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A Silicon Valley innovator, an NFL executive and other Kelley alumni join a former ambassador in addressing graduates

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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 during the weekend of May 3-4. Speakers from the business world will offer Kelley graduates advice and encouragement tailored to them.

John C. Shoemaker, board chairman of Extreme Networks, a former executive vice president of Sun Microsystems and a 1966 Kelley MBA graduate (pictured right), will speak to MBA graduates May 3 at the IU Auditorium.

With more than three decades of experience in high tech, Shoemaker held various executive management positions at Sun Microsystems from 1990 through 2004, including executive vice president for worldwide operations, executive vice president and general manager of its Computer Systems Division. He also served in a number of senior executive positions with Xerox Corp., including as its senior vice president of worldwide marketing. (more…)

Jon Beroza Found His Way to a Big Four Firm with Kelley Undergraduate Career Services

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Jon Beroza grew up in a small town on Long Island, and after spending his college years in mid-size Bloomington and completing a summer internship in Chicago, he’s ready to start his career in a big city. Beroza just landed his ideal job at Deloitte Consulting in Chicago.

With more than 4,000 employees in 500,000 square feet of office space near the (former) Sears Tower, the Deloitte office is one of the largest professional services organizations in the city. “I always envisioned a career with a Big 4 Four firm but did not know how to break into the industry,” says Beroza, who is majoring in finance and technology management at the Kelley School of Business.

Last summer, Beroza’s internship in Chicago at a smaller firm offered a valuable experience in addition to the business skills gained; he learned how to be independent in Chicago on his own. “It was scary for sure moving to Chicago. But I quickly learned to navigate the city and it didn’t seem so overwhelming,” says Beroza. After his internship, he decided that he would like to explore career options at larger firms, like Deloitte.

Beroza will begin his new career this summer as a business technology analyst. “Deloitte offers everything I was looking for-it’s a large company where I can leverage different service lines representing different industries and sectors,” he says. “It has a broad reach.”

Based on his experiences, what is Beroza’s advice to other Kelley students? “Take advantage of the resources available. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Kelley and the Undergraduate Career Services team do a good job of connecting students with resources, but they are not going to just hand everything to you. It’s really up to the student to take some initiative,” he says.

The Kelley Undergraduate Career Services is an important and valuable resource for students at Kelley. The UCS has a team of experienced professionals who help students find the career that is right for them. They organize career fairs and on-site company visits and interviews. The staff also provide a range of personalized job-search coaching sessions from writing a resume to developing strong interview skills. Utilizing the available resources can best prepare Kelley students for career success.

No. 1 ranking highlights Kelley’s leadership role in researching and advancing entrepreneurship

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is again No. 1 in the 2019 World Rankings for Entrepreneurship Productivity, which examined research in the discipline at nearly 500 colleges and universities worldwide.

Kelley has consistently been at the top of these rankings, which come out every five years.

Between 2014 and 2018, the Neely Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Texas Christian University tracked research articles in three top entrepreneurship journals — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

The rankings – established 10 years ago — are based on the number of published articles in these publications, which also are among the Financial Times’ overall list of 50 leading business journals.

As in the past, research activity by faculty in Kelley’s Department of Management and Entrepreneurship far outpaced those at other universities. The 37 articles published by Kelley faculty nearly doubled the number of articles by professors at Imperial College London, who published 21 articles.

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Kelley director of diversity initiatives brings same passion for students as he does on stage

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Carmund White has performed on some big stages around the world. Sometimes he’s been out there alone and other times he’s been part of an ensemble.

An opera tenor, White’s sung the roles of the smuggler character “Remendado” in Bizet’s opera, “Carmen.” He’s been the villain “Monastotos” in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” He was in the world premiere of an opera based on Thornton Wilder’s classic, “Our Town.” He’s sung before audiences in Washington, in South Africa, Indianapolis and across the country.

Today, White is undergraduate director of diversity initiatives for the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. While the venues were different, White’s experience as a vocal artist enables him to understand the pressures of his students to also perform well. He also understands the importance of having a mentor.

“I think that it helps to have some perspective,” he said of his previous career.

“I know that I put more pressure on myself than my parents put on me, and I know that my students put enormous amounts of pressure on themselves,” he said. “They’re driving themselves so hard. I can relate to them and I try to help them realize that while they are exceptional if they pull it back a little bit, they’ll be fine.”

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Helping improve education and opportunities for women in India at the heart of Kelley project

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Connections that 100 Kelley Direct online MBA students hoped to make during their recent Kelley Connect Week went far beyond the usual networking opportunities.

If they are indeed successful, their efforts will help empower young women in rural areas of Bihar province, India, and perhaps beyond.

Kshitiz Anand, an Indiana University alumnus (front-row, center in above image), returned to Bloomington in early March to share with Kelley Direct students the vision that he and his wife Vatsala have been working to achieve since 2013 through the Happy Horizons Trust.

The non-governmental organization is trying to improve the quality of education in rural India, particularly for young women who often are discouraged from pursuing more than a basic education. It has about 40 employees (full-time and part-time) and works with about 25,000 students at 40 schools in Bihar through its different programs.

