Babson College is hosting “From Day One”, an active marketplace of social innovation designed to connect students to the many ways they can make a difference in the world from the moment they first step foot on campus.
An Oak Ridge engineering services firm with an international footprint has teamed with scientists to form a subsidiary and market an award-winning text analysis system.
Consumers generally prefer having more options when choosing among products but not when making choices involving the distant future, according to a study from Washington University in St. Louis.
Babson College first-year students have earned more than $30,000 for charitable organizations while learning the fundamentals of business.
Berkeley-Haas Professor David Vogel has won the Academy of Management Organization and the Natural Environment Division Book Award for his book, The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States.
After seven years as board chair of Nationwide Children’s Hospital Inc. and Nationwide Children’s Hospital – leading a period of unprecedented growth and success– Abigail Wexner stepped down as chair effective August 24. Wexner completed her second official term in July, 2011, but agreed to remain as chair through the new hospital opening in June, 2012. She will remain a board member of the hospital and board chair of the Center for Family Safety and Healing. Alex Fischer, President and CEO of the Columbus Partnership, assumed the chairmanship during the August 24 board meeting.
A new economic impact study has revealed that the University of North Carolina Wilmington is a significant catalyst for the economic engine of Southeastern North Carolina, generating more than $1 billion in annual economic activity during academic year 2011-12.
Thomas R. Watjen (MBA '81), of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, pledged $1 million to the University of Virginia Darden School of Business to create an endowed fellowship for military students.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
Georgia Tech Professor Seletha Butler has recommendations on how corporate America can be more inclusive.
Advertising used to build a positive image for countries as they compete for foreign direct investment varies significantly depending on a country’s income, according to a recent benchmark study by Daniel Baack, an assistant professor of marketing at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, and Rick T. Wilson, assistant professor of marketing and international business at Hofstra University.
The UAB Health System has designed a mobile website application to assist in treating and proceessing worker's comp cases...from medical care to billing to drug testing.
Professors Cross and Gray win MIT award.
A real estate investor owns a big office-building complex and decides he needs $10 million to invest in energy-efficient improvements. He goes to the bank, where the loan officer says, “Sorry, we don’t do that kind of thing.” When it comes to underwriting commercial real-estate loans, energy efficiency hasn’t been a part of the conversation – but it should be, according to a new study, Energy Efficiency and Commercial-Mortgage Valuation, by Profs. Nancy Wallace,Dwight Jaffee, and Richard Stanton at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE), one of the first federally-funded programs focused on engaging entrepreneurial opportunity for female veterans and launched by Syracuse University in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2010, will hold its fourth offering Aug. 23-25 in San Diego. One hundred and fifty-seven participants are expected to take part in the conference.
Boise State University’s College of Business and Economics (COBE) has received a gift from HP for $500,000 worth of IT products, solutions and services for the new Micron Business and Economics Building.
Minority enrollment for AU in communications, journalism and related programs ranked ninth in nation.
In their new book, Influencing Up, Babson’s Allan Cohen and Stanford’s David Bradford provide a universal model of how to influence someone you don't control. Their book then applies those ideas to problematic bosses and other powerful people.
After pausing for a couple of months, the Leading Index for Indiana moved timidly upward, from 99.4 in July to register 99.6 in August. The LII, developed by the Indiana Business Research Center, is designed to reflect the unique structure of the Indiana economy. It is a predictive tool that signals changes in the direction of the economy several months before the economy has changed.
As the fall semester approaches, the Haas School welcomes three tenured professors from the East Coast’s finest business schools to its world-class faculty. Management and entrepreneurship professor Toby E. Stuart from Harvard Business School, a multi-award winner for his research in entrepreneurship takes the helm as faculty director of the school’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. Professor Ross Levine from Brown University, ranked one of the ten most cited finance experts from 2001-2011 by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), joins the Haas Finance Group. Associate finance professor Gustavo Manso, previously at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arrived at Berkeley-Haas in the spring and already holds a teaching award from his full-time Berkeley MBA students.
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