Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will continue a 15-day visit to East Asia on Tuesday in Beijing, where he will renew a partnership agreement with one of China's pre-eminent research universities, meet with IU alumni and business and government leaders, and participate in a special event for newly admitted Chinese students and their families.

Agricultural industries contributed $37.9 billion to Indiana's economy in 2011, according to a new report from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Kelley Executive Partners, the custom executive education arm of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has again been ranked among the world's best by the Financial Times in its annual survey of custom executive education providers.

Teams of Indiana University students who created a real-time interactive platform for sports fans and an Internet-based tuxedo rental business that provides online fittings have won IU Bloomington's BEST Competition. Each start-up company, founded by students from Kelley School of Business and the School of Informatics and Computing, will receive a $100,000 investment.

Idalene "Idie" Kesner, an accomplished educator, administrator and leading researcher on strategic management, will head Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as its next dean, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees.

Indiana University Bloomington faculty members, staff and students will be recognized Friday, April 26, for outstanding service to the university's Latino community. The awards recognize individuals or groups that have participated in service and mentoring, promoted diversity initiatives and developed awareness in the areas of culture, arts, health, economy, language or education.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann will keynote the next event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on May 10 in downtown Indianapolis. The theme for the conference is, "Public-Private Partnerships: Transferring Discoveries Out of Universities."

Martin McCrory, an award-winning teacher on the faculty of the Kelley School of Business and chair of its Undergraduate Honors Program, has been appointed associate vice president for diversity, equity and multicultural affairs and vice provost for educational inclusion and diversity at Indiana University Bloomington.

The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions has announced that four Indiana University Bloomington faculty will receive the inaugural Jesse Fine Fellowships in Practical and Professional Ethics.

The Leading Index for Indiana declined slightly in April, from 100.9 to 100.8, suggesting a continued mixed economic picture for the state.

Five alumni of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business will be honored for professional achievement during the 44th Annual Alumni Awards Gala and Leadership Forum on Saturday, April 20, in Indianapolis.

The inaurugal forum on business analytics will be hosted by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on April 11-12 to spotlight the opportunities and challenges in applying business analytics in organizations.

Scott A. Jones, a veteran entrepreneur, inventor, strategist and venture capitalist, will speak at this year's IU Entrepreneurial Connection Day at 1 p.m. on April 11 in the atrium of the Godfrey Graduate and Executive Education Center of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Deloitte is expanding its relationship with Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to become the founding member of its Institute for Business Analytics.

Michael Guest, former U.S. ambassador to Romania and a State Department diplomat for more than a quarter century, will be one of the speakers at the 15th annual Business Language Conference at Indiana University Bloomington.

The Leading Index for Indiana continued its slow creep upward in March with a 0.1 increase from February's revised level of 100.8.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business continued its surge upward in new rankings of undergraduate programs by Bloomberg Businessweek, moving up three positions to 13th overall. Companies that recruit its graduates ranked the school No. 1, up from fourth a year ago.

As health care organizations restructure and merge, the role of a physician is growing to include more business and leadership responsibilities. To address the leadership needs of a rapidly changing health care system, Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis has launched the Business of Medicine MBA to prepare practicing physicians nationwide to assume unprecedented leadership roles.

The Government Accountability Project will bring its American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability to Indiana University this month, with programs onMarch 27 at IUPUI and March 28 at IU Bloomington. The tour is aimed at educating the public -- particularly university students -- about the phenomenon and practice of whistleblowing.

Population growth in many of Indiana's suburban communities was still not back up to speed in 2012, and population decline was widespread in many other regions of the state, according to population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

U.S. News and World Report again gave high marks to Indiana University programs in education, business, law and medicine in its annual Best Graduate Schools rankings. The School of Library and Information Sciences at IU Bloomington was rated eighth-best in the country, and the College of Arts and Sciences' humanities and social-science programs were among the nation's best.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has achieved CFA Program Partner status with CFA Institute, which offers the premier certification in the investment industry worldwide.

A search committee has been formed to identify finalists for the position of executive director of Indiana University's Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Following the deaths of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom in June 2012, the committee is conducting a national search for the Workshop's next leader.

The Leading Index for Indiana, while rising slightly from its revised January level, looks to have lost its mojo in the closing months of 2012, leaving a mixed picture so far for 2013.

Two members of the top-ranked Indiana University men's basketball team are among 15 who were named to the 2012-13 Capital One Academic All-America Division I Men's Basketball Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. IU is the only school with more than one player recognized.

Students at Indiana University have a new tool that provides them with quick and easy access to knowledge about how to conduct business effectively with people all over the world. IU is the first university in the United States to offer enterprise-wide GlobeSmart, a web-based product from Aperian Global, a company that offers consulting, training, and web tools for global talent development. GlobeSmart provides in-depth information and advice about business, culture, and travel-related topics in more than 65 countries.

Indiana University announced the creation of its first international gateway office. Located in Gurgaon, India -- a suburb of New Delhi -- the Indiana University Gateway-India will serve as a home base for IU activities in the country.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and School of Education are teaming up to assist three Indiana schools that are seeking to improve academic performance through long-term action plans

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has entered into a partnership with the newly formed American University of Mongolia to offer an MBA for global executives beginning in September.

Raymond R. Burke, the E.W. Kelley Professor of Business Administration at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and founding director of the school's Customer Interface Laboratory, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Shopper Research.

In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, business students from around the country spent Jan. 18 to 19 at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, competing in the second annual Midwest Diversity Case Competition.

Alan Dennis, professor of information systems and the John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has received the Association for Information Systems' prestigious AIS Fellow Award.

The Leading Index for Indiana in January rose to 100.7 from December's revised reading of 100.4. Perhaps more significantly, all components of the indicator contributed positively this month, including the Purchasing Managers Index, which had been under pressure in recent months.

Students from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the IU Kelley School of Business are providing free tax assistance to low-income, elderly, disabled and limited-English-speaking residents over the next month.

The Strategic Management Society recently elected as president Marjorie Lyles, professor of international strategic management at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration. Lyles will be the first female president in the society's 33-year history.

While placing some limitations on the Medicare expansion, the Supreme Court's decision in June left most of the 2010 Affordable Care Act intact. With the presidential election now behind us and the composition of the House and Senate known, it is a safe assumption that some form of health care reform will go into effect in 2014. The next event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series will focus on what this may mean for the states, insurers, providers and firms across the life sciences industry.

Online programs in business, education and nursing at Indiana University were ranked among the best in the nation, all ahead of other Big Ten schools, in the 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report's Best Online Education Program rankings, released Jan. 15.

James Wimbush, dean of the University Graduate School at Indiana University and professor of business administration in the IU Kelley School of Business, has been named chair-elect of the Council of Graduate Schools for 2013.

Two professors at IU's Kelley School of Business set out to determine when public disclosure of the whistle-blower's identity -- like in an email -- is sufficient to support a legal claim of retaliation, in a paper that has been accepted for publication in North Carolina Law Review.

Indiana's annual population growth rate declined for the sixth consecutive year in 2012, according to population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, which represents the state to the Census Bureau.

While the nation waits for President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans to reach a deal on the so-called fiscal cliff, the Leading Index for Indiana reflects the sentiment of many Hoosiers who are holding their collective breath economically, anticipating what will come next.

As the end of the year approaches with its holiday shows and events, a new report from Indiana University finds that employment and wages in Indiana's nonprofit arts, entertainment and recreation industries are growing but trail more rapid growth in for-profit employment and wages in these industries.

President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders have been deadlocked over the "fiscal cliff," the tax increases and spending cuts that will take place Jan. 1 unless elected officials take action to avert them. Indiana University experts offer their perspectives and are available to speak with news media.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is co-sponsoring a research conference Dec. 13 and 14 on small business finance at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.

Research by IU Kelley School of Business Professor Tim Lemper was published in two legal journals and became the basis for legislation by Congress to correct a serious problem in an existing federal trademark law.

Indiana University has received a grant totaling $1.5 million from the Korea Foundation and three Korean IU alumni to establish the university's first endowed chair in Korean studies. The chair will be based in the new School of Global and International Studies on IU's Bloomington campus and will be the first endowed chair to be established in the school since its recent approval.

Nearly 20 companies with innovative supply chain operations have entered into a new alliance with Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to create opportunities for faculty and students. The Supply Chain Alliance will be a forum for interaction between the companies, Kelley faculty and top students interested in careers in supply chain management.

The Leading Index for Indiana continued its measured but steady ascent, moving up from a revised reading of 100.1 in October to 100.4 in November.

The first Indiana University Bloomington Campus Sustainability Awards were announced this week. In an awards ceremony at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center's Grand Hall, the 2012 recipients were recognized for outstanding contributions to campus sustainability in the areas of leadership, teaching, research and collaboration.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business rose four spots in Bloomberg Businessweek's latest survey of MBA programs to 15th overall, bucking a trend of downward movement among other schools in the Big Ten.

Indiana is set to see a dramatic slowdown in labor force growth over the next three decades as baby boomers edge into retirement and the decades-long rise in female labor force participation appears to have crested, according to new data released by IU's Indiana Business Research Center.

Billionaire entrepreneur and 1981 Indiana University Kelley School of Business alumnus Mark Cuban will give remarks and take questions during a public event Nov. 16 sponsored by the IU School of Informatics and Computing and in conjunction with the school's Building Entrepreneurs in Software and Technology competition. In its inaugural competition that ended in April, BEST provided $250,000 in start-up funding to four businesses conceived by IU Bloomington students.

The Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series moves to the MED Institute, a Cook Group company based in the Purdue Research Park at West Lafayette, for a day-long discussion on Friday, Nov. 16, "The Continuing Evolution of the Food and Drug Administration."

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, attention has shifted to coordination between agencies and the subsequent recovery, which are part of the disaster management cycle. Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, an assistant professor of operations and decision technologies at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, is an expert on management in humanitarian operations and has studied some aspects of the International Red Cross' relief efforts.

For the second consecutive year, the United States economy managed to underachieve relative to economists' unambitious expectations. Indiana University Kelley School of Business economists are presenting their annual forecast today, Nov. 1, and unfortunately expect more of the same in 2013.

Beginning Thursday, Nov. 1, in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will present its annual national, state and local economic forecasts for the coming year.

The Leading Index for Indiana hit a major threshold, moving up from a revised reading of 99.8 in September to 100.1 in October. Not all of the LII's components were in sync, as concerns remain about business confidence in the economy.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has been named winner of the 2012 Award for Exceptional Contributions in Entrepreneurship Research by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.

The IU Kelley School of Business annual economic forecast for 2013 will be presented in 10 Indiana cities, beginning with a presentation at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in Indianapolis.

A new class of students enrolled in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business' Investment Management Workshop have begun acting as analysts for the Knall-Cohen Investment Fund, established through a $100,000 donation in 2010 from IU alumni David Knall and Jeff Cohen.

In a challenge to prevailing wisdom that CEO and board chair positions should be held by two different people as "best practice," new research indicates that the roles should be split only when there is a performance problem, and then only through a "demotion strategy" that keeps the CEO but brings in an independent chair, as an overt signal to reverse course.

Matthew T. Billett, a leading expert on corporate finance and banking, has been appointed the Richard E. Jacobs Chair in Finance at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business

A search and screen committee has been formed to identify finalists for the position of dean of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel has announced.

Amid the tailgating and other pre-game festivities before Indiana University's Oct. 6 football game against Michigan State, IU students and faculty and alumni from the two schools will work together on a new Habitat for Humanity home in partnership with a Bloomington family.

The Leading Index for Indiana, defying the generally poor economic news, edged up slightly in September, moving from 99.5 in August to 99.7 this month.

Albert Velasquez, an administrative law judge in the Indianapolis Office of Disability Adjudication and Review and one of the first Hispanic graduates of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, is the 2012 recipient of the IU Latino Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award.

Three Indiana University Kelley School of Business entrepreneurship professors have again demonstrated the impact of their research in their field. IU Kelley professors Dean A. Shepherd, Jeffery S. McMullen and Jeffrey G. Covin all published articles in 2006 that were highly ranked in a new University of Southern California study that assesses the most significant articles in the field of entrepreneurship over the past five years.

Those attending the next event in the successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on Sept. 28 in Indianapolis will learn about the mistakes made by industry executives and how the lessons they learned ultimately led to success.

Elizabeth Acton, an alumna of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and retired chief financial officer of Comerica Bank, is joining the school as a leader-in-residence.

This year's U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges edition noted several Indiana University programs as worthy of special mention, including its Kelley School of Business and several student-focused initiatives at IU Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

A national audience will see how Indiana University Kelley School of Business alumnus Derek Pacqu? handled the pressure of making a pitch for his company before a panel of potential investors on the ABC television show "Shark Tank" on Friday.

While Indiana exports have been growing at a faster rate than the nation's, a new Indiana University report identifies 10 state industries whose trade efforts could be even stronger.

Idalene "Idie" Kesner has been named interim dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, effective Oct. 1. Her appointment is subject to approval by the Board of Trustees.

Indiana University has announced that M.A. Venkataramanan, associate dean of academic programs at the Kelley School of Business, has been named vice provost for strategic initiatives on the Bloomington campus.

Indiana nonprofit social assistance agencies are feeling the effects of the Great Recession and the increased competition from for-profit firms, a new report from Indiana University shows. Employment in Indiana's social assistance industry grew almost every year between 1995 and 2009, even during recessions. This growth, however, can be attributed more to growth in the for-profit sector than to increases in nonprofit employment.

With concerns about employment at a high and employers' needs evolving swiftly, the Indiana University Kelley School of Business has taken an unprecedented step: putting freshmen on a path to navigate their careers. Taking a page from the corporate world, the school has launched Kelley Compass, an intensive "talent management system" for personal and professional development, while also enriching its academic program to deepen students' facility with global business, ethics and critical thinking -- elements essential to future success.

A new report from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business offers insights into the value of certain disciplines and professions during a recession.

After pausing for a couple of months, Indiana University's Leading Index for Indiana moved timidly upward, from 99.4 in July to register 99.6 in August.

Herman Aguinis, a professor of organizational behavior and human resources and the founding director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, is being honored by the Academy of Management with its Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award.

For the second consecutive month, the Leading Index for Indiana remained unchanged at the level of 99.4. Simply put, it's much like the June report, but with more pessimism.

Despite the sluggish economy and volatile export trends in the past several years, Indiana exports totaled $32.2 billion in 2011, a record high for the state, according to a new report from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University faculty members with expertise in constitutional law, health care economics, business ethics, public health, and health policy and administration are available to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court ruling involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Finding the right words during a brief encounter led an Indiana University business professor into a lifelong relationship with one of the underappreciated legends of jazz, cornetist Ruby Braff.

After nine months of steadily, if unassertively, climbing, the Leading Index for Indiana took a breather in June, remaining unchanged at a revised May value of 99.5.

The ethical principles that have for centuries shaped the relationship between patient and physician should also guide legislators, regulators -- and justices of the highest court -- charged with crafting U.S. healthcare policies that demarcate the boundaries of a physician's business practice, an Indiana University professor argues. This is all the more pressing with the "creeping commercialization" that now characterizes medicine in the form of physician-owned specialty hospitals, according to an analysis by an IU Kelley School of Business published in the American Business Law Journal.

After four years as Indiana University Foundation president, Eugene R. Tempel will be returning to the IU Center on Philanthropy as a senior fellow to play a major role in the university's effort to establish a new School of Philanthropy, the university has announced. The IU Foundation's fiduciary directors have unanimously selected Daniel C. Smith, dean of the IU Kelley School of Business, to succeed Tempel effective Oct. 1.

A new study by three IU Kelley School of Business professors found that inexperienced mutual-fund managers and those working for funds with limited resources tend to invest too heavily in companies from their home states without the benefit of actual knowledge of the companies.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the landmark health care law that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law in late 2010. Indiana University experts in the area of constitutional law, health economics, public health, health administration and business ethics are available to comment on various aspects of the case.

Eight Kelley Scholars have been selected by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. The Kelley Scholars, all incoming freshmen this fall who intend to major in business at IU Bloomington, will receive full tuition and fees, a stipend for living expenses and funding for academic activities such as overseas study.

In an effort to increase the understanding of entrepreneurship and business education in the Arab world, the Coca-Cola Co. and the U.S. State Department are sponsoring 100 college students from across the Middle East and North Africa to study in a unique program at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Patricia P. McDougall-Covin, director of the Institute for International Business at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has been elected to a two-year term as vice president of the leading association of scholars and specialists in the field of international business.

As the school year winds down, a new report from Indiana University makes clear that employment in Indiana education is growing, but not where one might expect. Jobs and pay scales are increasing quickly in nonprofit schools and colleges, while employment and average salaries in government-run schools and colleges are inching up or even decreasing.

Foreign direct investment plays a key role in the Indiana economy, particularly in the manufacturing sector. A new Indiana University report shows that in 2009, the state's share of FDI-related employment in manufacturing was higher than the nation, a trend that likely will continue.

