Remembering Tim Baldwin, a remarkable educator, colleague and friend to many

Posted on October 14, 2022 by George Vlahakis

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University Kelley School of Business suffered a tremendous loss on Oct. 10 with the death of Timothy T. Baldwin, the Randall L. Tobias Chair in Leadership and a faculty member for more than three decades.

“It will be hard to imagine the Kelley School without Tim’s infectious smile, friendly demeanor, and high energy,” said Ash Soni, interim dean of the Kelley School and the SungKyunKwan Professor, expressing the thoughts of many. “Tim was a friend to many, and I know this loss will be hard to process.”

“Tim was a beloved colleague and friend and positively affected the lives of so many faculty, students and staff over his 35 years of devoted service,” added Dan Li, chairperson of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship and the L. Leslie Waters Chair in International Business. “He’s always, always, been there to give, to support and to lead. The world is a dimmer place without this amazing person.”

The school and its faculty and staff are sending their condolences and support to Baldwin’s wife, JoEllen, and their son, Matt, along with many tributes from professional colleagues, former students, and friends on social media.

A Michigander by education, Baldwin was a Hoosier most of his professional life. He came to IU and Kelley in 1987 from Michigan State University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degrees. He also briefly worked in corporate recruitment for the American Hospital Supply Corporation in the early 1980s.

Baldwin taught in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, which he chaired from 2014 to 2020. He was a world-renowned scholar and teacher and was devoted to IU and the Kelley School with his innumerable service contributions.

His teaching and research, for which he was recognized with many awards, focused on leadership, human resources, and organizational development. He published more than 50 academic journal articles and book chapters including several “field classics” on the topic of transfer of employee knowledge and skills from training contexts to their work.

“It was an appropriate topic for Tim to be passionate about, as he was keenly interested in how the Academy could better serve practitioners and students with actionable insights. His default question to candidates at department recruiting presentations was how the findings of their research translated to practice,” said Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, associate professor and associate chairperson of management and entrepreneurship, and Li in the department’s remembrance they co-wrote about Baldwin’s professional accomplishments. (more…)

Timothy T. Baldwin, 1958-2022

Posted on October 14, 2022 by George Vlahakis

Timothy Baldwin, Randall L. Tobias Chair in Leadership

Below is a remembrance of Timothy T. Baldwin, prepared on behalf of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Department of Management and Entrepreneurship and its faculty and staff by Dan Li, Chairperson of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship and the L. Leslie Waters Chair in International Business, and Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, Associate Professor and Associate Chairperson of Management and Entrepreneurship:

Timothy T. Baldwin was the Randall L. Tobias Chair in Leadership at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and taught in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, where he was a faculty member for over 35 years and Department Chair from 2014 to 2020. He was a world-renowned scholar and teacher who showed his devotion to IU and the Kelley School with his innumerable service contributions.

Tim published more than 50 academic journal articles and book chapters including several “field classics” on the topic of transfer of employee knowledge and skills from training contexts to their work. It was an appropriate topic for Tim to be passionate about, as he was keenly interested in how the Academy could better serve practitioners and students with actionable insights. His default question to candidates at Department recruiting presentations was how the findings of their research translated to practice. He was co-author of several books, including “Improving Transfer Systems In Organizations” and “Organizational Behavior: Real Solutions to Real Challenges.” He won several competitive national and international research awards over his career from the Academy of Management and the American Society for Training and Development.

As a teacher, Tim had an impact on innumerable students. He developed and taught a litany of courses on the topics of organizational behavior and human resource management at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive education levels, in both in-residence and online modalities. He was the faculty liaison for Executive Degree Programs at the Kelley School. He was frequently recognized for teaching excellence, winning multiple University- and School-level MBA and undergraduate teaching awards. He was also passionate about doctoral education; he chaired five doctoral dissertations and was a member of several dozen dissertation committees. He also worked tirelessly to raise funds to establish a doctoral fellowship for students in the department.

Where Tim likely had his greatest professional impact was as a leader at the Kelley School. As Department Chair, he oversaw the rapid growth of the department by recruiting over 20 full-time faculty members. He was a trusted mentor, confidante, and supporter to all. He helped establish a culture of collegiality, mutual respect, and support and served as the veritable “glue” that held the department together, through thick and thin. He had a preternatural ability to foster a sense of community and closeness even as the department grew. No matter what personal or professional difficulties faculty were facing, you knew Tim would do what he could to provide resources and assistance. All faculty can remember specific Baldwin-isms, whether it’s altering the subject line of an e-mail with a clever joke, his signature line at the bottom of every department e-mail that has continued past his reign (his word) as chair, and, most of all, his relentlessly positive and immutable good nature and spirit.

