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Olin Business School
Founded in 1917, Olin has a longstanding reputation for outstanding management education. We equip high-potential students with the skills, knowledge, and experiences they need to become leaders in a time of intense competition and global change. Participants in our programs learn much more than management theory and practice; they acquire new ways of thinking that can profoundly change their lives and the success of their organizations. Olin offers the BS in Business Administration (BSBA), the Master of Science in Finance (MSFin), the Masters in Business Administration — with options for full-time (MBA), Professional/evening (PMBA), and Executive (EMBA) — the PhD, and non-degree Executive Programs.
Olin boasts a faculty of distinguished scholars, researchers, and managers whose quest for knowledge and foresight keeps them ahead-of-the-curve on trends in marketing, entrepreneurship, international business, financial markets, and technology. A short list of their awards and accomplishments includes Batterymarch Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and serving as a Federal Reserve economist.
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Beyond the financial crisis
Citi CEO Vikram Pandit offers career advice to Olin MBAs
Nov. 13,
2009 --
What happens when the CEO of one of the largest financial institutions in the world sits down to talk with MBA students? Olin Business School students had a long list of questions for Citi CEO Vikram Pandit when he visited recently. The discussion ranged from the financial crisis to reform, compensation to career choices. Pandit offered candid advice to the students with concerns about unemployment numbers and the loss of jobs on Wall Street.
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Cruise control
Expert advises automakers to take it slow on road to recovery
Nov. 13,
2009 -- GM releases its first quarterly results post-bankruptcy on Nov. 16. U.S. auto sales in October equaled an annualized rate of 10 million vehicles. That's a steep drop from the 17 million cars sold each year from 1991-2007. Not even a robust recovery from the recession is expected to boost sales near previous highs. Bailouts, bankruptcies and cash for clunkers have helped keep the industry afloat this year. Yet, the reality of too many factories and workers remains as demand continues to dip. Supply chain expert Panos Kouvelis says auto makers need to keep the brakes on production and proceed with caution. Video available.
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Banking expert says Fed's plan to curb compensation is wrong
Executive pay is on G-20 agenda this week
Sept. 23,
2009 -- World leaders from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations gather in Pittsburgh this week and the global banking system is on the top of the agenda. Topics for discussion will include how to strengthen banks and help prevent financial crises like the one that roiled global markets a year ago. U.S. and European regulations of executive compensation at banks will also be scrutinized at the summit. Olin Business School professor and banking expert Stuart Greenbaum's advice: proceed with caution.
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Clifford Holekamp
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
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Cliff Holekamp grew up in Los Angeles, and worked as an account executive for IBM in Tennessee. Since coming to St. Louis in 1999, he has been a founder or board member of several start-up businesses in the fields of healthcare, retail, real estate, and education. In 2007, Professor Holekamp sold controlling ...
Expertise: entrepreneurship
Direct contact: (314) 935-6342
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holekampc@wustl.edu
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Charles Cuny
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Professor Charles Cuny has published research on the role of growth on corporate capital structure, the impact of market volatility on the stock index-futures basis, the effect of portfolio manager compensation on turn-of-the-year stock prices, the design of futures contracts, valuing employee stock ...
Expertise: Capital structure, financial innovation, venture capital, employee stock options, stock index changes, corporate payout policy
Direct contact: (314) 935-4527
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cuny@wustl.edu
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Michael Lewis
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Lewis focuses his research on sports marketing, customer relationship management, revenue management and nonlinear and dynamic pricing. He's written about the ways money and appearance can influence political campaigns.
Expertise: Marketing, marketing strategies for politics, customer loyalty, customer retention, consumer behavior, loyalty programs, professional sports
Direct contact: (314) 935-4534
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michael.lewis@wustl.edu
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J. Lamar Pierce
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Pierce's research interests include illegality as strategy, corporate social responsibility, organizational corruption and fraud, and strategic lease pricing in automotive markets. Pierce holds a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in music. He worked as an industrial engineer at the Boeing Company before ...
Expertise: Business ethics, corporate fraud, corporate corruption, leasing, innovation, illegal business strategy.
Direct contact: (314) 935-5205
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pierce@wustl.edu
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Sergio Chayet
Assistant Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management
Chayet's area of expertise is in decision analysis, inventory control, production planning and scheduling and operations strategy. He also studies strategic planning for production and service organizations using queueing and game-theoretic models; control and management of manufacturing systems; ...
Expertise: Operations management, inventory control, production planning and scheduling, operations strategy, decision analysis.
Direct contact: (314) 935-6769
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chayet@wustl.edu
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Save the Whales! Abolish Patents!
Huffingtonpost.com
Sept. 16,
2009 -- WUSTL economics professor David Levine says abolishing 'intellectual property' won't solve all social ills, but it would be a big step in the right direction for solving a range of problems from the high cost of health care, to innovating our way out of the current recession. In a series of posts with his co-author, WUSTL economics professor Michele Boldrin, they will be posting here about green technology, entertainment, free speech, multinationals, and innovation over the next weeks.
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Jobless, and Fighting Hopelessness
The Washington Post
and 7 others
Sept. 14,
2009 -- Article on the impact of long-term unemployment.
One of those featured is Rick Rose, who lost his job at a non-profit.
After 15 months of unemployment, he was hired as marketing and communications manager for a new partnership between the Brookings Institution and the Olin Business School at WUSTL.
Includes comments by Jackson Nickerson, director of the Brookings-Olin partnership.
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Happiness: Staying positive in negative territory
USA Today
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Aug. 6,
2009 -- Researchers suggest that unlike money, social experiences can provide happy memories, which don't wear away as fast as the rush of buying a new possession. But WUSTL [marketing professor Joseph Goodman] and a Texas colleague have found that negative experiences can have a more negative impact on happiness than other spending of a comparable amount.
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Vacation: What the Heck Is That?
MSN Money
June 26,
2009 -- Not taking some R&R could leave you carrying some heavy baggage down the line, bringing you and your company down. WUSTL entrepreneurship specialist Clifford Holekamp advises that shorter vacations are less stressful for small startups that are "very dependent on the founder to run the day-to-day operations."
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How to Win a Business Plan Competition
The New York Times
June 11,
2009 -- Since their advent in 1984, more than 50 American colleges and universities host business plan competitions, yielding prizes worth more than ever. Still, it's really not about the money, says Cliff Holekamp, a senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at WUSTL's Olin business school, which hosts multiple competitions, including the recently introduced Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition, a do-good variation with a $150,000 prize pool.
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