Daniels Insights Posts - Purdue Business

How Washington is Squandering America’s Biotech Edge
U.S. biotech leads the world — but policy missteps may be eroding that edge. Business Fellow Michael Woronoff explains how price controls, regulation and global competition threaten innovation and investment.
8.3.2026
Freedom and Capitalism
Five Common Ways Business Communication Can Go Wrong Fast
Business communication can derail quickly when it’s one-sided, emotionally reactive, and ethically careless. Kasie Roberson helps professionals build trust, solve problems, and strengthen their influence through better business communication.
7.30.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
Student Practicums Fill Founders’ Business Gaps
Purdue business student practicums and capstone projects help founders move Purdue intellectual property from lab concept to company.
7.29.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
Visual Conjoint AI’s Potential to Transform Product Testing
Generative visual conjoint AI can help companies test product designs earlier, refine concepts more efficiently and make better-informed launch decisions.
7.28.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
Prioritizing Support for a Workforce that Cares
Professor Emerita of Management Ellen Ernst Kossek discusses policies and practices that support well-being and equitable caregiving.
7.27.2026
How We Work and Live
Designing Hybrid Work That Works
Allison Gabriel’s research helps leaders design virtual and hybrid work that boosts engagement, limits Zoom fatigue and prevents work from creeping into life.
7.23.2026
How We Work and Live
Families: Focus on the Value, not the Constraint
Global Family Office and Wealth Management Business Fellow Charles Stucke advises readers on the Theory of Constraints, self-imposed roadblocks, and more.
7.22.2026
Financial Markets
Teaching the Good Business of a Healthy Democracy
America’s founding ideals — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — connect to economic freedom, free markets and the future of democracy. Jesse Crosson teaches a course that gives business students a foundation in the interdependence of the two.
7.21.2026
Freedom and Capitalism
How Land-Grant Universities Shape Future Business Leaders
In a recent “This Is Purdue” podcast episode, interim President Mitch Daniels explains how the land-grant mission expands opportunity, strengthens civic responsibility and prepares future business leaders for an AI-driven economy.
7.20.2026
Ethical Leadership
Preparing Future Business Professionals for When Work Demands More
Time-intensive, cognitively demanding work is part of life, but it does not have to come at the cost of your well-being.
7.16.2026
How We Work and Live
Bringing People Together to Address Housing Affordability
Cohosted by the Daniels School, the Brookings Municipal Finance Conference will address the fragility tax, affordable housing and more.
7.15.2026
Financial Markets
Beyond the AI Hype Cycle
AI is reshaping workflows, careers, and value chains. Today’s post offers practical guidance for leaders testing AI and preparing their organizations beyond the hype cycle.
7.14.2026
From Data to Decisions
Blurring the Dots to Enhance the Picture
When it comes to economic projections, Joe Tracy quotes Ansel Adams: “There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
7.13.2026
Financial Markets
How Corporate Taxes Affect Business Stability
Mara Faccio shows how corporate income tax changes influence financial distress, even for large firms.
7.9.2026
From Data to Decisions
Building a Bridge Between Industry and the Classroom
Tim Coleman, who spent more than 30 years at Eli Lilly and Company working at the intersection of strategy and technology, is bringing his experience to the Daniels community as a Business Fellow.
7.8.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
Interim President Mitch Daniels on Higher Education Value
As Mitch Daniels assumes interim presidency of Purdue, we return to his recent insights on the challenges facing higher education.
7.7.2026
Ethical Leadership
The Alignment Problem Behind AI’s Biggest Challenges
Daniels School alumnus Surya Gundavarapu, a business support engineer at Meta, says success with AI requires mastering the fundamentals of learning, adaptation and operational excellence.
7.6.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
More Grounded…and More Elevated
Distinguished Professor of Economics David Hummels shares lessons he learned during a 3,400-mile, 15-state cross-country cycling trip.
7.2.2026
How We Work and Live
When Regulation Reshapes Markets
Assistant Professor of Accounting Jacob Ott shows how financial regulatory changes can ripple far beyond their intended targets, influencing organizational decision-making.
7.1.2026
Financial Markets
How Top Executives Shape Future Business Leaders
The Daniels School’s Executive Forum creates a space for top executives to share life lessons with future leaders.
6.30.2026
Ethical Leadership
Predicting the Path to Supply-Chain Recovery
David Simchi-Levi has developed Time to Recover (TTR) and Time to Survive (TTS) tools that help companies predict recovery timelines and plan resilient supply chain strategies.
6.29.2026
From Data to Decisions
Three Ways to Build Influence
Learn how to use communication skills to build influence in your workplace.
6.25.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
Preparing Moral Leaders for Future Markets
At its best, capitalism is a system through which people solve problems, serve others, create opportunity, and build institutions that endure.
6.24.2026
Ethical Leadership
Gen Z on Good Businesses
What makes a company “good” to Generation Z? Purdue Cornerstone assistant teaching professor Rhodes Pinto highlights three clear preference trends.
6.23.2026
Ethical Leadership
Markets, Money and Mutual Reliance: Lessons from Hegel
Drawing on the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, Purdue College of Liberal Arts Dean Christopher Yeomans explores how markets, money and the division of labor create vast networks of mutual reliance.
6.22.2026
Freedom and Capitalism
Lessons in Brand Voice from a Seasoned CCO
Bevin Maguire shows professionals and students alike how to build a distinctive brand and personal voice — through values-driven messaging, influencers, campus ambassadors and global experiences.
6.18.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
When Cracking Down on CEO Pay Backfires
Research from the Daniels School’s Lin Qiu shows why tougher rules on boards can backfire — shrinking a company’s market value even as they hand shareholders more power.
6.17.2026
Ethical Leadership
Standing Still is Falling Behind
What matters for inflation is not the Fed’s nominal policy rate but the real policy rate, explains Joe Tracy.
6.16.2026
Financial Markets
Families Gain Strategic Advantages with Complementary Assets
Wealth management thought leader Charles Stucke says owners of family businesses should consider putting in place holistic formal governance structures and incentives.
6.15.2026
Financial Markets
Bringing Private Credit Expertise to Business Fellows Program
New Business Fellow Simon Crocker examines trends and the top considerations for borrowers in the fast-growing market of private credit.
6.11.2026
Financial Markets
Reimagining Conferences
The Daniels School’s Allie Gabriel and Kate Zipay advise on how to offer a conference that goes beyond information dissemination and centers on meaningful community.
6.10.2026
How We Work and Live
In Capital Markets, Sustainable Finance is Foundational
Sustainable finance drives long-term value in capital markets, from ISSB standards to municipal bonds, and finance professionals should consider adding it to their knowledge set.
6.9.2026
Financial Markets
Companies May Be Overspending on AI
The Daniels School’s Chen-An Lin shows how strategic deployment using three to five LLMs and congestion-aware routing can cut AI costs while maintaining accuracy.
6.8.2026
From Data to Decisions
Leading with Purpose When the Stakes are High
Melina Kennedy of CEOs of Indiana Corporate Partnerships reflects on business leadership, drawing upon a career spanning law, government, and global business.
6.4.2026
How We Work and Live
Why Colleges Must Prove Their Value
What is the value of a college education? Mitch Daniels recently had a wide-ranging conversation in Indianapolis on AI, living “lives of character” and much more.
6.3.2026
Freedom and Capitalism
'How Do I Work This?’
Mentor, business school alumna, and former CIO Gail Farnsley shares hard-won lessons and tools to help women in tech balance big careers, families, and values-driven choices.
6.2.2026
How We Work and Live
Why Municipalities and Residents are Paying a "Fragility Tax”
The Daniels School’s Huseyin Gulen and coauthor Viet Dung Doan uncover a hidden “Fragility Tax” in municipal bonds — raising borrowing costs for local governments.
6.1.2026
Financial Markets
Economics and Influence: How Dichotomy of Control Can Help Leaders
Learn how the philosophical concept of dichotomy of control can aid in our understanding of how to communicate and lead effectively.
5.28.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
Turning Assumptions into Alignment
Eli Lilly's executive director of leadership development dives deep into the power of coaching. It's a quiet force — not a buzzword.
5.27.2026
Ethical Leadership
New Business Fellow on Risk and Vision
Daniels School Business Fellow Dan Elmhurst connects entrepreneurship and integrity, sharing career lessons on risk, values and innovation.
5.26.2026
How We Work and Live
'No Margin, No Mission'
Wabash Center CEO Jason McManus blends heart and numbers, assessing nonprofit leadership, nonprofit strategy and a sustainable nonprofit business model.
5.21.2026
Ethical Leadership
Turning Customer Behavior into Strategy Through Smarter Segmentation
New research from the business school’s Marketing Department provides insights for any organization managing customer choice, churn or brand competition.
5.20.2026
From Data to Decisions
From Numbers to Real Connection
Purdue alumnus and First Light CEO Matt Arens shares why “business is not an IQ contest,” showing how emotional intelligence in business, leadership and soft skills as well as openness to non-linear career paths open up opportunities.