Tim embodied the Kelley spirit of excellence in research, teaching, and service. All members of the Kelley community are fortunate to have crossed paths with Tim. His professional legacy will live on through all those he impacted throughout his 35-year career. He will be remembered as a beloved colleague, mentor, and friend.

Memorial arrangements

Baldwin is survived by his wife, JoEllen; son Matthew of Fishers, Indiana; loyal canine, Tucker; stepmother, Marie (Chambers) Baldwin; brother and sister-in-law Scott and Sue Baldwin of Northville, Michigan; brother and sister-in-law Ty and Jana Baldwin of Culver, Indiana. He is also survived by seven nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, Peter C. Baldwin and his mother, Nancy Jane Baldwin.

Visitation will be Friday, November 11 from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m. at The Funeral Chapel of Powell and Deckard (3000 E. Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47401). A funeral service will be held on Saturday, November 12 at 11:00 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church (221 E. Sixth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408). See their websites for additional details at: www.thefuneralchapel.net and www.fpcbloomington.org . The funeral service will be streamed live by First Presbyterian Church at: https://fpcbloomington.online.church/ .

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Tim Baldwin Doctoral Fellowship fund at: https://give.myiu.org/iu-bloomington/I380016096.html.

The Bloomington Herald-Times also published an obituary for Baldwin.

While others were literally singing the blues, Kelley student does award winning research

Posted on October 7, 2022 by George Vlahakis

Robert Gevers, center, when he learned that he had won the ALSB’s annual student research paper competition. His mentor, Kelley Professor Shawna Eikenberry, is to his left (Courtesy ALSB).

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – It was quite the summer for Robert Gevers, a senior studying finance at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business – write a research paper, listen to jazz and blues in New Orleans and Memphis and win a national legal studies competition.

Gevers, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, was one of six students from around the country to present their research papers in person during the annual conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in Louisville, Kentucky.

He was surprised when his paper – on implications of the rise in investment marketing aimed at so-called “retail traders” – was judged as the winner.

The academy that organizes the annual student research paper competition is the leading association of teachers and scholars in the fields of business law, legal environment, and law-related courses outside of professional law schools.

One of Gevers’ professors, Shawna Eikenberry, approached him in April about entering the competition, after being impressed by something he wrote for her ethics class. He began start working in earnest on the paper after finals in early May and had to turn it in by the first of June.

But his family also had long-standing plans to take a trip through cultural and musical meccas across the South, including Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans, and then to a Florida beach.

“In the backseat with my mobile hotspot going and 19 hours in the car, I worked on it. I spent much of that vacation and a couple of weeks afterwards doing what I had to do,” Gever recalled.

He took breaks from his research to listen to the blues and eat barbecue at B.B. King’s place on Beale Street in Memphis. His family toured Sun Studios and he got to play the same drums that U2 used when they recorded there in 1987 with King. They stayed on Bourbon Street, visited cemeteries and Preservation Hall, and heard jazz in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Gevers did all this while continuing to work on the award-winning paper. While the family was in a condo on the Gulf Coast, he edited his paper and worked on the “monstrous” legal citations, all from available resources online.

“Don’t get me wrong, it was a great experience to force myself to do that, but it would have been more fun without doing it,” he said.

Others in the competition often present papers that reflect months and even years of work.

“I was really surprised when I got there and I found that the body of work by the individuals in the competition – of the other five folks who were selected — included senior-year research projects and those that spanned all four years of their undergraduate education,” Gevers said. “Meantime, I had a much more tailored, rushed project, where I built it out over a month and a half, devoting all my time to it.”

Eikenberry said Gevers has taken two of her classes and that he stood out in both, including one class that had more than 100 students and was presented entirely online.

“He was always engaged in the class material and even helped other students with some difficult course material,” she said. “Given my experience with him in class, I had no doubt that he would do a great job.

“We did talk about the possibility of him completing something for next year’s competition, but he seemed ready and willing to give it a go this year despite the shortened time period and despite a pre-planned vacation.”