Following a brief pause last month, the Leading Index for Indiana continued its ascent that began late last year with five straight months of steady increases. At 98.2, the LII is up 0.2 points this month and at its highest level since August 2008.

The latest Census Bureau population estimates by race and ethnicity show that Indiana continues to become more diverse, even as growth in each of the state's large racial and ethnic groups slowed in 2011.

Kelley Executive Partners, the custom executive education arm of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has been ranked among the world's best by the Financial Times in its annual survey of custom executive education providers.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and the Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow will announce several teaching and research initiatives efforts resulting from an agreement signed by IU President Michael A. McRobbie last year.

Four technology-based businesses led by IU students will receive funding from the inaugural Building Entrepreneurship in Software and Technology, or BEST, competition.

Rosann Spiro, professor of marketing at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and executive director of its Center for Global Sales Leadership, will receive the 2012 Distinguished Marketing Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Science.

Four technology-based businesses led by Indiana University students will receive funding from the inaugural Building Entrepreneurship in Software and Technology, or BEST, competition.

The National Security Agency has renewed Indiana University's designation as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for 2012-17. The re-designation means CACR will continue as a formal partner in national efforts to enhance the safety and security of networks and computers over the next five years.

One of the most talked-about provisions of the new health care law -- accountable care organizations -- will be the focus of the final event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Series for 2011-12 on May 11 in Bloomington.

The academic achievements of 24 IU Bloomington students were celebrated April 15 in the annual Honors Convocation at the IU Auditorium.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will preside over 2012 commencement ceremonies this spring on seven campuses statewide, where 18,019 students will be eligible to receive IU degrees. Additionally, 1,252 Purdue University degrees will be awarded through the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Grammy Award-winning artist and IU Jacobs School of Music alumnus Booker T Jones will address students at the IU Bloomington undergraduate ceremonies.

Following a brief pause last month, the Leading Index for Indiana continued its ascent that began late last year with five straight months of steady increases. At 98.2, the LII is up 0.2 points this month and at its highest level since August 2008.

Jennifer Crittenden, an Indiana University alumna and author of "The Discreet Guide for Executive Women: How to Work Well with Men (and Other Difficulties)," will keynote the annual Women in Business Night at IU Bloomington on Thursday, April 19.

Indiana University Bloomington students will be honored for academic achievement Sunday, April 15, in the annual Honors Convocation at the IU Auditorium.

Agriculture always has been historically important to the Hoosier state, but a new Indiana University report finds renewed evidence of its growing economic importance on exports and employment.

Population change was comparatively sluggish for many of Indiana's high-growth suburban communities in 2011, and declines were widespread in other regions of the state, according to population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed by the Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will offer a summer academy designed for undergraduate students attending liberal arts colleges who are looking to enhance their career-building skills. The academy, The Art of Business, is open to arts and sciences majors at IU and other research universities and colleges.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today, April 2, announced the creation of the Herman B Wells-M.O. Ghani Faculty Fellowship. A gift from M.O. Yousuf, a 1976 graduate of the Kelley M.B.A. program, will help the school and the Institute of Business Administration at Dhaka University in Bangladesh rekindle a historic partnership

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie presided over a ceremony today, March 30, to name the Kelley School of Business' undergraduate building in honor of alumnus James R. Hodge.

Mutual fund families routinely and purposely use the capital in affiliated funds of mutual funds -- AFoMFs -- as "insurance pools" to offset or prevent cash shortfalls in other funds in the family. Further, this practice, which sacrifices performance by the AFoMF for the benefit of the fund company, is not outlined in prospectuses and may be in direct conflict with AFoMF shareholder interest.

Brad Wheeler, Indiana University vice president for information technology and chief information officer, recently received a pair of honors for his leadership in higher education from two notable publications.

A run through the challenging hills of Bloomington and the Indiana University campus, the IU Mini Marathon provides scholarships for students who have overcome the life-threatening challenge of cancer.

By 2050, Indiana's population will increase by 15 percent, from 6.48 million to 7.48 million residents, according to population projections released today by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Alice Rivlin, a member of President Barack Obama's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, founding director of the Congressional Budget Office and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will speak at Indiana University Bloomington on Friday, April 5.

Patricia R. Miller, a 1960 Indiana University graduate and co-founder of Vera Bradley, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Entrepreneurial Connection Day at the IU Kelley School of Business on Friday, March 30.

After five consecutive months of steady increases, the Leading Indicators for Indiana paused in March, remaining unchanged at 98.0. A couple of the economic index's components declined slightly.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business continued its upward movement in new rankings of undergraduate programs done by Bloomberg Businessweek, moving up two positions to 16th overall.

Brad Wheeler, Indiana University vice president for information technology and chief information cfficer, recently received a pair of honors for his leadership in higher education from two notable publications.

Graduate programs in public and environmental affairs, fine arts, business, education, law, medicine and other health disciplines were again ranked among the top programs in the nation in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools rankings, released today, March 13. The IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs ranked No. 2, ahead of Harvard, Princeton and other top programs.

Indiana University announced Feb. 8 an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing to deliver eTexts for students on all IU campuses. Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for business management education. "As a business school professor, I have long used HBP cases because they are a cornerstone of business education," said Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for information technology and CIO. "The HBP flat-rate pricing brings the next level of innovation to IU's eText program that saves students money and gives them digital access on almost any device."

New research from IU turns on its head nearly a half-century of plotting performance evaluations on a bell curve. The findings could force a wholesale re-evaluation of every facet related to recruitment, retention and performance of individual workers, from pre-employment testing to leadership development.

Five alumni of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, including Anton V. Vincent, vice president and president, Baking Products Division, General Mills, will be honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 66th annual IU Kelley Business Conference on March 2 in Indianapolis.

The Leading Indicators for Indiana continued its upward march last month, reaching another post-crisis high in January by hitting the elusive 98.0 mark. This is the third consecutive month that all five of the economic index's components contributed positively to the outcome.

Roy Norton, the consul general of Canada based in Detroit, will speak about his country's trade relationship with the state of Indiana during a visit to Indiana University Bloomington on Friday, Feb. 24.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on Tuesday, Feb. 14, will celebrate its new Institute for Business Analytics with a presentation by industry leader Barbara Williams of Hill-Rom Enterprises. Business analytics is an emerging field that directs companies in how to best use data about their practices and consumers -- using techniques such as predictive analytics, optimization and simulation -- to make fact-based decisions that improve productivity, increase profits and create competitive advantages.

IU announced Feb. 8 an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing to deliver eTexts for students on all IU campuses. Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for business management education.

Anastasios "Tassos" Economou, founder of the iGroup, an investment holding company with offices in Monaco, London and Athens, will speak on Monday, Feb. 13, at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business about the latest developments in the European financial crisis.

In response to news this afternoon, Feb. 8, that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana plans to invest $131 million to consolidate its Highlander mid-size SUV production and create up to 400 jobs at its Princeton plant by 2013, here is information from experts at Indiana University Bloomington who can offer additional perspective. Arrangements can be made for live in-studio television interviews.

Indiana University announced today, Feb. 8, an agreement with Harvard Business Publishing to deliver eTexts for students on all IU campuses. Harvard Business Publishing is the leading provider of teaching materials for business management education.

The next event in the successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on Feb. 24 will focus on the increased role of diagnostic testing in "personalized medicine" and the opportunities this presents to companies in this developing industry.

Students from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Kelley School of Business will be providing free tax assistance to low-income, elderly, disabled and limited-English-speaking residents over the next month.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business made a major move upward in the Financial Times annual survey of the top 100 MBA programs in the world. In rankings released today, Jan. 30, the school rose by 27 positions into the top 50 worldwide. Kelley achieved the largest improvement of any business school in the U.S. and second largest improvement among all schools in the ranking.

When it comes to buying brands, it turns out investors have preferences. Investors reward companies acquiring stand-alone brands, rather than entire firms, particularly when a buyer has strong marketing capabilities, says a professor in IU's Kelley School of Business.

Ten faculty members at Indiana University have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2011-12 academic year. The Fulbright recipients represent three IU campuses -- Bloomington, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne -- and their research and academic activity take place worldwide.

According to a new report by researchers at the Indiana Business Research Center, the Hoosier state is a prime example of how the Affordable Care Act could place thousands of newly created jobs at risk. The same report also weighs in on the contentious issue of right to work, and supports the assertion that it will hamper Indiana's small firms' ability to create jobs and state efforts to bring in new investment.

Patricia McDougall-Covin, a professor of entrepreneurship at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, recently received the Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Award in Syracuse, N.Y.

Ray Kurzweil, a futurist coined a "restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal, and John Kao, an authority on corporate innovation dubbed "Mr. Creativity" by The Economist, will keynote the 66th annual Indiana University Kelley Business Conference on March 2.

The Kelley School of Business and the Indiana University School of Education have launched a collaborative program to prepare school leaders equipped with the latest management and leadership skills.

The Leading Indicators for Indiana pointed to a recovery that is finally gaining traction, hitting a new post-crisis high in December. The LII jumped from 97.1 to 97.5 -- its highest level since September 2008.

With the Super Bowl coming up in Indianapolis on Feb. 5, Indiana University has several faculty experts who can provide insights on various aspects of the event, including psychology, health, business and economic experts.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today, Jan. 11, that Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the university a major new $33 million grant to help transform undergraduate facilities at IU's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington.

As Hoosiers look ahead to a new year, the Leading Index for Indiana for November provides some encouraging news. The index has recovered all ground lost in the first part of 2011, and November markes the first time in a year that all five components improved, said Timothy Slaper, director of economic analysis at the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, which compiles the monthly report.

An Indiana University alumnus has been appointed Minister of Hajj by Saudi King Abdullah.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business announced that one of its strategic corporate partners, KPMG LLP, has provided a leadership gift of $300,000 to the school's Undergraduate Building Expansion Campaign, which brings the total of the firm's overall investment in Kelley projects and initiatives to over $1.5 million.

A new Indiana University research project that looked at work outcomes for graduates at all degree levels of the state's public colleges found that the manufacturing industry awarded the highest pay. When it comes to which industry hires the most graduates, however, that honor fell to the educational services industry, followed by the health care services industry.

The Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, in cooperation with the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has launched the second phase of a new online data collection system and public access website that increases transparency and accessibility of local government finance information for Hoosiers.

Patrick Hopkins, professor of accounting at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has been named to the advisory council for the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

As Hoosiers look ahead to the holiday season, the Leading Index for Indiana provided some encouraging news in October.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business announced that James R. Hodge, an alumnus, a native of Marion, Ind., and president of Permal Asset Management Inc. in New York, has donated $15 million for its undergraduate building renovation and expansion project.

Indiana University economists presenting their annual forecast today (Nov. 3) expect that the national and state economies will expand somewhat more in 2012 but not enough to make much of a dent in unemployment, thus leading to a continued historically weak recovery.

Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs alumnus Tavis Smiley will discuss leadership, business, and his latest book, FAIL UP: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure, on Thursday (Nov. 3) at 6 p.m. in Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union at IU Bloomington.

Beginning Thursday (Nov. 3) in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business again will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for the coming year.

The successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series is returning to Warsaw, Ind. -- the "Orthopedics Capital of the World" -- for the second of its 2011-12 seminars on Friday, Nov. 18. Among the presenters will be Dan Hasler, Indiana secretary of commerce and chief executive officer of the Indiana Economic Development Corp.

Paying tribute to outstanding volunteer leaders in philanthropy, Indiana University and the IU Foundation have honored five individuals as this year's Partners in Philanthropy. IU President Michael A. McRobbie and IU Foundation President Gene Tempel presented the awards Thursday evening (Oct. 27.) The awards recognize the key role that volunteers play in the university's philanthropic achievements, especially at the highest levels of service.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today (Oct. 24) announced that one of its strategic corporate partners, ArcelorMittal, has provided a grant through its Campus Partnership Program for the school's Undergraduate Building Expansion Campaign.

Just as it did a year ago, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) gained some traction in September.

A new study from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business is believed to be the first to link recommendations of financial advisors to actual client behavior after advice is given. It found that despite the rocky economy, relatively few investors seek professional guidance that could keep them on solid financial footing and help them avoid costly investing mistakes.

According to a new Indiana University research study, those over the age of 25 who even modestly continue their education past high school can expect to receive a notable increase in wages.

Two professors at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, Dean A. Shepherd and Herman Aguinis, recently were honored at the Academy of Management annual conference for their respective research articles.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will welcome Jim Goodnight, co-founder and chief executive officer of SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, who will visit the Bloomington campus on Oct. 17.

Defense spending's impact on the Indiana economy has more than doubled in the past decade. More than 1,100 Hoosier companies were successful in attracting $4.4 billion in contracts from the U.S. departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) in 2010, supporting an estimated 38,600 Indiana jobs.

Donald F. Kuratko, a professor at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, recently was honored with the 2011 Karl Vesper Entrepreneurship Pioneer Award for his leadership and research achievements that have advanced the discipline.

The final piece of a major research project aimed at helping displaced auto workers in Indiana and other Midwest states focuses on how they can be helped to find other career paths and how to best pursue them.

Starting Thursday, (Sept. 29), a joint effort of Indiana University and the Kelley School of Business, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County and Whirlpool Corp. will build a house next to the home of the IU Alumni Association. The building blitz outside the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center, 1000 E. 17th St., will culminate with a dedication ceremony on Oct. 8 and provide Bloomington's Tora and Clarence Knapp and their two children with a home to call their own.

Starting on Sept. 29, a group of students and faculty from Indiana University and its Kelley School of Business will build a house for a local family with Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County and Whirlpool Corp. next to the home of the IU Alumni Association. The house will later be moved to another location.

After falling three-tenths of a point in July, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) for August in effect remained the same at 96.2.

Dena S. Cox, a professor of marketing and faculty fellow at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, has received a $99,600, two-year research grant from Merck to study factors influencing young women's adoption of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.

A group of investors has created a $1.1 million fund to support $250,000 in annual prize money to Indiana University Bloomington students who submit the best business plans for a student-led company focused on Internet and software technology. The annual prizes for BEST -- Building Entrepreneurs in Software and Technology -- will be the largest in the world offered by a university solely to its students in a business plan competition.

Indiana firms exported $28.7 billion in goods in 2010, which was a new record, according to a new study released by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

A new study demonstrates the value of research by four entrepreneurship professors at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and the lasting impact of their work on the field.

This year's U.S. News and World Report "Best Colleges" guide singled out several Indiana University programs for special mention, including the Kelley School of Business and several student-focused initiatives at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and IU Bloomington.

The successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series will begin its sixth year in Indianapolis on Sept. 23 with an extensive program on the "consumerization" of medical product marketing.

For the second straight year, Indiana University alumni and fans returning to campus for a football game also will find a construction site of hope for a local Bloomington family.

Through the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, IU will expand its presence in India through partnerships with two Indian Institute of Management locations under memorandum of understandings signed Wednesday (Aug. 31).

IU's Kelley School of Business has achieved another top global ranking for entrepreneurship. In the just-released 2011 World Rankings for Entrepreneurship Productivity, Kelley's Department of Management and Entrepreneurship received the No. 1 ranking among 150 schools worldwide in the study. This is the third consecutive year that the Kelley School has achieved the top ranking.

A new survey of employers found that Indiana has 46,879 jobs that directly can be considered "green." Green jobs -- so defined when the primary occupation leads to generating a firm's green-related products or services -- account for 1.7 percent of the state's total employment.

As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks approaches, Indiana University experts discuss the impact the attacks had on American society and the economy.

Anxiety returned to stock markets today (Aug. 18) due to renewed concerns about the U.S. and global economies and led initially to a 534-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average, before it closed only down by 420 points, or a 3.7 percent decline. Four experts from IU's Kelley School of Business offer their perspectives and are available to speak with reporters.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) stumbled in July 2011. After eking out a small gain in June, the LII continued its downward trajectory since the beginning of the year.

Dan Dalton, dean emeritus of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, was honored Monday (Aug. 15) for his contributions to management research.

Now moving into its sixth year, the successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series will open on Sept. 23 in Indianapolis with an extensive program on the "consumerization" of medical product marketing.

Patrick Hopkins, professor of accounting at IU's Kelley School of Business, is being honored for research that ultimately made it harder for companies to hide controversial accounting practices that make their earnings look healthier than they are.

The latest 2010 Census data portray a state where the white population is much older than the state's growing minority groups and where home ownership is in retreat, particularly among younger Hoosiers. The data also show that the nature of Indiana families is changing.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) edged out a tiny gain in June, after several months of reporting neutral or negative movement.

The U.S. Department of Defense on Thursday (July 14) unveiled declassified portions of its long-awaited strategy for handling cyberattacks, declaring publicly for the first time that it would treat cyberspace -- just as land, sea, and air -- as an "operational domain." Three experts from Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research comment on the strategy.

Leslie L. Carter-Prall of Carmel, Ind., has taken office as president of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Alumni Association, which also welcomed six new members of its board of directors.

