Business & Entrepreneurship

Anjan Thakor at Olin Business School offers a new tool to help bank executives identify their organization’s culture and purpose, which ultimately drives risk-taking and overall performance.

After years of record investments and outsized returns fueled by ultralow interest rates, 3,200 U.S. private venture-backed companies — mostly tech startups — went out of business last year. Doug Villhard at Olin Business School said the bust will cause the industry to reassess what is really important.

Elanor Williams, an associate professor of marketing at Olin Business School, has been selected as one of the 2023 Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants for Undergrads.  

Tony Sims was born a hustler. This week, he is set to graduate from Washington University an entrepreneur. The Olin Business School student is among the 2,042 WashU students who are set to earn their degrees this month. The university will celebrate their accomplishments at the annual December recognition ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at the Athletic Complex.

A love of logistics and learning about the world leads Michael Holtz, BS ’87, to create a new kind of luxury travel company.

Robyn LeBoeuf, a professor of marketing and co-vice dean of faculty and research at Olin Business School, was installed as the inaugural Joyce and Chauncy Buchheit Distinguished Professor during a ceremony at the school’s Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center.

Alumnus Tej Seelamsetty applies his joint interests in business and technology to a massive health-care problem.

The Marketing Science Institute has identified Sydney Scott, an assistant professor of marketing at Olin Business School, as a promising young scholar.

First-year MBA students at Olin Business School devoted more than 400 hours of service to the St. Louis community this summer through organizations including the Habitat for Neighborhood Business, Here to Stay, the Crisis Nursery of St. Louis, Annie Malone and the Delmar Devine.

The Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis has received a two-year $475,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation. The funding supports research to understand the impact of short-term credentials on various aspects of individuals’ lives.