(more…)

Academy of Legal Studies in Business honors Kelley School professors for career achievement, leadership and service

Posted on October 4, 2022 by George Vlahakis

Among those honored was Professor Timothy Fort, far right, seen speaking at a panel on ethical leadership in 2017, which also featured Poling Chair Alexandra Christina, Lee Hamilton and Forrest Gilmore.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Several faculty members and a student at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business recently were recognized with awards from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.

They included lifetime career achievement honors for Timothy Fort, the Eveleigh Professor in Business Ethics and professor of business law and ethics, who received the academy’s Distinguished Career Achievement Award; and early career success for student Robert Gevers, who won first place in a student research paper competition (more about him in a future article).

Jamie Prenkert, executive associate dean for faculty and research and the Charles M. Hewitt Professor of Business Law, also was honored with the Kay Duffy Outstanding Service Award – the academy’s most-treasured service recognition — for his efforts to produce the 2021 ALSB conference in a completely online format. He served as president of ALSB’s executive committee in 2021-22.

Matthew Turk, associate professor of business law and ethics, was honored as the American Business Law Journal Outstanding Reviewer, which was characterized by Josh Perry, associate dean for academics and the Graf Family Professor of Business Law and Ethics, as “valuable and often unheralded service.”

“This recognition continues our proud Kelley tradition of national leadership in our discipline’s flagship organization,” said Perry, who recently served as chair of the Department of Business Law and Ethics. “I hope each of us felt gratified by our collective stature and legacy in the Academy, connected to colleagues in fresh ways, and inspired to continue striving toward new levels of excellence.”

Founded in 1924, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business is an association of teachers and scholars in the fields of business law, legal environment, and law-related courses outside of professional law schools. In addition to the American Business Law Journal, it publishes the leading pedagogical journal in the field, the Journal of Legal Studies Education.

Lifetime honors for Professor Fort

Fort, who came to Kelley in 2013 after previously teaching at the University of Michigan and George Washington University, has written more than 15 books and more than 80 articles and book chapters and edited an additional 23 textbooks, supplemental pedagogical books, and research volumes. Two of his books have won the Best Book Award from the Academy of Management for social issues, including The Diplomat in the Corner Office and Business, Integrity & Peace.

He has won 13 research awards from three different academic associations, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the Society for Business Ethics, and the Academy of Management and has served on the editorial boards of the flagship journals of each of these associations.

He has also won five teaching awards, served as academic director for a unique program for players from the National Football League and co-taught a course with then-Federal Reserve Chair, Ben Bernanke. He has also served as director of an institute, as department chair and as an interim associate dean.

His primary research interest concerns how ethical business conduct can foster sustainable peace. He began that research in 1999 as one of the first people to look at the role business institutions can play in creating more harmonious environments. Fort has organized 15 conferences and encouraged more than 100 scholars to turn their skills to this topic.

“Twenty years later, business and peace is an established field of study with scholarly streams impacting government, business and civil society,” Perry said. “Through Tim’s work, the field has become increasingly accepted and integrated, and its role in addressing civil conflict has never been more important and timely. It is now embraced in the same way that environmental sustainability, rare in business schools 25 years ago, is now recognized.” (more…)

Kelley School of Business honors five alumni for their professional achievements

Posted on September 29, 2022 by George Vlahakis

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Five alumni of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business from around the world will be honored for professional achievement during the 2022 Kelley Alumni Awards Ceremony on Oct. 1 at IU Bloomington.

Being named to the Kelley School of Business Academy of Alumni Fellows are:

Joo Youn Boe, managing director with Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management
Dr. David A. Hormuth, heart and lung procurement surgeon, Star Teams Transplant
Maurice Markey, chief executive officer of Pro Food Solutions, an IMB Partners portfolio company.

The 2022 Distinguished Entrepreneur Award will be presented to Bambang Panutomo, founder and advisor of Batavia Prosperindo International, based in Singapore. Shelley Raper, a relationship banker with PNC Bank in Carmel, Indiana, will receive the Volunteer Leadership Award.

“It’s always an honor to recognize Kelley School alumni who have left their marks on their communities and at their companies, and who reflect the leadership and successes associated with the many people who make up Kelley’s alumni network of 126,000,” said Ash Soni, interim dean of the Kelley School and The SungKyunKwan Professor. “We remain among the most innovative and respected business schools in the world because of the success and support of our alumni.”

