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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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Can baby boomers work with Gen X and Y employees?
Managing multiple generations is topic at Olin Business School seminar
June 15,
2009 -- Managers face new challenges with multiple generations working together as baby boomers delay retirement and members of Gen X and Gen Y enter the workforce. A seminar at the Olin Business School is designed to help executives juggle the needs and talents of employees in the 20 to 60 year-old age range.
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Master's degree will give students competitive edge in vital career sector
Olin Business School announces new degree in supply chain management
May 18,
2009 -- The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis will launch a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management specialized program in September 2009. The 12-month, 36-credit-hour program will be multi-disciplinary with a cutting-edge curriculum and active collaboration with industry leaders and the supply chain issues they encounter.
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Social entrepreneurs receive awards totalling $150,000
Five local ventures win seed money in competition
April 27,
2009 -- The largest award pool for social entrepreneurship in the U.S. was split five ways on April 23, 2009 when winners of the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition were announced at Washington University in St. Louis. The five finalists were chosen from an original field of 42 entrants and represent diverse ventures with missions to provide educational and cultural and vocational training.
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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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Barak Aharonson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Organization and Strategy
Professor Aharonson's research focuses on patterns of technological competition and cooperation among firms, and their influence on the firm's behavior. His current projects examine a firm's behavior and knowledge flows in geographic agglomerations, technological space and networks. Aharonson's professional ...
Expertise: Business policy and strategy, microeconomics, industrial organization, management strategy, corporate strategy, geographic agglomerations, technological clusters, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4846
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aharonson@olin.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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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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When Second Really Is the Best
U.S. News & World Report online
June 10,
2009 -- In industry after industry, entrepreneur after entrepreneur is saying the same thing: Being first can surely be an advantage, but so can being second. Those who follow a market leader can actually be more successful in most cases, says WUSTL business strategy professor Anne Marie Knott, who discusses second-to-market advantages on the first day of her entrepreneurial studies class.
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How Being Materialistic Can Actually Make You Happy
U.S. News & World Report online
May 1,
2009 -- Consumer behavior and psychological research has found all sorts of counterintuitive lessons about how we shop. So it's not surprising that a forthcoming study in the Journal of Consumer Research shatters some myths about materialism. Includes comments by WUSTL marketing professor Joseph Goodman, study co-author.
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Get ready for a wave of bank failures
CNNMoney.com
Feb. 23,
2009 -- In less than two months, regulators have seized 14 banks. Experts think many more banks will collapse before the financial crisis is over. "We'll have a banner year [of failures] this year," said Stuart Greenbaum, retired dean and professor emeritus at the WUSTL's Olin Business School.
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