Olin Business School

The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis today announced that it has been selected to host USATODAY’s 10th CEO Forum on April 20, 2009. The forum will feature an interview with IAC CEO and media veteran, Barry Diller. USATODAY’s senior media reporter David Lieberman will moderate the event.

Economic downturns test the skills of the most seasoned managers. In response to the challenges of managing during the current economic crisis, the Olin Business School at Washington University is shifting the focus of its executive education seminars. Faculty are fine-tuning their lectures and case studies to address the recession and its effect on many aspects of business.

Professors ranked among the most prolific writers don’t need to worry about the ‘publish or perish’ warnings in academia. Four business professors at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, are ranked among the most frequently published authors in the field of finance according to a new study. The data collected over the past 50 years suggests that getting published in the top journals is difficult and getting published more than once is an achievement attained by a small minority.

Kouvelis A new study from the Boeing Center for Technology, Information and Manufacturing (BCTIM) at the Olin Business School, calls on shipping companies to increase their use of full-container loads with specific delivery dates to reduce costs and counter the effects of the recession on global trade. Panos Kouvelis, BCTIM director and distinguished professor of operations and manufacturing management at Washington University in St. Louis – Olin Business School, co-authored the study with Jian Li. In their paper, “Managing the New Uncertainty,” they recommend the changes in the shipping supply chain as the “logical next step” for ocean freight services.

An on-line tutoring service and a device designed to make custom-fit earphones are the winners of the 2008 Olin Cup competition for entrepreneurs presented by the Olin Business School and Skandalaris Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The two winning companies, Virtual Nerd and Verto, emerged from an original field of 38 entrants to earn a $70,000 investment award and a $5000 cash prize respectively.

Seed money for a start-up company totaling $70,000 will be awarded tonight when the winner of the annual Olin Cup investment prize is announced at 6 p.m. in Graham Chapel on the Washington University campus.

The most watched 33 and one half minutes on television will be celebrated, critiqued and analyzed on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009 when the Olin Business School hosts its ninth annual Super Ad Bowl. Marketing professors and students will gather for the Super Bowl Sunday ritual of rating and ranking the commercials while raising funds to benefit Meds and Food For Kids, an organization dedicated to curing child malnutrition in Haiti.

Maxine Clark, chair, CEO and founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop, will respond to questions about entrepreneurship in today’s economy for the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Feb. 5 in Graham Chapel.

Steven C. Hause, Ph.D., senior scholar in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course Award from the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship for his course, “Economic History and Entrepreneurialism in Modern Western Civilization.”

Three dozen students from Washington University in St. Louis have a tough assignment: Determine the financial implications of Turkey’s application to join the European Union and further enlargement of EU membership.