Ten Kelley Scholars have been selected by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. The Kelley Scholars, all incoming freshmen this fall who intend to major in business at IU Bloomington, will receive full tuition and fees, a stipend for living expenses and funding for academic activities such as overseas study.

According to the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) in May, prospects for the state's economic recovery would seem more tenuous.

James R. Hodge, president of Permal Asset Management Inc. in New York, has been elected to the Indiana University Foundation Board of Directors. The Indiana University Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that oversees fundraising for all campuses of the university, provides administrative and development services for donors and for IU, and manages the university's endowment of more than $1 billion.

Recent news reports that Pentagon policy will view certain cyber-attacks as acts of war to which the U.S. may respond with conventional military force is unsurprising, but avoids hard policy and legal questions, according to Indiana University cybersecurity experts.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is hosting an international symposium on systems analysis and design, with the purpose of improving the level of research scholarship in the field.

On the same day that a 17-year-old from North Carolina won "American Idol," an undergraduate student at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business won Wall Street's version, a major competition for aspiring stock traders.

The latest 2010 census data for Indiana depict a state that is growing older and becoming more diverse, according to the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Two Sustainability Course Development Fellowships have been awarded to Indiana University Bloomington faculty by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs.

Based on the Leading Index for Indiana (LII), the state's feeble economic recovery will continue through the summer and early fall.

A new report from the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University shows that progress has been made in Indiana regarding the availability of broadband Internet service and identifies the southwest part of the state as an area needing attention.

The executive education provider at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business remains among the top programs, as ranked by the Financial Times in its annual survey of international non-degree programs.

An institute at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is helping women in developing countries become more self-sufficient and care for the financial needs of their families.

A new report co-authored by researchers at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, provides a revealing look at the transformation of the auto industry in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio as it emerges from the Great Recession.

Greece narrowly avoided default last May with the help of a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. When an IU Kelley School class trip departs for Athens on May 14, students will study firsthand a nation engrossed in much debate about how to cope with a staggering debt that equals 10 percent of its gross domestic product.

As the 2011 Spring Energy Challenge came to a close last week, the Kelley School of Business, Briscoe Residence Center and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority emerged as winners. The four-week challenge to reduce electricity and water consumption is designed to foster behavioral changes in students, faculty and staff. This marked the fourth spring running of the Energy Challenge. All 12 residence halls, 17 academic buildings and 17 Greek houses participated in the competition.

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is one of the organizers of a conference taking place next week outside Detroit on the transformation of the auto industry.

A new report produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University says the orthopedic industry cluster in Kosciusko County, in north central Indiana, had a total economic impact of $3.7 billion in 2009.

Proponents have argued that the full utilization of electronic health records will serve to improve patient care and safety, and simplify compliance and regulation of the U.S. healthcare system -- at a cost savings -- if the roadblocks to success are identified and appropriately handled. The last event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series, on Friday, May 13, will bring experts from industry and the regulatory environment together to discuss this topic.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will launch a new program this summer designed for undergraduate students attending liberal arts colleges who are looking to enhance their career-building skills.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $297,929 to a multi-disciplinary team from Indiana University and Arizona State University. The award supports on-going research concerned with the use of computer-generated 3D virtual environments by business and educational enterprises.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) edged down in March, just a micro-click from 97.3 to March's index value of 97.2. Since January's slow-in-coming, post-recession high of 97.4, the LII has been flat. It may be spring, but the index is still in hibernation.

Indiana University students Shabrelle Pollock and Andrew Merki have been selected to give student speeches during IU Bloomington undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 7, Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson announced.

Last week marked the midway point of the Spring 2011 Indiana Energy Challenge, with the 12 residence halls, 17 academic buildings and 17 Greek houses at IU Bloomington conserving more than ever.

Dane A. Miller, co-founder of Biomet, will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as a distinguished entrepreneur of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Friday (April 8) in Bloomington. Miller will be the keynote speaker for the center's fourth annual IU Entrepreneurial Connection Day.

A study of S&P 500 non-financial companies over 20 years (1988-2007) shows that those companies that exclusively promote chief executive officers from within outperform companies that recruit CEOs from outside the company.

Jerry Greenfield, who with long-time friend Ben Cohen helped to build a $300 million ice cream empire by making social responsibility and creative management strengths instead of weaknesses, will speak at IU Bloomington on March 30.

To support students who want to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world, IU's Kelley School of Business has created the Kelley Institute for Social Impact. The new initiative provides resources and additional direction for an increasing number of students who are involved in social enterprise and community engagement activities outside the classroom.

After five months of consecutives climbs, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) hit a speed bump in February. The LII dipped for the first time since August 2010, moving from 97.4 as initially reported in January to 97.2 in February. This month is a reminder that it will be a rocky road to recovery.

Indiana University graduate programs in business, education, law, medicine and nursing were again ranked among the top programs in the nation in the 2012 edition of U.S. News and World Report magazine's Best Graduate Schools rankings, released today (March 15).

IU's Kelley School of Business has been awarded a $1.35 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Higher Education for Development (HED) to help the Caribbean nation of Barbados stimulate the creation of new companies there.

Two research centers at Indiana University Bloomington have organized a delegation of IU scholars, state business executives and journalists, who will leave for southeast China on Friday (March 11) for an eight-day visit.

In a new twist on the "all politics is local" theory, first-of-its-kind empirical research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business demonstrates how lawmakers knowingly and willingly obstruct desperately needed national progress to please local constituents -- and often, keep themselves in office.

During a year when Bloomberg Business Week's annual ranking of undergraduate business schools underwent a shake-up due to economic conditions, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business consistently has remained in the publication's Top 20 and moved up one position to 18th.

The IU Kelley School of Business' GLOBASE initiative, a social entrepreneurship consulting program that also combines international experience with leadership development, has expanded to India.

Arrangements have been made for print and electronic media covering Friday's (March 4) IU Business Conference, "Rethinking the Relationship Between Business and Government: Free Markets and the Greater Good," at the Indiana Convention Center, in Indianapolis. Diane Swonk, one of the most sought-after economists in the world, is one of the speakers.

Dozens of students in the Kelley School of Business' full-time master's of business administration program are leaving soon for key business destinations worldwide, including India, Australia, Eastern Europe and Peru, through two course programs.

Five alumni of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business will be honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 65th annual IU Business Conference on March 10 in Indianapolis.

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is working with music career specialist and author Angela Myles Beeching and the Kelley School's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on a yearlong pilot project that offers students an innovative approach to career development and entrepreneurial training.

A team of MBA students in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business bested challengers from 22 other MBA programs across the nation to earn first place in Purdue University's sixth-annual Global Supply Chain Case Competition last week.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) finished 2010 with its fourth consecutive monthly gain. December's LII appears to show that the economic winds are finally blowing in the right direction.

A team of four graduate students from Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to take part in the fifth annual Haas Education Leadership Case Competition, taking place Friday and Saturday (Feb. 18-19) at the University of California-Berkeley. The IU students are from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Kelley School of Business.

The next event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series, on Feb. 25 in Indianapolis, will bring experts from industry and the regulatory environment together to discuss changes in how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration performs its role.

The latest 2010 Census data released today (Feb. 10) for Indiana portray a state with greater diversity than ever before, according to the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

The 10-county Indianapolis-Carmel metro area fueled much of Indiana's population growth over the past decade, while many of the mid-sized communities that long formed much of Indiana's industrial backbone saw significant population decline, according to analysis by the Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business.

Thanks to a six-member team of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business M.B.A. students, New York Times best-selling author Jim Collins' Good to Great management framework will be shared for the first time with an international nonprofit doing work in Africa.

Students from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Kelley School of Business will be providing free tax assistance to low-income, elderly, disabled and limited English-speaking residents over the next month.

Innovation has become the Holy Grail for improving, or maybe even saving, our economy. But what is it? How can we measure it? With the latest update to its unique, nationwide Innovation Index for America's Regions, the Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business answers both questions.

Presenters at the 65th Annual Indiana University Business Conference will present some Midwest perspectives on the interface between government and business, often based on their companies' experiences.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) finished 2010 with its fourth consecutive monthly gain. December's LII appears to show that the economic winds are finally blowing in the right direction.

Indiana University Bloomington has been selected for 2010 Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The classification recognizes the campus's commitment to engagement through economic development assistance for the state of Indiana, arts and cultural programming, service-learning and community volunteerism, international studies and partnerships, research in areas such as health and education, and other activities.

As a result of a $130,000 grant from the European Commission, an IU research center is embarking on a wide range of outreach activities to help business people, government officials and others in the Midwest better understand the European Union and why it should matter to them.

Register now for the sixth annual IU Mini Marathon and 5K Run/Walk, taking place on Saturday, April 2. For the first time, the Indiana University Alumni Association will coordinate the event.

Analysis by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business reveals that Indiana added 403,317 residents since the last census was taken in 2000 -- a 6.6 percent increase. The first results from the 2010 U.S. Census were released today (Dec. 21), and Indiana's official population count was 6,483,802 as of April 1, 2010.

Economic expectations for the New Year brightened somewhat as the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) edged up in November and made progress for the third straight month.

With Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa coming up soon, here are some interesting Hoosier holiday factoids from the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Mirroring an approach that Indiana has taken to the life sciences industry, the state's economic development efforts could capitalize on existing clusters of wind energy and automotive-related companies to foster a more sustainable and profitable business environment. That's the lead finding by a panel of second-year M.B.A. students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, who were asked to participate in a competitive project for the INdiana Sustainability Alliance.

As a result of an anonymous $250,000 gift, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will have the support to develop a proprietary teaching and assessment tool that will enhance how faculty teach and measure the development of students' ethical judgment.

Dan Smith, dean of IU's Kelley School of Business, has announced that James C. Thyen, president and chief executive officer of Kimball International Inc., will lead the Kelley Dean's Council.

Just in time for Thanksgiving Day on Thursday (Nov. 25), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered a menu of interesting statistics.

Donald F. Kuratko, a professor of entrepreneurship at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has received the Riata Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Award.

Technology transfer (T2) agreements within the U.S. armed services can have significant benefits in the civilian sector, especially for small, entrepreneurial start-up companies that often are the backbone for innovation and economic growth.

After spending several months sending ambiguous and lugubrious signals, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) made progress by increasing 0.5 percent in October.

During a historically difficult economic recovery and while facing strong competition from private institutions, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business remained among the elite in Bloomberg Business Week's 2010 list of best MBA programs.

Just in time for Veterans Day on Thursday (Nov. 11), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some data about the holiday's observance in the Hoosier state and across the country.

Indiana University economists presenting their annual forecast today (Nov. 4) expect that the current historically weak recovery will continue into 2011, with continued challenges for the national labor market.

IU's Kelley School of Business will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for 2011, beginning with a presentation on Thursday (Nov. 4) morning in Indianapolis, followed by similar events in other cities across the state.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today (Nov. 1) the formation of a collaboration with O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), a private university in Haryana, India, just outside New Delhi. The collaboration will establish, maintain, and enhance interaction between JGU and three of IU's professional schools: the Maurer School of Law, the Kelley School of Business and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, along with the IU Center on Philanthropy.

While Indiana's life sciences enterprises have strongly contributed to the state's overall economic health, concerns about their future competitiveness are closely aligned with educational goals. A distinguished roster of education, government and business leaders will discuss at the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series how Indiana is prepared to meet future market needs.

Just in time for Halloween next Sunday (Oct. 31), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some data about the holiday's observance in the Hoosier state and across the country. They promise treats, no tricks and nothing too scary.

Net Impact, an international nonprofit organization of students and professionals that uses business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world, has selected the Indiana University Kelley School of Business' undergraduate Net Impact chapter as a Gold chapter.

When will the economic engine start? The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) has been essentially flat over the summer. September's index is marginally better, up to 96.3 from the summer's average of 96.2.

Venture capital firms and start-ups should heed the time-honored real estate mantra, "location, location, location." According to new research from IU's Kelley School of Business, the geographic distance between VC firms and the companies in which they invest affects performance -- positively and negatively -- depending on how the firms stage disbursement of capital.

The IU Kelley School of Business annual economic forecast for 2012 will be presented in 11 Indiana cities, beginning with a presentation at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3, in Indianapolis.

After a marginal increase in July, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) continued the slide that started in April and has returned to its lowest point for 2010.

A 10-day Habitat for Humanity build begins Thursday (Sept. 23) in the parking lot outside Memorial Stadium near the intersection of Indiana 45/46 and Dunn Street. It will be the first time that a Habitat build has taken place on the IU Bloomington campus.

Cie Nicholson, an alumna of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and executive vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO) at Equinox Fitness Clubs, is joining the school as a leader-in-residence.

Majora Carter, an environmental activist who has worked to create "green-collar" job opportunities for unemployed Americans and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius fellowship," will visit Indiana University Bloomington on Sept. 30-Oct. 1.

Just in time for Labor Day this Monday (Sept. 6), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting facts and figures about the Indiana labor force.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has achieved another top ranking for entrepreneurship. In the just-released 2010 World Rankings for Entrepreneurship Productivity, Kelley's Department of Management and Entrepreneurship received the No. 1 ranking among 150 schools worldwide in the study.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today (Sept. 1) announced the formation of a new institute that will house its international initiatives and reach out to other programs on the Bloomington campus with a global focus.

A new experiential learning program created through a $100,000 donation will give undergraduate students enrolled in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business the opportunity to invest real money in an asset portfolio management class.

After two months of decline, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) squeaked out a slight increase in July.

This year's U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges edition singled out several Indiana University programs for special mention, including the Kelley School of Business and several student-focused initiatives at IU Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

The successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series will begin its fifth year in Indianapolis with a look at the future impact of the Health Reform Bill enacted in March.

Indiana University today (Aug. 5) announced that 10 of its international programs will receive about $17.6 million, over four years, from the U.S. Department of Education through its competitive Title VI program.

Overturning more than 40 years of accepted practice, new research from IU's Kelley School of Business proves that the tools used to check tests of "general mental ability" for bias are themselves flawed. This key finding challenges reliance on such exams to make objective decisions for employment or academic admissions.

Ten Kelley Scholars have been selected by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Explosive growth in CEO pay has led some critics to question whether firms are biased in how they determine executive compensation. In fact, companies that used compensation peer groups to determine executive pay did artificially inflate such compensation -- but only by approximately 10 percent, according to research from IU's Kelley School of Business.

After falling in May, the Indiana Business Research Center's Leading Index for Indiana (LII) continued its retreat in June.

A $1 million gift from the Graf family, which includes four generations of Indiana University alumni, will impact the lives of future students attending IU's Kelley School of Business.

Analyzed in light of a first-of-its-kind economic analysis from the IU Kelley School of Business, BP offers a classic case of the potential downside for companies that place greenwash ahead of truly transparent disclosure. Greenwash is defined as "the selective disclosure of positive information about a company's environmental performance without full disclosure of negative information on these dimensions."

The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has been awarded a $1.55 million Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

A joint economic development project led by research centers at Indiana and Purdue universities has been honored with the 2010 Award of Excellence by the Council for Community and Economic Research.

Suburban areas in the Indianapolis metro area and Lake County have led Indiana's population growth over the last decade. The recent economic recession, however, has tempered growth in many of these suburban communities. Towns such as Fishers, Noblesville, Greenwood and Crown Point had population increases in 2009 that were well below their average marks since 2000. In contrast, 12 of Indiana's 13 largest cities saw greater-than-average population change in 2009.

After rising in March and April, the Indiana Business Research Center's Leading Index for Indiana (LII) fell in May.

Just in time for Father's Day this Sunday (June 20), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting statistics.

Game-day will also be build-day at Indiana University beginning Sept. 25. Students and faculty from IU and its Kelley School of Business, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, Habitat for Humanity International and Whirlpool Corporation employees will join together for a one-week campus blitz build culminating Oct. 2.

According to a new survey released by Bloomberg, Indiana could be called "the cradle of chief executive officers." The business news service ranked CEO undergraduate alma maters and found IU was one of the leaders in producing corporate leaders at Standard & Poor's 500 companies.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII), prepared by IU's Indiana Business Research Center, continued to gain ground in April.

Of the 65 business schools ranked worldwide by The Financial Times, IU's Kelley School of Business has been ranked No. 1 among U.S. public institutions, 10th nationally and 25th overall.

Just in time for Mother's Day this Sunday (May 9), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting statistics.

Tomorrow (May 5), millions of Mexican-Americans will celebrate their heritage with a major holiday that simply is known for its date, Cinco de Mayo. Here are some facts and figures about Indiana's population of Mexican heritage and Indiana's economic relationship with Mexico from the Indiana Business Research Center.

Six Indiana University alumni have been named as recipients of the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, the university's highest honor reserved solely for IU alumni.

A new institute created through a $4.8 million gift will greatly increase activities by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business within Central and South America, while also energizing the school's overall diversity and globalization initiatives.

Um novo instituto criado por meio de uma doa??o de $4,8 milh'es de d'lares aumentar? significativamente as atividades por parte da escola de administra??o da Universidade de Indiana, Kelley School of Business, na Am'rica Latina, al'm de dinamizar a diversidade global e iniciativas de globaliza??o da escola.

