Business & Entrepreneurship

In a business famed for slow and patient aging, it’s been a meteoric rise. Just six years ago, former WashU roommates David Mandell and Daniel Linde stood on a rolling cornfield at the eastern edge of Bardstown, Kentucky. Today, the 100-acre site is home to their Bardstown Bourbon Company, already one of the world’s largest bourbon distilleries.

First-year students discover that entrepreneurship isn’t just a way to make money — it’s also a set of tools that anyone can use to improve the world around them.

Although most likely temporary, inflation expectations could become self-fulfilling prophesy, according to John Horn, professor of practice in economics at Olin Business School.

The Financial Intermediation Research Society has awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award to Anjan Thakor, the John E. Simon Professor of Finance at Olin Business School.

On Principle, Olin Business School’s new podcast, tells the stories of pivotal business decisions. What led to them? What were the choices? And what lessons can executives, entrepreneurs and other leaders draw from them?

A new report from the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association lists Washington University among the top 100 worldwide granted U.S. patents in 2020.

Olin Business School’s Tony Sardella, along with Paolo De Bona, PMBA ’20, will join the Brookings Institution for a virtual public forum on June 11 to discuss their research on the shortage of critical pharmaceutical drugs in U.S.

Despite the pandemic, Washington University researchers collaborating with international colleagues continue to innovate and move their research forward.

The new CDC guidelines may help businesses – especially restaurants and bars – if customers feel safer with the new recommendations, according to Olin Business School’s Raphael Thomadsen and Song Yao.

Today’s consumers are more attuned to brands’ values and willing to pay a premium to support companies that share their values, according to new research from the Bauer Leadership Center at Washington University in St. Louis and Vrity.