5.19.2026
How We Work and Live
Looking Back at the Fed’s Forward Guidance
Joe Tracy highlights an inherent governance problem with “forward guidance,” which is the central bank’s public communication about its future monetary policy plans.
5.18.2026
Financial Markets
What Venture Capitalists Want: Product-Market Fit and More
Roll Tack Ventures COO and co-founder Mickey Swortzel shares what makes a startup truly venture-backable.
5.14.2026
Freedom and Capitalism
The United States’ Fiscal Path is Unsustainable
America’s looming fiscal cliff matters for businesses and households. Economist Doug Holtz-Eakin explains how rising federal debt threatens growth, raises borrowing costs and forces tough choices on Social Security, taxes and future investment.
5.13.2026
Financial Markets
Art Market Financialization Supports Long-Term Valuation
Bringing the technology of the investment world into the art world has changed the game, says Wealth Management expert Charles Stucke.
5.12.2026
Financial Markets
Plosser’s Legacy & Strengthening the Federal Reserve’s Effectiveness
The Daniels School’s Jim Bullard addressed Professor Plosser and monetary policy rules at a recent Shadow Open Market Committee meeting.
5.11.2026
Financial Markets
AI Triage for Hidden Risk
Large language models are advancing decision-making in healthcare and driving scalable business transformation through responsible AI.
5.7.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
Pressure to Invest = Performance Lost
New research by M. Deniz Yavuz reveals that pressure to meet private-market allocation targets can push pensions and other limited partners toward first-time fund managers — and weaker long-run performance.
5.6.2026
Financial Markets
Business Fellow Travis Diepenbrock Brings Real-World AI Insight
New Business Fellow Travis Diepenbrock brings nearly a decade of hands-on experience helping organizations navigate the fast-moving world of AI.
5.5.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
Why Financial Expertise on Audit Committees Matters for Banks
Accounting professor Diana Choi finds that banks with financially knowledgeable audit committee members recognize loan losses more quickly.
5.4.2026
Financial Markets
When Helping Crosses a Line
Elizabeth Umphress unpacks “unethical prosocial behavior” — the well-intentioned rule breaking that erodes trust, data quality and long-term individual, team, and organizational health and performance.
4.30.2026
Ethical Leadership
How to Discern Portfolio Choices Based on Risk Tolerance
Discover how risk levels evolve with age and why balancing growth potential and protection matters for long-term financial stability.
4.29.2026
Financial Markets
Managing is Indispensable – The Leadership Base Map
Eli Lilly’s Keith Risinger considers how managing, as a discipline, translates lofty intentions into tangible outcomes.
4.28.2026
Ethical Leadership
The Fed’s Inflation Report Card: An Update
How has the Federal Reserve done at meeting its price stability mandate using the Fed’s own metric for success? Joe Tracy provides an updated report card.
4.27.2026
Financial Markets
Servant Leadership that Elevates Others
Purdue Federal Credit Union CEO Darrick Weeks transformed from a results-driven leader to a servant leader, using a three-stakeholder model to put people first, increase employee engagement and achieve impactful long-term performance.
4.23.2026
Ethical Leadership
Can We Avert a Fiscal Crisis?
Carolyn Bourdeaux warns that our nearly $40 trillion debt is pushing the country toward a fiscal cliff — and that only timely, pragmatic reform can avert a painful economic reckoning.
4.22.2026
Freedom and Capitalism
Why Good Analysis Starts Before the Data
Media analytics manager and Daniels School alum Colin Myers explains why asking the right question matters more than the spreadsheet — and how sound setup leads to smarter decisions.
4.21.2026
From Data to Decisions
Mapping a Meaningful Career
New Business Fellow Patrick Mosher uses a +3/-3 assessment to map personal fulfillment, prioritizing alignment over prestige.
4.20.2026
How We Work and Live
How Early Careers Grow Stronger in the Wind
Orr Fellowship President Steven Emch speaks to how discomfort, “career seasons” and coachability are the wind careers need to grow stronger and unlock long-term options.
4.16.2026
How We Work and Live
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: A Teachable Skill
Employees who think critically and solve problems are always needed and appreciated.
4.15.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
Why Your Project Outsourcing Strategy is Failing — and How to Fix it
New research from the Daniels School’s Mengshi Lu explains how project outsourcing, a cornerstone of modern business, can fail if incentives are not properly aligned between clients and contractors.
4.14.2026
From Data to Decisions
Wealthy Families Still Drive Durand-Ruel’s Art Market
Charles Stucke uses Wall Street analogies to frame the modern art market.
4.13.2026
Financial Markets
America’s Superpower
Josh Thiel says diversity is America’s “superpower,” and challenges current and future business leaders to treat diversity as a strategic asset.
4.9.2026
How We Work and Live
Turning Retail AI Hype into Impact
Retail strategy and operations expert Jason Kuckkan highlights insights from a survey of 100 retail leaders and executives directly involved in their companies’ AI implementation efforts.
4.8.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
Turning “Small Data” into Smarter Decisions
New research from the Daniels School’s Pengyi Shi shows that limited data does not have to limit intelligent decision-making.
4.7.2026
From Data to Decisions
Why Vulnerability Matters for Trust in Organizations
Trust is essential to how organizations function, but it depends on something deeper: vulnerability. By understanding when and why people choose to accept risk in relationships, leaders can better build, maintain and repair trust across teams.
4.6.2026
How We Work and Live
Don’t Take Your Eyes Off the Customers
David Pugh reminds business leaders that a customer-focused culture should remain in the forefront of your mind even as you balance other concerns and distractions.
4.2.2026
How We Work and Live
Why Internal Information Flow Shapes What Companies Tell Investors
Research shows that information flow — how easily good or bad news reaches senior leaders — can influence whether managers disclose information to the market.
4.1.2026
Ethical Leadership
What Rare Disease Prediction Can Teach Business
Research from the Daniels School’s Qiang Liu shows how lessons from rare disease prediction can be applied in business settings beyond health care.
3.31.2026
From Data to Decisions
The Magic of Monetary Policy
Like Aesop’s fable “The Lion and the Mouse,” sometimes the mouse (monetary policy) can save the lion (the economy), says Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
3.30.2026
Financial Markets
Criticism, Credibility and AI in the Workplace
Dan Elmhurst shared his insights on feedback vs criticism, how to receive constructive criticism, and why mastering AI in the workplace — without faking your thinking — will define credibility, authenticity and career growth for tomorrow’s professionals.
3.26.2026
How We Work and Live
The Best Leaders Never Stop Learning
Become a lifelong learner and it will pay off for you and your company, now and in the future.
3.25.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
A Foundation for Navigating the Workscape: Leading “Indicators”
A leadership “base map” helps leaders navigate complexity by connecting roles, functions and performance for confident decision-making.
3.24.2026
Ethical Leadership
Trust Through Diligence: A Case Study in Ethical Investment Decision-Making
Sound ethical principles are at the core of the investment management industry, forming the foundation of trust between clients and those who serve them.
3.23.2026
Ethical Leadership
Co-Authorship and Co-Ownership: The End of the Human-AI Binary
A. Laura Stef-Praun explores student creativity in a world of artificial intelligence and examines the scope of the human-AI binary.
3.19.2026
How We Work and Live
Supervisor Practices that Strengthen Work-Life Balance
Supervisor training can turn work-life balance from an individual struggle into an organizational strength, reducing employee exhaustion, closing flexibility gaps, and boosting engagement at work and at home.
3.18.2026
How We Work and Live
Prioritizing Transparency in Social Media Fact-Checking
Transparency is the cornerstone of trust, says Daniels School alum and McGill University researcher and assistant professor Sameer Borwankar.
3.17.2026
From Data to Decisions
Strong Dollar or Weak Dollar: Three Questions for Joe Tracy
We should not assume the U.S. dollar’s dominance is guaranteed if we mismanage our finances, says finance expert and Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
3.16.2026
Financial Markets
How To Win the War for Talent
Indiana is leveraging advanced manufacturing, high-tech investment and intentional workforce strategy to create high-wage careers.
3.12.2026
From Data to Decisions
Measuring Trust Across Cultures
Measuring organizational trust isn’t an academic exercise, but a strategic global tool.
3.11.2026
How We Work and Live
Sustainable Investing Provides Long-Term Value
Daniels School Business Fellow Tim Coffin helps us see finance not as a game of extracting value, but as a civic-minded vocation that creates long-term value for communities, institutions and investors alike.
3.10.2026
Ethical Leadership
Consolidating Versus Expanding Relationships During Periods of Uncertainty
We exist at a time of generational uncertainty, and the best defense for uncertainty in the world of investments is thoughtful diversification.