With the advent of information technology, the term "personalized medicine" has taken on new dimensions. The final event in the 2009-10 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conferences Series poses the question, "Personalized Medicine -- Are We There Yet?"

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) sprung back to life in March. After a late-winter slump, the latest report shows that the LII reclaimed the territory that it lost in January and February and gained a little bit more.

Un nuevo instituto creado a trav's de una donaci'n de 4,8 millones de d'lares aumentar? en gran medida las actividades de la Escuela de Negocios Kelley de la Universidad de Indiana en Am'rica Latina y, al mismo tiempo que incrementar? las iniciativas de diversidad y globalizaci'n de la escuela.

Three of Indiana's most successful entrepreneurs -- Bill, Gayle and Carl Cook -- will be recognized Friday (April 16) for their entrepreneurial legacy and their philanthropic contributions during the third annual IU Entrepreneurial Connection Day at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

In new rankings released April 15 by U.S. News and World Report magazine, several Indiana University graduate schools in education, business, law, medicine and the sciences were again included among the nation's best.

Savvy investment strategies and a year of strong growth in the stock market enabled the Virtu Project at Indiana University to triple the money it raised for the Timmy Foundation, an Indianapolis-based global health and development nonprofit organization. This Friday (April 16), Virtu Project members will present a check for $25,000 to representatives of the foundation, which works to expand access to health care and education for children in poor regions of the world.

Mark Albion, serial social entrepreneur, noted author and co-founder of Net Impact, Friday (April 16) will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as a distinguished entrepreneur of its Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Fortune magazine reports that the entrepreneurship program offered by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is among the top five programs nationally for educating entrepreneurs.

The economic slump of 2008 and 2009 appears to have dampened population movement in many parts of Indiana. This trend is most noticeable in central Indiana, according to 2009 population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed by IU's Indiana Business Research Center.

After a year of a slow progress, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) retreated in February. This news follows what had been a discouraging report for January, when the index didn't gain any ground.

Sir Ivor Roberts, president of Trinity College at Oxford and Great Britain's former ambassador to Yugoslavia, Ireland and Italy, will visit Indiana University March 25-27, during which time he will present the 2010 Charles F. Bonser Distinguished Lecturer in Public Policy.

Just in time for the parades and other celebrations for St. Patrick's Day on Wednesday (March 17), here are some interesting facts about this Irish holiday from the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business moved up one spot to 19th in Bloomberg Business Week magazine's new evaluations of undergraduate business programs, and remains second among Big Ten schools and seventh among such programs at public universities.

Five alumni of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business will be honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 64th annual IU Business Conference March 10 in Indianapolis.

The 2010 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference will be hosted by the Indiana University Campus Writing Program and co-sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin. It will take place May 20-22 at the Indiana Memorial Union on the IU Bloomington campus.

Two Indiana University student organizations are welcoming Charles Kane, former president and currently a board director of One Laptop Per Child, to speak next Friday (March 5) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

In early March, about 30 Kelley M.B.A. students will travel to Peru as part of the school's Global Business and Social Enterprise (GLOBASE) initiative, a social entrepreneurship consulting program that also combines international experience with leadership development.

Public service advertising campaigns that use guilt or shame to warn against alcohol abuse can actually have the reverse effect, spurring increased drinking among target audiences, according to new research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

A special issue of Business Horizons, a bimonthly journal published by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, in partnership with Elsevier, will focus on issues central to health care and life sciences.

The unenergetic progress shown by the Leading Index for Indiana over the last couple of months came to a stop in January.

Although the economy affected Valentine's Day sales in 2009 with similar trends expected for 2010, industries involved in the smitten holiday are still expected to see spending reach $14.7 billion this year. Here are some other interesting facts about Valentine's Day from the Indiana Business Research Center.

IU's Kelley School of Business has received $1 million from 3M Corp. and its foundation for a new professional sales and communications lab for students. It is the first major corporate gift for a $60 million capital campaign to transform the school's facilities for undergraduate students.

Two experts on health care marketing in IU's Kelley School of Business consider direct-to-consumer advertising more honest than most other forms of consumer advertising and the most forthcoming type of pharmaceutical promotion.

An IU Kelley School of Business professor has co-authored the seventh edition of the classic human resource management text Applied Psychology in Human Resource Management, just published this month.

Shakespeare may have written, "The play's the thing," but chances are that the playwright never thought his sentiments could be applied to the life sciences. Organizers of the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conferences Series hope that their three-act drama and related discussion will help critical players in the industry to collaborate better.

In addition to shopping for style, color and fit, an increasing number of clothing shoppers are looking inside at the label, to see where it is made. Among them are many students who appreciate the local and global impacts of their business decisions. That's the focus of "Check Your Label: Elements of Conscious Consumerism" on Feb. 5 at IU.

Many business schools bring practitioners to campus to give a lecture on real-world topics and business issues. Not many schools or practitioners, however, are willing or able to collaborate for an entire course. But Justin Greis of Ernst & Young's Advisory Practice and Ramesh Venkataraman, Chair of the Kelley School of Business's Masters of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program, believe that training students for the field of IT governance and risk requires immersing them in the latest developments. And that requires having a practitioner in the classroom for a full seven-week course.

While the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) for December continues "its unenergetic climb," for the first time since its release in October of last year, the state economic indicator was higher than it was a year earlier.

Marshall Goldsmith, an authority in working with successful leaders and author of the award-winning bestseller "What Got You Here Won't Get You There," will keynote the 64th annual IU Business Conference in Indianapolis on March 10.

An international report on new business development released Thursday (Jan. 14) in Santiago, Chile, includes the first global study of social entrepreneurship, co-produced by a professor at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Among many things, Monday's (Jan. 18) observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides an opportunity to look at the state of Black America. The Indiana Business Research Center in IU's Kelley School of Business offers this snapshot.

As shareholders of publicly traded companies look ahead to corporate board elections this spring, new research at IU's Kelley School of Business suggests that a lack of enthusiasm for slated directors can affect stock prices and lead to management turnovers.

With Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa coming up soon, here are some interesting Hoosier holiday factoids from the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Marketers traditionally have relied heavily in their sales promotions on free and reduced offers for bundled products. A recent study co-authored by a faculty member at the IU Kelley School of Business Indianapolis goes further, demonstrating a "freebie devaluation effect" lowering the perceived value of the focal item as well.

Information technology researchers and practitioners on Dec. 14-15 will travel to Phoenix for the 19th annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems. WITS will be held before the annual International Conference on Information Systems. This year's WITS is organized by Kelley School of Business Information Systems Professor Vijay Khatri and his colleague at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Huimin Zhao. The theme is "Interdisciplinary Frontiers in Information Technology Innovation."

As the world gathers at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Indiana University and Australia Zoo's Terri Irwin join forces to urge entrepreneurs to use their skills to capitalize on a crisis to help save the planet. In a ground-breaking new book to be launched in Melbourne, Donald F. Kuratko, Kelley School of Business professor of entrepreneurship, and Australia Zoo's Terri Irwin propose that a new breed of entrepreneurs could well be the saviours of the planet.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) for October edged up from the month before, due largely to the relatively large uptick in the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) and a rise in the value of unfilled orders in the auto sector.

A team of three students in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business' Masters of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program has won a regional case competition and will next compete against schools from all over the globe in May 2010 in Las Vegas.

Just in time for Thanksgiving Day on Thursday (Nov. 26), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered a menu of interesting statistics.

Retailers beware. Some tried-and-true discounting tactics for pepping up holiday season sales can be a boon for some products -- but a bust for others.

A study co-authored by a professor in IU's Kelley School of Business suggests that fans do have a great impact on games and that officials often are not objective in their efforts to be fair to both teams.

CA, Inc. and Kelley School of Business at Indiana University will hold a Regional Case Competition on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at the Indiana University Bloomington campus. The winning university will be invited to compete against teams from around the world at the second International Case Competition on the Strategic Value of IT Management, held in conjunction with CA's user conference, CA World 2010 in Las Vegas, May 15-17, 2010.

IU's Kelley School has been experimenting with social media in the form of blogs, Facebook groups and Twitter feeds in recent years. The latest development is a redesigned Web page called Kelley 360.

Indiana University economists presenting their annual forecast today (Nov. 5) are confident that 2010 is going to be better than this year. Unfortunately, 2009 was "really, really awful."

IU's Kelley School of Business will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for 2010, beginning with a presentation on Thursday (Nov. 5) morning in Indianapolis, followed by similar events in nine other cities across the state.

The Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business has been named winner of three of the seven Awards of Excellence presented this year by the Association for University Business and Economic Research.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) for the month of September was unchanged from the August index. The August index, previously flat from July, was revised upward. The LII is produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, in order to help Hoosier businesses and governments better understand market conditions in the state.

While the forecast for 2009 holiday retail sales is not as grim as a year ago, when seasonal activity fell by 3.8 percent from 2007, the Center for Education and Research in Retailing at IU's Kelley School of Business still projects a 1 percent decline.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has been named winner of the 2009 Award for Exceptional Contributions in Entrepreneurship Research by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC).

A diverse panel of Indiana University professors will speak on the issue of health care reform Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union. This free, open-to-the-public event is co-sponsored by the Indiana Memorial Union Board and the Teachable Moments Committee of the Commission on Multicultural Understanding.

The Jacobs School of Music and the Kelley School of Business' Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Indiana University are working in partnership to develop an entrepreneurial perspective for the next generation of musical leaders.

The successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series will return to the Bloomington headquarters of one of the state's oldest and most successful companies, Cook Medical, for the second of its 2009-10 seminars on Friday, Nov. 13.

On Thursday, October 15, 2009, Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd addressed the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University host as part of the school's CEO speaker series. The event, attended by undergraduate and MBA students, as well as faculty and staff of the Kelley School, took place in the forum of the Godfrey Center (1275 E. 10th Street).

The IU Kelley School of Business recently earned two of the top three honors in the annual Student Case Study Competition hosted by the Indiana CPA Society.

On Friday, October 9, 2009, sales teams from fifteen universities across the United States met in Bloomington to participate in the third annual National Team Selling Competition. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University hosted the event and Altria Sales & Distribution sponsored it. Altria Sales & Distribution employees role played the position of buyers and senior management and also served as judges.

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has created a new economic index that will enable Hoosiers to better understand market conditions in the state.

On Nov. 5, the Indiana University Business Outlook Panel will begin a statewide tour to present its economic forecast for 2010, with presentations in Indianapolis and Bloomington.

Indiana University Bloomington professors have prepared comments about Hispanic issues to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month, which began Tuesday, Sept. 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries -- Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- and continues until Oct. 15. IU professors Peter Guardino, Darlene Sadlier and Carol O. Rogers share their thoughts on topical issues relevant to these issues.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $203,549 to a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Indiana University and North Carolina State University. The project focuses on using virtual worlds to support business processes, such as product development, involving team members often spread over corporate campuses, multiple time zones or even different continents.

Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending Web site, will speak at Indiana University Bloomington next Thursday (Sept. 24).

Justin and Katharine Greis graduated from Indiana University in 2004, but their ties remain strong to the Bloomington campus. Last year, they helped establish a memorial fellowship to honor the special life of Katharine Greis's father and to provide financial assistance to students in the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program at Kelley.

A lecture by T. Boone Pickens, one of America's most successful businessmen and the founder of an ambitious, grassroots campaign aimed at reducing the nation's dependence on imported oil, will be presented live on the Web, Sept. 18, by IU Kelley School of Business.

Four entrepreneurship professors from Indiana University are listed as top researchers in their field in a research study authored by three Howard University scholars.

Today (Aug. 31) is the first day of classes at Indiana University and also a new start for two leaders at IU's Kelley School of Business. Professor Phil Powell will be leading Kelley's full-time MBA program, while Professor Tom Lenz will lead the undergraduate program.

Dean A. Shepherd, the Randall L. Tobias Chair of Entrepreneurial Leadership and professor of entrepreneurship at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has been appointed editor-in-chief of The Journal of Business Venturing.

T. Boone Pickens, one of America's most successful businessmen and the founder of an ambitious, self-funded grassroots campaign aimed at reducing the nation's dependence on imported oil, will speak at Indiana University Bloomington Sept. 18.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is being seen even more by U.S. News and World Report as a place to "keep an eye on." The national news magazine also continues to praise programs at IU's Bloomington campus with special recognition of its Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University students enrolled in the new "Shakespeare and the Law" Intensive Freshman Seminar will take part in open-to-the-public mock murder trials based on Hamlet and Macbeth at the historic Monroe County Courthouse, Aug. 20, at 9:30 a.m. Under the tutelage of Eve Brown, the business law lecturer at IU's Kelley School of Business who created the class, the students will spend their three-hour classes (Aug. 3-20) learning the basics about law, Shakespeare and college life at IU.

The successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series will go on the road to Warsaw, Ind. -- the "Orthopedics Capital of the World" -- for the first of its 2009-10 seminars on Friday, Sept. 11.

Just two days before joining IU's Kelley School of Business, Professor Herman Aguinis saw his work receive national attention, being cited by the United States Supreme Court in its decision in the case of New Haven, Conn., firefighters.

Nine Kelley Scholars have been selected by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

The Indiana Business Research Center has analyzed population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau for all cities, towns and townships in the state.

On Monday, June 1, 2009 the nation's leading organization for workplace learning and development, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), honored Kelley Direct and Ingersoll Rand Co. with the Excellence in Practice citation.

A new Indiana University report released today (June 29) indicates that Indiana has been one of the nation's top beneficiaries of foreign direct investment (FDI) in this decade. Firms where a foreign investor or company had at least a 50 percent stake accounted for 4.6 percent of Indiana's total private sector employment in 2006, ranking the state ninth nationally and well above the U.S. average of 3.5 percent.

According to a new study by the IU Kelley School of Business and its Indiana Business Research Center, Eli Lilly and Co. contributes about $8 billion to the state's economy and is Indiana's sixth largest employer with more than 14,000 employees.

The Indiana University Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs announced today (June 23) the appointment of Anne P. Massey as associate vice provost for faculty and academic affairs at IU Bloomington. Massey is the dean's research professor and professor of information systems at the IU Kelley School of Business.

IU Bloomington selects faculty members each year with distinguished leadership ability to participate in the Academic Leadership Program (ALP), sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. This year's ALP Fellows are Joyce Alexander, Martin McCrory, Jane McLeod and Sara C. Pryor.

According to new published research, many organizations fail to implement evidence-based policies that encourage whistle-blowers to report wrongdoing internally and suffer the consequences.

These days, everyone seems to be talking about members of the Millennial generation: their penchant for technology and social networking, their close connection to their parents, and their desire to make a difference in the world. When Target wanted ideas for reaching the Millennial market, it came to the Kelley School of Business to ask the Millennials themselves.

Self-imposed industry standards regarding the digital collection and use of consumer information are the preferred solution to protect consumer privacy and empower business innovation, according to faculty at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University announced a two-year pilot agreement with AT&T that will provide opportunities for business graduate students, faculty and staff to take advantage of the communications mobility provided by BlackBerry? smartphones. This is the first such agreement between AT&T and a university. The program, negotiated through University Information Technology Services at Indiana University, will be launched on July 1, 2009, in partnership with IU's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University continues to lead all public and private institutions in the state of Indiana in granting baccalaureate and most graduate degrees, and a new study indicates that IU graduates are making vital contributions to the state well after they receive their degrees.

During a period when auto industry employment in Indiana and elsewhere has been in decline, the Hoosier state's life sciences firms have accounted for nearly a quarter of the jobs created during this decade.

On Friday, April 24, 2009, 85 Kelley School of Business MBA students gathered for a workshop on how to impress during their internship, in an economic climate that nearly guarantees that directors and managers have little extra attention to devote to MBA students.

Of the 65 business schools ranked worldwide by The Financial Times, IU's Kelley School of Business has been ranked fourth among U.S. public institutions, 11th nationally and 26th overall.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has achieved another top ranking for entrepreneurship. In the just-released 2009 World Rankings for Entrepreneurship Productivity, Kelley's Department of Management and Entrepreneurship received the No. 1 ranking among 150 schools worldwide in the study. The study was based on figures from 2008.

Bill Cook, founder of Cook Group Inc. and an early innovator in Indiana's life sciences industry, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth and final event in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series.

Five Indiana University alumni have been named as recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, the university's highest honor reserved solely for IU alumni.

Eight Indiana University graduate schools and programs are ranked among the nation's top 25 by U.S. News and World Report magazine in its latest annual report, "America's Best Graduate Schools."

Indiana University announced that Huang Ping, consul general for the People's Republic of China in Chicago, will visit Indianapolis to participate in an IU-organized conference on U.S.-China business cooperation.

The news media has little influence in propelling financial market bubbles or causing their meltdowns, and has only short-term effects on returns. This main finding of an analysis of media coverage and stock performance during the dot-com bubble refutes the current controversies on the issue, say researchers at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University and its Kelley School of Business today are remembering Indianapolis-area businessman and philanthropist William R. Fry with expressions of condolences and appreciation for his support of IU and his desire to help people who were less fortunate.

