How regulations meant to increase poor, minority lending ultimately backfire
New Olin Business School research has exposed a significant increase in poor customer service, fraud and mis-selling by retail banks in low-to-moderate income areas targeted by the Community Reinvestment Act, especially those with a high minority population.
Researchers forecast stable, slightly declining levels of COVID-19 entering fall
The rate in which COVID-19 cases spread is not proportionate with the number of contagious individuals – as prior models assumed – but rather concave, meaning that the impact of one more infected person diminishes as more people are infected, according to Olin Business School researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.
Leveraging her seat at the table
Joyce Trimuel, EMBA ’16, has always seen her career advancement as a chance to help others. Now, as the diversity and inclusion officer for CNA, she’s making its corporate culture more inclusive.
Olin’s opening day: improved Simon Hall, icy start
The Olin Business School community celebrated the new school year’s start Aug. 25 with a ribbon cutting of the renovated Simon Hall and its traditional back-to-school barbecue to cap the day — with a twist this time, as Dean Mahendra Gupta, PhD, endured the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
Cooking at Olin
Mahendra R. Gupta, PhD, dean of Olin Business School
and the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and
Management, serves a burger to a student during the 19th annual Olin
Cookout Aug. 27 at Simon Hall. The tasty tradition brings the Olin
community together, with faculty and staff serving barbecued chicken,
pork and hamburgers to hungry students.
The government must develop collaborative enterprise leaders to solve its ‘wicked’ problems, new book suggests
The American public looks to the federal government to successfully respond to and solve our “wicked”
problems. A new book co-edited by Jackson Nickerson, PhD, professor of strategy at Olin Business School, suggests government leaders must be better collaborators. The book is Tackling Wicked Government Problems: A Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Leaders.
We don’t like unfamiliar music, even though we claim we do, study finds
Spotify. Pandora. iTunes. YouTube. We are constantly bombarded with a seemingly limitless amount of new music in our daily lives. But why do we keep coming back to that one song or album we couldn’t get enough of in college? New
research from Washington University’s Olin Business School shows that
although consumers say they prefer to listen to unfamiliar music, their
choices actually belie that preference.
Fox receives achievement award
Joe Fox, associate dean for MBA Programs at Olin Business School, received the Sterling H. Schoen Achievement Award at The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management’s Orientation Program June 9 in New Orleans.
Make music with student-created app
It’s called Sketch-a-Song. It’s free and it’s
designed to make music creation accessible to everyone — even people
without formal musical training. WUSTL seniors Jacob Zax and
Adam Segal are members of the team of seven high school friends who
devoted last summer to creating the app.
New faculty join Olin Business School
Several new faculty members have joined the Olin Business School. Their expertise covers various areas, such as accounting, communications, finance and marketing.
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