3.9.2026
Financial Markets
Designing Succession: How Family Firms Endure
Faced with a family company’s succession, Tracy Page strategized the process, built a culture where people want to stay and positioned a 150-year-old family business to compete against private equity–backed rivals.
3.5.2026
Ethical Leadership
Pinpointing the Rise and Fall of Bubbles
Purdue economist Mohitosh Kejriwal unveils a clearer way to date the start and collapse of asset bubbles, helping us separate true causes from mere consequences.
3.4.2026
From Data to Decisions
The Double Dividend of Donating Inventory
Enhanced tax deductions for inventory donations create synergy between tax strategy, inventory planning and corporate philanthropy — boosting demand learning, customer satisfaction and charitable impact while raising ESG trade-offs.
3.3.2026
From Data to Decisions
A New Playbook for Wholesale Pricing
Research from William Haskell explains how an agile wholesale pricing strategy can protect margins and keep pace with partners whose supply-chain algorithms are changing as fast as the market itself.
3.2.2026
Global Supply Chains
Leveraging Social Media to Build Business
Habits CEO Jack Boudreau shares how he built trust and connection via social platforms to advance his business’ goal to help individual investors find a good financial advisor and build wealth.
2.26.2026
From Data to Decisions
Put Me In, Coach
Developing a coaching mindset can transform how you work and live. Learn how to become coachable.
2.25.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
A Leadership Base Map for Navigating the Workscape
A leadership “base map” helps leaders navigate complexity by connecting roles, functions and performance for confident decision-making.
2.24.2026
Ethical Leadership
Building a Sustainability Strategy with Carbon Offsets
Should companies absorb the cost of carbon offsets themselves, or invite customers to help fund climate action at the point of purchase? The Daniels School’s Gökçe Esenduran has the answer.
2.23.2026
Ethical Leadership
From Responding to Leading: Work Remade
AI is transforming “response” work. Business professionals now work alongside AI and those who thrive will cultivate judgment, discernment and emotional intelligence.
2.19.2026
How We Work and Live
Bridging Data, Ethics and Innovation in Health AI
Are health care analysts ready to trust AI models for decisions?
2.18.2026
From Data to Decisions
Reverse Engineering: A Hidden Competitive Force
Competitive intelligence is more than market research, customer analytics and benchmarking.
2.17.2026
From Data to Decisions
Who is on the Other Side of Your Trade?
Higher order beliefs — what you think others think — can drive risky speculation unless investors remember that every trade has a buyer and a seller.
2.16.2026
Financial Markets
Monetary Policy and Financial Conditions
The Fed is ready to let inflation come down to 2 percent. It would be much better if they worked to make it come down to 2 percent.
2.12.2026
Financial Markets
The President Named the Next Fed Chair
Kevin Warsh, if confirmed, will assume his duties at a fraught moment for monetary policy.
2.11.2026
Financial Markets
When Employee Purpose Hits a Wall
Businesses often emphasize their mission when recruiting new employees or when trying to motivate current employees. But how often are employees actually able to make the impact they expect?
2.10.2026
How We Work and Live
A Literary Review of Groundbreaking Entrepreneurs
Financial markets expert Bradley Wendt encourages early-to-mid-career professionals to study and absorb stories of great entrepreneurs.
2.9.2026
How We Work and Live
What Businesses Should Know About ‘Algorithms with Predictions’
The Daniels School’s Billy Jin says the future of business intelligence is not just about predicting what will happen — it’s about acting on those predictions in a way that improves outcomes.
2.5.2026
From Data to Decisions
Badges, Bans and Building Better Behavior
Daniels School research shows that carefully designed “in-group” recognition can turn social media user bans into catalysts for healthier behavior.
2.4.2026
From Data to Decisions
Dual Citizenship – and its Benefits – Under Threat
As ultra-high-net-worth Americans become dual citizens for useful commercial, mobility, and property rights, a big duel over dual citizenship has emerged.
2.3.2026
How We Work and Live
Do Political Ties Drive Company Value?
Political connections — whether through campaign contributions or executive appointments — can artificially boost firm value but risk significant losses when political climates change.
2.2.2026
Ethical Leadership
Why Smarter AI Needs Inference, Not Just Optimization
AI-driven performance optimization is not enough — leaders also need to know what the system has learned and how confident it is in those conclusions.
1.29.2026
From Data to Decisions
Executive Coaching: A Transformative Student Experience
The new Hayes Leadership Coaching Institute is a place to explore topics such as grit, resilience, persistence, communication styles, values-based leadership and working well.
1.28.2026
Communication is our Cornerstone
Riskless Trades, Real Risks, Hidden Power
Something fundamental has changed in how global dollar funding works, says finance researcher Kaushik Vasudevan.
1.27.2026
From Data to Decisions
Ushering in New Era for Workers — and Employers
Linda Ficht explains why current employment laws no longer reflect modern work, and how the proposed Employment Rights Act of 2026 could offer a path forward.
1.26.2026
How We Work and Live
Reframe the Problem, Find A New ‘Best’ Algorithm
Daniels School Quantitative Methods researcher Alex Wang challenges the assumption that finding solutions to complex data problems should focus only on a worst-case scenario.
1.22.2026
From Data to Decisions
Twinkle, Twinkle R-Star, How I Wonder What You Are
Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy asks if current monetary policy is accommodative, neutral or restrictive. He says an estimate of r-star is central to calibrating monetary policy.
1.21.2026
Financial Markets
Why Monetary Policy Works Through Supply Chains, Not Just Interest Rates
Between 55% and 85% of the total effect of monetary policy on the economy is driven by production networks, says finance researcher Michael Weber.
1.20.2026
Financial Markets
Integrity, Transparency and Career Success
CEO of Deloitte US Jason Girzadas champions a professional roadmap rooted in ethics.
1.15.2026
Ethical Leadership
Economic Scholars Tackle Shared Value Systems and More
Unlocking the real power of insights from the field of economics requires a broad consensus on rule of law and issues of fairness, says Business Fellow Charles Stucke.
1.14.2026
Freedom and Capitalism
What Blocks Corporate Creative Destruction Today
Market barriers, political connections and restrictive regulations block creative destruction and help incumbent firms protect their competitive advantage in today’s economy.
1.13.2026
Ethical Leadership
Why Voting Rules in Lending Agreements Matter – A Lot
Loan contracts contain much more than borrowing amounts and repayment terms. New research from the Daniels School’s Judson Caskey examines how thresholds in voting rules can either protect value or destroy it.
1.12.2026
Financial Markets
Indiana an ‘Unbelievable Powerhouse’ in Life Sciences
Cook Medical VP Dan Peterson on keeping pace with emerging technologies and regulatory change.
1.8.2026
When Business and Technology Intersect
The Art of Analyzing Social Media Metrics
Daniels School social media leader Morgan Campbell explores vanity metrics and how analytics can inform your social media strategy.
1.7.2026
From Data to Decisions
Inside the Hidden Emotional Work of Trusting Others
In trusting relationships at work, the real drama unfolds after we decide to take a risk. New research from the Daniels School’s David Schoorman reveals how shifting hope and fear shape our emotions when new information can sway confidence or spark concern.
1.6.2026
How We Work and Live
Social Proof Marketing in the Company of Strangers
Peer influence among strangers shapes online consumer behavior. Learn actionable strategies for product designers and marketers to boost e-commerce engagement through targeted visibility and segmentation.
1.5.2026
From Data to Decisions
Dream Hire David Simchi-Levi is ‘Truly a Giant in the Field’
David Simchi-Levi comes to Purdue from MIT to bolster the Daniels School’s supply chain department and the College of Engineering’s school of industrial engineering.
12.22.2025
Global Supply Chains
How to Ethically and Effectively Use Generative AI
Kasie Roberson, a clinical associate professor at the Daniels School, explains how to use emotional intelligence and self-awareness while navigating the challenges of generative Artificial Intelligence.
12.18.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Congress Should Simplify the Fed’s Mandate
Joe Tracy argues that Congress should follow Einstein’s advice: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
12.17.2025
Financial Markets
Moving from Lecture to High-Impact Learning
The Daniels School’s Cara Putman, an award-winning undergraduate teacher, describes how faculty can transform a lecture-based course into an immersive learning experience.
12.16.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
How Venture Capital Insights Power Institutional Returns
The opportunity to gain early access to transformative technologies and disruptive startups before they hit the mainstream is part of the allure of venture capital (VC). But new research from the Daniels School suggests the benefits of VC participation extend far beyond the private market.
12.15.2025
Financial Markets
Entrepreneurial Pathways in University-Based Innovation
Executive Forum speaker and Purdue alumnus Aaron Gilbertie shares his entrepreneurial journey and insights as founder of a university-affiliated startup.
12.11.2025
Ethical Leadership
Exploring Opportunities and Exclusions in Corporate Governance
A study by Daniels School accounting professors reveals the boardroom connections that extend across companies and shape today’s markets.
