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

Posted on by George Vlahakis

 

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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Kelley School conference examines healthcare industry’s role in fighting the opioid epidemic

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Dr. Jennifer Walthall, secretary of the Indiana Family & Social Services Administration, will keynote “The Healthcare Industry in Pain Management and Addressing the Opioid Crisis,” a conference being presented Feb. 15 by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

Walthall will kick off the conference, the latest event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series, organized by Kelley’s Center for the Business of Life Sciences. It will take place at Cook Medical headquarters, 750 Daniels Way in Bloomington. The event will begin at 9 a.m. and wrap up at 2:45 p.m.

An IU study released last year found that opioid misuse costs Indiana over $4 billion annually, or $11 million daily. The conference will focus on how the healthcare industry can play a key role in combating this crisis and find alternative treatments for dealing with pain other than opioids.

Representatives from providers, pharmaceuticals and medical device companies will provide an overview and an update on a wide range of initiatives and current efforts.

“While other conferences have focused on the scope and causes of the opioid crisis, we hope to contribute to the effort to find solutions for what is perhaps Indiana’s biggest public health crisis,” said George Telthorst, director of the Center for the Business of Life Sciences. “This crisis emerged because of many factors – some well-intended and others unintended – but the healthcare industry has accumulated much knowledge that hopefully can effectively fight this challenge.” (more…)

IU Kelley School establishes campus-wide case competition for socially minded students

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Socially-minded students at Indiana University Bloomington are invited to participate in a new case competition that this year will benefit Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County.

Hosted by the IU Kelley School of Business and its Kelley Institute for Social Impact, participants will help Habitat analyze its current operating model and propose ideas for future development.

The Kelley Impact Competition is open to all undergraduate IU students. Organizers welcome participation from teams of four students who demonstrate a variety of academic and professional interests.

In addition to monetary prizes for the top three teams, the winning team will receive $10,000 in seed money to support their idea and hopefully create lasting change in the community.

“People are financially incentivized to come up with the next big startup idea more than they are to solve today’s major social issues,” said Kelley 2011 alumnus Lance Breitstein, whose gift made the competition possible.

“This competition seeks to realign those incentives so that we can have the smartest students in the country learning more about the issues in their community, getting involved in a solution, and making a real difference in the world around them,” Breitstein added.

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Financial Times Global MBA rankings highlight the value of Kelley School’s career services and research activities

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business made a major move upward in the Financial Times’ annual survey of the top 100 MBA programs in the world.

In rankings released Jan. 28, the school’s Full-Time MBA Program went from 57th to 43rd overall and rose to 22nd among all U.S. business schools. Kelley ranks sixth among all U.S. public institutions and third in the Big Ten.

The Kelley School’s rise in FT’s rankings comes at a time when many traditional residential MBA programs in the United States are facing growing competition, not only from each other, but also from business schools around the world. The FT rankings are a popular guide across Europe and Asia and are well respected among international students.

The FT’s ranking methodology involves 20 data points, including salary increases for alumni, international mobility and percentages of female and international faculty. A key strength for Kelley is its career services ranking – No. 5 worldwide.

“We’re always pleased with recognition of our programs, particularly when it reflects the school’s international prominence,” said Idalene “Idie” Kesner, dean of the Kelley School and the Frank P. Popoff Chair of Strategic Management.

“Business is global, and so too is the Kelley School. We understand the value of a culturally diverse student body and the importance of engaging our students in international projects,” Kesner added. “These aspects, along with our highly ranked career services program, are valued by our students and recruiters, and they enrich the educational experience for all.  Simply stated, we are developing business leaders with a global mindset.”

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IU’s Kelley School of Business shares first-place honors with UC Berkeley’s Haas School at National Diversity Case Competition

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Capping off the largest National Diversity Case Competition ever was another historic first, a first-ever tie for first place.

A team of students from the host school, the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, shared the 2019 top honors with a team from the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley (pictured above).

“This tells you how rigorous the competition was,” said Diana Rath, a senior at Kelley majoring in marketing, professional sales, and technology management from Lawrence, Indiana. “We knew from the beginning that it was going to be tough, but that motivated us to work even harder.

“The judges even spent an extra 30 minutes deliberating, which shows how great all of the presentations were,” added Rath, who served as the team’s captain.

Also representing Kelley were Liwam Gebreslassie, a sophomore majoring in accounting and finance from Indianapolis; and Sharod Holmes, a junior majoring entrepreneurship from Merrillville, Indiana.

The National Diversity Case Competition is held annually the weekend before Martin Luther King Jr. Day and brings together some of the best and most diverse talent in undergraduate education from across the country. This was the eighth year for the event, which took place Jan. 18-19.

The two teams – which each received a $6,250 cash prize — emerged victorious from among a record field of 42 teams. All focused on a case provided by Target Corp. that examined the role that small-concept stores can play in urban areas.

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