One goal outlined by the committee is to have a greater degree of integration between courses. Tuck photo
News from Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business
“At the beginning of 2018, Dean Matthew Slaughter announced the creation of a Curriculum Review Committee, chaired by Jack Byrne Professor of Accounting Phil Stocken.
“The committee was tasked with reviewing the core and elective curriculum and recommending refinements to ensure it continues to be vibrant and advance Tuck’s mission to teach confident humility, empathy, and judgment in a way that is personal, connected, and transformative.
“’The world has changed significantly since we last [2008] took a systematic look at what we teach in the core and how we teach it,’ Slaughter said in January. ‘While many individual courses have been refined to keep pace with emerging business forces, a thorough review that considers these forces in the context of the core curriculum as a whole will strengthen this foundation of learning at Tuck.’”
John Chambers. WVU photo
WVU Renames B-School: John Chambers College Of Business And Economics
News from West Virginia University Chambers College of Business and Economics
“In a unique agreement that will provide West Virginia University significant financial and intellectual resources, Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers today (Nov. 9) announced a gift of time, talent and treasure to support a recently announced start-up engine at the College of Business and Economics.
“’I’ve always believed in the power of education, but we need to reinvent our schools for a new, digital era. I’m betting on the Mountaineers and believe my home state can become a startup state if the university, business and public sectors come together to support transformative innovation,’ said Chambers, former CEO and chairman of Cisco Systems Inc., and founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures, a native of Charleston, and a two-time WVU alumnus. The start-up engine will support business development, innovation and investment in West Virginia.
“The college will be renamed the John Chambers College of Business and Economics.”
Students visited 11 different banks and financial firms over fall break, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. Vanderbilt photo
Wall Street And Charlotte Treks Help Students Break Into Finance Industry
News from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
“Every year around fall break, the Vanderbilt Business Career Management Center (CMC) plans a couple of treks to two major finance hubs, New York, NY, and Charlotte, NC. The treks happen right before recruiting kicks off for investment banking internships, and students use the trips to network with alumni, recruiters, and other employees who are instrumental in the job search process.
“This year, students visited 11 different banks and financial firms on the Finance Treks: Wells Fargo, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (both cities), Piper Jaffray, Deloitte Corporate Finance, Jefferies, Goldman Sachs, RBC Capital Markets, JPMorgan Chase, Houlihan Lokey, and UBS. Below, three first-year MBAs explain why they chose to attend the Finance Treks and how they found the experience valuable.”
NYU Stern
New Research About 2008 Financial Crisis Presented
News from NYU Stern School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management
“Annual Reviews, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy, and New York University Stern School of Business presented new review articles focused on the 2008 financial crisis in the Annual Review of Financial Economics Volume 10. The research was presented during the 2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review conference, a two-day, invitation-only event November 8-9 spotlighting the perspectives of those with expert vantage points of the crisis.
“The Annual Review of Financial Economics is co-edited by Robert C. Merton, professor of finance, and Andrew W. Lo, professor of finance and director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, both at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
“’Each paper we’ve selected to highlight offers a distinct contribution to the dialogue around the financial crisis,’ said Merton and Lo. ‘By examining each element of the crisis, from the mortgage market to financial reporting to monetary policy, we aim to enhance our collective understanding of the causes of the crisis, its lasting impact and how we can mitigate risk going forward.’”
Descendants Of Forced Migrants Value Education More Highly
News from UCLA Anderson School of Management
“Researchers have long speculated that people uprooted by violence or natural disasters are more likely to invest in education because it is a ‘mobile’ asset they can take with them if forced to move again. Higher educational levels generally lead to better incomes and greater opportunities, creating a virtuous circle of prosperity that gets passed down generation after generation.
“An understanding of what actually makes a migrant successful in his or her new surroundings is increasingly crucial, as more than 65 million people, forced from their homelands, are today being accepted and rejected by other countries based on a wide range of beliefs and biases.”
Lehman Brothers Headquarters, September 13, 2008. HBS photo
Harvard Business School’s Baker Library Exhibit Tells Tale Of Rise & Fall Of Lehman Brothers
News from Harvard Business School
“Where were you on Monday, September 15, 2008, when Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States and one that traced its roots back to 1850, declared bankruptcy as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 504 points? These and other cataclysmic events in the financial world led to the perfect storm that resulted in the Great Recession of 2008, putting U.S. and global markets in jeopardy.
“2018 marks the 10th anniversary of these events, and today Harvard Business School’s Baker Library opens an extraordinary exhibit from its extensive Lehman Brothers Collection documenting the history of the firm from beginning to end, ‘Lehman Brothers: A History, 1850-2008.’”
Politics professor David Leblang, left, teamed up with Darden professor Robert Bruner, center, and commerce professor David Smith to examine the financial crisis 10 years later. Photo by Sanjay Suchak, UVA Communications
Politics, Business Faculty Teach 2008 Crisis — And Anticipate The Next One
News from University of Virginia Darden School of Business
“Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, three University of Virginia professors want to make sure their students understand what happened and how it could happen again.
“This semester, Robert Bruner, David Smith and David Leblang teamed up to teach ‘The Financial Crisis Ten Years Later: Politics, Markets and Institutions.’ Bruner is a University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, where he previously served as dean. Smith is a professor of finance and associate dean at the McIntire School of Commerce, and Leblang is a professor of politics and the director of the Global Policy Center at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. This semester, they have arranged two conferences and brought in several guest speakers for their students.”
Alex Schmeling
SOM Starts Scholarship For Indian Students
News from Yale SOM
“A new scholarship program at the Yale School of Management will reduce tuition costs for several Masters of Business Administration students from India as a part of a broader initiative to distinguish the institution as the most global among its peer business schools.
“The Global Leaders from India program will cover at least half the cost of tuition for as many as five full-time MBA students. According to the School’s website, all Indian applicants to the School’s MBA program will be automatically considered for the merit scholarship, which will then be awarded to the candidates deemed the strongest based on academic, professional and leadership factors. The new scholarship program comes six years after the school set a goal to become the most internationally focused business school in America, according to SOM Deputy Dean for Academic Programs David Bach.”
Brazil President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. Wharton photo
What Will Bolsonaro’s Election Mean For Brazil?
News from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
“Expectations run high for Jair Bolsonaro, the 63-year-old former army captain and president-elect of Brazil, the largest country in South America and the world’s sixth most populous with some 208 million people. Bolsonaro’s far right-wing posture and his promises to root out corruption and violence seem to have struck a stronger chord with voters than his other utterances that critics have described as racist and homophobic.
“Called the ‘Tropical Trump’ for his extensive use of social media to bond with his voter base, Bolsonaro won the second round of the two-round Brazilian presidential election on October 28. He earned 55% of the vote, while his nearest competitor, Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party, won 45%. Bolsonaro’s win marks a significant shift for a country that has been ruled by the political left for the past 15 years.”
Study: When Corporate Insiders Sell Stock At A Loss, Watch Out
News from Notre Dame University Mendoza College of Business
“When considering whether to buy stock in a company, investors often look to the trading activity of the company’s top executives. If the CEO or CFO has recently made large purchases of company stock, investors tend to assume the stock price is about to go up; if they are selling stock, on the other hand, the meaning is less clear.
“A new paper by the University of Notre Dame’s Peter Kelly takes a rigorous look at the predictive power of insider trading — not the illegal kind, which is based on access to information not in the public domain, but the normal trading activities of corporate executives.
“Generally speaking, insider purchases have very strong return predictability, but insider sales do not. Kelly, an assistant professor of finance at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, wondered whether those insider sales might contain more insight into future returns than they appear.”
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