12.10.2025
Ethical Leadership
Smarter Decisions Through Data: How “E-Learning” Personalizes Choices
In new research, Daniels School Assistant Professor Weibin Mo shows how efficient learning leads to better outcomes for patients, customers and policymakers.
12.9.2025
From Data to Decisions
Making Better Investment Decisions for Today and Tomorrow
As detailed in ongoing research from the Daniels School’s Youngmin Kim, for those who navigate markets over months or years — not just days — the investment opportunity set offers a powerful way to see what lies beyond.
12.8.2025
Financial Markets
Rolls-Royce Executive Discusses Innovation, Integrity and Continuous Learning
Purdue alumnus and Rolls-Royce vice president Chris Fultz offered insights from his 40-year career in a recent appearance at the Daniels School’s Executive Forum.
12.4.2025
Ethical Leadership
What Venting Really Means for You and Your Team
Allison Gabriel reveals that receiving a coworker’s venting at work can trigger both empathy and personal distress.
12.3.2025
How We Work and Live
Value and Risks of Hiring Former Government Regulators
Finance Professor Mara Faccio says corporations that hire former government regulators can benefit from their expertise provided ethical guidelines are put in place.
12.2.2025
Ethical Leadership
Learn to Lead: Tobias Moskowitz on Curiosity, Challenge and Growth
Drawing on decades of experience as a leading academic, industry consultant and mentor, Purdue alumnus and Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Tobias Moskowitz offers a candid and practical playbook for aspiring professionals aiming to make their mark.
12.1.2025
Ethical Leadership
Resilience: PIMCO’s Fixed Income Market Approach
Executive Forum guest Mary Kralis Hoppe shares how PIMCO’s expert fixed income strategies help financial advisors and investors navigate market volatility, inflation risks and evolving economic challenges in today’s dynamic financial landscape.
11.26.2025
Financial Markets
To Master Your Communication as a Leader, Start by Mastering Your Mindset
Kasie Roberson and Himani Shah share how cultivating the right leadership mindset can transform the way you communicate, build trust and drive personal and professional growth.
11.25.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Is the Fed Becoming Complacent About Inflation?
In its desire to engineer a “soft landing,” the Fed has managed to engineer no landing at all, says Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
11.24.2025
Financial Markets
Unbuckling the Corporate Seatbelt
From corporate safety to startup grit, learn how to navigate the challenging but rewarding transition to entrepreneurship with insights from Liane Hart.
11.20.2025
How We Work and Live
Why Networking in Finance Matters More Than Ever
Master’s students in finance at the Daniels School tap into a global network of over 60,000 alumni and learn that networking — cultivated through immersive city treks and guided industry connections — is an indispensable skill.
11.19.2025
Ethical Leadership
Level-Setting Investors on Investing, Inflation Expectations and Over-Optimism
Professor Michael Weber and colleagues explain how investors overestimate stock returns during inflationary periods and how financial advisors can educate them to protect purchasing power.
11.18.2025
Financial Markets
When Your Data Keeps Changing
New research from MIS Department head Yu Jeffrey Hu shows how the implications of adaptive algorithms for food delivery platforms extend far beyond getting your dinner on time.
11.17.2025
From Data to Decisions
Classical Liberalism Under Siege
Daniels School Business Fellow Michael Woronoff critiques Cass Sunstein’s new book for blending progressive paternalism with classical liberal rhetoric, arguing that Sunstein’s vision ultimately undermines true individual liberty at a moment when classical liberalism is especially threatened in America.
11.13.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Airbnb, Free Markets and the Case for Smart Regulation
Free markets and smart regulation shape the future of short-term rentals as Ralph Siebert and co-authors unpack new research on Airbnb bans, housing prices and the delicate balance between innovation and oversight.
11.12.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Silence or Noise: Segmenting for Status Signalers
New research reveals that product sound design is a powerful yet overlooked status signal, shaping luxury perception and brand positioning in today’s competitive markets.
11.11.2025
From Data to Decisions
Building Better Decisions Through Thought Diversity
Using 40 years of notes from FOMC committee meetings, researchers show how model diversity and structured dissent can transform committees into powerful engines of smarter decision-making.
11.10.2025
Ethical Leadership
Conagra’s Data-Driven Approach to Nourishing Consumers
Conagra Brands executive tells Daniels School students how her company meets consumer needs by leveraging advanced data analytics and real-time market insights.
11.6.2025
From Data to Decisions
Decoding the U.S. Economy: Growth, Policy and the New Uncertainty
Daniels School Dean Jim Bullard shared where the nation stands economically and what lies ahead as part of the Purdue President’s Council Back to Class event.
11.5.2025
Financial Markets
How to Add Value Early in Your Career
Add value, grow faster, and manage upward — new Business Fellow Bradley Wendt will bring actionable career advice to his role, as well as lessons learned from corporate and government senior leadership.
11.4.2025
How We Work and Live
Why Universities Are Critical to Startup Deal Flow
Business Fellow Mickey Swortzel says universities play a major role in the innovation economy, translating research into startups and building strong entrepreneurial ecosystems.
11.3.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Executive Urges Students to be Committed, Curious
Wabash leader Kristin Glazner: ‘Listen with the same interest and wonder in which you want to be heard.’
10.30.2025
Ethical Leadership
Reimagining America’s Empty Office Buildings
Mike Eriksen addresses real and perceived barriers facing converting forlorn office buildings into affordable housing.
10.29.2025
Putting the Real in Real Estate
What Makes a Media Interview Truly Effective?
Daniels School alum Kevin Sullivan lays out the strategy necessary for conducting a compelling media interview, ensuring your message is correctly received.
10.28.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Shaping the Future of Economics: Where Legacy Meets Innovation
Driven by a legacy of innovation, Purdue’s Economics Department combines cutting-edge programs and high-impact research that addresses real-world challenges and prepares tomorrow’s economic leaders.
10.27.2025
From Data to Decisions
Hospitality Exec Talks Company Strategy and Standards
White Lodging executive Conner White told students why his company gravitates to urban and lifestyle properties, as well as the non-negotiable standards each property must meet.
10.23.2025
Putting the Real in Real Estate
Grading Inflation and Creating a Report Card for the Fed
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy creates a report card for the Fed’s performance, and it’s nothing to write home about.
10.22.2025
Financial Markets
Beware the Borgs: Complementing Work With AI
Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer Alok Gupta discusses the ‘Borgs Paradox’ and how efficiencies from AI can both hinder and help those in the modern workplace.
10.21.2025
How We Work and Live
An Evolving Discipline: The Outlook from the Finance Department
Professor Huseyin Gulen is Finance Department head, leading an area of study that is going through rapid change due to new tools and technologies.
10.20.2025
Financial Markets
Taking Stock of an Incentivized Workforce
CFO Stephanie Peavler advises on how to be successful when implementing change in an organization.
10.16.2025
Ethical Leadership
The 3 C’s of Effective Business Communication: How to be Clear, Concise and Complete
Professor Kasie Roberson provides insights about how to make business communication messages achieve their proper goals without straying from their intended purposes.
10.15.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
America’s Educational Collapse Demands Market-Based Solutions
Business Fellow Michael Woronoff says expanding access to educational alternatives is key to reverse the nation’s declining test scores.
10.14.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Accounting for the Future
Department Head Gus De Franco and his faculty members are preparing students for a future in accounting, one that will include several new advances in technology.
10.13.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Spurring Economic Growth Through Support of Tech Commercialization
Daniels School alum Tim Marshall, Executive Chairman and CEO of the Bank of Ann Arbor, says his institution is a key player in spurring entrepreneurial growth.
10.9.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
More Data is Necessary to Provide Accurate Jobs Assessment
Distinguished Fellow Douglas Holtz-Eakin says the Bureau of Labor Statistics needs more data and resources to provide an accurate snapshot of the current jobs situation in the United States.
10.8.2025
From Data to Decisions
New Book Details Tips to Uncover Corporate Fraud
Alum Erik Lie has written a book about corporate fraud, including the backdating of stock options and bid-ask manipulations.
10.7.2025
Ethical Leadership
Tech-Driven Business Education, Agile by Design
Management Information Systems Department Head Yu Jeffrey Hu says his faculty are shaping the future of MIS education through cutting-edge research that’s relevant to today’s business world.
10.6.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Free Enterprise is Crucial to Maximizing Societal Potential
Amway co-chair Doug DeVos spoke to students in the Executive Forum about the benefits of a free-market society and the need for leaders to develop meaningful relationships with their employees.
10.2.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Sifting Through the Past, Present and Future
Daniels School Dean Jim Bullard joined fellow former and current St. Louis Fed presidents to discuss where the Federal Reserve has been and where it’s going.
10.1.2025
Financial Markets
Building an Elite Investment Banking Academy
The Daniels School’s new Investment Banking Academy accelerates student success with early finance training, alumni mentorship and potential opportunities on Wall Street.
