A copy of the Stayer Center architectural plans have been placed in Malone Commons (faculty lounge) for your perusal.
The Center for Social Research will assist Mendoza faculty with statistical methodologies, survey design and implementation, and data acquisition and management. If you are interested please contact kate.mueller@nd.edu, Associate Director, Center for Social Research, 1-6166.
Changing your password?
Changing your password on the Vista machines just got easier. Click above to see how.
Lab PC for video editing
The multimedia PC in the Faculty Lab has professional video editing capabilities. A DVD burner and software can be used to record movies onto DVDs.
2009 CRSP data available
The 2009 CRSP Databases, including US Stock Daily, Monthly, Indices, and Monthly US Treasury, are now available on R drive under R:\cb_data\crsp\.
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.
eResource trial:
Frost & Sullivan (trial ends March 8, 2010) -- This resource provides reports covering technology and market trends in Aerospace & Defense; Automotive & Transportation; Chemicals, Materials, and Food; Electronics & Security; Energy & Power Systems; Environmental & Building Technologies; Healthcare; Industrial Automation & Process Control; Information & Communication Technologies; and Semiconductors.
“Blowing Our Own Horns”-
The uptight librarian is a species that's rapidly approaching extinction.
A new generation of young, hip and occasionally tattooed librarians is driving them out. They call themselves guybrarians, cybrarians and "information specialists," and they blog at sites like The Free Range Librarian and The Lipstick Librarian. They can be found in droves on Second Life, but also outside the Republican National Convention, dodging tear gas canisters and tweeting the location of the police. Also, please see
Bibliofiles winning performance at TLA.
NEW eResources:
ReferenceUSA - Directory information on U.S. and Canadian business, health care, and residential listings. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.
Notre Dame Undergraduate Business Ranked No. 1 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business jumped to the top spot on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s fifth annual ranking of “The Best Undergraduate Business Schools.” The ranking was announced March 4. Notre Dame earned the No. 1 spots in the recruiter and student rankings as well.
James O' Rourke, Notre Dame Professor of Management and Director of the Fanning Center for Business Communications, assesses Toyota's response to its public relations crisis. Watch the video.
Dean Woo’s column on our cheating culture, “Cheating: You Have to Sweat the Small Stuff,” was published on Forbes.com. She describes how breaches in ethics have become pervasive in our society, even down to small, daily decisions.
Ann Tenbrunsel is appointed the Rex & Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics. This endowed professorship is linked to Ann’s role as Co-Director of the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide. Ann has been functioning as Co-Director of the Ethics Institute since July 2003. Ann has also been named twice as a finalist in the Aspen Institute Business and Society Faculty Pioneer award.
Mendoza Book Club invites you to join us. Our second club meeting is Thursday, March 25. Club's Pick is "A Mountain of Crumbs" by Elena Gorokhova.
The "Way" is not difficult for someone without preferences. What makes the journey difficult is the intrinsic tendency of our duelist minds to classify things, events, people as good and bad, desired and undesired, pleasant and unpleasant, and so on. Classification leads to comparison, comparison leads to dissatisfaction and hence results in unhappiness... --Japanese koan
Modern Compact House in Tokyo Located near the center of Tokyo, Reflection of Mineral is a modern 480 sq ft (44 sq m) house designed by Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita. Conforming to legal conditions and in response to the client’s wish for a roofed garage the volume was trimmed from various directions.
AP - With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass — or stop — President Barack Obama's massive health care legislation by the weekend.
AP - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.
AP - Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envoy abruptly canceled a visit, deepening a U.S.-Israeli diplomatic feud.
AP - A cancer patient who has emerged as the emblem of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was stunned last month when she unsealed a handwritten letter from none other than the president himself.
AP - A coalition challenging Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in parliamentary elections is ahead for the first time in the overall vote count, although still trailing in the province-by-province count.