To date, 251 individuals have been honored as members of the Academy of Alumni Fellows for their outstanding accomplishments (See the complete listing of award winners). Here’s more about this year’s award recipients: (more…)

Committee named to lead dean search for IU Kelley School of Business

Posted on September 28, 2022 by George Vlahakis

Hodge Hall at the Kelley School of Business, as seen from the air on the Indiana University Bloomington campus

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University Bloomington’s Provost and Executive Vice President Rahul Shrivastav has appointed a committee to identify candidates for the position of dean at IU’s top-ranked Kelley School of Business.

The Kelley School has been a leader in American business education since 1920, preparing students to lead organizations, start companies, develop new products and services, and shape business knowledge and policy. With more than 126,000 living alumni and a total record enrollment of 15,134 students and about 330 faculty members at IU Bloomington, IUPUI and online worldwide, the Kelley School is among the premier business schools in the country.

The school is frequently ranked among the top programs in the U.S. and globally. Its Kelley Direct online MBA and Master of Science programs are ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review. U.S. News also rates Kelley undergraduate programs among the best, ranking it eighth overall.

Ten specialty programs are in the top 25 of their areas, with eight of those — including accounting, entrepreneurship, and marketing — in the top 10. Idie Kesner was Dean of the Kelley School from 2013 until August 2022. Ash Soni, Professor of Operations & Decision Technologies and SungKyunKwan Professor at the school, will continue to serve as interim dean during the search process.

Rahul Shrivastav (Photo by Ethan Gill/Indiana University)

Provost Shrivastav praised Soni and Kesner for their exemplary leadership. “It is hard to overstate the importance of the Kelley School to Indiana University—as well as to our partners here in Indiana, across the country, and all over the world,” Shrivastav said. “We now have a wonderful group to help choose a leader for Kelley’s next 100 years.”

Anastasia (Stacy) Morrone, Dean of the IU School of Education, will chair the search committee. The committee includes representatives of faculty, staff, and students at IU Bloomington and IUPUI.

Anastasia (Stacy) Morrone, Dean, Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, Indiana University (Chair)
Demetra Andrews, Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing, Kelley School of Business, IUPUI
Matt Billett, Richard E. Jacobs Chair in Finance, Professor of Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Raymond R. Burke, E.W. Kelley Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Marketing, Director, Customer Interface Laboratory, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Raj Desai, Senior, Finance and Accounting, Vice President of Membership for Kelley Student Government, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Ted Koenig, Chairman and CEO, Monroe Capital LLC
Kari Johnson, Associate Department Chair, Operations & Decision Technologies, Teaching Professor and Grant Thornton Scholar, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Haizhen Lin, Associate Professor of Economics, Co-Director, Kelley Institute for Business Analytics, Weimer Faculty Fellow, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; Research Associate National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, Associate Chair, Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Eveleigh Professor of Business Leadership, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Sonja Rego, Department Chair and KPMG Professor of Accounting, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Nan Rockey, Department Secretary, Business Economics and Public Policy Department, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; CWA Local 4818 Member
April Edwards Sellers, Pam Meyer Yttri Director of the Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business, Clinical Professor of Business Law & Ethics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Joyce St. Clair, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Northern Trust
Paulos Tewolde, 2023 MBA Candidate, Student Body President, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Carmund White, Associate Director, Undergraduate Program & Director of Diversity Initiatives, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Matt Waller, Senior Executive Advisor to the Provost, Office of the Provost (Ex-officio)

Located in downtown Indianapolis, Kelley IUPUI actively serves the business community in Indiana’s capitol city.

State-of-the-art $10 million Brian D. Jellison Studio Classroom and Studios dedicated

Posted on September 21, 2022 by George Vlahakis

Carrie Docherty, interim vice provost at IU Bloomington, presided over the dedication of Jellison Studios.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University formally dedicated the $10 million Brian D. Jellison Studio Classroom and Studios at the Kelley School of Business, in a Sept. 9 ceremony that highlighted both how online education has evolved and the impact that the new facility already is having on the student experience.

Funded through a $16 million gift in 2020 from the Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation, Jellison Studios are providing Kelley online students with the experience of being in a live classroom for faculty instruction and interaction with their peers. The studios also will offer on-site and online students with new ways to learn, making their time in the classroom more valuable and dynamic.

Carrie Docherty, interim vice provost for strategy and innovation at IU Bloomington, thanked the Jellison family, not only for their gift for the studios, but also for their support of Kelley’s Brian D. Jellison Living Learning Center, which moved to the newly renovated McNutt Residence Center this fall.