9.30.2025
International Finance and Trade
‘A Responsibility and a Thrill’: Leading the New Supply Chain and Operations Management Department
The Daniels School’s restructuring is a strategic realignment that will address market needs and further fuse business and STEM, says Suresh Chand.
9.29.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Leading with Humility, Purpose and an AI-Specific Compass
Manufacturing and automation expert Prasad Satyavolu advises on how to approach the use of AI in one’s professional life.
9.25.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Building the Next Wave of Innovative Businesses
Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Ryan Larcom says Purdue is a large driver in the state of Indiana’s efforts to be a center of innovation.
9.24.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Examining a Crucial Ecosystem: Buildings, Infrastructure and People
Daniels School real estate thought leader Mike Eriksen and Purdue colleague Deniz Besiktepe workshop practical pathways to resilient, efficient and sustainable facilities.
9.23.2025
Putting the Real in Real Estate
Improving the Future of Work Through Research and Leadership
Brian Dineen is excited about the opportunities ahead for the new Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Department at the Daniels School of Business.
9.22.2025
How We Work and Live
A Boilermaker Playbook for Success
David Cooper, CIO of the Purdue Research Foundation, is the Daniels School’s newest Business Fellow.
9.18.2025
Ethical Leadership
Studying Economic History to Understand Change
What wisdom can early economic theorists impart today? Business Fellow Charles Stucke and his students will dive in as he teaches his first Daniels School course, Econ Scholars.
9.17.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Quantitative Methods Department Drives Insightful Decision Making
New Department head Thanh Nguyen aims to position Quantitative Methods as a leader in using AI and analytics to produce graduates who can turn data into sound decisions.
9.16.2025
From Data to Decisions
Building Networks That Last
The Daniels School welcomes HR leader Sabrina Wilson, a first-generation college student, Purdue alum and business founder, as its newest Business Fellow.
9.15.2025
Ethical Leadership
Purdue Center Advances Innovation for Supply Chain Resilience
An index to measure supply chain resiliency is the latest example of work done at a key Purdue center to promote education, research and industrial engagement within operations and manufacturing management.
9.11.2025
Global Supply Chains
A Key Skill Needed to be an Effective Communicator at Work: Part II
Business communications expert Kasie Roberson shares how to understand and navigate our own emotions and mindset, which helps us to communicate better at work.
9.10.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
The Mentor Mindset
Daniels School undergraduate mentor Karis Pressler shares three approaches that can lead to meaningful mentorship.
9.9.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Shaping the Future of Marketing at the Daniels School
The newly formed Marketing Department at the Daniels School of Business is innovating education through research, technology and industry collaboration to build the future of business.
9.8.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Data and Intuition in Action
Business school alum Colin Myers uses his analytical mind to examine why impressions can diverge so strongly from data.
9.4.2025
From Data to Decisions
Moving Innovation Forward
Longtime Boeing executive Rich Sikora joins Purdue to help drive innovation and enhance entrepreneurship efforts as he builds collaboration between the Daniels School and Purdue Innovates.
9.3.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Stepping Down, But Not Stepping Out
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy looks at history and procedure in this sense-making post about the Federal Reserve.
9.2.2025
Financial Markets
Strategic Management Drives STEM Integration
The Daniels School’s Strategic Management department is pioneering business and technology integration through innovative programs and interdisciplinary collaboration.
8.28.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Yale Professor Contributes to Daniels School as a Distinguished Fellow
Finance scholar and Yale professor Tobias Moskowitz is the Daniels School of Business’ newest Distinguished Fellow, bringing world-renowned expertise in markets, analytics, AI, and sports economics back to his West Lafayette roots.
8.27.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
A Nonlinear Path: Lessons from 25 Years of Leading, Learning and Building
Business Fellow Brent Becker reflects on his 25-year nonlinear career, sharing candid lessons on ethical leadership, strategic growth, and adapting across industries, cultures, and company types.
8.26.2025
Ethical Leadership
Sell Me This Pen
Richard Ryffel’s Jerry Seinfeld-inspired sales insights show founders how listening to customers, focusing on their problems and highlighting benefits over features can drive early-stage startup success.
8.25.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Developing Effective Work–Life Flexibility Policies
Are you struggling to implement effective work-life flexibility policies for your remote employees across a hybrid workforce? A study from a trio of Daniels School researchers offers insights into how to reduce burnout and improve balance.
8.21.2025
How We Work and Live
Building Trust One Handshake at a Time: Clint Zweifel
Clint Zweifel, President of Northern Trust–Missouri and new Daniels School Business Fellow, draws on his public service and people-first leadership philosophy to inspire trust, integrity and excellence in business.
8.20.2025
Ethical Leadership
Introducing Daniels School Business Fellow: Jason Kuckkan
Daniels School Business Fellow Jason Kuckkan brings strategy and consulting knowledge to share with students and faculty.
8.19.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Data on Driving May Persuade Drivers to Upsize Their Insurance Coverage
Research by Daniels School Professor Ting Zhu and collaborators reveals the untapped potential of usage-based insurance to drive upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
8.18.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
When Black Holes Meet Broadband: Incentivizing Honest Spectrum Sharing
New research from Federico Bobbio and his advisors, including the Daniels School’s Thanh Nguyen, blends optimization, economics and game theory to create incentive-compatible policies for honest spectrum sharing between commercial organizations and researchers.
8.14.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Daniels School Numbers That Speak to the Future
The Daniels School of Business continues to see great numbers in enrollment, student success and rankings while attracting top faculty.
8.13.2025
From Data to Decisions
A Key Skill Needed to be an Effective Communicator at Work
Developing emotional intelligence, which starts by understanding your audience’s needs, is the key to becoming an effective communicator at work in this first part of a two-part series.
8.12.2025
How We Work and Live
Fed Policy and Independence
Political pressure and public debate threaten the Federal Reserve’s independence, complicating its dual mandate on inflation and employment, and potentially undermining effective monetary policy.
8.11.2025
Financial Markets
Cutting Through the AI Hype
Purdue alum Darwin Ling told an Indianapolis audience of entrepreneurs that it’s vital to make purposeful use of AI to create true value for an organization.
8.7.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
The Fed’s “Duel” Mandate
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy examines the delicate balancing act the Federal Reserve must take in satisfying different mandates and measurables.
8.6.2025
Financial Markets
The Rigidity Trap: Why Leaders May Favor “Bootlickers” over “Boatrockers”
Leaders often reward conformity over innovation, as new research from the Daniels School’s Tobias Dennerlein reveals how organizational rigidity can undermine empowerment and sideline employees who challenge the status quo.
8.5.2025
Ethical Leadership
How UX Design Drives Business Success
Are you leveraging UX as a strategic asset in your organization? Xavier Watson, UX Designer and Developer at the Daniels School of Business, makes the case that user-centered design drives engagement and business success.
8.4.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Congestion Pricing: Are We There Yet?
Congestion pricing is in its infancy and its success hinges on execution, but early signals show positive outcomes.
7.31.2025
Financial Markets
The Trade-offs and Realities of Sustainable Development
In countries like Sierra Leone, unmanaged waste and energy shortages are everyday realities. Daniels School alum Kyle Newell explains how renewable energy projects can make a difference.
7.30.2025
Ethical Leadership
Using Data to Deliver the Right Message at the Right Time
Kelsey Smith, a digital communications expert on the Daniels School’s Marketing & Communications team, shares the benefits of progressive profiling.
7.29.2025
From Data to Decisions
Three Years of Advancing the Standard
Purdue’s Future Edelman Competition is shaping the next generation of analytics leaders by challenging students to develop innovative, ethically responsible AI solutions.
7.28.2025
From Data to Decisions
The Delicate Dance of Turning Numbers into Narratives
In today’s data-rich business world, translating raw numbers into relevant insights is harder than ever. Daniels School alumnus Colin Myers says data can provide answers — but only if we know what questions we’re asking and how to communicate what the answers mean.
7.24.2025
From Data to Decisions
College as a Value Proposition: Rethinking Higher Education for the Future
At the Cornerstone for Business Conference, Mitch Daniels critiques higher education’s value proposition and urges universities to prioritize teaching, communication and ethical grounding to truly prepare students for the demands of the digital age and the future of work.
7.23.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Delivery by Drone: What’s Behind the Trend?
Autonomous delivery services reflect retailers efforts to address growing consumer impatience, a key factor influencing online purchasing decisions. Research by Daniels School Professor Federico Rossi examines the forces behind the trend.
7.22.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
The Dual-Edged Sword of AI in Innovation
As generative AI reshapes how we innovate, a panel of Purdue experts urges leaders to reflect on its ethical trade-offs to ensure technology enhances, rather than erodes, human curiosity and critical thought.
7.21.2025
Ethical Leadership
Understanding the Role of Investment Managers in Capital Allocation
Research coauthored by Deniz Yavuz, the Daniels School’s Hanna Rising Star Associate Professor of Management, examines how institutional investors allocate capital to investment management firms across public and private markets.
