Author: Neil Schoenherr

Burt Tansky, former CEO and chair of Neiman Marcus Group, addresses a large gathering of students April 11 in the Knight Center. Tansky was on campus to speak to students enrolled in a spring mini course aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the $237 billion luxury goods market.

Anjan Thakor, PhD, associate dean and the John E. Simon Professor of Finance; Stephen Williamson, PhD, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences; and Julie Stackhouse, senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will discuss “The Future of The Fed” during an Olin Business Issues Forum at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in Simon Hall, Room 112. The event is free and open to the public.

Stuart Bunderson, PhD, of the Olin Business School gives a presentation of his scholarly work during his installation as the first George and Carol Bauer Professor of Organizational Ethics and Governance March 31 in the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center.

Planning to negotiate a raise? Try not to discuss it with the boss in his or her office, suggests a new study by an organizational behavior expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

William A. Peck, MD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine, director of the Center for Health Policy and former dean of the School of Medicine, will present “Health Care in America: Transforming the Citadel,” for the Weidenbaum Center Forum at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, in Whitaker Hall, Room 100.

Fox News political analyst Juan Williams will present “The Capacity of America to Address Its Most Pressing Domestic Issues” for the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy’s annual dinner at 8 p.m. Monday, April 4, in the main dining room of the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center. A media briefing will be held at 5:45 p.m.

The final IdeaBounce event of the academic year will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Sponsored by the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, IdeaBounce offers innovators and entrepreneurs from around the region a place to collaborate in the development of new ideas.

The New York Times will begin charging users for online content March 28. No American news outlet as big as the paper has put its content behind a paywall after offering it for free. Will it be successful? Two marketing professors at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis debate the merits of a paywall.

Charles L. Leven, 82, PhD, emeritus professor of economics in Arts & Sciences, died Tuesday, March 15, 2011 in Chicago. Leven spent nearly 30 years in the department until his retirement in 1991. He was an expert in urban economics.

When the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was repealed 11 years ago, financial institutions were allowed to engage in commercial and investment activities under the same roof. But a new study by a professor in Olin Business School finds it’s difficult to maintain an information firewall between those activities when they are housed in the same financial institution.