indianapolis Indians to consider name changeFinance professor Richard Sheehan was interviewed by Inside Indiana about the proposed team name change, stating that that Washington's decision could leader to greater profits for the team and the league in the long term.
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July 24, 2020The Twitter hack should worry us allIT, Analytics and Operations professor and cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple wrote an op-ed for CNN about hackers who used famous Twitter accounts to solicit Bitcoins.
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July 22, 2020Hedge fund activists might just be good stock pickersFinance professor and Dean Martijn Cremers' new research suggests activists are skilled at finding deals — but don’t necessarily add value to companies.
Institutional Investor