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March 30, 2020Female directors are quicker to recall dangerous medical products, study showsSevere product problems that injure or kill consumers are recalled much faster when there are women on the board according to “The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions,” forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management from lead author Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of information technology, analytics and operations in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
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March 29, 2020U.S. MBA Programs with the most international studentsMendoza College of Business is one of the few MBA programs to experience an increase in international admissions, according to Poets & Quants.
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March 29, 2020Stimulus billions can’t buy hospitals out of shortage crisisComments about the supply chain disruption due to COVID-19 by Kaitlin Wowak, assistant professor of IT, Analytics and Operations, appeared in hundreds of Associate Press outlets including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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March 27, 2020Coronavirus relief dollars will help produce medical supplies, direct patient impact will take time
A $2 trillion coronavirus relief package is on its way, but health care workers won’t feel its impact for weeks, according to Kaitlin Wowak, an assistant professor of IT, analytics, and operations at Mendoza College of Business.
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March 27, 2020Stocks retreat following 3-day surge even as House passes $2.2 trillion stimulus packageIn a USA Today piece finance professor Jason Reed noted that fiscal stimulus will help millions of Americans in the short term but the state of jobless claims and unemployed workers will certainly get worse before it gets better.
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March 26, 2020Unemployment will get much worse before it gets better, expert saysThe U.S. Department of Labor reported March 26 that jobless claims from Americans displaced by the coronavirus pandemic soared to 3.28 million and the trend will continue as Americans shelter in place, according to finance professor Jason Reed.
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March 26, 2020Money trouble: The pressure behind getting sports back on TV
Finance professor Richard Sheehan comments about the pressure to get sports back on TV in an article for The Athletic.
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March 26, 2020How the NBA is planning to save its season after the coronavirus forced a suspensionFinance professor Richard Sheehan commented in a CNBC article about how a canceled season will have consequences on the NBA's revenues and players' salaries, which are tied to games played.
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March 25, 2020Defense Production Act could help amid coronavirus, even as President Trump resists: expertsWhether the DPA is employed now may not necessarily have an immediate impact anyway, since it takes time to repurpose factories and shift companies to producing medical gear, according to Kaitlin Wowak, an assistant professor at the Mendoza College of Business, who specializes in supply chains."If we responded a little bit faster about trying to increase production or pivot supply chains, then we could have avoided a lag," Wowak told ABC News.
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March 25, 2020ND sports economist: ‘Right choice’ to postpone olympicsInside INdiana Business quoted finance professor Richard Sheehan, who argues postponing the Olympics was the right move to make.
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