7.17.2025
Financial Markets
Stablecoins: GENIUS or Folly?
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Douglas Holtz-Eakin examines the ramifications of the Genius Act, which if passed by the House would establish a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins.
7.16.2025
Financial Markets
Customer Discovery is a Major Key to Entrepreneurial Success
Matthew Lynall says pivots, iterations and failure are inevitable stages of the entrepreneurial journey, and that the biggest predictor of success is having a strong and direct value proposition for a well-defined customer segment.
7.15.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Andreas Widmer on Integrity, Failure and the Real American Dream
After rising to tech-boom success and being defrauded in a company sale, Andreas Widmer shares how integrity, resilience and a creator’s mindset reshaped his understanding of the American dream.
7.14.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Your Strategy is Obsolete: Time for Quantum-Inspired AI
Professor Alok Chaturvedi explores the power of quantum-inspired AI in building faster and more powerful business strategies.
7.10.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Supporting Postpartum Mothers Upon Their Return to the Workplace
Professor Allie Gabriel, faculty director of Purdue’s Center for Working Well, draws from her own experience and research to provide insights on supporting postpartum mothers when they return to work.
7.9.2025
How We Work and Live
Three Ways to Show Confidence and Approachability When You Communicate
In this age of solo time on devices, communication expert Kasie Roberson shares how anyone can have more positive in-person social and business interactions.
7.8.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Back to the Future with 1975 Tax Rates
Two finance experts look back 25 years and find that most people pay significantly lower average tax rates and keep more of every additional dollar they earn when compared to what they might have dared to hope in 1975.
7.7.2025
Financial Markets
Algorithmic Bias in Hiring: Fact or Myth?
Professor Mike Campion finds that despite its current limitations, the use of AI to assist in hiring is a permanent change with substantial efficiencies.
7.3.2025
From Data to Decisions
Perennial and Emerging Challenges for Strategy
Professor Jeff Reuer is working with fellow academics and practitioners to create a strategic management research agenda to solve tomorrow’s challenges.
7.2.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
It’s “Too Early” to be “Too Late”
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joseph Tracy uses the Taylor Rule and inflation and unemployment rates as a guide for the Fed to adjust its short- and long-term monetary policy.
7.1.2025
Financial Markets
New Departmental Structure Better Serves Daniels School
The reorganization of the Daniels School of Business from two departments to nine will provide new opportunities for growth and innovation.
6.30.2025
Ethical Leadership
Intended Bequests and the Homeownership of Older Americans
Research Fellow Gary Engelhardt examines the extent to which bequest motives explain high home ownership rates among the elderly.
6.26.2025
Putting the Real in Real Estate
Unpacking the Abundance Agenda: Can Liberals Deliver on Supply-Side Reform?
Michael Woronoff reviews the best-seller Abundance, taking issue with some of the seemingly contradictory solutions for economic reform that the authors suggest.
6.25.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
The Power of Networks and Opportunity to Solve Poverty
Andreas Widmer argues that the only effective way to fight poverty isn't wealth redistribution, but connecting people to networks of productivity and exchange.
6.24.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
What Can Students Learn from Clark Griswold?
Professor J.T. Eagan recounts student reaction to a project that brought a fictional family to life to sharpen accounting knowledge and hone soft skills.
6.23.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Choosing the Right Metrics to Measure Success and Showcase Content Performance
Shannon Hess, director of content and communications for the Daniels School, explains the importance of using proper metrics to achieve marketing success.
6.19.2025
From Data to Decisions
What Keeps You Up at Night? A Roadmap for Crisis Preparedness
Alum Kevin Sullivan explains how organizations can prepare in advance for effective response and communication in times of crisis.
6.18.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Being More Certain About the Fed’s Uncertainty
How can uncertainty, the defining feature of the U.S. monetary policy landscape, be measured, summarized and conveyed to markets and the public?
6.17.2025
Financial Markets
Keeping Clients Happy is No Vacation
In the second of a three-part series, J.T. Eagan discusses how he brings the fictional Griswold movie family to life to help teach soft skills.
6.16.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Gen AI Looks Easy but it's Definitely Not Free
Alum Stacey Burr highlights the business model challenge brewing behind the Gen AI magic.
6.12.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Pino Perceives Better Living Through Free Markets
From India’s economic rise to East Germany’s environmental rebound, Dominic Pino argued that market-driven systems consistently improve lives, health, and even ecosystems.
6.11.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Business Reimagined: How AI is Changing the Way We Operate
Two Kearney executives believe that embracing AI and its power is mandatory, not optional, for future business success.
6.10.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Teaching Soft Skills and Maximizing Engagement Through AI
In the first of a three-part series, J.T. Eagan discusses the need for designing an innovative case study that would emphasize course content while enhancing students’ soft skills.
6.9.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Research Lessons are Life Lessons
The Purdue University Research Center in Economics’ Karis Pressler shares truths gleaned from academic research that can be applied when tackling life’s challenges.
6.5.2025
How We Work and Live
Purdue Accounting Theory Conference Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Purdue’s Daniels School hosted top accounting scholars from around the world to discuss insights on accounting theory.
6.4.2025
From Data to Decisions
Dream Hire Brings Finance and Economics Expertise to Daniels School
Michael Weber, associate professor of finance at Chicago Booth, will join the Daniels School faculty in the fall as part of the Dream Hires initiative.
6.3.2025
Financial Markets
Three Key Ingredients for Writing Emails that Get Read — and Results
Kasie Roberson shares how you can write clear and concise emails that will get read and get a response, all the while building a positive reputation as an effective communicator.
6.2.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
The Pause That Refreshes a Difficult Conversation
Professor Ben Dunford explains a five-step process to decide when and what to say during a conflict.
5.29.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
‘With Them, Not to Them’: Leading Change with Empathy and Clarity
Communicating change with empathy isn’t soft leadership, but rather, prudent leadership, says change management communications expert Aryca Peay Woodson.
5.28.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Reframing Happiness as Self-Improvement
The pursuit of virtue offers a blueprint for ethical leadership and civic responsibility, says the National Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen, taking inspiration from the Founding Fathers.
5.27.2025
Ethical Leadership
What is Capitalism?
When former Swiss Guard Andreas Widmer asked Pope John Paul II if a Christian could be a capitalist, the Pope replied, “It depends on what you mean by capitalism,” sparking a lifelong journey of exploration for Widmer.
5.22.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Bullard on the Taylor Rule, Tariffs and Uncertainty
While at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Jim Bullard spoke on a wide range of topics, including inflation rates — which he expects to gradually decline in the coming months.
5.21.2025
Financial Markets
Game Theory, Trade Barriers and Pass-Throughs
Dean Jim Bullard and Dean Emeritus David Hummels unpacked game theory, non-tariff trade barriers, and the real-world effects of tariff policies at the 2025 Cornerstone for Business Conference.
5.20.2025
International Finance and Trade
A Twist of FAIT
The Federal Reserve has of late performed poorly on inflation, as evidenced by its Flexible Average Inflation Targeting, or FAIT, track record, says Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
5.19.2025
Financial Markets
Turning Employee Mental Health Concerns into Tangible Support
There are ways to meaningfully advocate for your employees when it comes to mental health, shares OBHR researcher and professor Natalie Schneider.
5.15.2025
Ethical Leadership
Mitch Daniels on Forging a Path in Business
Purdue University President Emeritus Mitch Daniels shares practical lessons on business leadership, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking, adaptability, strong communication, and leading with integrity.
5.14.2025
Ethical Leadership
New Analytical Framework Aims to Improve Chronic Disease Care
A new decision framework developed by the Daniels School’s Dilip Chhajed promotes more equitable health care delivery.
5.13.2025
From Data to Decisions
Putman Discusses Ethics, Math Skills and Passion on Purdue Podcast
Award-winning teacher Cara Putman discusses business ethics and the importance of getting students interested in business at an early age in the podcast This is Purdue.
5.12.2025
Ethical Leadership
Disruptions Beyond Tariffs
Supply chain professional Matt Bartlett examines what business leaders must contend with and plan for beyond near-term trade policies.
5.8.2025
Global Supply Chains
Why Every Visionary Needs an Implementer
Successful ventures balance inspiration and execution, says entrepreneur and Daniels Business Fellow Mickey Swortzel.
5.7.2025
How We Work and Live
Building the Future of Business at the Intersection of STEM and Strategy
Purdue’s Daniels School of Business is redefining business education by fully integrating STEM and strategy, preparing students to lead and innovate at the intersection of technology and business in a rapidly evolving digital economy.
5.6.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Best Practices for the Effective Use of AI in Business Writing
Kasie Roberson shares some best practices for using artificial intelligence to help improve effective communication, practices that have not changed since AI was first introduced.