Dozens of Indiana University students in Bloomington will observe World Day for Physical Activity on Wednesday (April 8) with a 4-mile trek around the scenic campus as they search for a mysterious character. The students are competitors in the alternate reality game Skeleton Chase 2: The Psychic.

A lecture scheduled for Thursday (April 9) by Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending Web site, has been postponed.

A new study finds that options-based ticketing -- in which consumers purchase the right to buy a ticket, but not the obligation to do so -- would increase participation at events like the Final Four by as much as 35 percent among fans who previously avoided the ticketing process.

Jack Stack, chief executive officer of SRC Holdings, will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as a Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation on Friday (March 27) in Bloomington.

During spring break, an increasing number of Indiana University students are opting for international locales, where they often travel as part of classes. This year, Korea is a "hot spot" for business, journalism and liberal arts students.

Six alumni of Indiana University will be honored by the Kelley School of Business for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 63rd annual IU Business Conference in Indianapolis.

James S. Turley, chairman and chief executive officer of Ernst & Young LLP, today (March 3) will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and present a $500,000 gift for a new program that will help the school be more inclusive and attract a more diverse student population.

In an increasingly global economy, students are seeking out international experience. A new service learning program developed by MBAs in IU's Kelley School of Business provides that international experience while also connecting students with entrepreneurs at the "bottom of the pyramid."

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business continues to be ranked among the nation's elite, ranking second among Big Ten schools and 20th overall in Business Week magazine's new evaluations of undergraduate business programs.

Indiana University's Venture Capital Investment Competition team won first place at Friday's Mid-Atlantic Regional Final at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Zac Workman, an honors student in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, heads up one of nine student-run companies featured by Inc. magazine in its new list of "America's Coolest College Start-Ups."

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business publicly announced a $15 million gift, which will ignite an ambitious $60 million capital campaign to transform its facilities for undergraduate students. The gift is from a graduate of the Kelley School who wishes to remain anonymous.

Dane A. Miller, co-founder of Biomet, will be the guest of Indiana University's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Kelley School of Business on Tuesday (Feb.17) as the center's Distinguished Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Two centers in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business -- the Institute for Corporate Governance and the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation -- are partnering with NASDAQ OMX and the Indiana Association for Corporate Growth to host programs on Feb. 19 featuring the Hon. Michael G. Oxley.

Two new teaching awards related to sustainability and environmental literacy -- the Sustainability Course Development Fellowships and the Sustainability and Environmental Literacy Leadership Award -- have been awarded to IU Bloomington faculty by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs.

A new Indiana University internship program will provide students with valuable experience on the business side of life sciences information technology, while interns apply traditional business techniques toward helping IU technology experts advance IU medical and life sciences research. The joint internship program, being offered by the IU Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) and the Center for the Business of Life Sciences (CBLS) at the Kelley School of Business, will employ a total of six student interns on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses during the spring 2009 semester.

Two New Studies Show Just How Critical Creative Twists are to Motivating Consumers on Eve of the World's Biggest Ad Showcase, the Super Bowl

In addition to being felt on Wall Street and Main Street, the severe slowdown in housing starts soon could be noticeable on school playgrounds in Indiana, according to a report produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

The 2009 IU Business Conference on March 11 will feature a discussion of three topics that have converged to create significant challenges for companies -- health care, energy and the environment -- led by New York Times columnist David Brooks.

Business partnerships among life sciences companies will be the focus of the third seminar in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series at the Eli Lilly and Co. Corporate Center in Indianapolis on Feb. 13.

Professor Michael Baye has returned to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business after spending the past year and a half as director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

What is the most cost-effective way to manufacture a product and get it to market in an ever-changing global economy? The Main Street Institute will present a workshop titled "Optimizing Your Supply Chain in an Ever-Changing World" from 8 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, in Room 450 of the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd.

To ensure prosperity in the New Year, Spanish-speaking cultures eat 12 grapes, Southerners eat greens and beans, and Italians eat a sugary fried pastry called chiacchiere. For a prosperous 2009, it may be wise to try all three, according to the outlook issue of the Indiana Business Review. Titled "How the Economy Will Weather the Storm in 2009," the annual forecast predicts gloomy economic weather for the coming year.

The Federal Reserve yesterday reduced its benchmark interest rate to a record low level. Larry Davidson, professor of business economics and public policy at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, and Charles A. Trzcinka, Finance Department chair at the Kelley School, comment on the significant of the rate cut.

This fall, the Kelley School of Business decided to hand out cash to undergraduates in the Business Honors Program. Twenty-seven teams of students were given $400 each as part of a new emphasis on teaching innovation as well as the functional topics that are considered business fundamentals, such as strategy, marketing, finance and operations. Students were expected to use their "Innovation Grant" to come up with an engaging way to promote the product they were trying to launch.

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation today announced a "Powering Communities Grant" of $10,000 to benefit the Kelley School of Business MBA Program at Indiana University (IU). Funds will be used to support the Supply Chain and Global Management Academy (SCGMA) and the Business Marketing Academy (BMA).

Congressional leaders and the White House are attempting to work out details and gain approval for $15 billion in emergency loans to U.S. automakers. Indiana University's John Graham, dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Gilbert Frisbie, clinical associate professor of marketing in the Kelley School of Business, share their views on the bailout.

The Kelley School of Business Living Learning Center (LLC) will open its doors for the fall semester of 2009, housing 250 undergraduate students who live together, take courses together and participate in extracurricular programs that develop a sense of community among students and enable faculty to mentor students.

Three students in Kelley's Masters of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program took the top prize at the International Case Competition on the Strategic Value of Information Technology Management, sponsored by IT management firm CA, Inc. The competition was held November 16-17, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Scott Albin, Joseph Powell and Nanditha Ram beat out 9 other teams of MBA and masters of information systems (MIS) students from around the world to take home a $10,000 prize. The faculty coach for the team was Keith Dayton.

Christmas decorations and music have been in some stores since Halloween and many retailers have used early promotions and high markdowns to register sales. But it may not be enough to prevent one of the worst holiday shopping seasons ever, according to a retail expert in IU's Kelley School of Business.

According to a report produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, more women than men are earning college degrees, a result of the increased opportunities for women in recent decades.

Just in time for Thanksgiving Day on Thursday (Nov. 27), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered a menu of interesting statistics.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced today that Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the university $2.75 million to support initiatives that provide internships and job placement, promote economic development and promote a culture of entrepreneurship. The five-year grant will fund new and continued activities at seven IU campuses aimed at reversing "brain drain" and increasing the number of college graduates who stay and work in Indiana.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business moved up in another measure of its quality, Business Week magazine's 2008 list of best business schools. Based on surveys of graduating students and corporate recruiters, the magazine ranked the school 15th overall, up from 18th two years ago. On that list, Kelley stands fourth among public institutions.

A $15 million gift from William R. Fry, an alumnus of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, will provide for a new, life-changing undergraduate scholarship program for financially challenged students from underrepresented areas of society.

Regulated livestock operations (RLOs) can have a small positive effect on nearby residential property values in rural areas, according to a new Indiana University study. The study, produced by the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) for the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA), bases its results in part on an analysis of real estate transactions in three Indiana counties between 2000-2006.

In a tough economy, little details make a big difference for women striving for the top of the corporate ladder. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, four of Chicago's most accomplished women from the fields of finance, advertising, real estate, and internet marketing will give their insights on "A Woman's View from the Top" as part of an event sponsored by PrivateBank and the Chicago Alumni Chapter of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Kelley School graduate students demonstrated their continued commitment to charitable giving by raising $25,000 at their annual auction. The annual event is held at the Bluebird, in downtown Bloomington, and features both silent and live auctions for items donated by Kelley School faculty, staff and local businesses.

As 2008 draws to an end, economists at Indiana University and its Kelley School of Business hope that the nation and Indiana can escape 2009 with only a moderate recession -- similar in severity to those in 1990 and in 2001. The Kelley School's Business Outlook Panel today (Nov. 6) presented a forecast for 2009 predicting that national output (Gross Domestic Product) will decline through the first half of 2009 -- dropping more than 1 percent during the recession -- before growing in the second half.

The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education (Aspen CBE) today (Nov. 5) announced the finalists of the 2008 Faculty Pioneer Awards. This annual recognition celebrates MBA faculty who have demonstrated leadership and risk-taking in integrating social and environmental issues into academic research, educational programs and business practice. Amongst this year's finalists is Siri Terjesen, assistant professor at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for 2008, beginning with a presentation on Thursday (Nov. 6) morning in Indianapolis, followed by similar events in nine other cities across the state.

Just in time for Election Day next Tuesday (Nov. 4), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting statistics.

In a twist on typical business competitions, students participating in this week's IU Internal Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) will sit as venture capitalists, reviewing pitches for capital from actual entrepreneurs, all while real venture capitalists judge their teamwork and communication skills.

Protecting investments in intellectual property developed at life sciences companies will be the focus of the second seminar in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series at Cook Medical world headquarters in Bloomington on Friday, Nov. 14.

2008 was a "very tricky year" for economists to anticipate and forecasters who will present the Indiana University Business Outlook Panel forecast acknowledge that 2009 "could be even more challenging."

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will recognize nearly 60 Indiana companies as finalists at its annual Indiana Entrepreneurial Leadership Awards.

This Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, members of Kelley's Women's MBA Alumni Advisory Board will offer tips and tools for business financing at a panel discussion entitled "Get on Top of the Bottom Line."

Several MBA student associations in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on Nov. 1 will present the fifth annual EXCEL Conference.

For the past 16 years, professors in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business have been charged with identifying the Truck Dealer of the Year for an annual competition held by the American Truck Dealers. As part of the prize, the winner comes to Kelley to talk to students about entrepreneurship and marketing. This year the committee has selected Marvin Rush, chairman of Rush Enterprises of New Braunfels, Texas, who will be at the school next Wednesday (Oct. 22).

Ken Jaques, chief executive officer and president of Global Communication Strategies in Virginia, will share his insight and experience of more than 20 years of experience abroad this Thursday (Oct. 16) at the International Luncheon Series, sponsored by Indiana Univerity's Kelley School of Business.

Stephen H. Schneider, one of the world's leading experts on climate change science, will present the 2008 Charles F. Bonser Distinguished Lecture at Indiana University, sponsored by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Kelley School of Business. The topic is "Changing the Course of Global Climate Change." He will speak Oct. 13 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington and Oct. 14 at Indiana University's Whittenberger Auditorium.

Students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business again have given top marks to its faculty, facilities and overall classroom experience in a new Princeton Review survey.

Some economists argue that increasing the minimum wage has adverse effects on employment. However, a new study from the Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business reveals that decreased employment may not be so easily tied to higher minimum wages.

Gen. Peter Pace, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Don Knauss, chief executive officer of the Clorox Co., will be visiting Indiana University's Kelley School of Business this week as part of the school's leaders-in-residence program.

Findings that appear in the new issue of InContext -- a publication produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, in partnership with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development -- indicate that Indiana's population is expected to become increasingly diverse over the next 20 years.

Five finance professors from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today (Sept. 26) advised the Indiana congressional delegation on the proposed federal buyout, based on their professional expertise in finance and economics.

Barack Obama twitters; and so does Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, the world's largest online shoe retailer. Now some Kelley marketing students and their instructor are adding their "Tweets" to the mix.

Four Indiana University alumni will be among nine people honored Oct. 2 by the Indiana Broadcasters Association's Richard M. Fairbanks Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has invited several people who are responsible for managing the financial risks at some of the world's top companies, including some who are its alumni, to participate in its first CFO Roundtable on Oct. 3.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has invited several world-class alumni back to share insights with students and other alumni about working with some of America's most popular brands. The third Brand Leadership Conference will be held Sept. 18-19 at IU Bloomington.

Due to increasing demand for executive education provided by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, today (Sept. 9) it is announcing it has built an entirely new campus -- a virtual one in the world of Second Life -- which bears a striking resemblance to buildings on the IU Bloomington campus.

Kelley School of Business doctoral students Devon Erickson and Adam Esplin created, directed and starred in small-budget film on international accounting standards, landing them in Hollywood, California this August. Their film was actually a taped submission to PricewaterhouseCooper's annual case competition, and they were in Pasadena, not Hollywood, but congratulations are due nevertheless.

Just in time for Labor Day, the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some statistics about the Indiana work force.

More companies are requiring employees to demonstrate leadership skills at earlier stages in their careers. Senior honors students in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will be given an opportunity to hone their abilities through a development program being established this fall. The school's Honors Leadership Program initially will enable 30 students to cultivate managerial abilities by working with 300 of their peers both as individuals and as members of student teams enrolled in an integrated group of classes. They will develop interpersonal, leadership and coaching skills that are highly valued by future employers.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Secretary of Commerce Nate Feldman, the presidents of Indiana and Purdue universities and John Diekman, founder of an early stage life science venture capital fund, will speak at the fourth and final program in the 2008-09 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series.

Kathleen Robbins has been named as the new director of the Kelley School of Business' 3,000-student undergraduate program.

The start of each new academic year is an opportunity for Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to reflect on its mission: to transform lives, organizations and society through business education and research. A study suggests that the school's research is indeed bringing about change. Kelley's combined Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses rank third in the world and No. 1 among public universities in terms of research impact.

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University continues to be one of the few to offer nationally respected undergraduate and graduate programs, as again reported by U.S. News and World Report magazine. Also, for the sixth consecutive year, the news magazine cited two IU campuses for offering "academic programs that are commonly linked to student success."

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will again take a group of honors students to one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and they're inviting others along through a new blog, "Kelley Takes You to Incredible India."

The U.S. Census Bureau today (July 10) released to Indiana University's Indiana Business Research Center the population estimates for all cities, towns and townships in the United States.

Eleven students have been selected as Kelley Scholars by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

While Latinos today account for 5 percent of all Hoosiers, the state continues to have a small Hispanic population compared to other states, according to a new report from the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University's excellence in discovering, developing and delivering life sciences research and innovations will be on display June 17-20, in San Diego, Calif., during BIO 2008, the leading international conference for the biotechnology industry in the United States. More than 20,000 attendees from biotechnology companies, academic institutions and related organizations will participate in BIO.

Just in time for Father's Day this Sunday (June 15), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting statistics.

The Kelley School of Business' Young Women's Institute is providing 36 women who have just completed their junior year in high school with a sample of what it's like to attend a world-class business school and, in the process, build their confidence in pursuing a career in business.

Students from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business worked in synch -- virtually -- with cohorts at North Carolina State University's Jenkins Graduate School of Management this past spring to learn about service innovation without ever leaving their campuses.

Prof. Roger W. Schmenner, Ph.D. was recently selected as Outstanding Paper Award Winner by the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008.

Indiana University announced today (May 29) that it received a $185,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore how interactive digital games can be designed to improve college students' health.

IU's Kelley School of Business Alumni Association has partnered with seasonedPRO.com to produce a unique one-day event designed to advance the careers of experienced alumni and other members of the professional community.

Customized executive education programs offered by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business returned to the top 25 in the world as ranked by the Financial Times today (May 12) in its annual survey of international non-degree programs.

Just in time for Mother's Day this Sunday (May 11), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered some interesting statistics.

According to a study released last week, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music accounts for $120 million a year in economic activity in Indiana, supporting about 900 jobs and generating $4.7 million in state and local taxes. The school's impact goes far beyond dollars and cents, says the study, which quantifies the ways in which the Jacobs School and its faculty, students and alumni play an essential role in the vibrancy of the state's cultural life.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is continuing its strong commitment to the life sciences with the establishment of a new research and teaching center and a new executive certificate program that will teach more professionals about its business side.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Secretary of Commerce Nate Feldman, the presidents of Indiana and Purdue universities and John Diekman, founder of an early stage life science venture capital fund, will speak at the fourth and final program in the 2007-08 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series.

A five-person team from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business triumphed over rivals from four other universities to win the BTS University Challenge, which challenged MBA teams to compete in running a multi-billion dollar corporation.

According to a study released today (April 21), the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music accounts for $120 million a year in economic activity in Indiana, supporting about 900 jobs and generating $4.7 million in state and local taxes. The school's impact goes far beyond dollars and cents, says the study, which quantifies the ways in which the Jacobs School and its faculty, students and alumni play an essential role in the vibrancy of the state's cultural life.

Steve Bellamy, a sports and media entrepreneur who is chairman and chief executive officer of The Ski Channel television network, will speak on May 2 at a recognition event for MBA graduates of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

A new Indiana University report indicates that Indiana will gain more than 5,000 jobs created by foreign direct investment (FDI) announced in 2007 -- mostly in the automotive manufacturing industry.

U.S. News and World Report magazine has chosen three programs at Indiana University -- including its School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) -- as top 10 among their peers. Three others, including its School of Education and Kelley School of Business, are among the magazine's top 20.

