In a global business environment, it’s important that students have some understanding of different cultures. Therefore, the Kelley School wants to send the maximum number of their students abroad. Of course, not all students can spend a semester or year overseas due to financial or curriculum constraints. Thus, for more than a decade the Kelley… Read more »
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Faculty Spotlight: Michael Rauh
Michael Rauh will never forget when he first arrived on campus in 2005 to join the BEPP faculty. “The faculty had decided to protest en masse against the IU President [at the time]. Hundreds of professors met in the IU Auditorium to speak out against him,” says Rauh. “While this was going on, a tornado… Read more »
New Faculty: Jennifer Rice
Raised on a farm and a self-proclaimed “farm kid,” Jennifer Rice, the youngest of eight children, showed pigs and cows in 4-H in North Manchester, Indiana. She received her undergraduate degree from Manchester College where she played golf and basketball. “I played in a basketball tournament in Beijing, China, on an Indiana high-school all-star team,”… Read more »
Faculty Spotlight: Andrew Butters
Before beginning graduate school, Andrew Butters worked as an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “I feel fortunate to have gotten that opportunity,” says Butters, who worked on the inflation and international memos for the Federal Open Market Committee meetings. He also helped create the National Financial Conditions Index. “I got to… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight: Shirin S. Baradaran
Shirin S. Baradaran graduated from IU in 2013, just after the Global Financial Crisis. “That was a time of change and a time of people grappling with really big questions about our financial structure,” says Baradaran. “Now our financial markets are in turmoil again so everyone is once again asking, ‘How can we improve this… Read more »
New Faculty: Jia Xiang
You never know how life will turn out. Just ask Jia Xiang, who once majored in film directing. “I wrote my script and produced my own little movie!” says Xiang, who grew up in Sichuan Province, China, an area famous for its spicy food and pandas. Midway through her studies, however, she pivoted and decided… Read more »
Faculty Spotlight: Aaron Kolb
Aaron Kolb worked in the finance industry for a few years before going to Duke for his Ph.D. He was thrilled to join the IU BEPP faculty in the summer of 2016—his first academic job. At IU, Kolb teaches a Ph.D. class on economic modeling and an undergraduate game theory class. “My research focus is… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight
In 2020, Laura Swedo graduated from the Kelley School of Business with a BEPP degree, having majored in economic consulting and co-majored in business analytics. “I was always interested in economics, and the business economics courses were my favorite, along with econometrics and managerial economics,” says Swedo. In one of her business analytics classes, they… Read more »
Course Spotlight: G316 Sustainable Enterprise
“Sustainability means change,” says Steven Kreft, who teaches the undergraduate G316 course called Sustainable Enterprise. It follows the book Getting Green Done by Auden Schendler, which was written in 2009 and focuses on the barriers that block the business case for sustainability. “The status quo of business is not sustainable in its present form so… Read more »