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Babson Students Finish In The Money

News from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College

“It’s winter in Toronto. Temperatures are chilly, but inside the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, buzzing finance students are too busy to notice. They have traveled from around the world to participate in the Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC), a three-day simulated market challenge.

“Babson was represented by a team of five students from a range of programs: Srivatsa Rajan Swaminathan MBA’19, John Regan MSF’19, Elena Yang ’20, Alexander Spinnell ’20, and Duska Glidden ’20. The trading team spent nearly three months preparing for the competition, including building sophisticated quantitative models that it used to guide its real-time decision making in Toronto.”

The Centrum, located in Uptown Dallas, will allow full-time professionals receiving their MBA to network with other business professionals and entrepreneurs. Photo by Addie Ludwig, Daily Texan Staff

Weekend MBA Program In Dallas Moves Uptown For Networking, Location

News from the University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business

“A weekend UT master’s program in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is moving to Uptown Dallas from the UT Southwestern Medical Center this fall.

“The Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth program allows full-time professionals in DFW to advance their career by learning business management on alternating weekends and earn the same degree as graduate students in the McCombs School of Business. The program has signed a seven-year lease with the Centrum, an office building owned by the real estate company Cawley Partners and Oaktree Capital Management LP.”

Embrace Baltimore Conference Explores Income Inequality In Schools

News from the John Hopkins University Carey Business School

“Baltimore entrepreneurs and social innovators came to the Carey Business School on Saturday to present their work to students and community members at the 2019 Net Impact Conference: Embrace Baltimore. Speakers included Elizabeth Nix, an associate professor in the division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies at the University of Baltimore, and Rhonda Richetta, a principal at City Springs Elementary/Middle School. The Carey Net Impact chapter hosted the conference.

“Nix spoke about the historical and geographic influences that played a role in shaping Baltimore, including its easily accessible port, which helped turn the location into an economic powerhouse.”

If Agile Isn’t Working, Don’t Blame Your Team (Right Away)

News from INSEAD

“Agile’s short iterations and steady deadlines can instil a sense of urgency, boosting team productivity. But while schedule pressure creates discipline, it is important to find the sweet spot between laissez-faire and burnout. Iterations that are shorter than necessary end up hurting project management performance. The best Agile software development projects weigh the trade-offs by gathering data instead of falling for illusions of control.

“In our experience, firms tend to adopt Agile’s normative recommendations wholesale and fail to consider the impact these may have on their teams. There is such a thing as excess agility: When initial review dates come too early, problems from the first iteration cascade into the next, quickly piling up. As the team tries to make up for delays, the constant overtime affects productivity by increasing exhaustion and turnover. Team leaders need to prevent a vicious cycle where excessive schedule pressure leads to higher error rates, backlogs, ill-advised shortcuts, poor quality assurance and lower quality products.”

Examining Political Trust Across Party Lines

News from the NYU Stern School of Business

“Polarization along political and ideological lines among United States citizens is at its most extreme since perhaps the Vietnam War era, with trust in government threatening to become an obsolete concept. NYU Stern Professor Vishal Singh recently researched the extent to which this downward trend in the level of trust in government varies along political or ideological lines.

“In ‘An Asymmetrical ‘President-in-Power’ Effect,’ Professor Singh, along with Davide Morisi, professor of government at the University of Vienna, and John T. Jost, a professsor in NYU’s Department of Psychology, analyzed several major data sets that covered a period of five recent decades and found that conservatives and Republicans generally trust the government more than liberals and Democrats do, respectively, when the president in office shares their respective ideology or party. Conversely, they discovered that liberals grant more legitimacy to governments led by conservatives than vice versa, and a similar asymmetry applies to Republicans compared to Democrats.”

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