Kellogg Alumni and Professor Match Startups With Companies
This article was originally sourced from the news piece “The Matchmakers” on Kellogg’s news and events page.
Innovators Connection, the Kellogg School of Management team that honors Chicago innovators, is supporting the Chicago startup community by connecting established business leaders’ problems to local startups that might have the solution.
“Startups have a hard time getting the ear of big companies. They may not have a lot of credibility, or know who to talk to,” Luke Tanen ’14 said. “It makes sense to bridge these two worlds. You can think of what we’ve created as a matching program.” Continue reading…
Start Up Spotlight: Kellogg Alumni Launch Bloominous
This article was originally sourced from “Start Me Up: Songhua Hu ’10 and Richard Lim ’10,” part of Kellogg’s “Start Me Up” series, which spotlights members of the Kellogg community who are putting their entrepreneurial visions into practice.
While working as General Manager for a large floral wire-service, Kellogg School of Management alum Richard Lim developed relationships with his flower distributors. These relations evolved into close friendships, so much so that one of Lim’s distributors offered to supply all of the flowers for Lim’s wedding for free. Continue reading…
President Obama Addresses Kellogg Students
This article was originally sourced from “Obama to Kellogg: Business is the Future,” a news piece on Kellogg’s news & events page.
President Barack Obama addressed an assembly of Kellogg School of Management students, telling the students that they, the business leaders of tomorrow, are the key to a strong economy and encouraged them to pursue mindful growth. “There is a reason why I came to a business school instead of a school of government,” Obama said. “I actually believe capitalism is the greatest force for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever known.” Continue reading…
Think Training Course at Kellogg Aims to Improve Corporate Decision Making
This article was originally sourced from the article “When Two Rights Make a Wrong,” which appeared on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
Adam Waytz, an assistant professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, recently partnered with online knowledge forum Big Think to sharpen the ethical behavior of business leaders.
The seven-module course titled Ethics in Action includes a series of scenarios, videos and quizzes on topics like “Loyalty vs. Fairness,” “Professional Duty vs. Personal Ethics,” “Speaking Truth to Power” and “Profit Maximization vs. Social Responsibility.”
“Given that many businesses at the turn of the 21st century have been viewed as undergoing ethical failures, the topic is timely,” Waytz said. “And given the nature of how quickly information moves, details about one’s reputation are now more public — and easier to access — than ever before.”
For businesses increasingly reliant on global collaboration, the establishment of trust is vitally important.
“This trust can only be ensured through displays of ethical behavior,” Waytz says. But how does that trust bridge cultural differences? Ethics in Action devotes a module to that topic as well. Continue reading…
Kellogg Names Its 2015 McGowan Fellow
The following article was first sourced from the piece “Business That Helps” on Kellogg’s news & events site.
Rhett Braunschweig has been named the Kellogg School of Management’s 2015 McGowan Fellow. The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund works with 10 top-tier MBA programs to honor students who have demonstrated academic excellence and social leadership. The fellowship grants full-tuition scholarship to Braunschweig, and pairs him with a mentor to help him develop his skills and mindset for using business to address social issues. Continue reading…
Welcome Back: Smith School MBAs Start New Semester
A committee of returning MBAs led by Jen Long, Robert H. Smith School of Business vice president of student affairs, planned a two-week incoming MBA orientation that ended with a Washington Nationals baseball outing. Continue reading…