Fred G. Steingraber, a 1960 IU graduate who led an ambitious global expansion at A.T. Kearney, is looking to help IU's Kelley School of Business leverage its established international connections and technological resources with a targeted $2 million gift.

A team of first-year Master of Business Administration students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business won first place team honors in the 2008 Key Foundation Minority MBA Case Competition IV last week at KeyBank headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business continues to be ranked among the nation's elite, advancing two places from 18th to 16th and second among Big Ten schools in Business Week magazine's new rankings of undergraduate business programs.

Five alumni of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University will be honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 61st annual IU Business Conference at the Indiana Convention Center on March 4 in Indianapolis.

Editors: Arrangements have been made for print and electronic media to cover Friday's (Feb. 22 ) speech in Indianapolis by Zhou Wenzhong, China's ambassador to the United States.

While the IU Circle of Life Mini Marathon and 5K races at Indiana University Bloomington have been moved from September to April, they will feature a familar face from the fall collegiate sports scene. IU head football coach Bill Lynch will be a part of the IU Circle of Life Mini Marathon and 5K races on Saturday, April 5.

Robert A. Eckert, chairman of the board and CEO of Mattel, Inc., will speak Feb. 29 at a luncheon presented by the Center for International Business Education and Research in IU's Kelley School of Business.

More than half of the 50 states, including Indiana, will face a dilemma in coming decades of having fewer workers in the age group considered the prime earning years -- the 25-to-54 age group. A new report, "Workers Needed: Please Apply by 2025: The Changing 25-to-54 Age Group," highlights a sharp decline in the number of people who will make up this key component of the workforce as a result of the exodus of many baby boomers.

Herb Kelleher, founder and executive chairman of Southwest Airlines Co., will make a return visit to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as the Distinguished Entrepreneur in Residence of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Friday, Feb. 8 in Bloomington.

In discussions about the state's economy, the topic quickly turns to global challenges -- international competition, public policy, regulation, expansion, financing, sales and marketing. At the 2008 IU Business Conference, six leaders -- including Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels -- will elevate the conversation by adding their insights and strategies for bettering Indiana's global game.

Zhou Wenzhong, China's ambassador to the United States, will speak Friday, Feb. 22, at the University Conference Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His speech is being presented by IU's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, which has offered executive education programs since the 1950s, has turned to a new leader to transform them into an educational model for leaders in the 21st century.

Many life science companies are opting to outsource many functions previously done in-house, including research, development, refrigerated storage and a myriad of manufacturing functions. This shift and its impact on Indiana firms will be the focus of the third program in the 2007-08 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series.

A team of second-year Master of Business Administration students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business won first-place team honors last weekend in the Pac-10/Big Ten Case Competition. Students also won individual honors.

According to a new report from the Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business, registered nursing is the hottest job throughout Indiana.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has announced that it has signed an agreement with Sungkyunkwan University of Seoul, South Korea, to bring together students, faculty and programs of the two globally recognized institutions.

Tommy G. Thompson, former Health and Human Services secretary and four-term governor of Wisconsin, will visit IU's Kelley School of Business on Jan. 8. He will meet with undergraduate and MBA students and speak to a unique class at Kelley on the business of life sciences.

The intrinsic value of libraries has been lauded for a centuries, but a new Indiana University study found that for each dollar of public library expenditures, the average Indiana community receives $2.38 in benefits. The market value of the goods and services they provide is estimated at $629.9 million.

Indiana University and Zhejiang University, one of China's leading universities, held their first-ever joint symposium focusing on university research commercialization and technology transfer and involving senior leaders of both institutions. In addition to the symposium, IU and Zhejiang formally strengthened their partnership by signing a new agreement that renews for five more years an agreement first signed in 1982.

Students in Indiana University Bloomington's new "Health, Technology and Aging" course on Monday (Dec. 3) will make a pitch to judges and an "angel" for funding that could turn their class projects into marketable products.

While the battle for the Old Oaken Bucket raged in Bloomington on Nov. 17, five MBA students in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business came out victorious against Purdue University and five other universities in the Krannert Graduate Marketing Association Business-to-Business Marketing and Strategy Case Competition in West Lafayette, Ind.

A lecture scheduled for this Thursday (Nov. 29) in Indianapolis by Zhou Wenzhong, China's ambassador to the United States, has been cancelled. The ambassador hopes to reschedule the lecture and other events in Indianapolis sometime within the next year.

Students in the Liberal Arts and Management Program at Indiana University Bloomington are setting out to help some of the world's most vulnerable children at the same time they develop their own skills in business and problem solving. They have created the Virt? Project, which will use pledges to a mock investment portfolio to raise money for the Timmy Foundation.

STATS Indiana, an award-winning online resource that provides in-depth information about Indiana and other states, is being relaunched with a new, user-friendly design, a large infusion of new data from state government agencies and other enhancements. It is maintained by the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Zhou Wenzhong, China's ambassador to the United States, will speak Thursday, Nov. 29, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. His presentation is one of two events this month focusing on U.S.-Chinese business relations and sponsored by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

More than a third of all undergraduate students in IU's Kelley School of Business will have traveled abroad by the time they complete their studies, including an increasing number of them who travel to emerging economic markets. Many more students now will have that opportunity thanks to a generous $400,000 gift from IU alumnus Ed Hutton.

Economists at IU's Kelley School of Business are "cautiously optimistic" in their forecast for 2008. They are predicting national output growth (GDP) of about 2.5 percent. Indiana's GDP will rise about 2 percent next year.

Cook Group Inc. will host on Nov. 16 the next event in a workshop series designed by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to assist Indiana's healthcare and life science companies in finding new ways to collaborate.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for 2008, beginning with a presentation on Thursday morning (Nov. 1) in Indianapolis, followed by similar events in 10 other cities across the state.

Louis Jordan, the chief financial officer for global retail and digital commerce at Nike Inc, will be a guest of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on Nov. 2 as the center's Distinguished Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman has helped secure a federal grant for Purdue and Indiana universities to work together to expand a regional study of rural economic development.

A team of students representing Indiana University's Kelley School of Business earned a victory at the annual Kelley-Krannert Case Competition, held recently at Purdue University.

Exports from Indiana to foreign countries reached a record $22.6 billion in 2006, up 5.3 percent over the previous year. A new study, conducted for the Indiana Economic Development Corp. (IEDC) by the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, also suggests that Indiana exports will grow at a faster pace in 2007.

Bruce Weinstein, an author and commentator popularly known as The Ethics Guy ?, will speak to students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business about "Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good."

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business Thursday (Oct. 18) will recognize more than 40 Indiana companies as finalists at its third annual Indiana Entrepreneurial Awards of Distinction. The awards banquet spotlights these emerging companies for their growth, innovation, spirit and social enterprise.

A team of second-year Master of Business Administration students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business won first-place team honors in the 2007 Dell & Microsoft Marketing Case Competition at the National Society of Hispanic MBAs 18th Annual Conference and Career Expo.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for 2008, beginning with a presentation Nov. 1 in Indianapolis, followed by similar events in 10 other cities across the state.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has again been given top honors by students who praise its faculty, facilities and the overall classroom experience in a new Princeton Review survey. Its MBA program ranked No. 1 in a new category, "Best Classroom Experience," just ahead of Harvard University.

Kelley School of Business students, faculty and friends participated in the Eighth Annual Hoosiers Outrun Cancer 5k Run/Walk on Saturday, September 29, at the Indiana University Memorial Stadium. The 125 member "Kelley Runs for Walt" Team, the largest Indiana University team for the second year in a row, was organized to celebrate the life of Walt Blacconiere, former Kelley School of Business professor who passed away earlier this year.

The third annual Indiana University Life Sciences Career Fair for IU students will be held Thursday (Sept. 20) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the IU Auditorium.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has invited several alumni back to share insights with students and other alumni about working with some of America's most popular brands. The second Brand Leadership Conference, to be held Sept. 20-21 at IU Bloomington, will feature Kelley School alumni who are or have been in senior-level positions at companies such as PepsiCo, Dollar General, General Mills and Hanesbrands.

Starting this fall, more than 1,200 undergraduate majors each year in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will benefit from a new, hands-on leadership development program being created through a generous grant from Target.

Business professionals, economic leaders, scholars and students in Indianapolis and Bloomington will have an opportunity on Sept. 7 to hear from one of the nation's leading experts on China at events in both cities.

The impact that informatics is having on Indiana's life science industries will be the focus of the first program in the 2007-08 Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series.

Four professors at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business earned top honors at the 2007 Academy of Management Conference, including the executive director of its Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

IU Circle of Life, a not-for-profit philanthropy organized by Indiana University students, is making final preparations for its second mini marathon on the IU Bloomington campus on Sept. 8. Old National Bank is the event's title sponsor.

Twenty-seven Indiana University freshmen join five sophomores in an educational journey this fall as recipients of the Undergraduate Research Scholarship at Indiana University Bloomington. The scholarship, now in its second year, is distinctive in that it features four years of undergraduate research, with students and their faculty mentors working side-by-side.

Fortune Small Business magazine reports that both the undergraduate and MBA programs offered by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business are among the top programs nationally "for aspiring entrepreneurs."

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University continues to be one of the few to offer nationally respected undergraduate and graduate programs, as again reported by U.S. News and World Report magazine. Also, for the sixth consecutive year, the news magazine cited two IU campuses for offering "academic programs that are commonly linked to student success."

Indiana University President Michael McRobbie welcomes three new members named Thursday (Aug. 2) to the IU Board of Trustees and a fourth trustee reappointed by Gov. Mitch Daniels. Their terms begin immediately.

Applications are being accepted until Aug. 31 for the Indiana University Entrepreneurial Awards of Distinction, presented by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IU's Kelley School of Business.

Brad Alford, a 1980 alumnus of the IU Kelley School of Business Master of Business Administration program, and chairman and chief executive officer of Nestl? Brands USA, is responsible for a $750,000 gift that will establish the Nestl? Professorship and Fellowship in Marketing.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today (July 19) announced the formation of a 14-member advisory board of life science industry leaders who will help faculty and students in continuing the momentum established this past year by its Healthcare & Life Sciences Initiative.

Indiana University President Michael McRobbie today (July 13) named Bradley C. Wheeler vice president for information technology. Wheeler is IU acting chief information officer and dean of information technology for IU Bloomington and a professor of information systems in the Kelley School of Business. Wheeler, who will succeed McRobbie as vice president for information technology, has been a member of IU's information technology leadership team for the last five years.

Michael R. Baye, the Bert Elwert professor of business economics in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, has been named director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics. He follows a tradition of other Kelley School and IU faculty who have served in positions such as the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

About 80 faculty members at Indiana University's Bloomington campus have research or professional interests in the Middle East. They can be found from the Kelley School of Business to the Jacobs School of Music and in many specialized areas as well, such as designing national health care plans and government administration. The new director of IU's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program hopes to involve as many of them as possible in the program's future activities.

Ten new students have been selected as Kelley Scholars by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

While job growth in Indiana during the first half of this decade advanced by a mere 0.2 percent, average earnings per Hoosier bucked normal trends by growing by 19 percent, according to a report from the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

In the last three years, the Association of International Business, a leading organization of world economists and scholars, has held its annual meeting in Beijing, Quebec City and Stockholm. This year, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will host the distinguished group in Indianapolis, on June 25-28.

A federally funded study focusing on how rural areas can stimulate economic development, done jointly by Indiana and Purdue universities, has received a national award from the Council for Community and Economic Research.

Two Indiana University alumni are infusing their entrepreneurial successes into a two-year-old J.D./M.B.A. clinical program at IU and have made a $3 million gift to the IU School of Law-Bloomington to fund scholarships for Entrepreneurship Law Clinic students, joint J.D./M.B.A. candidates and students demonstrating a strong interest in business law.

Philip Cochran, professor of management at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and professor of philanthropic studies at the IU Center on Philanthropy, has been named associate dean for the school at IUPUI.

The final program in the Indiana LifeSC Initiative, a workshop series designed by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to assist Indiana's healthcare and life science companies, is scheduled for May 18 (Friday) in Warsaw, Ind. It will focus on how firms can manage the process of research and development.

A team of first-year Master of Business Administration students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business won first place in the 2007 Big 10 MBA Case Competition.

IU Circle of Life, a not-for-profit philanthropy organized by Indiana University students, announced that it will hold its second annual mini-marathon on Sept. 8.

Regional groups of industries that share common markets, suppliers or work force skills are the key to stimulating economic development in rural areas, according to a new report, "Unlocking Rural Competitiveness: The Role of Regional Clusters."

Barbara Flynn, professor of operations management at the Kelley School of Business' Indianapolis campus, has been named the new director of the IU Center for International Business Education and Research.

Several Indiana University graduate programs, particularly those involved in the state's health and life sciences efforts, education and business, are ranked among the best in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools."

James Buher, president and chief executive officer of the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, has joined the Dean's Advisory Council at the Indiana University School of Informatics.

Jim Cramer and his crew at Mad Money soon will be getting a hospitable Hoosier "ba-ba-boo-yah" in person when the exuberant former hedge-fund manager brings his popular CNBC television program to IU Bloomington, as a result of student efforts.

Stanley W. Benecki, who earned a bachelor's degree in real estate from IU in 1981, has donated five lots of undeveloped, beachfront land now valued at $1.95 million to the Kelley School of Business. The lots are on historic Dog Island, Fla. Under the direction of faculty and the IU Foundation, students will be given the opportunity to assess, market and ultimately sell the land at a much higher price to maximize the value of Benecki's gift.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business continues to have two quality programs considered among the nation's best by Business Week, after the magazine Thursday announced its rankings of undergraduate programs. Both the school's undergraduate and MBA programs are now ranked 18th overall, according to Business Week, which announced its second ranking of the top 50 undergraduate business programs through a Web-cast late Thursday (March 8).

Arrangements have been made for print and electronic media covering Wednesday's (Feb. 28 ) Indiana University Business Conference, "The 21st Century Imperatives for Business: Energy and the Environment," at the Indiana Convention Center, 100 S. Capitol Ave. in Indianapolis.

Five alumni of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University will be honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 61st annual IU Business Conference at the Indiana Convention Center on Feb. 28 in Indianapolis.

While the prognosticators debate the merits of quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Rex Grossman, the analysts at Indiana University's Indiana Business Research Center have looked at how Indianapolis and Chicago measure up according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

Cook Group, Inc. will host the next event in a workshop series designed by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to assist Indiana's healthcare and life science companies find new ways to collaborate. The half-day program, "Combination Products in the Life Science Industries," will take place Feb. 2.

Alvin Toffler, whose studies of change and its impact on business and culture have influenced decision makers for more than five decades, will join five top executives at a major conference Feb. 28 in Indianapolis on energy and the environment. The 61st annual Indiana University Business Conference, presented by the IU Kelley School of Business, will begin at 9 a.m. at the Indiana Convention Center, 100 S. Capitol Ave.

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has earned another national honor for its entrepreneurship program. The graduate program was named the 2007 National Model MBA in Entrepreneurship by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

In this edition of Lecture Notes, find events that allow you to look at portraits by Joyce Wilson and war photos by James Nachtwey, confer with 'CSI' consultant Gary Telgenhoff and dedicate new artwork to the IU Art Museum.

Undergraduates in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business are being introduced to innovative tablet computers that have touch sensitive displays that permit them to write answers directly on the screen. Hewlett-Packard Philanthropy has awarded the Kelley School with a $125,000 grant that has been used to purchase 40 HP TC4400 table PCs and a software program developed by the Indianapolis-based company DyKnow.

John R. Gibbs, co-founder of Interactive Intelligence Inc., has committed to provide $100,000 to create a scholarship endowment for students in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, the majority of which already has been funded.

Tips from Indiana University professors on key issues related to tobacco policy in Indiana: factors in Indiana's high smoking rate, top three ways to prevent kids from smoking, how smoking can lead to blindness, tobacco outspending public health 44 to one in Indiana, why messages matter in youth smoking decisions and how tobacco covers its assets.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has invited several alumni back to share insights with students and other alumni about working with some of America's most popular brands. The first Brand Leadership Conference on Nov. 30-Dec. 1 at IU Bloomington will feature alumni who are now in senior-level positions at companies such as Procter & Gamble, Eli Lilly, OnStar, Staples and Domino's Pizza.

This edition of "Lecture Notes" features information about lectures and speakers on the Indiana University Bloomington campus from Nov. 6-20, including "Lunch with a Curator," a former chief of the CIA European Division and interesting discoveries from the Stone Age Institute.

Economists in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business presented a forecast for 2007 that they characterized as "guardedly optimistic," predicting national output growth (GDP) of about 3 percent next year and slow economic growth in Indiana adding 20,000 to 25,000 new jobs statewide.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business recently was honored for the outstanding research accomplishments of its entrepreneurship faculty. It was presented with the National Award for Exceptional Contributions to Entrepreneurship Research by the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers at its annual national meeting.

Seventeen companies will be on campus Thursday (Nov. 2) for the second Indiana University Life Sciences Career Fair. The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the IU Auditorium on the Bloomington campus.

