Patrick Rishe, director of the Sports Business Program at Olin, backs Los Angeles as the best site for the 2024 Olympics in his Forbes.com blog. He writes, “Because they already have numerous facilities in place, this makes it more likely that Los Angeles can be cost-effective in operating the Olympics. Something the I.O.C. wants to see.”
Read entire article, “Facilities, Public Support, Cost-Effectiveness Make Los Angeles Ideal Choice For 2024 Olympics”published: 8/13/15.
Finance professor Todd Milbourn was a guest on CNBC’s live midday program, “Power Lunch,” Aug. 13, to discuss new courses and trends at Olin this fall. Milbourn who also serves as associate dean of faculty, discussed the prevalence of entrepreneurship courses at every level of Olin degree programs, growing interest in big data, and experiential learning opportunities. Representatives from MIT, USC, Stanford, and the University of Chicago business schools have also been featured on the program this week.
Columnist David Nicklaus writes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Aug. 7 about the new rule requiring companies to publish the ratio of their chief executive’s pay to the wages earned by a median worker. The Securities and Exchange Commission gives companies until 2018 to comply.
Radhakrishnan Gopalan, associate professor of finance at Olin tells Nicklaus, “I find it very difficult to benchmark this number against anything. I don’t think there was a clamor from institutional shareholders and other investors for this.” The rule was outlined in the Dodd-Frank reform act of 2010.
When we last talked to David Dressner, BSBA’10 (see profile in Olin Business magazine 2012, p.27), his startup Sleeve A Message was printing custom made hot coffee cup holders – known as sleeves in the java biz. Being a Renaissance man and serial entrepreneur at heart, we were not surprised to read that David is launching another food-related venture. Alive magazine reports on David’s plans to convert a former community center in the Tower Grove neighborhood into a potsticker factory.
Brandeis International Business School co-hosted the Fourth Annual Municipal Finance Conference with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on August 7, 2015. The conference was held at the Boston Fed. The conference was conceptualized and founded by Daniel Bergstresser and Olin’s Richard Ryffel, senior lecturer in finance and director of the MBA Finance Platform.
The conference is sponsored each year by the Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance at Brandeis International Business School (IBS). The first conference was held in 2012 at Brandeis IBS, and has since grown to accommodate over 250 academics, practitioners, regulators and issuers each year.
The James A. Lebenthal Memorial “Excellence in Municipal Finance Research” prize, a $2,500 award for best paper submitted for this conference, was sponsored solely by Washington University in St. Louis.
Coverage on The Bondbuyer.com (log in required)
See photos on Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/89163703@N05
The White House has called on business schools to expand initiatives for women pursuing business degrees and prepare them for the the 21st century workplace. Dean Gupta and Mark Brostoff, associate dean and director of Olin’s Weston Career Center, are attending a convening at the White House hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls and the Council of Economic Advisers on Aug. 5, 2015.
The White House Council on Women & Girls & the Council of Economic Advisors Convening on the Working Families Economic Agenda
More than 40 business schools met with industry leaders to discuss recruiting, training, and retaining leaders for the 21st-century workplace and the importance of implementing policies that work for families. The meeting considered a proposed set of Best Practices for Business Schools to Lead in Expanding Opportunities for Women in Business and Adapt to the Changing Workforce. The document was drafted after a meeting in April 2014 of senior administration officials and business school deans.
Olin Business School announced its commitment to the four key areas set out in the Best Practices for Business Schools to expand opportunities for women:
“ Olin Business School is committed to providing an educational and cultural experience for our women students in undergraduate and graduate programs that prepares them to be leaders in the workforce of tomorrow,” said Dean Mahendra Gupta.
At the White House meeting, The dean submitted a specific list of initiatives and opportunities at Olin designed for undergraduate, graduate, and professional women as they prepare for and further their careers in the changing workforce.
1. ACCESS TO BUSINESS SCHOOL AND BUSINESS CAREERS
New Saturday Part-Time Professional MBA (PMBA) Curriculum established to meet the growing needs of the diverse workforce in St. Louis, specifically targeting women in care giving positions who want to pursue a graduate business management degree.
2. BUILD A BUSINESS SCHOOL EXPERIENCE THAT PREPARES STUDENTS FOR THE WORKFORCE OF TOMORROW
Help to recruit strong and talented women to future classes of the Olin MBA program;
Help to set a program of personal and professional development for women MBA students while at Olin;
Help to identify and set an environment of inclusiveness and sensitivity that pervades the entire Olin community;
Strive to insure gender balance and representation in academics, guest speakers,extracurricular activities, etc.
OWN IT Women’s Empowerment Conference will be hosted at Olin Business School this fall. OWN IT bridges the gap between female leaders of the 21st century and the millennials who admire them…creating game-changing moments to inspire young women.
3. ENSURE CAREER SERVICES THAT GO BEYOND THE NEEDS OF TRADITIONAL STUDENTS
4. EXEMPLIFY HOW ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD BE RUN
