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TBS should tell Samantha Bee to buzz off and fire her

Business ethics professor Joseph Holt, who teaches in the Department  wrote an opinion piece for Fox News about talk show host Samantha Bee's vulgar reference to Ivanka Trump. Read the full commentary here. The Time Warner 2016 corporate social responsibility report includes the aspiration that the company’s original content “helps to deepen the conversation on issues that matter in society.” Bee had the opportunity to do that with respect to the pressing immigration issue. Criticizing President Trump or Ivanka Trump is fine, if Bee believes such criticism is needed, but why do it with a sexist slur? …

Joseph Holt

Rex Tillerson’s failures should send corporate leaders soul searching

In a commentary piece for Fast Company, Notre Dame business ethics professor Joseph Holt, who teaches in the Department of Management and Organization in the Mendoza College of Business, examines the corporate leadership model in light of Rex Tillerson's tenure as U.S. Secretary of State. …

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Goodbye, Newspapers. Hello, Bad Government.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith wrote a piece about finance professor Paul Gao's paper detailing what happens to government borrowing costs when a city's newspaper closes.

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Here’s another reason to keep local journalism alive — it helps keep local government spending down

A Los Angeles Times editorial writer wrote about a working paper "Financing dies in darkness? The impact of newspaper closures on public finance" coauthored by finance professor Paul Gao, the Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Finance at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. 

Los Angeles Times

The hidden costs of losing your city’s newspaper

A segment of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” inspired Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business finance professor Paul Gao to research what happens to cities when their local newspapers shut down. His research was featured in a recent CityLab article. Read the full story here…

CityLab

2018 finance grad wins OZY Genius Award

University of Notre Dame 2018 graduate Nikhil Garg, a finance and applied and computational mathematics and statistics a double major, is among 10 college students who received a 2018 OZY Genius Award. He is co-founder of Centralix, an exchange aggregator that allows retail traders in the digital asset space to buy and sell cryptocurrencies from one central platform at best execution prices, without having an account on each individual exchange.…

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Extreme price competition in pharmaceutical industry may put patients at serious health risk, study shows

New research from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University and the University of Minnesota shows such competition-inducing regulations may encourage companies to relax quality standards during the manufacturing process, which may put more patients at serious health risk due to lower-quality products and more product recalls

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Sports analytics podcast features Scott Nestler

Scott Nestler was a guest on a sports analytics podcast hosted by the Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference. Nestler, an associate teaching professor in the Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations Department…

Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference

Here’s the only way Trump can win the two-front trade war with China and the EU

In a commentary piece for CNBC, Jason Reed, an assistant teaching professor in the finance department, looks at the latest in U.S. trade talks with China in light of tariff negotiations with the European Union. Read the full piece here…

Jason Reed

Notre Dame Mendoza Dean Roger Huang to step down

Poets & Quants wrote an article about the decision by Roger D. Huang, the Martin J. Gillen Dean of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, to step down on June 30. He will take a year-long sabbatical before returning to his endowed professorship in finance. K.J. Martijn Cremers…

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