Beginning Thursday (Nov. 2) in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business again will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for the coming year.

Ramesh Venkataraman, a professor in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, was one of the primary organizers of a major symposium on information technology service management at the University of Dallas this week (Oct. 26-27). The symposium involved educators and researchers from about 40 leading universities.

Michael E. Uslan, chief creative officer, producer and founding partner of Comic Book Movies, LLC, will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on Tuesday (Oct. 31) as a Distinguished Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Twenty-four companies were selected as the best in their categories in this year's Indiana University Entrepreneurial Awards of Distinction, presented Thursday (Oct. 19) evening in Indianapolis by IU's Kelley School of Business.

Sixty-eight Indiana companies are finalists in a program from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business that recognizes emerging companies for their growth, innovation, spirit and social enterprise. The IU Entrepreneurial Awards of Distinction will be presented to a select number of these businesses on Thursday (Oct. 19).

Four Kelley School of Business undergraduate students will compete against four University of Illinois rivals on a marketing/business challenge for a Fortune 500 company on mtvU's "Quad Squads" series this fall. The show will chronicle the team dynamics involved in competing and solving a business challenge.

By virtue of its 18th-place ranking in the new Business Week list of top business schools, the Kelley School of Business is among the top 1 percent of all masters of business administration programs in the nation. Among public institutions Kelley ranks sixth.

Cummins Inc. has turned to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to deliver a global online MBA program, which each year will prepare 60 of the company's most promising managers in India, China, United States and elsewhere for increased leadership responsibilities.

Two initiatives this week by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University demonstrate that its faculty and students see themselves playing an important role in India's future. Kelley School Dean Daniel C. Smith will be visiting government ministers and senior administrators at companies and universities across India during a seven-day trip there. M.A. Venkataramanan, chair of the undergraduate program, also will be leading a group of about 60 sophomore honors students there.

At a time when Indiana employment at the Big Three domestic automakers is in decline and many in the state look ahead to new jobs at Honda and Toyota, a new report from IU's Kelley School of Business indicates that Hoosiers continue to show a strong preference for American vehicles.

Seventy students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business are receiving scholarships resulting from an educational scholarship gift of $5.4 million from the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation of Austin, Texas.

IU and its Kelley School of Business will offer an economic forecast for 2007 beginning Nov. 2. Economists will present an economic outlook for the world, the nation, Indiana and its major cities, as well as commentary on how the financial markets are likely to fare in the year ahead. Here is a complete list of the panel's presentations around Indiana.

The reports that job opportunities in information technology are dead are not only greatly exaggerated, but just plain wrong. In fact, the field abounds with prospects and will so in the years to come. That is the message that the Kelley School of Business and the School of Informatics at Indiana University and business leaders want to deliver to students who are undeclared majors and grappling with deciding a profession. And IU students will have the opportunity to learn about the opportunities and benefits at the Future Potential in IT seminar, Friday, Oct. 6.

The Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will host the first Symposium for Women Entrepreneurs: Achievement and Tenacity (SWEAT) on Monday, Oct. 6.

More than half of all Hoosiers work in non-farm businesses with less than 100 employees. These businesses also make up more than 50 percent of establishments that have fewer than five employees in more than two-thirds of the state's counties, according to a new report released by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Indiana University announced a new graduate certificate program in Social Entrepreneurship, combining classes in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Kelley School of Business to form a curriculum focused on applying entrepreneurial practices to public needs in the nonprofit, for-profit and governmental sectors. Students will begin classes for the certificate next week.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is launching a new workshop series and Web site to assist the state's healthcare and life science industries with learning best practices and new ways to collaborate. The first workshop in the Indiana LifeSC Collaboration Series will take place Sept. 22 at IU Bloomington.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business this week is being recognized by Forbes and U.S. News & World Report magazines for the quality of both its undergraduate and master's degree programs. U.S. News also again noted several other programs at IU's Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses as among those "to look for."

Indiana University is offering, for the second time, a unique class on how to start a high-tech business. The three-hour course, "X574: Entrepreneurship in Biomedical, Life Sciences and IT," is being presented this fall by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in IU's Kelley School of Business and the IU School of Medicine.

Applications are being accepted until next Tuesday (Aug. 15) for the Indiana University Entrepreneurial Awards of Distinction, presented by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IU's Kelley School of Business.

Hoosier leaders are closer to having the data they need to make informed policy and decisions, thanks to a new grant awarded by the Lilly Endowment Inc. for the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Priya Roy of Bloomington, Ind., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman this fall. She is a graduate of Bloomington High School South.

Ten students have been selected as Kelley Scholars by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Anna Massengill of Lafayette, Ind., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman this fall. She is a graduate of William Henry Harrison High School.

Catherine Lyons of Lebanon, Ind. has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman this fall. She is a graduate of Lebanon High School.

Shobha Pai of Munster, Ind., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman this fall. She is a graduate of Munster High School.

Lauren Zsigray of Plano, Texas has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman this fall. She is a graduate of Bishop Lynch High School.

Eric Slivka of Toledo, Ohio has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where he will be a freshman this fall. He is a graduate of St. John's Jesuit High School.

Carly Anderson of Carmel, Ind., and Katherine Harper of Westfield, Ind., have been named Kelley Scholars at Indiana University Bloomington, where each will be a freshman this fall. Both are graduates of Carmel High School.

John McCarthy and Roxana Ortez of Indianapolis have been named Kelley Scholars at Indiana University Bloomington, where each will be a freshman this fall.

A professor at IU's Kelley School of Business had a rare opportunity to examine a question that has long vexed economists -- are private companies, unburdened by short-term pressures to report quarterly earnings to shareholders, more profitable?

A paper co-authored by Indiana University Kelley School of Business-Indianapolis professor Marjorie Lyles has been honored as the most influential research published in the last ten years in the prestigious Journal of International Business Studies.

Next week, 30 young women will arrive on the IU Bloomington campus for one of its many pre-college programs. The mission for this group is somewhat unusual: to allow young women to sample what it's like to attend a world-class business school and, in the process, build their confidence in pursuing a career in business.

Robert Memering of Vincennes, Ind., a first-year student in the master of business administration program in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has been awarded the Terry R. Hershberger Entrepreneurial Scholarship for the 2006-07 academic year, valued at $3,000.

Six undergraduate students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business have been awarded the Glaubinger Entrepreneurship Scholarship for the 2006-07 academic year.

At Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, faculty pride themselves on emphasizing real-life, relevant business trends in their research and teaching. Professor Randall Heron took this philosophy to the extreme recently when his research led to an ongoing investigation of investor fraud at companies across the nation.

Diversification, long derided as a poor strategy for companies seeking to maximize shareholder return, can actually help firms preserve their assets -- at least those companies threatened by litigation or regulation, according to a new study of tobacco company diversification activity led by Professor Messod Daniel Beneish of IU's Kelley School of Business.

A Kelley Direct MBA student from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business finished second in the 2006 Cadillac National Case Competition held May 25 in Detroit, MI. The event, now in its third year, was organized by Edventure Partners and was sponsored by Cadillac and its advertising agency, Leo Burnett.

A professor emeritus in IU's Kelley School of Business has raised concerns about a sales practice targeting many older Americans, "speculator-initiated life insurance," where they are asked to take out new policies for investors, not family members.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on June 7-10 will host the world's leading entrepreneurship research conference involving 320 researchers from 29 countries and more than 200 presentations.

Entrepreneurial education today includes more than 2,200 courses at more than 1,600 schools and nearly 150 research centers. Donald F. Kuratko, executive director of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Indiana University, saw a need for a benchmark study of the discipline, particularly given its role in supporting states and businesses with economic development.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business now has two programs ranked among the best by Business Week, after the magazine ranked Kelley's undergraduate programs as 10th best in the nation overall and No. 4 among public schools in its first-ever survey of such programs.

The Indiana University Kelley School of Business will honor the Bloomington Public Transportation Corp. for its environmentally friendly policies at next week's fifth annual Kelley Earth Day Ceremony. The April 19 event will feature Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan and live music.

Several IU graduate programs, particularly those in library and information science, education and business, are ranked among the best in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools." These rankings also reflect renewed focus and momentum for the Bloomington campus' life science effort.

Irwin M. Jacobs, co-founder and CEO of QUALCOMM Inc., will be the keynote speaker at the sixth annual Entrepreneur Day at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on April 7.

Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID), silicon-embedded "smart tags," is generally expected to be used right alongside Universal Product Codes as an enhancement to product tracking capabilities for the foreseeable future. Indiana University's Kelley School of Business was the first U.S. business school to create a working RFID educational model or lab two years ago. The recent gift of an RFID printer from Zebra Technologies will allow the Kelley School's undergraduate and graduate students to model the complete life cycle of a tag.

Five alumni of the IU Kelley School of Business will be honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 60th annual IU Business Conference at the Indiana Convention Center on March 8 in Indianapolis.

Faculty and MBA students of the business schools at Indiana and Syracuse universities will ring the NASDAQ Closing Bell on Friday (March 3), a highlight of an annual conference on entrepreneurship being held in New York City. IU's Kelley School of Business each year organizes the Velocity Conference in partnership with another university and meets with chief executives from high-potential businesses and the venture capitalists who fund them. This year, the Kelley School joins Syracuse at its executive education facility in the Big Apple.

At the third annual Daniels Race & Case competition earlier this month, MBA students from 12 business schools across the nation competed for top honors in a slightly unusual way -- on the ski slopes in Denver. Three of the top four winning teams in the case competition were from Indiana, with IU's Kelley School coming in first in the case portion.

A new entrepreneurship legal clinic, housed in IU's Kelley School of Business, is one result of a unique partnership between the Kelley School and the IU School of Law-Bloomington. This fall, IU will become only the second university nationally (after Northwestern) to offer an accelerated, three-year joint program for those seeking both law and MBA degrees.

Tommy G. Thompson, former U.S. secretary of health and human services, will join five chief executives at a major conference March 8 in Indianapolis on spiraling health care costs and their impact on American companies. "The Health Care Conundrum: A Call for Leadership" is the theme of the 60th annual Indiana University Business Conference, presented by IU's Kelley School of Business.

L. Ben Lytle, chairman and chief executive officer of AXIA Health Management LLC and former chief executive officer and chairman of Anthem, will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business on Feb. 1 as its entrepreneur-in-residence.

Four new business start-ups, based on Indiana University intellectual property, will tout their best products and services before a panel of potential investors at this week's Indiana Future Fund Entrepreneurial Forum. The forum is co-sponsored by Indiana University and BioCrossroads.

The following is a report from Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert to the IU Board of Trustees.

Local and state businesses have found solutions to their immediate challenges through low-cost consulting projects with accounting graduate students in the nationally ranked Systems and Accounting Graduate Programs in IU's Kelley School of Business.

Public Accounting Report issued its 24th Annual Professor's Survey and ranked the IU Kelley School of Business graduate programs sixth in the nation, up from eighth last year. The undergraduate program moved from 11th to ninth, while the doctoral accounting program at the school was newly ranked at eighth in the nation.

Kelley Direct Online Programs in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is partnering with IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society, to offer educational programs to its 365,000 members worldwide.

Economists in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business today (Nov. 3) presented a guardedly optimistic forecast for 2006, predicting that broad financial impact of Gulf Coast hurricanes will be brief, leading to national output growth of 3.6 percent next year.

Indiana University and its Kelley School of Business today (Oct. 21) thanked a Hoosier alumnus who never forgot his "humble roots" in a small Indiana town and continues to believe that it is important to create new opportunities for those who follow him. In a ceremony this morning, the Kelley School renamed its Graduate and Executive Education Center in honor of William J. Godfrey, an alumnus and successful businessman who has bequeathed land valued at $25 million. About 350 students, faculty and invited guests attended today's events.

Eighteen successful Indiana companies and one non-profit organization were the inaugural winners Thursday (Oct. 20) in a new awards program from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business that recognizes them for their growth, innovation and willingness to take calculated risks.

Sixty-two successful Indiana companies are finalists in a new awards program from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business that recognizes them for their growth and innovation and their willingness to take calculated risks. This is the first year for the Indiana Entrepreneurial Awards of Distinction, which are being presented by the school's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Winners will be announced at a dinner Thursday (Oct. 20).

IU and its Kelley School of Business will offer an economic forecast for 2006 beginning Nov. 3. This year's events feature discussions of the 2006 economic outlook for the world, the nation, Indiana and its major cities, as well as commentary on how the financial markets are likely to fare in the year ahead.

Two of the nation's top graduate business schools are combining to offer a new program that will allow students to earn both a master of international management degree and an MBA degree. Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management will begin offering the dual-degree program in August 2006.

IU's Kelley School of Business announced today (Sept. 27) the naming of its Graduate and Executive Education Center in honor of William J. Godfrey, an IU alumnus who has gone from humble beginnings in Fish Lake, Ind., to great success in real estate and health products.

The Indiana University chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants, in the Kelley School of Business, and Kappa Alpha Psi will present a lecture by Kwame Jackson, first runner-up from the first season of the popular NBC program "The Apprentice," on Thursday (Sept. 29).

In response to Hurricane Katrina and the public policy issues arising from it, here are insights from three professors at Indiana University Bloomington who are experts on public health, real estate and public policy for natural disasters such as flooding. Also included are six professors with expertise ranging from disaster management in cities to homeland security.

One of the nation's top academic researchers on entrepreneurship, Dean A. Shepherd, has joined the faculty of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as a Dean's Research Fellow and associate professor of management.

Seventy students at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business are receiving scholarships resulting from an educational scholarship gift of $5.4 million from the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation of Austin, Texas.

Lawrence S. Davidson, an economist who led Indiana University efforts to create a better climate for global trade by Hoosier companies in the 1990s, has been appointed by the Kelley School of Business as liaison to its Healthcare and Life Sciences Initiative.

Seven faculty from four IU campuses have received awards from various Fulbright programs, a major source of federal funding, for the 2005-06 academic year.

Twenty-two companies in the Indiana University Emerging Technologies Center and researchers in the IU School of Medicine have a new resource readily available to them in downtown Indianapolis -- on-site assistance from IU's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business this week is being recognized by Forbes and U.S. News & World Report magazines for the quality of both its undergraduate and master's degree programs. U.S. News also again noted several other programs at IU's Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses as among those "to look for."

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will co-host a national conference with the Review of Financial Studies -- one of the top journals in the field -- on recent financial market bubbles on Friday and Saturday (Aug. 12-13).

Daniel C. Smith, a leading researcher and educator on strategic brand management and marketing strategy, will direct Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as its next dean, pending approval by IU trustees.

William Bennett of Indianapolis has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where he will be a freshman. He is a graduate of Perry Meridian High School.

Brooke Kerendian of Charlotte, N.C., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman. She is a graduate of Myers Park High School.

Eleven students have been selected as Kelley Scholars by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Sarah Foster of Lafayette, Ind., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman. She is a graduate of Harrison High School.

Brent Danner of Leesburg, Ind., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where he will be a freshman. He is a graduate of Wawasee High School.

Michael Skaggs of Sellersburg, Ind., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where he will be a freshman. He is a graduate of Our Lady of Providence High School.

Christopher James of St. Louis, Mo., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where he will be a freshman. He is a graduate of St. Louis University High School.

Two Hamilton County residents, Matthew Baldwin and Brian Beesley, have been named Kelley Scholars at Indiana University Bloomington.

Two recent graduates of Homestead High School, Matthew Anderson and Katherine Beck, have been named Kelley Scholars at Indiana University Bloomington.

Ann Burch of Zionsville has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she will be a freshman. She is a graduate of Zionsville Community High School.

M.A. Venkataramanan, a native of India, is the first person from that nation to lead a 3,000-student undergraduate program at the Kelley School of Business. Undergraduate business education remains an area where U.S. programs vastly exceed what is available in India. He believes there are opportunities for more future Indian business leaders to learn about U.S. best practices.

The combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are expected to lead a major shift in the balance of economic power by 2040 and are likely to replace four current G7 members. A June 24 symposium, organized by IU's Kelley School of Business, will provide insights into these key emerging markets and help Indiana companies to develop strategies and respond to the opportunities and challenges presented by these changes.

Customized executive education programs offered by IU's Kelley School of Business are among those praised by the Financial Times in its annual survey of international non-degree programs. In a field dominated by business schools from across Europe and North America, the Kelley School ranked 13th among U.S.-based institutions and second in the Big Ten in the London-based financial newspaper's ranking of customized graduate programs.

The Procter & Gamble Co., which is changing how it markets to its own consumer products audiences while taking advantage of the evolving media landscape, is applying the same updated marketing approach to how it recruits technology-savvy first-year MBA interns at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Students and faculty at IU's Kelley School of Business have recognized three businesses for their environmentally friendly programs with the school's Kelley Green Awards. This is the fourth year for these awards, which are being presented before this Saturday's annual Earth Day observances.

IU's Kelley School of Business on Friday and Saturday (April 15-16) will host a national business conference organized by and for advanced degree business students. The Graduate Business Conference is expected to attract about 100 graduate business students from about 30 business programs from North America and Europe.

