In the Media
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Hobson Prefers Furlough Alternative
Accountancy professor Jessen Hobson would like to see the campus avoid a furlough solution to the budget crisis. (11/2009) |
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Meerdink Enjoying Busy Retirement
Welcoming a new grand-child and hosting a 30th birthday party for her daughter-in-law are among the many activities occupying Lois Meerdink's life in retirement. (11/2009) |
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Kindt Report Bolsters National Gambling Impact Study
According to these reports and others, student populations are particularly vulnerable to VGM gambling addiction and will get hooked at double the adult addiction rates — creating a larger, expensive, new generation of gambling addicts. (11/2009) |
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Honors Program Strengthens Ties Abroad
Honors students build connections in China and Turkey. (11/2009) |
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Kindt Quoted on Gambling
"Compulsive gamblers will increase by 100 to 500 percent when gambling is introduced" says John Kindt, professor of business administration. (11/2009) |
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College News Briefs And Press Releases
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Study: Credit Crisis, Debt Load a Double Whammy for Investment
Professors Scott Weisbenner, Murillo Campello, and Heitor Almeida along with doctoral student Bruno Laranjeira find that firms with heavy long-term debt that came due amid the nation's recent credit crisis slashed investments more than three times as much as companies whose paybacks ducked the meltdown. (11/2009) |
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CBPP Sponsors Forum on Climate Policy Prospects
The Center for Business and Public Policy are sponsoring a forum on global warming held in BIF on Nov. 3. (10/2009) |
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Fullerton is Keynote Speaker at European Commission Conference
Professor Don Fullerton has been invited to be the keynote speaker at a conference of European Union tax commissioners in Brussels, Belgium, on November 30th. (10/2009) |
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MBA Student Leads Illinois to 2nd Place in Solar Decathlon
A team of students from the University of Illinois won second place today (Oct. 16) in the 2009 Solar Decathlon design competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Winners of the international contest were announced this morning in Washington, D.C., by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman. (10/2009) |
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Nolan Miller Awarded NBER Fellowship
Nolan Miller, professor of finance, has recently been selected as a Faculty Research Fellow of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research for his contributions to the field of economics. (10/2009) |
Features
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Team DeBrock
The first Josef and Margot Lakonishok Deanship is awarded to Larry DeBrock. (11/2009) |
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Jeremy Nuzzo '10 Chauffeured by Warren Buffett
Enterprising honors student Jeremy Nuzzo shares an opportunity to lunch with Warren Buffett with his fellow honors students. They and Dean Hedeman trek to Nebraska and learn the business icon is "down to earth, modest, and hilarious!" (11/2009) |
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Business Students Win Campus KPMG Case Competition
A team of four College of Business students took first place in the KPMG Global Case Competition and will now compete in the national round of the competition hosted in Athens, Greece in January. (11/2009) |
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MBA Students Win Third Place in Bankruptcy Competition
A team of 3 ILLINOIS MBA students and 1 Masters of Finance student placed third in the Kellogg/American Bankruptcy Institute Corporate Restructuring case competition; judging for the competition was held at the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago on November 6. (11/2009) |
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Energy Diversity Not Energy Independence
BP America Head of Supply and Trading, Andy Milnes gave the Alan M. Hallene Lecture in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center on October 28, 2009. (11/2009) |
