100 Years and Counting

Coronavirus (COVID-19) updates for faculty and staff at Mendoza College of Business
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Thank you to all who attended the Unconscious Bias Workshop guided by M&O's Angela Logan. If you were unable to attend the session or you would like to review the discussion, you can find the recording here. Other resources include the PowerPoint presentation and responses.
Morgan McCoy is the new director of operations for the Mendoza Graduate Programs (MGP) as of March 1, 2021. As the MGP director of operations, Morgan is responsible for organizing, influencing and executing planning efforts across all Mendoza Graduate Programs and non-degree academic sessions, including orientations, immersions and co-curricular activities. She oversees the MGP operations team that supports academic operations, student onboarding, and events and programming capacities. Some of her immediate objectives include clarifying and improving processes related to how the operations team functions and collaborates with other groups within Mendoza and across campus, as well as improving the processes related to course scheduling, student registration, new-student onboarding and orientation planning. The position reports to the dean.
Jim Otteson's new book, Seven Deadly Economic Sins: Obstacles to Prosperity and Happiness Every Citizen Should Know, discusses common economic "sins" or fallacies that may seem intuitively compelling but often lead to waste, loss and forgone prosperity. The goal of the book is to not only explain the economic reasoning behind the fallacies but also to help us achieve the growing, widespread prosperity necessary for a flourishing and ultimately happier life. Jim is the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics and the Rex and Alice A. Martin Faculty Director of the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership.
A paper by Marketing's Frank Germann entitled "Do Retailers Get Blamed When Manufacturer Brands Fail? Measurement of Multi-Loci Attributions and Spillover Effects" was accepted for publication in the Review of Marketing Research.
Sandra Vera Muñoz and co-authors presented their paper, "Climate Risk Materiality and Firm Risk," during the inaugural "SASB Alliance: Academic Series,” which took place virtually March 4-5. The global event was attended by academicians as well as practitioners from the Big 4 accounting firms, Moody's, Morningstar, Aon, Glass Lewis and others in the ESG investing and consulting industries.
Notre Dame has partnered with Calm to provide free access to students, faculty, and staff through Jan. 31, 2022, to help them care for their emotional well-being. Calm provides tools to help users relax, focus, and rest, offering guided sessions on sleep, meditation and relaxation. Find information on how to access the app here.
Just in time for the spring semester, the Faculty Support Center will be distributing three additional masks to all faculty and staff members. Masks for faculty will be placed in their mailboxes. Staff members can pick theirs up directly from FSC when they are in the building. The masks will be available after Wednesday (January 27).
Recently ND Works Weekly featured a Q&A with Mendoza alum Mike Brown '01, regional director of athletics advancement. Brown made his mark in the late 1990s as a Notre Dame leprechaun — the first Black leprechaun at the University. Recently Brown offered a FaithND Gospel Reflection in the context of Black History Month and as a member of the Notre Dame family. Read more at ND Works Weekly.
M&O's Ann Tenbrunsel weighed in on the ethics and motivation of people who sell scam COVID-19 products in a Los Angeles Times piece.
IT, Analytics and Operations professor Kaitlin Wowak was quoted by Market Watch in a piece about pharma company Merck aiding rival Johnson & Johnson with vaccine production.
The Observer covered the 24th annual Ethics Week presentations and discussions that focused on this year’s theme: Beginning with Empathy: Listening and Learning from Others.
BBC World quoted Finance's Jason Reed in a piece about the "dumbest theory" and the likelihood of market bubbles in the economy.
Sarah Cook is Research Director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Freedom House. She directs the China Media Bulletin, a monthly digest in English and Chinese providing news and analysis on media freedom developments related to China. Cook is also the author of several Asian country reports for Freedom House’s annual publications, as well as four special reports about China: Beijing’s Global Megaphone (2020), The Battle for China’s Spirit (2017), The Politburo’s Predicament (2015), and The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship (2013).
Her comments and writings have appeared on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Before joining Freedom House, Ms. Cook co-edited the English translation of A China More Just, a memoir by prominent rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, and was twice a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva for an NGO working on religious freedom in China.
She received a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and as a Marshall Scholar, completed Master’s degrees in Politics and International Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Lectures are free and open to the public and Notre Dame community. ALL LECTURES WILL BE VIA ZOOM. For registration information go here.
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty and the community use guest speaker comments as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years.
Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the O’Brien-Smith Leadership Program made possible by a generous endowment from William H. O’Brien (ND ’40) and his wife, Dee. The program is named after their respective parents. The O’Brien-Smith Program endowment provides an opportunity for students and faculty to interact with distinguished leaders from business, government, and non-profit sectors.
