A native of Nashville, Tennessee, and an Appalachian boy at heart, Philip Powell is a seventh-generation Tennessean who accidentally stumbled into a career in academia, and is so glad he did. While attending the University of South Carolina, he was an exchange student in Economics & Political Science in the Fiji Islands at the University… Read more »
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Alumni Spotlight: Kirah Cahill
In December 2020, several months after graduating from IU with a degree from BEPP, Kirah Cahill began her Master of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. “I’ve always been artistic so after my time in the BEPP program, I wanted to do something more creative,” says Cahill, who received her master’s degree in May 2024…. Read more »
Course Spotlight: Energy Economics and Environmental Policy
Energy Economics and Environmental Policy (G455) is a brand-new course that the Business Economics and Public Policy department is offering to help prepare students to think critically about energy and environmental issues and how they relate to businesses as well as public policy. Currently, this course will be able to serve as an elective for… Read more »
Learning About Luxury: Students Enjoy Unique & Popular Course About Luxury Brands in France
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 »
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 »
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 »