Olin Business School

It’s called Sketch-a-Song. It’s free and it’s designed to make music creation accessible to everyone — even people without formal musical training. WUSTL seniors Jacob Zax and Adam Segal are members of the team of seven high school friends who devoted last summer to creating the app.

Aramark Chef Shane Brassel has won the silver medal at the International Association of Conference Centres Copper Skillet Competition. Brassel is the Executive Chef at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center.

Winners of the eight annual YouthBridge Social Enterprise and Innovation Competition (SEIC) and $164,000 in awards were announced April 10. Winning teams represented community and WUSTL social entrepreneurs. Their social venture ideas ranged widely, covering youth, teens, homeless and collaboration among all types of social enterprises.

Think having an “Employee of the Month” program will motivate your workforce? Think carefully. Award programs may actually be less effective at motivating employees than academic literature suggests, finds new research from Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School and Harvard Business School.

Linda Babcock, co-author of “Women Don’t Ask: Negotiations and the Gender Divide,” will discuss that topic during a public lecture at 9 a.m. April 12 in Simon Hall, Room 106. The lecture is part of the “Distinguished Women in Economics and Strategy” series sponsored by WUSTL’s Center for Research in Economics and Strategy, housed in Olin Business School.

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, many faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure. Read more to see who they are.

As part of its Clinton Global Initiative University efforts, Washington University in St. Louis has announced a major institutional commitment to action around the important issue of sustainability.

About 200 WUSTL students have committed to accomplishing far-reaching projects, and they will showcase their plans at the annual Faces of Hope event on Wednesday, March 27. The event is hosted by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and this year is focused on student commitments as part of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative University, which will hold its annual meeting on campus in April.​

LockerDome CEO and cofounder Gabe Lozano, who spoke recently at Olin Business School, shares some of the credit for attracting investors with students at Olin. Student teams in one of the school’s venture consulting courses worked closely with LockerDome’s CFO, Mark Lewis, on market and financial analysis research projects this semester. Here, Lozano speaks about the collaboration via video.

President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton announced the program and featured participants for the sixth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) to be held at Washington University in St. Louis April 5-7. In addition to President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and WUSTL’s Michael Sherraden are among the featured speakers.