Business & Entrepreneurship

The Senate’s approval of Elena Kagan as a U.S. Supreme Court justice marks the first time three women will serve together and gives the court its youngest member, among other shifts.

Olin MBA students are taking their classroom skills to the boardroom. Nine MBAs have been selected to serve on the boards of social service agencies supported by the United Way of Greater St. Louis. Students will get real-world experience while helping the community they live in.  

A comprehensive study by an intellectual property law expert published in the journal Science may guide global climate change and other scientific policy-makers in developing rules for research data release. 

Four School of Law faculty members have received Fulbright awards for the 2010-11 school year. They are Dorsey D. Ellis Jr., JD; ; David Law, JD, PhD; Jo Ellen Lewis, JD; and Leila N. Sadat, JD.

The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed July 6 against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law will likely see partial success, according to a Washington University in St. Louis law professor. But he predicts the legal battle will extend beyond Arizona.

“Scotch” comes from a word meaning water of life, and the industry is the life blood of the Scottish economy. That makes scotch whiskey an excellent case study for Olin Business School students. A10-day research trip to visit Scotland’s distilleries got off to an adventureous start as the students had to skirt volcanic ash and airline strikes to reach their destination.

Hillary A. Sale, JD, securities law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, talks with Steve Chiotakis of Marketplace Public Radio about whether it’s difficult to prosecute derivatives trading and what she’s watching closely about cases coming down the pike.

The Brookings Institution and Washington University’s Academic Venture Fund (AVF) is seeking proposals from fellows, faculty, staff, centers, institutes and programs.

To complete a course in entrepreneurship, Olin Business School students traveled to Budapest, Hungary for some hands-on work with new ventures. Their consulting projects not only benefitted the eastern European entrepreneurs, but helped students gain a better understanding of the global marketplace and their career futures.

The U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representative are working toward a final version of the financial reform bill, which is expected be on the desk of President Barack Obama by July 4. Securities law expert Hillary A. Sale, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, says that is coming at a good time for the Securities & Exchange Commission.