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A new book edited by researchers at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management and the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business offers research insights from the study of Highly Reliable Organizations (HROs), a field that has emerged over the past three decades and has revolutionized the way high-profile disasters are evaluated and prevented.

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University of Haifa Launches the Multiversity Revolution

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Does the signature size match the personality?According to Chad Ham, assistant professor of accounting at Washington University in St. Louis' Olin Business School, a chief financial officer (CFO) with an oversized signature is more likely to make questionable choices due to an oversized ego. According to a paper published in the December edition of the Journal of Accounting Research, "narcissistic CFOs are less likely to recognize losses in a timely manner... consistent with a willingness to cover up past mistakes."

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Dr. Horan provides leadership and strategic direction for the graduate, undergraduate, and online business degrees. He brings real-world experience and more than 30 years in designing, implementing, and evaluating businesses which has led several initiatives in healthcare, supply chain, and transportation.

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Entrepreneurship: The Practice and Mindset, coauthored by Babson College Professor Heidi Neck, is winner of a 2018 TAA Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA).

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Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute associate dean for academic affairs and professor of marketing and innovation management at the Lally School of Management, has co-authored Beyond the Champion: Institutionalizing Innovation Through People. The new book, which hit store shelves this month, is published by Stanford Business Books with co-authors Andrew Corbett, professor and entrepreneurship division chair at Babson College, and the late Lois S. Peters, former associate professor and director of the M.S. in Technology, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship program at Lally. It addresses the perennial challenges that large mature companies such as DuPont, Kodak, and GE have faced in defending against disruptive technologies and charting new pathways for organic growth.

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Babson College’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab®Miami - a venture accelerator specifically for women entrepreneurs - welcomes a new director, Michelle Abbs. The accelerator is looking forward to an exciting spring of programming and the second annual finale event.

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Global course offerings at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business are known as Darden Worldwide courses, and they will live up to their name this spring as students learn on five continents via 14 global learning opportunities in March and May.

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Darden Capital Management, which is entirely student-run and available as both a club and an independent study course, offers Darden students an unparalleled experiential learning opportunity in the field of investment management. Students actively manage $15 million across five funds, gaining hands-on experience in a world that rarely offers traditional internships and can be difficult for young professionals to access.

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NYU economist Sylvain Chassang addresses current marketplace uncertainties head-on with an approach that disregards the past as a variable in investment strategy and, instead, champions game theory.

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To help catalyze the development of genetic therapies, Harvard Medical School is launching a new program aimed at educating pharma and biotech leaders on the latest advances in genetics and how to optimize them for drug discovery and other therapeutic innovations.

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New research finds that altruism – and social media – can help corporations cultivate trust with consumers on mobile devices during and after natural disasters, such as hurricanes.

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Saint Louis University announced today that SLU alumnus and trustee Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz and his wife Jill Chaifetz have increased their giving to $27 million, including $15 million to the University’s business school. In 2007, the couple provided the lead gift of $12 million that enabled the construction of Chaifetz Arena.

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Starting Fall 2018, the McCombs School of Business will offer a cross-campus entrepreneurship minor option to all undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Hackensack Meridian Health is pleased to announce several of the network’s foundations have been honored by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) for their exemplary performance in fundraising. Meridian Health Foundation (which encompasses Hackensack Meridian Health’s six southern regional Foundations; Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation, Ocean Medical Center Foundation, Riverview Medical Center Foundation, Southern Ocean Medical Center Foundation, Bayshore Medical Center Foundation and Raritan Bay Medical Center Foundation) and Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation were among those recognized.

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The energy sector appears ripe for the sort of disruption that has upended scores of traditional industries, although entrenched interests and incumbents are clinging to traditional sources and models.This insight came during a clean energy panel discussion at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business student-run Net Impact Week, where three executives on the front lines of the rapidly changing energy sector suggested the opportunities in their industry were wide open for those willing.

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The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced its partnership with the Tom Tom Founders Festival is continuing into its seventh year. The festival — a celebration of innovators, visionaries and artists — will take place in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, 9–15 April, with keynote speakers including news icon Dan Rather, comic legend John Cleese, Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein and Honest Tea cofounder Seth Goldman, among others.

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A new Olin Business School study suggests maybe there is no one best negotiator; maybe the person you should send into a negotiation depends on whom you’re up against.

