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Notre Dame Stories: Of Analytics and Art

Notre Dame Stories interviewed grad student Peter Zanca for their podcast. Zanca, who is pursuing a dual MBA/Master of Science in Business Analytics degree, is helping the NBA understand a new rule change with analytics and recently won the NBA Hackathon competition.

Andy Fuller

How to budget with a spouse: An expert advises six couples—and you

Forbes cited Emily Garbinsky's research on the spending habits of couples with a joint account in an article about how to budget with a spouse.

Forbes

Emerson may be latest to adopt shorter board terms as accountability measure

An article for the St. Louis Times-Dispatch referenced a study by Dean and finance professor Martijn J. Cremers and his co-researchers which found that staggered boards created value for firms “engaged in innovation and where stakeholder relationships matter more." Eighty-seven percent of large companies had gone to one-year board terms by 2017, and Emerson has joined the trend.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Expert says ‘Twitter spies’ committed espionage but broke no federal privacy laws, because there are none

Two Twitter employees used their access at the social media giant to gather sensitive and nonpublic information on dissidents of the Saudi regime. According to IT, Analytics & Operations professor and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple, the global nature of social media makes user data an attractive target for foreign intelligence agencies.

Shannon Roddel

2 Ex-Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia

NPR interviewed ITAO's Mike Chapple, who says Twitter should have known that its employees were working for a foreign power.

NPR

US: Saudis Recruited Twitter Workers to Spy on Critics

The New York Times published comments by ITAO professor and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple in an article about the recent data breach at social media giant Twitter by employees.

New York Times

Saudis recruited Twitter employees to spy on critics, prosecutors say

Professor of IT, analytics and operations and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple commented on the unmasking of users by two Twitter employees on behalf of a foreign government in a USA Today article. According to Chapple Twitter failed to follow the basic IT security principle of granting employees the minimum level of access to perform their duties.

USA Today

US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on critics

IT, Analytics and Organization professor and Academic Director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple commented in an MSN Money article about Twitter's response to the data breach by two Twitter employees. According to Chapple user data should be accessible by the smallest number of employees possible.

MSN Money

US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on critics

AP News covered the recent discovery that Twitter employees exposed user data to a foreign government, which was completely avoidable according to comments by ITAO professor and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple.

AP News

Bond mutual funds may hold riskier holdings than reported, NBER study finds

Findings by a U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research team led by finance professor Huaizhi Chen reveals approximately 30% of fixed-income mutual funds contain ‘misclassified’ holdings. In a piece for Market Watch, Chen explains how and why the misreporting happened.

Market Watch