“The investment in Jellison Studios offers a fresh, future-focused dimension to a Kelley education,” Docherty said. “It offers a tangible expression of IU’s commitment to offering an education that equips our students to help lead the ever-changing world they will enter as alums. And it shows us why Kelley continues to lead the way as a top school of business.

Brian D. Jellison. Photo courtesy of the Jellison Family Foundation

“I cannot overstate the importance of the Kelley School to Indiana University and our campus – as well as to our partners here in Indiana, across the country and all over the world,” she added.

Brian D. Jellison, a 1968 IU graduate, created the foundation with his wife, Sheila, and their three daughters before he passed in November 2018. In addition to being a loving husband and father, he also is remembered as a passionate leader and mentor to many, both inside and outside of Roper Technologies, where he was CEO for 17 years.

Studios keep Kelley on the ‘leading edge’

In his remarks, Ash Soni, interim dean of the Kelley School, the SungKyunKwan Professor and a Kelley faculty member since 1981, provided a history lesson on how instructional technologies have gone from projecting images on a screen to today’s use of interactive videotelephony platforms such as Zoom.

“We’ve come a long way since the days of the overhead projector. I’m old enough to remember when that was considered innovative classroom technology,” Soni said. “When we first started developing online courses, we did live classes using what was basically a text-based chat room. We only had a limited number of characters to make a point.

“Think about it, it was like teaching a class using Twitter, except that Twitter is more advanced because of the number of characters,” he added.

In 1999, Kelley became the first top 20 business school to launch an online MBA – Kelley Direct — with a class of 14 students. This past year, more than 700 students graduated from the school’s online programs. “We have always been at the leading edge in online education and to this day we’re still the very best, with multiple No. 1 rankings,” Soni said. (more…)

Now 20 years old, the Godfrey Center remains a vibrant hub for graduate education at Kelley

Posted on September 19, 2022 by George Vlahakis

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The centennial celebration in 2020 for the Indiana University Kelley School of Business sadly was muted by the Covid-19 pandemic. But 2022 offers something of a reset, given that IU offered its first classes in commerce in 1902.

This fall provides two major milestones – the 120^th anniversary of business education at IU Bloomington and the 20^th anniversary of the William J. Godfrey Graduate and Executive Education Center.

In 1920, the IU Board of Trustees established a School of Commerce and Finance, but the initial foundation for business education was laid by IU presidents William Lowe Bryan and Joseph Swain, who identified the need for the university to expand and provide more professional areas of study. Commerce courses were introduced into the economics curriculum in 1902.

In 2002, retired Kelley professor Joseph Waldman published a book, “The First One Hundred Years of Education for Business: 1902-2002,” which highlighted the important role that the Godfrey Center – also opening that year – would play in the business school’s future.

IU President Myles Brand and others applauded a humbled Dean Dan Dalton before a large audience packed in the Subhedar Forum during the Godfrey Center’s dedication on Nov. 22, 2002. (Courtesy: IU Archives)

When it opened, the $34 million, 180,000-square-foot building was praised for its technological features, including “innovations” such as wireless Internet and more than 2,600 data ports for computers. Kelley also became the first business school to use “smart whiteboards” that allowed students and faculty to apply hand-written notes to Web-based presentations in the center’s conference rooms.

Today, the Godfrey Center continues to serve its original purpose, housing offices for several master’s level programs, including the Full-Time MBA Program, Kelley Direct Programs, Master of Science in Information Systems, Kelley Executive Education, Executive Degree Programs and Graduate Accounting Programs.

“This is a building that has served us very well, always enabling the Kelley School to evolve and innovate to meet the needs of students and faculty in our growing and respected graduate programs,” said Ash Soni, interim dean of the Kelley School, SungKyunKwan Professor and professor of operations and decision technologies. “One of things we teach at Kelley is how to build value, for our students and the people they serve. The Godfrey Center is a building we highly value.”

E.W. “Ed” Kelley, the school’s namesake, was among those attending the dedication. (Courtesy IU Archives)

The Godfrey Center remains a vibrant hub for all kinds of activity at Kelley, which is evident to those entering the building and its Subhedar Forum and atrium on the first floor. Students frequent gather there for informal meetings as well as for special gatherings such as an annual multicultural night. Classrooms on the first and third floors are in constant use, including during the summer months.