Danielle Citron is a legal scholar addressing the scourge of cyber harassment by raising awareness of the toll it takes on victims and proposing reforms to combat the most extreme forms of online abuse. While she has explored a range of privacy and digital rights issues over the course of her career, much of her work has centered on gender-based discrimination in online environments, where women are disproportionately targeted with threats of a violent and sexual nature.
In her book, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014), and a series of law review articles that informed it, Citron documents the significant harms caused by various types of cyber stalking, cyber mob attacks, and “revenge porn”—the nonconsensual publication and dissemination of intimate photos or videos, typically by a significant other seeking to humiliate a former partner. Because offensive content often appears at the top of internet search results for a victim’s name and includes email, home, or work addresses, the consequences for victims can include jeopardized employment, education, and housing opportunities; an inability to maintain an online presence; and compromised personal safety. Citron not only analyzes the social and legal structures that make it so difficult to curb cyber harassment but also reframes the issue as a violation of civil rights. She likens dismissive attitudes about the gravity of its harms to similar views from the 1970s about sexual harassment in the workplace. Citron has proposed a variety of pathways for reform both through her scholarly publications and in the broader public realm. She has advised state attorneys general and legislators in efforts to criminalize nonconsensual pornography under existing statutes against stalking and harassment and has worked with technology companies to update safety and privacy policies. Mindful of concerns that an overly broad reaction to cyber harassment would infringe on constitutional protections of free speech, her proposals are characterized by clear distinctions that fit criminal penalties and invasion of privacy claims within the contours of the First Amendment.
More recently, she has expanded the scope of her work to explore the concept of sexual privacy as a distinct privacy interest that warrants recognition and protection and is foundational to human dignity. Citron’s respect for speech rights and persuasive articulation of the civil rights of harassment victims are spurring legal scholars, lawmakers, tech companies, and the public to view in a new light what many have simply accepted as the inevitable dark side of our digital age.
Danielle Citron received a BA (1990) from Duke University and a JD (1994) from Fordham University School of Law. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Boston University School of Law as a professor of law. She taught previously at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law (2004–2019), where she was the Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law. She is an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center on Internet and Society, an affiliate fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School and a senior fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. She is also the vice president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and serves on Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council and Facebook’s Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery Task Force. Her publications have appeared in such journals as Yale Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Notre Dame Law Review, among others.
Lectures are free and open to the public and Notre Dame community. ALL LECTURES WILL BE VIA ZOOM. For registration information go here.
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Students, faculty and the community use guest speaker comments as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years.
Ten Years Hence is sponsored by the O’Brien-Smith Leadership Program made possible by a generous endowment from William H. O’Brien (ND ’40) and his wife, Dee. The program is named after their respective parents. The O’Brien-Smith Program endowment provides an opportunity for students and faculty to interact with distinguished leaders from business, government, and non-profit sectors.
Citation analysis is being monitored more in the academic profession as a measure of impact. By creating a Google Scholar Profile (leave it public, which is the default) you can increase the accessibility of your research and have immediate access to h-statistics and other impact metrics.
Did you know there are shortcuts to log in to your ND Gmail and other Google services? If you visit google.nd.edu you are taken directly to Google Drive, or to the login page if you are not already logged in. You can also skip logging in to insideND or visiting gmail.com by going directly to gmail.nd.edu for Gmail. You can also go directly to Google Calendar by visiting gcalendar.nd.edu.
If you enable Waiting Room in your Zoom settings, you can manage when new attendees are able to join a meeting from the list of Participants. When these tools are enabled, the option to allow attendees to join the meeting before the host arrives is automatically disabled.
In Windows, you can drag a window to the left or right edge of your screen to make it fill one half of the screen, or drag to the top of the screen to maximize the window. View two windows side by side quickly and easily. You can also press the Windows key + left or right arrow to make the active window fill the left or right side of the screen.
Sometimes you have a bunch of applications running, and you want it all to go away so you can get to the desktop. Simply pressing Windows key + D will minimize everything you have up, which will save you some time pressing the minimize button for each window. To bring everything back, press the Windows key + D again to restore your windows.
As the College adapts and innovates in the face of change, your voice matters more than ever, and the ND Voice Engagement Committee wants to help you use it. Each week we will highlight a resource to inspire you, challenge you, and help you speak up and/or listen up more effectively.
This week:
"As a community and as individuals," Dean Cremers wrote in June 2020, "we must do better in addressing issues of racial justice, diversity and inclusion, based on the universal and inviolable human principle of the inherent dignity of every person." Mendoza will curate and share resources to help guide our work here.
This week:
A full list of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion resources is available here.