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May 16, 2018Sears explores what assets it might sell
Management professor James S. O'Rourke IV, a teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, was interviewed by NPR senior correspondent Amy Scott for a Marketplace piece on Sears as it considers selling off assets…
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May 16, 2018Facebook: We’re better at policing nudity than hate speech
Timothy Carone was interviewed for an Associated Press story on Facebook's self-assessment of its ability to police offensive content and fake accounts.
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May 11, 20184 Mendoza professors win undergraduate teaching awards
Twenty University faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and three have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
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May 11, 2018Iran doesn’t have nukes yet, but it has another powerful weapon it can use against the US right now
In a CNBC commentary piece, Mike Chapple weighs in on the possibility of cyber attacks in light of the announcement that the U.S. will withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal. Chapple is an associate teaching professor in the Department of IT, Analytics, and Operations…
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May 8, 2018The Moral Dilemma to Business Research
The current business research model is unsustainable. That's why it's critical that schools realign their incentives to encourage faculty to produce credible research that is useful to society.
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May 7, 2018Award recognizes business research for the common good
The University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business recently announced its annual list of Office of the Dean Mission Awards, which honor one or more faculty members for a specific research study that contributes to the common good. The award is in recognition of Mendoza’s mission "to build a premier Catholic business school that fosters academic excellence, professional effectiveness and personal accountability in a context that strives to be faithful to the ideals of community, human development and individual integrity." A committee made up of the chairs from each of the College’s five academic departments — Accountancy; Finance; IT, Analytics, and Operations; Management & Organization; and Marketing — along with the associate dean for faculty and research, select research papers that advance the mission. Each award provides $1,000 in cash.…
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May 7, 2018Study shows how companies can help safeguard intellectual property when expanding into risky countries
Researchers found that firms operating regionally through downstream commercialization activities can offer complementary assets to the upstream R&D activities that help protect the firms’ intellectual property.
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May 7, 2018Mendoza MBA candidates named to Poets & Quants ‘Best & Brightest’ list
Two University of Notre Dame MBA candidates were named to Poets & Quants' 2018 Best & Brightest MBAs list. Alex Prosperi of Northbrook, Illinois, and Kyle Verash of Marshfield, Massachusetts, both in their second year at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, were among those selected. …
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May 4, 2018Lessons on social entrepreneurship from Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus [Video]
Nobel Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus explains how social business leads to "super-happiness," why it's important to think big and start small, and why we're all entrepreneurs.
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May 3, 20182018 McCloskey New Venture Competition Winners
17 area teams were awarded more than $400,000 in cash and in-kind prizes at the 2018 McCloskey New Venture Competition on Friday, April 27. Enlighten Mobility and SecurSpace split the $50,000 McCloskey Grand Prize, which is awarded to teams founded by Notre Dame students or alumni. Figuro3D and Healthy Points split the new $50,000 Startup South Bend-Elkhart/Elevate Ventures Grand Prize, which is awarded to the top community based teams.…
Nick Swisher