Herb Kelleher, founder and executive chairman of Southwest Airlines Co., will be the keynote speaker at the Fifth Annual Entrepreneur Day at IU's Kelley School of Business on Wednesday (April 6) in Bloomington. Kelleher's speech, "Southwest Airlines from the Chairman's View," will be part of a larger discussion about corporate governance and ethics. Registration is limited to Kelley School undergraduate and MBA students and faculty.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business this fall will introduce changes to its graduate and undergraduate curricula to address a need for its graduates' to better understand Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and its role in today's competitive business environment.

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has achieved one of its highest rankings for entrepreneurship in the latest national rankings released by Entrepreneur magazine in its April 2005 edition.

Four alumni of the IU Kelley School of Business were honored for professional achievement during an awards ceremony at the 59th annual IU Business Conference at the Indiana Convention Center on Wednesday (March 9) in Indianapolis. Being named to the Kelley School of Business Academy of Alumni Fellows were Bradley A. Alford of San Marino, Calif., president and chief executive officer of Nestl? Brands Co., Nestl? USA; the late Jeffrey W. Comment of Kansas City, Mo., who had been chairman and CEO of Helzberg Diamonds; and Kathy Vrabeck of Santa Monica, Calif., president of Activision Publishing.

Culminating an eight-month project initiated by Gary consulting firm Partners for Good LLC, three IU research centers spanning three campuses will release results of their study on Lake County property taxes and local government finances on Friday (March 4) at 8 a.m. CST in Merrillville, Ind.

Gov. Mitch Daniels will kick off the Indiana Employer Career Fair on Thursday (March 3) at noon at IU Bloomington. Nathan Feltman, executive vice president and general counsel of the Indiana Economic Development Corp., will be the keynote speaker at a fair event for participating employers.

Their stock picks regularly outperform Standard and Poor's 500 and other benchmark market indicators, yet you'll never see a famous celebrity pitching his financial expertise on television. These analysts, who manage the Reese Fund portfolio in IU's Kelley School of Business, saw a return on their investment this year of 5.9 percent, compared to S&P's 4.3 percent, in a wary market.

John C. Shoemaker, a pioneer in the high tech computing industry for more than three decades, has endowed new undergraduate scholarships with his wife, Donna, at IU's Kelley School of Business. Shoemaker, retired executive vice president-computer systems and general manager of Sun Microsystems, earned a master of business administration degree from the Kelley School in 1966. He and his wife, Donna, are donating approximately $6 million to endow the merit-based John and Donna Shoemaker Scholarships.

A new study examining research productivity at business schools worldwide has ranked the faculty of IU's Kelley School of Business among the most prolific and said the school is among the top 10 public programs in the world.

IU's Kelley School of Business 59th annual business conference will feature four people who understand the forces driving corporate America towards dramatic change.

Supplements to Hoosiers' employee pay increased at a much faster pace than wage and salary compensation between 2001 and 2003, according to a new report released today (Feb. 1) by the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

The following Indiana University Bloomington faculty members are available to comment on initiatives that President Bush is expected to discuss in Wednesday's State of the Union Address.

The former and current chief executives of Petsmart Inc. and the company together have established a new professorship at IU's Kelley School of Business, where both executives earned advanced degrees.

This tip sheet highlights expertise and research at Indiana University on business and economic issues and includes a calendar of upcoming major economic events.

IU's Kelley School of Business earned the Global Prize title in one of the most prestigious MBA case competitions in the world, A.T. Kearney's Global Prize Case Competition. This was the first time the school had fielded a team in the competition held annually since 1997 by the Chicago-based global management consulting firm.

A new company based at the IU Research Park will become a vehicle for second-stage development of new life science products created in Indiana. Graduate students and faculty from IU's Kelley School of Business will staff and provide product development, marketing and other business expertise to the limited liability company, a subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Inproteo.

Data just released today by the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that Indiana's population grew to 6.24 million as of this past July. According to analysts at the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, the state experienced a one-year population gain of about 38,000 for a growth rate of 0.6 percent since 2003. Since the census in April 2000, Indiana's population has grown by approximately 157,000, yielding a 2.6 percent increase for the period.

The Indiana University Kelley School of Business has received a gift of in-kind software and cash from SAP to integrate a new radio frequency identification technology into the school's enterprise resource planning curriculum. The Kelley School has been a pioneer in ERP curriculum for the past seven years, and the curriculum uses the SAP R/3 ERP system as a tool.

While Indiana strives to create new, high-paying jobs in the life sciences and other technologies, a familiar non-manufacturing industry is making a valuable contribution to the state's economy -- insurance companies, according to a new report from IU's Kelley School of Business.

Rebecca L. Homkes of Russiaville, Ind., a senior in the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington, has been selected as a Marshall Scholar for 2005 by the British government. The prestigious scholarship pays all expenses for two to three years of study in any discipline at any British university and is valued at about $60,000.

IU's Kelley School of Business placed first in one of the most prestigious MBA case competitions in the world, A.T. Kearney's North American Global Prize Case Competition. This was the first time that the school had fielded a team in the competition held annually by the Chicago-based global management consulting firm.

Retailers slash prices on popular products and spend millions of dollars on advertising to draw consumers into their stores this coming "Black Friday" and throughout the holiday season. But how do shoppers behave once they're inside the store? According to a new IU Kelley School of Business study, they often walk out without making a purchase.

Seven IU students participated in a new partnership between the university and Cook Inc., the world's largest privately owned manufacturer of medical devices. Sharing input from both IU and Cook leadership, Cook devised a program open to qualified IU students seeking practical employment opportunities in the life sciences.

Every year around the holidays there's a buzz about the "hottest toys," often accompanied by a reported shortage and, in some cases, inflated prices for these desired gifts. Remember the Cabbage Patch Kids and Tickle-Me-Elmo? Some may believe that these shortages are deliberate, to build interest in a product, but a marketing professor in IU's Kelley School of Business says that's not true.

This tip sheet highlights expertise and research at Indiana University on business and economic issues and includes a calendar of upcoming major economic events.

The year ahead should see continued expansion of the U.S. economy, but not at the strong pace experienced at the beginning of 2004, according to a forecast presented today (Nov. 4) by economists in IU's Kelley School of Business.

While the majority of corporations nationwide report no federal business income tax liability, more than half of firms doing business in Indiana do, according to a new report from IU's Kelley School of Business. However, most businesses file individual tax returns rather than as corporations.

According to a new retail outlook released today (Nov. 1) by IU's Kelley School of Business, fourth quarter sales at traditional department stores are expected to be robust, increasing by 4.9 percent over the same period in 2003.

At a time when many of Indiana's top employers continue to cut thousands of jobs, a significant number of entrepreneurs identified in an IU report continue to create important new employment and sales revenues. The Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a center within IU's Kelley School of Business, will recognize 88 of Indiana's leading high-potential, high-growth companies with its 11th annual Growth 100 Awards on Wednesday (Oct. 27) in Indianapolis.

IU and its Kelley School of Business will offer an economic forecast for 2005 beginning Nov. 4. This year's events feature discussions of the 2005 economic outlook for the world, the nation, Indiana and its major cities, as well as commentary on how the financial markets are likely to fare in the year ahead.

This tipsheet highlights expertise and research at Indiana University on business and economic issues and includes a calendar of upcoming major economic events.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business moved up to 18th in biennial rankings of master of business administration programs by Business Week, one of the nation's oldest magazines dedicated to the coverage of finance and industry.

Indiana University's Institute for Urban Transportation is helping to drive home a new public awareness campaign to increase ridership on Indiana's 53 public transit systems. In conjunction with a nationwide awareness campaign, public transit systems in Indiana will celebrate Communities in Motion Day on Thursday (Oct. 7).

Bloomington Brands, a program in IU's Kelley School of Business, offers MBA students a new form of experiential learning by making them responsible for every aspect of marketing a real, $12 million brand. Scotts Co. essentially has outsourced the brand management responsibility for one of their products to these Kelley School students.

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University again has been recognized in new rankings released by two national publications.

Sixty students in IU's Kelley School of Business are receiving the first scholarships resulting from an educational scholarship gift of $5.4 million from the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation of Austin, Texas.

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has named Donald F. Kuratko as executive director of its Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Kuratko will come from Ball State University, where he guided the school's nationally respected entrepreneurship program, to direct the IU Kelley School's similarly lauded programs in business development.

This regular tipsheet highlights expertise and research at Indiana University on business and economic issues and includes a calendar of upcoming major economic events.

Hoosiers on average have one of the easiest commutes to work compared to workers in neighboring states, although their driving habits don't help to reduce the time it takes. Those are some of the findings reported in an article in the new issue of the Indiana Business Review, a publication of the Indiana Business Research Center in IU's Kelley School of Business.

With records being set for the price of a barrel of crude oil, it's becoming more difficult for economists to look forward confidently. In the new forecast released Aug. 23 by the Center for Econometric Model Research at IU, the control forecast is relatively sanguine -- about 3.5 percent growth nationally and 2.6 percent growth in Indiana during the second half of this year.

Once again, U.S. News & World Report magazine recognized several programs at Indiana University's Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses as among those "to look for" in the magazine's annual ranking of the nation's top colleges and universities.

West Lafayette resident Jessica Rachel Morrison has been named a Kelley Scholar at IU Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

Emilyn Ruble, a resident of Newburgh, Ind., has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington, where she is an incoming freshman. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

New Albany, Ind., resident Matthew Robinson has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

Fort Wayne resident Joseph Powell has been named a Kelly Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

Kettering, Ohio, resident Elise Pent has been named a Kelley Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

Bloomington resident Vanessa Khuong has been named a Kelley Scholar at IU Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

Louisville, Ky., resident Adam Dries has been named a Kelley Scholar at IU Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

Highland resident Georgia Cavvouras and Crown Point resident Ryan Michael Lubash have been named Kelley Scholars at IU Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

Eleven incoming freshmen at IU Bloomington have been selected as Kelley Scholars by IU's Kelley School of Business. The Kelley Scholars Program is funded by a $23 million gift from E.W. Kelley and his family.

Indianapolis residents Gregory Baumer and Victoria Stuart Overdorf have been named Kelley Scholars at Indiana University Bloomington. The Kelley Scholarship honors the best undergraduate students entering IU to study business.

With the advent of new technologies for sharing information, you might think employees would rather take a few minutes to share ideas by computer than sit through yet another meeting. So far that's not the case, according to research from IU's Kelley School of Business. A new study found that electronic brainstorming has not displaced, or even joined, verbal brainstorming as a widely accepted practice.

According to a new report published by IU's Kelley School of Business, there were fewer automobiles registered by Hoosiers last year, when Indiana recorded its largest yearly decline in car registrations. The article also provides a Hoosier answer to a hotly debated question among barber shop customers, race fans and others -- Ford or Chevy?

July 8 marked the 10th anniversary of the death of North Korean President Kim Il Sung, the first leader in the history of that country. The Stalinist-style dictator was succeeded by his son. Here are experts at IU who can offer perspectives on North Korea and its standing in the world community.

On June 3-4, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will host a major conference in advance of the 2004 gathering of the Group of Eight (G8) nations in Sea Island, Ga. Here are summaries of research being presented by IU faculty members at the conference, "Security, Prosperity and Freedom: Why America Needs the G8," and their contact information.

Ronald W. Dollens, outgoing president and chief executive officer of Guidant Corp., has been selected as the fifth Harold A. "Red" Poling Chair of Business and Government in IU's Kelley School of Business. Dollens, who has led the Indianapolis-based medical device leader for 10 years, will return to Bloomington as a visiting professor to teach in the same place where he earned a master of business administration degree in marketing in 1972.

The Kelley School of Business will host a major international economics conference on June 3-4, in advance of the gathering of the Group of Eight (G8) nations in Sea Island, Ga., the following week. The annual conference attracts highly regarded policy advisers, academics and journalists. Its theme this year will be "Security, Prosperity and Freedom: Why America Needs the G8."

IU has arranged for a media availability on Monday (May 10) at 1:30 p.m. in Indianapolis with Randall L. Tobias, U.S. Global AIDS coordinator and chairman emeritus of Eli Lilly and Co. Tobias is back in Indianapolis for the dedication of the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence, a new research and outreach initiative housed in IU's Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis.

A new IU report suggests that communities bordering the northern half of the proposed Interstate 69 corridor are getting ready for future business opportunities by creating "clusters of innovation activity."

Charles R. Bantz, chancellor of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, today (April 29) named Daniel C. Smith, the highly regarded associate dean of academics at the IU Kelley School of Business, to serve as interim dean during a far-reaching search for a new leader of one of the country's premier business schools.

Scott Molander, co-founder and executive vice president of Hat World, will be the keynote speaker at the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation's fourth annual Entrepreneur Day on Friday (April 30) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington. There will also be a panel discussion on "Why Indiana? Fertile Ground for Entrepreneurship."

Indiana University announced the establishment of the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence, made possible by a generous gift from the Randall L. Tobias Foundation. The Tobias Leadership Center will be a preeminent source, collaborator and convener on the subject of effective leadership across multiple sectors in the economy.

Indiana University graduate programs in public and environmental affairs, education, clinical psychology, audiology, business, law and medicine received high rankings in the 2005 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools."

March is Women's History Month. Indiana University is home to many faculty members whose work involves issues related to women's lives and history. Below is a sample of story ideas. You are encouraged to contact these faculty members directly, but please contact us if you need further assistance.

Often when reacting to change, people and organizations need to reinvent themselves. At its annual conference, IU's Kelley School of Business is inviting the leader of a company few believed could survive a highly visible corporate crisis, the author of the book "Building Public Trust," a Hoosier proponent for entrepreneurship and the nation's second-highest-ranking military officer to share their insights and experiences.

Cornel West, a well-respected teacher, speaker and writer on African American affairs and a professor at Princeton University, will speak on Thursday, Feb. 5, at IU Bloomington.

February is Black History Month. Indiana University is home to many faculty members and academic units specializing in African American life and culture. Here is a sample of story ideas.

Dan R. Dalton, who as dean of IU's Kelley School of Business oversaw the development of a new graduate and executive education center and academic programs consistently ranked among the nation's best, announced that he will step down as dean and return to teaching at the end of the current academic year.

Economists from IU's Kelley School of Business and other professors offer insights into what this year will bring to Hoosiers in terms of economic growth in the winter issue of the Indiana Business Review.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average today (Dec. 9) exceeded 10,000 for the first time in 18 months. Here are some comments from Robert Klemkosky, the Fred T. Greene Professor of Finance in IU's Kelley School of Business.

There have been clear signs of a sustained economic recovery in the United States, which is expected to continue through 2004, according to a forecast by economists in IU's Kelley School of Business.

Robert C. Klemkosky, the Fred T. Greene Professor of Finance at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, has been named founding dean of a new graduate business school at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, South Korea.

IU's Business Outlook Panel will begin its annual tour of the state with a 7:30 a.m. presentation on Thursday (Nov. 6) in Indianapolis.

IU's "IN Context" magazine, produced by the Indiana Business Research Center, is a good source of information about the Indiana economy within the context of the state and nation.

The month of September has been designed nationwide as Hispanic Heritage Month. Indiana University is home to faculty and academic research centers specializing in Hispanic, Latino and Latin American life and culture. Below are several story ideas available at IU.

Terry Dworkin, the Jack R. Wentworth Professor of Business Law in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, has been appointed the new dean of the Office for Women's Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington.

IU graduate programs in nursing, education, fine arts, business, law and medicine received high rankings in the 2004 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools."

In addition to a tipsheet we distributed on March 18, here are more faculty experts at Indiana University who can provide insights on various aspects of the situation in Iraq including the areas of Near Eastern cultures, Islamic studies, economics, medicine and politics.

Insights from faculty at Indiana University Bloomington

Major discount retailer Kmart Corp. is expected to announce by Friday (Jan. 17) which stores it plans to close as part of its bankruptcy protection plan. Theresa D. Williams, director of the Center for Education and Research in Retailing in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, is available to discuss these developments and the larger retail picture.

In response to this morning's (Dec. 18) announcement by Conseco Inc. to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, we are providing you with experts from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. All of these experts are based in Indianapolis and are available in person for interviews.

Indiana University graduate programs in business, education, law, math and science continue to be highly ranked in the 2003 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Schools."

Two professors in IU's Kelley School of Business have extensively studied whistle-blowers, people who disclose information about improper government or industry actions that are harmful to public health, the environment, the economy or others. They have organized the first international conference on the subject.

The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. has appointed Robert H. Jennings, the Gregg T. and Judith A. Summerville Professor of Finance in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, to its Economic Advisory Board.

Theresa Williams, director of the Center for Education and Research in Retailing at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, tracks and analyzes major retailing events, such as the recent Kmart bankruptcy. She is able to speak to several aspects of the industry including Wall Street's reaction to retailers, retail business models and the competitive arena among and between retail formats.

Indiana University Bloomington faculty offer insights into the 2000 Olympic Games.