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May 18, 20152015 Best MBAs: Elizabeth Owens
Poets & Quants website names Mendoza MBA graduate Elizabeth Owens, former defense intelligence officer, to its list of top MBA students in the world.
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May 15, 2015Launch of a New Institute
The Mendoza College of Business new institute, the Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing, will greatly advance investment-management research and educational outreach on a worldwide scale.
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May 7, 2015Advisers Using ‘Active Share’ Hear From Critics
Concept first popularized in 2009 to identify active managers who were really ‘closet indexers.' Wall Street Journal quotes finance Professor Martijn Cremers.
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May 6, 2015WORKING POOR: Forty percent of people struggling to make ends meet
Surviving at the federal poverty level is impossible, Mendoza marketing Professor Georges Enderle tells WSBT-TV.
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May 5, 2015McDonald’s CEO turnaround plan’s missing link: customers
Reuters quotes finance Professional Specialist Jerry Langley, who is confident new McDonald's CEO can turn the ship.
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May 5, 2015Brewers name hometown hero Craig Counsell as new manager
A 1992 Mendoza accountancy graduate, Counsell was born in South Bend and played baseball for the Irish.
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May 4, 2015In five trades: Start with chopsticks, end up in Martha’s Vineyard?
The students in Rev. Eric Zimmer’s Executive MBA Negotiation class were given a simple assignment: Start with a pair of cheap ornamental chopsticks, and see what you can get for them in five trades. Zimmer, S.J., an associate adjunct professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, organized the students into teams and made the exercise a competition. So how did they do? Here’s a short list of what they traded up for:…
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May 4, 2015Shoe shines
Men’s footwear sleek enough for Wall Street? Comfortable enough for city walking? High-performance enough for skateboarding? Yes, says McCloskey Business Plan Competition winner.
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May 4, 2015Mendoza Expert Jerry Langley: McDonald’s focusing on the right things
Finance expert and former McDonald's VP Jerry Langley says McDonald's focus on refranchising to improve customer service and menu quality should help turn around its two-year sales slump.
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May 4, 2015Pretty in Pink: Princess Is Good for Nation of Shopkeepers
When it comes to the new royal daughter, pink means green, says Mendoza marketing expert Tonya Bradford.
The Associated Press