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The IPO market heats up: What investors need to know

Finance professor Timothy Loughran and Wharton’s David Wessels discuss in a podcast what investors in tech IPOs need to know.

Knowledge@Wharton

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

Google It: Bringing Big Data To The Classroom

With sleek glasses, dark shoulder-length hair and a charming demeanor, Kevin Hartman looks and acts the part of an innovative practitioner in the world of business analytics and big data. While his job centers around numbers and data, he sees his work as an art form just as much as it is a science. This perspective has also helped him become a relatable and impactful Notre Dame professor.

Andrew Mentock

Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw is right: We have a long way to go to gender equality.

Management and organization associate teaching professor Joseph Holt wrote an article published in the Chicago Tribune about women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw's recent speech about gender inequality in sports and society in general. McGraw will no longer hire male assistant coaches. “All these millions of girls that play sports across the country, we're teaching them great things about life skills, but wouldn't it be great if we could teach them to watch how women lead?" said McGraw.

Chicago Tribune

New minor in real estate emphasizes interdisciplinary aspect of real estate

The minor is 15 credits, with an introductory course, three electives of three credits each in a variety of different areas, and is open to all undergraduate students.

Mary Clare Donnelly

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

Science, comedy and country music: Notre Dame’s IDEA Week kicks off Monday

The seven-day IDEA Week festival was founded by the University of Notre Dame as a way to celebrate entrepreneurship and innovation in the South Bend-Elkhart region. This year's 60 different sessions will include more than 110 different speakers and panelists.

South Bend Tribune

ND student startup to compete in elite Rice Business Plan

An Innovation Park-startup founded by four University of Notre Dame undergraduate students was selected to compete in the 19th annual Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), considered the world’s richest and largest student startup competitions. The event, set for April 4-6, features 42 teams from some of the world’s top universities vying for more than $1.5 million in prizes.

Carol Elliott

The IDEA Center and IDEA Week: What’s the big idea?

IDEA Week raises awareness of the IDEA Center and what kind of work they do, and it exhibits the University's goal that Notre Dame will continue to grow as a tier-one research university, becoming known for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Gwen O'Brien

Four new minors intended to expand access to business education

To broaden the access to undergraduate business education at the University of Notre Dame, the leadership of the Mendoza College of Business is launching four new minors for the 2019-2020 academic year. Two are intended for non-business majors and two can be taken by any Notre Dame undergraduate, including business majors.

Carol Elliott