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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

Notre Dame graduate business students take top prizes in case-writing competition

Two teams of University of Notre Dame graduate business students took top prizes in the Arthur W. Page Society Case-Writing Competition in Corporate Communications, an event judged by some of the top communication officers and academics. The annual competition is designed to promote the practical applications of corporate communications as a critical management function. Participants submit a case study of an event that had implication for the organization’s public relations, particularly in the area of reputation management.

Carol Elliott

Can Shaq save the Papa John’s brand?

Management and Organization professor Joe Holt was quoted in a Knowledge@Wharton article about whether Shaq can save Papa John's.

Knowledge@Wharton

Trump’s Fed nominee faces broad backlash

Assistant teaching professor of finance Jason Reed was quoted in a Financial Times story about Federal Reserve board nominee Stephen Moore. Economists say the choice of Stephen Moore is an attack on the independence of the central bank.

Financial Times

CEOs Get Big Pay Raises For Being In The Right Place At The Right Time

A study by assistant professor of management and organization Tim Hubbard, along with researchers from University of Georgia and Lehigh University, found that a significant percentage of companies whose CEOs are about to get a block of stock options somehow release optional press releases with a negative tone. That pushes down the price just long enough for the CEO to get a cheaper option price and make more money.

Forbes

AI and the future of humans: Experts express concerns and suggest solutions

Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence will make most people better off over the next decade, but many have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be productive and to exercise free will. Management & Organization professor James O'Rourke is quoted in the article, saying, “Technology has, throughout recorded history, been a largely neutral concept. The question of its value has always been dependent on its application. For what purpose will AI and other technological advances be used? Assuming we can contain or control AI (and not the other way around), the answer to whether we’ll be better off depends entirely on us (or our progeny)."

Impact Lab

Poets & Quants list of best and brightest business majors Of 2019

Niko Stjepan Martinovic (FIN '19) and Emma Wernecke (ITM '19) were named to Poets & Quants list of the best and brightest undergraduate business majors in the class of 2019.

Poets & Quants