5.5.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Free Trade and the Future of U.S.-Mexico Economic Integration
Economic analyst Roberto Salinas-León, speaking at Purdue in April, explored how deeply integrated U.S.-Mexico trade has become since NAFTA and warned that certain tariffs threaten to destabilize supply chains, raise consumer costs and undermine economic progress.
5.1.2025
International Finance and Trade
On the Social Responsibility of Business
As debate swirls around ESG and corporate responsibility to do good, Joe Mazur explores how the enduring tension between shareholder primacy and stakeholder responsibility reveals surprising common ground.
4.30.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Leadership Reads: The Power of Flexing
Kate Zipay recommends a Sue Ashford book that advocates for embracing small, intentional experiments in your work and life.
4.29.2025
How We Work and Live
From Colleague to Connection: Navigating Online Boundaries and Workplace Relationships
Social media is transforming how we live and work by blurring the boundaries between our personal and professional lives, raising new challenges around invisible audiences, workplace hierarchies, gender dynamics, and the strategies we use to manage our online connections.
4.28.2025
How We Work and Live
Navigating Fiscal Storms
At a recent economic roundtable, Daniels School business undergrads brought their national debt and free trade questions to American Action Forum President Doug Holtz-Eakin.
4.24.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
To Save or Not to Save, That Is the Question
Despite popular focus on foreign trade barriers, America's growing trade deficit is rooted in our own saving habits — especially federal dis-saving — and won't be fixed by tariffs, but by addressing government deficits and boosting private savings.
4.23.2025
International Finance and Trade
Much Ado About Trade Deficits
David Hummels unpacks why America’s trillion-dollar trade gap isn’t the result of unfair foreign practices — but a mirror of our own saving and spending choices.
4.22.2025
International Finance and Trade
What If Business Were First and Foremost About Humans?
Entrepreneurship is a vocation, one that should put people first. This isn’t just good ethics — it’s good business.
4.21.2025
Ethical Leadership
Designing for the Next Generation of Business Leaders
Discover how Purdue’s bold new business school building — designed by Gensler — will shape the next generation of leaders through immersive, future-focused spaces built for innovation, collaboration and impact.
4.17.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Navigating Global Economic Shifts: Tariffs, U.S. Strategy, and Asia’s Future
Global finance expert Bill Strong shares bold insights on U.S. trade policy, global shifts, and Asia’s future in a rapidly changing economic landscape.
4.16.2025
International Finance and Trade
Defining “Price Stability”: The 2-Percent Solution
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joseph Tracy explains the rationale behind the Fed’s decision to define stable prices.
4.15.2025
Financial Markets
Jack and Jill's Gym Adventure: Unlocking the Performance C.O.D.E.
Eli Lilly’s Keith Risinger helps you discover the Performance C.O.D.E., a framework that unlocks peak performance by focusing on clarity, ownership, discipline, and effort, as illustrated through Jack and Jill's contrasting gym experiences.
4.14.2025
How We Work and Live
The Global Tsunami Following U.S. Tariffs
There will be far-reaching economic consequences of the new, unprecedented U.S. tariffs. David Hummels lays out their impact on the complex dynamics of modern international commerce.
4.10.2025
International Finance and Trade
The High Stakes of Misguided Protectionism
The U.S.'s newly announced tariffs have rekindled the debate over protectionist policies. Daniels School Business Fellow Michael Woronoff discusses the evidence, which shows tariffs harm workers, consumers and economic growth, while failing to deliver on the promise of revitalizing domestic industries.
4.9.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Shaping Industries Through Automation and Augmentation
MIT’s Neil Thompson shares insights on the cost-effectiveness of AI adoption and its uneven impact across industries.
4.8.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Tariff Policies Require Industry-Specific Analysis
Professor Anson Soderbery says nuanced analysis is needed to ascertain the effectiveness of tariff policies.
4.7.2025
International Finance and Trade
Lessons from A Memorable Coach
Reflecting on the enduring legacy of fictional Coach Norman Dale from the movie Hoosiers, Matthew Lanham, Daniels School professor, explores how his leadership style inspired a career in coaching beyond sports, emphasizing teamwork, fundamentals, and personal growth over personal success.
4.3.2025
Ethical Leadership
The Impact of Medicinal Marijuana Laws on State Finances
The implementation of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) appears to have a negative impact on state finances, according to research from Daniels School professor Gus De Franco.
4.2.2025
From Data to Decisions
The Power of Listening: 7 Steps to Stronger Workplace Communication
Discover the importance of active listening in the workplace and how its absence can hinder productivity.
4.1.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Managing Through Periods of Uncertainty
Marshall Larsen, former CEO of Goodrich Co., shares how he successfully navigated periods of uncertainty, including economic downturns and major acquisitions, by employing proactive leadership strategies and maintaining integrity in executive decision-making.
3.31.2025
Ethical Leadership
Economists To Discuss Policy Framework of the Federal Reserve
Upcoming Shadow Open Market Committee meeting sheds insights on how the Fed operates and shares information.
3.27.2025
Financial Markets
The Road to Misdeeds is Often a Slippery Slope
Daniels School alum Paul Holdeman shared his forensic accounting experiences, including investigating Enron, with students in the Executive Forum.
3.26.2025
Ethical Leadership
Targeted Restaurant Pricing Can Encourage Healthy Eating
A study reveals how strategic pricing at restaurants can promote healthier eating in disadvantaged neighborhoods without hurting business profitability.
3.25.2025
From Data to Decisions
Building Leadership Through Organizational Culture
Enable people to do the right things, alumnus and former Goodrich CEO Marshall Larsen told students during a discussion about his long, successful career.
3.24.2025
Ethical Leadership
Managing in an Uncertain Supply Chain Environment
Supply chain practitioners shared insights and challenges at a roundtable sponsored by the Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises.
3.20.2025
Global Supply Chains
Will Going Private be the Prescription for Success for Walgreens?
A case competition provided finance students the opportunity to assess the decision by Walgreens to go private.
3.19.2025
Financial Markets
Mastering the Crucial Art of Persuasion
Purdue alum and former White House Communications Director Kevin Sullivan says persuasion requires making a connection, being likable and building connections.
3.18.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Purdue Conference Aims to Get at the Heart of Business and its Value
The Daniels School’s inaugural Cornerstone for Business Conference brings together business leaders to explore the intersection of markets and moral sentiments.
3.17.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
David Malpass Offers Insights on Keeping Focus to Achieve Mission Success
David Malpass shared leadership tips with online students in the course “Life in the C-Suite.”
3.13.2025
Ethical Leadership
Technology is a Key Utility for All Businesses
Executive Forum speaker Karen Beachy reinforced the link between business and technology in a talk to Purdue students.
3.12.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Unlocking Product Design Insights with Generative AI
Professor Ankit Sisodia examines the use of AI to optimize visual design and streamline innovation processes.
3.11.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Cornerstone Course Offers Insights on Democracy’s Role in Promoting Free Markets
A new course for Daniels School online graduate students examines the relationship between government and free markets.
3.10.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Supply Chain Resiliency Index Helps Companies Make Proactive Decisions
The Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises has developed an index to allow companies to measure supply chain resiliency.
3.6.2025
Global Supply Chains
Interdisciplinary Teaching Shines New Light on Societal Issues
Daniels School faculty from different disciplines team up to help students examine health care issues.
3.5.2025
Communication is our Cornerstone
Navigating Inflation, Monetary Policy, and Financial Stability in 2025
At the 2025 CFA Research Challenge, Joe Tracy spoke on the 2025 economic outlook, covering inflation drivers, monetary policy, financial stability, and global risks.
3.4.2025
Financial Markets
Leadership Reads: 'Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working'
Professor Kate Zipay begins a monthly series of leadership book recommendations with a selection aimed at helping people get unstuck.
3.3.2025
Ethical Leadership
Deviations or Shortfalls: What’s the Difference Between Friends?
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy examines how the Fed responds to deviations or shortfalls in the unemployment gap.
2.27.2025
Financial Markets
Housing and the Long Shadow of Inflation
As the housing affordability crisis continues, Daniels School economist Aaron Hedlund examines whether we’re headed toward a bust.
2.26.2025
Putting the Real in Real Estate
Managing Currency Volatility in an Era of Trade Policy Uncertainty
Global trade uncertainty could lead to currency volatility and overshadow expectations of deregulation and corporate tax cuts.
2.25.2025
International Finance and Trade
Why Congress Should Say No to a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund
Distinguished Fellow Douglas Holtz-Eakin explains why a U.S. sovereign wealth fund is a solution searching for a problem.
2.24.2025
Financial Markets
Gen AI in Financial Services: Technology’s Promise Meets the Human Element of Change
SixThirty’s Atul Kamra explains how generative AI holds the promise of transforming scale and client experience in financial services.
2.20.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
The Next Stage of Sustainability: Beyond the Hype
However it’s labeled, sustainability remains a core business imperative and is becoming more integrated across senior leadership roles rather than siloed into a single position.
