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Following the crowd: New study shows how to improve group consensus

The growing number of crowd-sourcing sites shows the extent to which consumers rely on popular opinion. New research by professor of finance Zhi Da and Xing Huang of Washington University in St. Louis has found a way to improve their accuracy.

Shannon Roddel

The top EMBA programs in the US midwest revealed in annual study

Notre Dame, Ohio State and Northern Illinois selected as top programs in the Midwest, with Mendoza's Executive MBA (South Bend) at number four and the Executive MBA (Chicago) at number five. The Executive MBA programs were evaluated based on five key factors identified by the responded pool of accomplished professionals to determine the best EMBA programs in the U.S. Midwest region.

Newswire

Communities lose when newspapers die or slide into decline

Last May, finance professor Paul Gao and fellow researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago found government waste and corruption, and other community issues grew when local newspapers closed.

New York Times

Mendoza creates undergraduate advising app

Picking a major isn’t easy. Neither is helping a 19-year-old discern what course of study to pursue, as Alison Levey, associate director for advising services at Mendoza College of Business, can attest. But now there’s an app for that, thanks to a collaboration between Levey and the Mendoza IT Operations Group’s Diego Wang, operations project manager, and Mark Kimmet, senior systems engineer.

Melissa Jackson

Guest column: Communities lose when newspapers die or slide into decline

Finance professor Paul Gao's research was referenced in an article about the demise of local newspapers and what that loss means to the communities who no longer have the oversight the newspapers provide.

Mainline Media News

College Factual ranks best accounting schools of 2019

Online collegiate database College Factual has announced its 2019 ranking of the top 50 accounting schools in the U.S. The University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business ranked #3, noted for its graduate programs, size and reputation among its competition.

Accounting Today

Mendoza to offer new minor in digital marketing

Starting in the fall of 2019, the Mendoza College of Business will be offering students from other colleges at Notre Dame the opportunity to minor in digital marketing. Shankar Ganesan, Mendoza's marketing chair, said he believes all students, regardless of their major of choice, could benefit from studying digital marketing because of its interdisciplinary nature.

The Observer

Notre Dame convenes first Women’s Investing Summit March 22

Women historically don’t invest as much as men do, nor are they well represented at executive levels and boards of investment services companies. As part of an effort to reverse these trends, the University of Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing (NDIGI) is hosting its inaugural Women’s Investing Summit March 22.

Carol Elliott

Papa John’s Board kept calm and carried on

Assistant professor of management Timothy Hubbard is quoted in a Directors & Boards article about embattled founder John Schnatter alleged plans to leave Papa John's chain's board. “As we’ve seen time and again, companies that have these ‘crises of CEOs’ are finding it harder to recover,” said Hubbard.

Directors & Boards

Mendoza launches new digital marketing minor for non-business students

“The introduction of new and innovative digital technologies has fundamentally changed customer decision journeys and behaviors,” said Shankar Ganesan, the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., Professor of Business and chair of the Marketing Department. “The digital marketing minor provides the skills necessary to acquire, retain and engage with customers in this dynamic marketplace."

Carol Elliott