Business & Entrepreneurship

Jim McKelvey, School of Engineering & Applied Science alumnus and co-founder of Square, spoke with MBA students at WUSTL Nov. 1. His visit was part of the Entrepreneurship Platform Summit, organized by Cliff Holekamp, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at Olin Business School.

The Washington University Assembly Series and the School of Law Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series will close their fall 2013 program schedules on Thursday, Nov. 14, with an address by Catharine MacKinnon, one of the principal architects of landmark sex equality laws in the United States, and more currently known as an internationally successful litigator against sex crimes and human trafficking. MacKinnon will speak on “Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality” at noon in the Anheuser-Busch Hall Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

By looking at what banks do rather than what they say, finance professors in the Olin Business School estimate that the effect on bank profitability of new regulations would be hardly noticeable.

Washington University School of Law will celebrate 40 years of clinical education and community collaborations at the 13th annual Access to Equal Justice Conference from noon-4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in Anheuser-Busch Hall’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom. The conference is free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public.

Sir Christopher Greenwood, LLB, the British judge on the International Court of Justice, will discuss how the International Court of Justice works to bring about world peace at noon Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Recent political showdowns over the so-called “debt ceiling crisis” have many people questioning whether it is appropriate for the Supreme Court to intervene in the legislative and executive issue. Adam H. Rosenzweig, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, examines in Constitution Daily the Supreme Court’s potential involvement.​

In Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, the civil rights lawyer and professor offers surprising revelations about how our current prison system and drug policies are condeming a large population of African Americans to a life of second-class statush. Alexander will deliver a lecture on the subject at noon on Friday, November 1 for the Assembly Series and the Law School’s Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series.

Washington University in St. Louis and Fudan University’s joint Executive MBA program in Shanghai moved up three spots to No. 6 in the Financial Times annual ranking of the world’s best EMBA programs.

Several faculty members have joined the Olin Business School this academic year. Learn more about their backgrounds and expertise.

Sixty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court — in a unanimous decision — ruled that housing covenants restricting home ownership based on race violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The case was Shelley v. Kraemer. Leading the charge in that historic 1948 case was Margaret Bush Wilson, an African-American lawyer and civil rights activist. Margaret Bush Wilson’s legacy will be explored in a 1.0 credit CLE event, “Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of Shelley v. Kraemer and the Legacy of Margaret Bush Wilson: Where Are We Now?”, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22,  in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Washington University School of Law. The celebration will feature Theodore M. Shaw, JD, professor of professional practice at Columbia University School of Law. The event is free and open to students, faculty, staff, and the community.