New Mendoza IT Website The Mendoza IT has launched a new and updated website to better serve your Technology needs. Come take a look at the new and updated features. We welcome any feedback you may have.
VoIP Voicemail The new phone system allows you to check your voicemail online. Just go to Voicemail.nd.edu and login. There you will see any voicemail that you have received. Does require VPN while offcampus.
CRSP 2011 data update The 2011 CRSP Databases, including US Stock Daily, Monthly, Indices, and US Treasury, are now available on R drive under R:\cb_data\crsp\. There was a major change in US Tresury database last year, please refer to the above link for details. Please contact the Mendoza IT Research (631-9448 or 631-9089) if you have any questions or want to learn more about how to access CRSP data.
For help with Digital Measures Activity Insight contact Phil Corporon @ 1-9088.
A free web-based survey tool is available to everyone here at the college. If you're interested in using such a tool please contact Phil Corporon @ 1-9088.
EXECUTIVE BRIEFING Economic & Consumer Insights for Marketing Executives
The Monthly Consumer Survey from BIGinsight™ monitors over 8,000 consumers each month providing unique insights & identifying opportunities in a fragmented and transitory marketplace.
May 2012 (Respondents surveyed 5/2 - 5/8/12)
Talking Points
The bloom is off the rose for consumer confidence
Nearly eight out of ten are expecting “more” or the “same” number of layoffs in coming months
Practicality, focus on needs decline from April, but still elevated compared to May-11, May-10
Decreasing overall spending, paying down debt at the fiscal forefront
Memorial Day Pump Price Prediction: $3.95/gal
It’s a draw this month in the Kohl’s/Walmart Women’s Clothing showdown
Consumer Migration: Home Improvement/Hardware
BIG Ticket: Is Mom in for a treat on May 13?
What’s Hot? Move over Iron Man…Marvel’s The Avengers is no match for our favorite nonagenarian
Marketing Professor Bill Wilkie recently was honored by the American Marketing Association Foundation when the organization announced the creation of the William L. Wilkie "Marketing for a Better World" Award. The Wilkie Award will recognize marketing thought leaders who have significantly contributed to the understanding and appreciation for marketing's potential to positively impact the human community. Read the full story here.
Celebrating Sam Gaglio's many years of avocation at the Mendoza College of Business with a Retirement Luncheon on May 17th. RSVP here.
The Mendoza Book Club will now meet in Room 203B at Noon on the last Thursday of the month.
The next meeting date will be Thursday, May 24th.
For May we will read "The Art of Racing in the Rain"
by Garth Stein.
"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be." -- Studs Terkel
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Deere is posting a 17 percent spike in profits for the second quarter is raising its outlook for the year, with farm receipts expected to hit historic heights.
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons out of work fell at the fastest pace in nearly a year in the three months to March, official data showed on Wednesday, pointing to some underlying resilience in the economy. Britain slipped back into recession at the beginning of 2012, stoking fears that more people will become unemployed at a time when the government is relying on private firms to make up for the estimated 700,000 jobs it is shedding in the public sector as part of its austerity plan. ...
The taekwondo star who became Afghanistan's first ever Olympic medallist at the Beijing Games in 2008 wants to repeat the feat in London -- in the hope of bringing peace to his troubled homeland.
Obama raises $44M for campaign, Dems in April - President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House.
