SAN FRANCISCO – Civic Champs, a startup based in Indiana University Kelley School of Business’ Hoosier Hatchery incubator, is one of 18 companies — chosen from more than 700 firms worldwide – to compete in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. The company, co-founded by Ryan Underdahl, Civic Champs chief operating officer… Read more »
Alumni
IU, Kelley School and Whirlpool mark a decade of Habitat for Humanity Homes campus builds
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the 10th time, hundreds of students, faculty and staff from Indiana University and its Kelley School of Business will team up with Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County to build a new home on campus for a local family, with support from Whirlpool Corporation. Since 2010, nine other families have… Read more »
Socially responsible companies can serve stakeholders while doing good, says Xylem CEO
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Patrick Decker, president and CEO of international water technology company Xylem, returned to the Indiana University Kelley School of Business on Sept. 13 to speak to more than 150 students, providing them with insights into how he and other c-suite executives communicate with all areas of Wall Street. Decker, who has… Read more »
IU Entrepreneurial Connection Day features Silicon Valley innovator that is generating ‘buzz’
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Neal Rickner, a Silicon Valley tech executive and chief operating officer of Makani, a next-generation wind-turbine company owned by Alphabet, will speak September 6 at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business’ Entrepreneurial Connection Day. Rickner has led several multidisciplinary teams across Makani, including those involving corporate strategy, project development, finance,… Read more »
Alumnus Vernon Clapp relishes the opportunity to encourage entrepreneurs coming out of Kelley
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – When Vernon Clapp returns to Indiana University Bloomington to serve as a judge at an annual entrepreneur pitch competition at the Kelley School of Business, he says he doesn’t quite see a younger version of himself, but perhaps he should. After graduating from IU in 1969 with a business degree, Clapp… Read more »
Six IU Kelley School of Business alumni being honored at 50th annual awards gala
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Six alumni of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business will be honored for professional achievement during the 50th Annual Alumni Awards Gala on Saturday, April 27, in Chicago. Being named to the Kelley School of Business Academy of Alumni Fellows are: Fay Ferguson, (top row, left) co-CEO and co-owner of… Read more »
A Silicon Valley innovator, an NFL executive and other Kelley alumni join a former ambassador in addressing graduates
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – A Silicon Valley innovator, a former U.S. ambassador, an NFL executive, an inaugural member of the 3/2 accounting MBA program and a long-time Kelley administrator are speaking to this year’s graduates of the various degree programs at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. The annual recognition ceremonies complement IU’s commencement activities… Read more »
Kelley alumnus whose firm helped rescue Thailand’s Wild Boars soccer team to speak about leadership in a team environment
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As the world watched, a coordinated effort involving courageous cave divers and thousands of volunteers rescued a dozen members of a youth soccer team and their coach, who had been trapped in a flooded Thailand cave. Among those playing a crucial role was Patrick Decker, an Indiana University Kelley School of Business… Read more »
IU alumnus and writer for Stephen Colbert returns to campus to discuss coping with depression while seeking career success
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Brian Stack, an award-winning writer and comedian and an Indiana University alumnus, will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11 about his career in television and how he coped with anxiety and depression. It is being presented by two campus organizations that foster mental health and wellness — Balance at Kelley… Read more »
Real Estate Billionaire and Philanthropist Conrad T. Prebys Makes $20 Million Gift to IU and Kelley School
Philanthropist Conrad T. Prebys, BS’55, has made a $20 million gift to benefit the Kelley School of Business and to fund a new university amphitheater. From modest beginnings in a South Bend working class neighborhood, Conrad T. Prebys came to IU a determined young man. Within a few years after graduation, he relocated to… Read more »