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Notre Dame grad tackles urban commuting with the pigeon app at Google

'09 ITM grad Laura Rokita and a co-worker pitched the idea of an app to improve users’ experience with mass transit. Google liked the idea. Now the app is now available in six cities.

IDEA Center

Sustainability in business is more an opportunity than a threat

Management professor Joseph Holt wrote a piece for Forbes about Blackrock CEO's letter to fellow CEOs, stating that sustainability will be at the center of his firm's investment approach going forward. According to Holt sustainable investing is center stage in early 2020.

Forbes

The rise and fall of American Apparel

Management professor James S. O'Rourke provided commentary for the CNBC report “The Rise And Fall Of American Apparel.” His remarks begin at the 7:01 mark.

CNBC

On the Money

Researchers build the first analytical model to study selling virtual video game currency. Business analytics professor Hong Guo, grew up playing video games in China and has studied emerging IT trends ranging from net neutrality to mobile platforms since earning her doctoral degree. Her latest research is the first to build an analytical model to understand the trend sweeping the video game world of selling virtual currency.

Brendan O'Shaughnessy (ND '93)

Privacy and data security: What will the next decade hold?

Ten Years Hence, an annual speaker series hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, will focus on an increasingly complicated and problematic part of daily life: data security.

Carol Elliott

Contract Killers

Detailed contracts can provide incentives for opportunistic behavior. In a rapidly changing business landscape, are incomplete contracts the answer? Accountancy professor F. Asís Martínez-Jerez believes there is a counterintuitive solution.

Michael Hardy

New era of offshore gushers portends flood of oil amid glut

In a piece by Gulf Times, finance professor Gianna Bern offers insight into what the new oil discoveries will do in a market already glutted.

Gulf Times

P&Q’s Favorite MBA Professors of 2019

Ann Tenbrunsel, the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics, was on Poets & Quants' list of Favorite MBA Professors of 2019. Tenbrunsel’s focus areas are in ethics, ethical decision making, gender, and sexual harassment.

Poets & Quants

How to work with difficult people without losing your cool (or your job)

Management professor Brittany Solomon explains how boosting your emotional intelligence and trying to understand others' perspectives can help manage working relationships in a DZone article.

DZone

Having coffee with Martijn Cremers

Dean Cremers was recently featured in Notre Dame Magazine's "Having Coffee with Martijn Cremers." The profile presents Martijn's “'integrated vision of business' that is grounded in Catholic social teaching and firmly in touch with the humanities and the new big-data frontier."

ND Magazine