With about 315 million students, the Indian educational system is among the largest in the world. However, there is a shortage of teachers in rural areas of India, which affects student development, and many children in rural areas are first-generation students. Poor educational quality leads to illiteracy.

Happy Horizons Trust has created programs that help with the students’ cognitive, motor, social and creative skills. For example, pictured below is an internet awareness course being taught to 20 young women in the village of Kahra, to help them better understand digital technology and its applications.

Discussions in India between Anand and Ramesh Venkataraman, chair of Kelley Direct MBA and MS programs and the John R. Gibbs Professor of information systems, led to the live case project that Kelley Direct students worked on during Kelley Connect Week. Will Geoghegan, clinical assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship, wrote the case.

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Opa! Students travel to Greece, learn from someone known for her love for the country

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Many around Indiana University, the Kelley School of Business and beyond know of Tatiana Kolovou’s love for the land of her birth, Greece.

As attested by the headline of recent article in Hellas Journal, a major Greek publication, the Kelley faculty member also is known as “the Greek professor in the U.S. who teaches her students to love our country.”

Over the last decade, Kolovou, a senior lecturer of business communication, has taken about 300 Kelley School undergraduates and MBA students to Greece as part of immersion courses about the country, its economy and culture. She and two dozen undergraduate students in her “Business Culture of Greece” class traveled there during spring break on March 10-17.

They visited companies and met with business professionals involved in a variety of industries, including the Greek offices of global advertising giant, McCann;  Greece’s leading digital media communications company, Antenna Group;  a natural cosmetics company, Apivita; an outdoor recreational products manufacturer, Terra Nation; an olive oil producer and tourism and travel firms.

The people they met included Anastasios Economou, founder of the investment holding company iGroup who has been called the “Mark Cuban of Greece;” and Nikos Panayiotopoulos, a member of Greece’s parliament.

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Home run! Kelley School professor’s research on fan safety being honored by the Society for American Baseball Research

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Just in time for baseball’s Opening Day on March 28, an Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor has learned his research on why Major League Baseball shouldn’t be immune from tort liability when fans are injured will receive a major award.

Nathaniel Grow’s article, “The Faulty Law and Economics of the ‘Baseball Rule,’” published in the William & Mary Law Review last spring, has received the SABR Baseball Research Award from the Society for American Baseball Research.

The SABR Baseball Research Award honors those whose outstanding research projects completed during the preceding calendar year have significantly expanded our knowledge or understanding of baseball.

Grow, an associate professor of business law and ethics (pictured left), will be awarded the honor a few home runs away from Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres, at the Society for American Baseball Research’s annual conference June 26-30.

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Kelley professors’ arguments help sway judges in major court defeat for Airbnb and HomeAway

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – An opinion issued March 13 by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals —  which likely will dramatically impact the regulation of platform-based technology firms nationwide — closely followed the line of argument laid out in a brief filed with the court by two Indiana University Kelley School of Business professors, Abbey Stemler and Matt Turk.

“This case is going to be huge as it will dramatically impact how the sharing economy is regulated. It could also have profound impacts on the regulation of the internet in general,” said Stemler, an assistant professor of business law and ethics at Kelley (pictured left).

Stemler and Turk, also an assistant professor of business law and ethics, filed the amicus brief in May on behalf of two California municipalities in the case, HomeAway.com Inc. & Airbnb vs. City of Santa Monica.

The case involved Airbnb and HomeAway’s challenges to an ordinance rolled out by the City of Santa Monica and represents a much larger battle between local governments and Silicon Valley. In particular, the Santa Monica ordinance requires an Airbnb or HomeAway host to have a short-term rental license before the companies can collect a fee for their booking services.

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Kelley professor to receive IU Bloomington’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

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George Ball

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – George Ball, assistant professor of operations and decision technologies and ArcelorMittal Supply Chain Faculty Fellow, is among an accomplished group of faculty members who will receive the 2019 Indiana University Bloomington Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.

The award is designed to identify promising tenure-track faculty who have not yet been awarded tenure and to provide resources to further develop their scientific, scholarly or artistic activities. It is presented by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs.

The Outstanding Junior Faculty Award is the most prestigious campus-wide award for pre-tenured faculty and is intended to recognize IU’s most promising young faculty. Those selected to receive this honor have begun to develop nationally-recognized research programs, as well as making important contributions to IU’s teaching and service missions.

Ball’s research interests focus on product recalls, specifically issues related to causes of recalls and the decision to recall. He has studied these issues in the auto, pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

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Kelley Direct Online MBA again ranked second in the U.S. and fourth worldwide by Financial Times

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Kelley Direct students here for Kelley Connect Week received some additional good news Monday, when they learned along with the rest of the business school about new rankings from the Financial Times, which again ranked the program fourth worldwide and second among U.S. institutions.

One of several top-rated offerings of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Kelley Direct a year ago moved up into those positions in FT’s rankings and has maintained them within a competitive field. While the top four programs in FT’s rankings of online MBA programs remain unchanged, there were many shifts among schools in the top 10 and beyond.

In addition, Kelley Direct was No. 1 overall in terms of research rank and online delivery and its career services were ranked second.

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