According to the book, “Indiana University Bloomington: America’s Legacy Campus,” by former IU vice president J. Terry Clapacs,” the now familiar bridge over Fee Lane that connects the Godfrey Center with the Hodge Hall Undergraduate Center, initially was opposed by the campus administration.

“The university architects had always believed that connecting links above grade was an urban solution not in keeping with the natural, bucolic environment of the campus,” Clapacs wrote. “Nevertheless, (architect John) Belle convinced IU administrators and trustees that the bridge was appropriate in that location and would be seen as a symbolic unifying element, particularly if the offices of the dean were placed there, thus bonding the two major components of the school.”

Offices for faculty in the Department of Business Law and Ethics moved from Hodge Hall into Godfrey Center this summer, reflecting the growing size of the student body and the faculty needed to deliver quality degree programs to them. (more…)

Kelley School’s Full-Time MBA Program rises to 22nd in Bloomberg Businessweek rankings

Posted on September 15, 2022 by George Vlahakis

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Full-Time MBA Program at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business solidly remained among Bloomberg Businessweek’s top 25, moving up to 22nd overall, third in the Big Ten and seventh among public institutions.

Bloomberg Businessweek evaluated 117 MBA programs worldwide and ranked 81 of them this year, based on responses to surveys completed by graduating students, recent alumni and the companies that recruited them. They rank schools based on five indexes — Compensation, Learning, Networking, Entrepreneurship, and Diversity.

The Kelley School ranked No. 2 in the Networking index, ahead of respected programs such as Harvard, Chicago Booth, Dartmouth Tuck and Northwestern Kellogg. It “gauges the quality of networks cultivated by classmates; students’ interactions with alumni; effectiveness of the career services office; quality and breadth of alumni-to-alumni interactions; and the school’s brand power, according to recruiters.”

The program also was a top 10 performer – ranking eighth overall — in the Learning index, which editors considered a measure of a school’s “core mission.” Those surveyed assess MBA programs based on “quality, depth, and range of instruction, focusing on the curriculum relative to real-world business situations; emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and strategic thinking; mentoring and support from instructors; class size; and collaboration.”

“This year’s Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of full-time MBA programs highlights two qualities that we stress at Kelley – engagement and education,” said Ash Soni, interim dean of the Kelley School and SungKyunKwan Professor. “From their first day on campus, our students become part of a culture of collaboration that includes our global network of more than 126,000 alumni, who support one another and continue to apply the knowledge they’ve acquired through our innovative and imaginative curriculum.”

Kyle Cattani, chair of the Full-Time MBA Program, professor of operations management and Ming Mei Professor, added, “We are always pleased to be recognized as one of the top MBA programs in the world. The current rankings reflect our commitment and efforts to provide the best experience possible for our students in the classroom and beyond.”

This fall, 287 students are enrolled in the Kelley Full-Time MBA program. The program reported its highest average GMAT/GRE scores among highest ever from this year’s first-year class. The two classes include students from 28 different countries around the world.

Bloomberg Businessweek’s survey includes questions about everything from jobs to salaries, classroom learning to alumni networks. Their rankings were released on Sept. 15.

Habitat for Humanity chapter builds first container home, through support from Kelley

Posted on September 13, 2022 by George Vlahakis

Signs in front of a house — On Aug. 30, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County dedicated its first home built from a shipping container.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – As students and faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business look ahead to using their muscles this fall to build another home for a deserving Bloomington family, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County recently dedicated a house based on an idea from the minds of Kelley and IU students.

On Aug. 30, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County celebrated its first home built from a shipping container, which also was the first of its kind by a Habitat affiliate in Indiana. The foundation for project initially was laid in 2019 by students competing in the school’s inaugural Kelley Impact Competition.

The transformation of a shipping container into a 320-square-foot home, with one bedroom and bath, a living room and combined kitchen/dining space is nearly complete. The home also has a covered deck outside. Homeowner Charlie Lynn Abbott, who identifies as queer, non-binary and autistic, looks forward to planting flowers, berries, and bushes outside.

“I’ve never lived in a safe home before. Starting out in a place where family made my living situation unsafe, as an adult I moved into situations where poverty and my autism made living safely impossible. My physical and mental health have always shown the signs of this,” Abbott said at the ceremony. “Although I’ve put a lot of work into getting better, and becoming a better person, my living situation has been a constant barrier. A safe, affordable house isn’t just an object, or property for me. It is a promise of the opportunity to live a better life and create my future self. This is my life long, and ultimate dream.” (more…)