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Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal advice for students: “You can be an entrepreneur and an executive”

Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal was interviewed by Tom Mendoza (ND ’73), former president and vice chairman of the pioneering data management company NetApp, for Notre Dame’s new webinar series, Tom Mendoza Presents.

Michael Hardy

Notre Dame launches a new residential master’s in finance program

The University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business is launching a residential, one-year Master’s program in June 2021 aimed at preparing students to meet the growing demand for professionals in the field of finance.

Carol Elliott

Call forward: An MBA gift sends a message

The Notre Dame MBA Class of 2020, whose degrees were conferred virtually in May, gifted Mendoza College of Business with three phone booths.

Carol Elliott

Bergstrand delivers keynote, testifies before USITC to evaluate impact of US trade agreements

Finance professor Jeffrey Bergstrand delivered the Nov. 10 keynote address for the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) virtual conference "Recent Advances in Trade-Policy Modeling and Applications in Emerging Areas."

Shannon Roddel

Violence, imprisonment, escape: An MBA’s summer of hell

In August, Rodion Begliak (MBA '19) returned to his home country of Belarus to vote in the presidential election. But his quick trip home became a nightmare when he was swept up in an anti-democratic crackdown.

Poets & Quants

As Treasury chief, Yellen may be a calming influence in a Washington split over stimulus and everything else

“She’s a moderate and a centrist,” finance professor and former Fed economist Jeffrey Bergstrand said in a USA Today article.

USA Today

ND Business Briefings: November 2020 alumni news and updates

News and updates about Mendoza alums.

Mendoza College of Business

Meet the company helping scientists study Covid-19 with your location data

Tech Ethics professor Kirsten Martin was quoted in a Quartz story about the use of consumer location data to help scientists track COVID-19.

Quartz

Opinion: Active managers see value in these 3 company practices but indexers hate them. Who’s right?

Market Watch referenced research into staggered boards by Dean Martijn Cremers in an article about the value in combining CEO and chairman roles.

Market Watch

‘We’re not there yet,’ expert says as MLB hires first female GM

Although more women are serving in sports management positions now, the competition is still unequal, according to Richard Sheehan, professor emeritus of finance at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and author of “Keeping Score: The Economics of Big-Time Sports.”

Shannon Roddel