BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – As the semester winds down, students at the Indiana University and the Kelley School of Business face final exams and most return home for the holidays. It also renews a period of adjustment for parents, who are still getting used to being empty nesters. How can they continue to be supportive… Read more »
Entries by George Vlahakis
Straight No Chaser harmonizes with Kelley Direct students to create new specialty vodka
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – When a capella group Straight No Chaser comes back to Indiana University for a concert December 13, members also are returning to where the idea for their new venture, a branded vodka, was developed as part of an academic project at IU’s Kelley School of Business. Students in the school’s No. 1 ranked Kelley Direct online… Read more »
2019 Fry Scholars Program attracts top achieving students from across the country to Kelley’s Undergraduate Program
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business acclaimed undergraduate program continues to attract many of the top students from around the country, including the 30 freshmen who were selected this fall as William R. Fry Scholars. Entering freshmen who applied to IU and were directly admitted to the Kelley School were eligible…. Read more »
Kelley professor to advise the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Leslie Hodder, a professor of accounting at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, has been appointed by International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation to its advisory board. The IFRS Foundation is responsible for the oversight and governance of the International Accounting Standards Board. The council advises IFRS Foundation trustees and the IASB… Read more »
Dean’s response to an important faculty issue
To the students, faculty, and staff of the Kelley School, As many of you may be aware Professor Eric Rasmusen, a member of the Kelley School faculty, tweeted a link and quoted from an article entitled, “Are Women Destroying Academia? Probably,” written by Lance Welton. This article suggests women academics and most women students are… Read more »
Kelley School conference goes to Indiana’s “frontlines of treating cancer”
INDIANAPOLIS – More than 1.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer and about 610,000 people die from the disease annually, according to the National Cancer Institute. Researchers at Indiana universities and life sciences companies are part of the fight to effectively treat cancer and hopefully find a cure for it in the future. The… Read more »
IU Kelley School of Business may be marking its centennial, but its origins go back 200 years
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – During the same year that Indiana University is marking its bicentennial, the IU Kelley School of Business is celebrating 100 years of preparing students to lead organizations, start companies, develop new products and services, and shape business knowledge and policy. The IU Board of Trustees established a School of Commerce and Finance… Read more »
Kelley team celebrates school’s first victory in National Team Selling Competition
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For 13 years, the Indiana University Kelley School of Business has extended its customary Hoosier hospitality to dozens of business students from around the country by hosting the National Team Selling Competition. Last year was the first time that a Kelley team had placed in the top three. Students from other… Read more »
Kelley School hosts the nation’s premier collegiate competition in professional selling
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Students from 20 colleges and universities across the country will compete this week in the 13th annual National Team Selling Competition, hosted by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. The two-day premier event for students studying professional sales takes place Oct. 23-25 and is organized by Kelley’s Center for Global… Read more »
Kelley Direct moves up to second in Poets & Quants’ rankings of online MBA programs
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Kelley Direct Online MBA program at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business has moved up to second in new 2020 rankings from Poets & Quants, a leading news site about business education. Poets & Quants’ ranking of 35 online MBA programs is based on three equally weighted factors: the quality… Read more »