Around Campus

Students in the MBA, MSA, MSBA, and MSM programs gave shout outs to their peers during Graduate Student Appreciation Week. The heartfelt words of appreciation show the supportive culture of our Graduate Business Programs!

NPD's BRITE Women Project was fortunate to benefit from the leadership of this group of MBA students in a project management class taught by Todd Hill and Scott Siler.

As part of their class, they tackled several major projects for BRITE, including outlining a social media strategy, crafting a playbook for expanding into Chicago, and fine-tuning programming for the upcoming boot camp Oct. 17. 

The Office of Undergraduate Studies sponsored Mendoza Major Night last week. Faculty and upperclassmen from every major were available to answer underclassmen's questions as they work through the major discernment process. 

Shout Out to Andy Wendelborn for contributing some great Mendoza trivia during the Town Hall Session.

To Candice Cleveland for all of her efforts in setting up the Town Hall with great food, great music and for making the whole meeting seamless! These meetings could not be near as successful without your support and leadership!

The Stayer Center Non-Degree team hosted the three-day LPL Financial's Growth Leaders Forum in September for more than 150 financial advisers, plus more than 80 LPL Financial employees who served as hosts. The general session "Navigating Polarities: Harnessing the 'And' for Higher Performance" was held at Notre Dame Stadium and included an experiential learning exercise on the ND football field. Sue Callaghan and Cleo Thanos advised LPL on outcomes of the program and aligning the academic resources available. Ryan Retartha and the operations team worked closely with VenueND on logistics. Chris Adkins, Viva Bartkus and Peter Kelly were among the presenters. Kudos to Robin Kistler, Sue, Cleo, Ryan, Pasha Luber, Kalynda Hamilton and Sabrina Brown.

ITAO's Career Connect event in September was the biggest yet for the department. The networking event drew more than 300 students from Mendoza, engineering and computer science and featured 40 firms.

Accountancy's Andrew Imdieke presents during the Accounting Fall Research Conference. In addition to Mendoza faculty, attendees included 35 faculty members and Ph.D. students from peer schools, many of whom are Notre Dame graduates. Researchers from MIT, University of Georgia, University of Texas at Austin, and Wharton also presented.

Executive Education hosted Ralph Stayer, owner and retired CEO and Chairman of Johnsonville Sausage, last week. Ralph gave a talk to EMBA students.

An actor from the London Stage visited the MSM classroom of Accountancy's Ram Ramanan on Sept. 12. He notes, "Given that our students would often have to make presentations of complex business issues to various stakeholders, there are some lessons to be learned from actors trained in Shakespearean plays. The actor led the class through various warm-up exercises aimed at opening up the body, facial muscles, and voice so as to get one to a state of relaxed alertness. This was followed by some tongue twisters and eventually a reading a long passage from Twelfth Night. Feedback from the class indicated that the participants enjoyed the process and experienced freedom from the fear of reading out loud a complicated passage by Shakespeare."