Business & Entrepreneurship

Philip H. Dybvig, a banking and finance expert at Olin Business School, was a key speaker at the 2023 Asian Leadership Conference, Korea’s premier international conference, in May.

Nicolae Gârleanu, an expert on asset pricing, was installed as the H. Frederick Hagemann Jr. Professor of Finance at Olin Business School during a ceremony May 8.

The seventh annual Wealth & Asset Management Research Conference — a collaboration between Olin Business School, Edward Jones, CFA Society–St. Louis and Dimensional — will take place May 3 and 4. 

The Olin-Brookings Commission — a partnership between WashU’s Olin Business School and the Brookings Institution supported by The Bellwether Foundation — presented evidence-based solutions to drive more equitable venture capital funding for women and underrepresented entrepreneurs to key stakeholders on Thursday, April 20, at the Brookings Institution.

The Goldman Sachs Group is considering a sale of its consumer banking business, but regulations will mean it can’t simply return to being an investment bank, said Andrew Tuch, an expert on financial and securities regulation in the School of Law.

Radhakrishnan Gopalan, a longtime, beloved professor of finance at Olin Business School, died Dec. 6, 2022, of cancer. He was 50.

Philip H. Dybvig, a banking and finance expert at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of three economists to share the 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday, Oct. 10.

Staggeringly disproportionate startup funding available to founders who are women or underrepresented minorities has inspired the next project of the Olin Brookings Commission.

The unprecedented scale and unanimity of the sanctions imposed on Russia have crippled its economy and represent a new form of economic warfare, according to Mark P. Taylor, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is expected to have another challenging year processing returns. Experts at Washington University’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic offer tips, including: file early and electronically if possible.