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Armed with a $600,000 grant, Michigan State University researchers will work alongside Latino migrant farmers to reshape how Michigan harvests fruit – and cultivate a new workforce.

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Professor Peter Belmi discusses his five most interesting findings with regard to his research on income inequality.

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Issued by DHS S&T in collaboration with OHA's National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC), the challenge calls for the design of an early warning system that uses existing data to uncover emerging biothreats.

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Darden Professor Alan Beckenstein and colleague Nick Sargen, a Darden lecturer, offer their projections for the U.S. economy in the coming year. Their remarks were delivered at an event hosted by the Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management and the School’s Charlottesville alumni chapter.

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Darden Executive Education is launching an innovative new team development program in the Washington, D.C., area. Aligning Teams for Growth and Change brings together high-performance individuals for workshop-based learning that focuses on tackling a specific change or challenge their organizations are facing.

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The Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business played a leading role in supporting the bipartisan Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA), which passed Congress early Friday morning and is expected to be signed into law.

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Students from James Madison University (JMU) will be tackling air travel security issues for the DHS Science and Technology Directorate as part of their spring semester of the Hacking 4 DefenseTM (H4D) class.

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Darden Professors Raj Venkatesan and Kim Whitler’s research shows what goes wrong when companies try to use big data and how to better make analytics work. Venkatesan presented these insights at the Leadership in the Face of New Technology conference, co-hosted by Darden and the HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich.

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Through a first-of-its-kind partnership between its renowned business schools, the University of Virginia will begin offering a new master of science in business analytics (MSBA) degree in late summer 2018, pending approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

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A December investment of more than $100,000 from NewSchools Venture Fund — an organization funded by nonprofit heavy hitters such as The Walton Family Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative donor-advised fund — has proven to be a “game-changer” for one University of Virginia Darden School of Business student’s startup education nonprofit.

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Mayo Clinic y la red social para la atención médica Inspire pusieron en marcha hoy “Expertos por experiencia”, nueva serie de artículos escritos por pacientes y personas encargadas de cuidarlos.

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YETI CEO and Darden graduate Matt Reintjes discusses his prior employment and what makes YETI such a profitable and unique company.

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A $20,000 grant in support of enhancing the St. Louis region as a world center for agtech, bioscience, and other industries that are defining the future of the region.

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New research out of Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that instead of just spending to get that top spot, advertisers should be considering other factors as well to ensure they are getting the best results from their sponsored search advertising campaigns.

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Professor Rajkumar Venkatesan led a dialogue in Mumbai among the country’s leading government officials, business executives, serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angel investors. During the most recent Global Innovators Roundtable, an ongoing series of international discussions hosted by Darden’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Venkatesan drew out a number of lessons about the present state and future prospects for innovation in the Indian economy.

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In a paper being published Feb. 5 in Tax Notes, professors from Indiana University and the University of Virginia report that Tax Cuts and Jobs Act this could result in unexpected drops in earnings for two thirds of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500, with a media drop of $100 million.

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Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne uses the rollout of HealthCare.gov to demonstrate essential project management principles.

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The proposed affiliation between Cedars-Sinai and Torrance Memorial—first announced last May—became official today. The affiliation will focus on new opportunities for coordination of care and resources between the two organizations and joint programs to provide access to more people for needed medical services as well as access to clinical trials and the latest developments in medical research.

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Babson College Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership Candida Brush has received the Max S. Wortman, Jr. / USASBE Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.

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A Penn State biomedical start-up company has won FDA approval for its first product, a biopolymer liquid bandage.

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As Americans receive their 2017 tax statements and begin the slow march to filing their last under a fading tax system, as President Donald Trump concludes his first State of the Union with a great emphasis on the economy, as the world watches this country undergo tectonic changes, it’s time to cut through the politicking and positioning.

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American University President Sylvia M. Burwell today launched AU’s Plan for Inclusive Excellence, a far-reaching effort to build a truly inclusive community at the University.

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The chance to get rich quick by investing in a penny stock, even if it is widely suspected that the stock price is being manipulated, is too tempting for some investors to resist. New research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that some investors actually seek out stocks suspected of “pump-and-dump” schemes, despite the risks and warnings from financial experts, in hopes of winning big, akin to the lottery.