2.19.2025
Ethical Leadership
Business Students and Prototyping: A Hands-On Approach to Problem Solving
Prototyping is becoming a key component of experiential learning, providing business students with a hand-on approach to solving problems.
2.18.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
New Business Fellows to Enhance Entrepreneurship, Private Equity and Venture Capital
Purdue’s business school further integrates industry expertise into its curriculum with addition of two new Business Fellows.
2.17.2025
Ethical Leadership
Financial Services Leaders are Positioned for AI
Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, is reshaping the financial services industry with incumbent firms leading with data and talent.
2.13.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Expiring Legislation Could Increase Taxes for Both Individuals and Businesses
Professor James Karan offers insights on how expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 could impact individuals and businesses.
2.12.2025
Financial Markets
Insights on Managing the Fickle Nature of Financial Markets
Professor Peter Hansen says managers can respond to the fickle nature of financial markets with a cautious approach that hedges risks and builds flexibility into their strategic planning.
2.11.2025
Financial Markets
How Generative AI is Reshaping the Future of Employment
Research from Daniels School Professor Lin Qui Examines How Employers and Employees Are Responding to Generative AI.
2.10.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Measuring the Motivation of Job Candidates from the Language They Use
Research by Professor Mike Campion employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) to assess the motivational traits of job candidates.
2.6.2025
From Data to Decisions
How Businesses Should Respond to Tariffs
Alumnus Dan Cakora provides insights on how businesses should adjust pricing in reaction to the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs.
2.5.2025
International Finance and Trade
Expanding Global Academic Collaboration: Insights from a Fulbright Experience
Professor Zhiwei Zhu has returned from a four-month Fulbright assignment in Hungary and visits to 12 business schools in eight countries.
2.4.2025
Ethical Leadership
Dream Hire Focused on Improving Human Capital Through STEM Integration
Technology strategy expert Gwendolyn Lee comes to Purdue's Daniels School of Business from the University of Florida.
2.3.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Monarch Conference Shapes the Future of Business
The Daniels School of Business is making significant strides in empowering women in business leadership through its student-led Monarch Conference, now growing into a premier women's leadership event across the Big Ten and beyond.
1.31.2025
Ethical Leadership
The “Other” Change in the Fed’s Operating Framework
Economist and Federal Reserve expert Joe Tracy warns us to be careful what we wish for when it comes to the relationship between faster real wage growth and inflation.
1.30.2025
Financial Markets
Malpass Shares Global Insights with Daniels School Students
David Malpass, Daniels School Distinguished Fellow and former World Bank president, shares key insights on global trade, agricultural challenges, geopolitical conflicts, and economic reforms, offering students a nuanced perspective on complex global issues shaping our world.
1.29.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Tackling Inflation: What Policies Will Have the Best Impact?
Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Doug Holtz-Eakin and Dean Jim Bullard offer two perspectives on six key anti-inflation measures proposed by Donald Trump last week.
1.28.2025
Financial Markets
Tools for Leaders of Mid-sized Organizations
Dustin Smith shares insights on leadership tools for mid-size organizations, contrasting them with mega corporations and emphasizing the importance of adaptability, system-thinking and cross-functional expertise for career growth and success.
1.27.2025
How We Work and Live
Understanding Capitalism through Brass: Birmingham
Gain fresh perspectives on capitalist dynamics through interactive gameplay.
1.24.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
The Business Problem We’re Trying to Solve
Former Amazon, Google, and Wayfair executive Jim Miller shares best practices for technology adoption, emphasizing strategic AI implementation and data management to solve business challenges.
1.23.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Democratizing Chip Design: Global Foundries' Strategy in the AI Era
Tom Caulfield, CEO of Global Foundries, shares valuable perspectives on the semiconductor industry, workforce development, and the future of chip manufacturing.
1.22.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Lilly's AI Use Cases: Care and Culture for Transforming Pharmaceutical R&D
Lilly leverages AI to accelerate drug discovery, optimize clinical trials, and integrate diverse data, while maintaining a cautious approach to data privacy and vendor selection.
1.21.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
The Hidden Cost of Long Work Hours
New research challenges the "ideal worker" mentality, revealing how consistently working long hours can lead to reduced performance the following day.
1.17.2025
How We Work and Live
Family Offices Have a Unique Capacity for Revitalizing our Economy through Creative Disruption
The dynamism of U.S businesses and markets rests in large part on the risk-taking of family office investors.
1.16.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
A Warning Sign from the Bond Market
Explore what the unusual rise in bond market rate portends, with analysis from Doug Holtz-Eakin.
1.15.2025
Financial Markets
Insights on Non-Linear Career Paths
Dustin Smith's non-linear career journey from accounting to roles including vice president of operations, chief operating officer and chief strategy officer offers valuable insights for professionals seeking a dynamic and fulfilling career path.
1.14.2025
How We Work and Live
From Simulations to Quantum AI: Tech Should be a Force for Good
Alok Chaturvedi’s groundbreaking insights on multi-agent synthetic environments and their impact on national security led to his recent National Training and Simulation Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
1.13.2025
From Data to Decisions
AI Mirrors Human Biases in Stock Forecasts
New research suggests investors should be skeptical about using AI for investment decisions, since AI models like ChatGPT mirror human cognitive biases when forecasting stock returns.
1.10.2025
When Business and Technology Intersect
Family Offices Help Entrepreneurs Drive Great Ideas to Reality
Entrepreneurs take note: You can access family office capital to make your ideas reality.
1.9.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Mitch Daniels on Boosting Government Efficiency: Key Takeaways
Mitch Daniels analyzes what we can learn from the UK's approach to measuring performance and why simply "keeping score" isn't enough.
1.8.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
Navigating Fiscal Challenges
Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin offers a candid assessment of President-elect Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency, highlighting the challenges it may face in reshaping federal spending.
1.7.2025
Freedom and Capitalism
It’s Déjà vu All Over Again
The last several years have been like a ride on a Coney Island inflation roller coaster.
1.6.2025
Financial Markets
Holiday Breaks from Work
Let’s not pressure ourselves to get a lot out of our time away from work, says organizational behavior and human resources researcher Kate Zipay.
12.20.2024
How We Work and Live
I Meant What I Said, and I Said What I Meant
Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy provides a year-end review of the Federal Reserve’s moves.
12.19.2024
Financial Markets
Rethinking Tariffs: A Fresh Perspective on Trade Fairness
During the Daniels School’s first Economic and Business Insights for Tomorrow meeting, students and Dean Bullard discussed tariffs and free trade.
12.18.2024
International Finance and Trade
School’s First Business Fellows Add Industry Insights, Lessons Learned
The inaugural group of Daniels School Business Fellows brings decades of industry experience to the school’s curriculum and student experience.
12.17.2024
Ethical Leadership
Building a Network of Mentors
In life and business, standout Daniels School student Sam Wadlington takes an artist’s approach: gathering insights from everyone and staying curious.
12.16.2024
Communication is our Cornerstone
New Business Fellows Program Further Integrates the Real World into Curriculum
The Daniels School’s Business Fellows Program is a modern-day twist on traditional executive-in-residence programs.
12.13.2024
Ethical Leadership
Dream Hires Will Enhance Teaching and Research Excellence
The Daniels School welcomes two top-caliber faculty as part of Purdue’s Moveable Dream Hires initiative.
12.12.2024
Ethical Leadership
Leisure-Work Synergy Can Help Us Thrive Personally and Professionally
Kate Zipay says we should treat leisure and work as allies, not enemies.
12.11.2024
How We Work and Live
What’s Past is Prologue
As illustrated in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” history sets the context for the present. Joe Tracy revisits how we got to where we are.
12.10.2024
Financial Markets
Applying Computational Models to Solve Real-World Problems
Professor Mohit Tawarmalani spoke to fellow faculty members about optimizing process design, networking and pricing.
12.9.2024
From Data to Decisions
Finding Common Ground in a Contentious Political World
Longtime state legislator Sheila Klinker tells leadership class that cooperation and objectivity are essential for effective governing.
12.6.2024
Ethical Leadership
Mitch Daniels Urges Ethical Leadership in Face of a National Debt Crisis
School namesake Mitch Daniels discusses leadership challenges in the realms of fiscal responsibility and higher education.
12.5.2024
Ethical Leadership
Coping with Work and Nonwork Demands
OBHR researcher Kelly Schwind Wilson investigates which combinations of coping strategies are beneficial for employees’ work and well-being.
12.4.2024
How We Work and Live
Bullard Discusses Fed, Economics, and Daniels School on Hoover Institution Podcast
Daniels School dean Jim Bullard appeared on the Hoover Institution podcast Capitalism and Freedom to discuss monetary policy, his goals for the business school and more.
12.3.2024
Freedom and Capitalism
Teaching Next-Level Communication Using AI and Core Fundamentals
Business communication expert Kasie Roberson has been named a 2024 Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor by Poets&Quants.
12.2.2024
Communication is our Cornerstone
Looking at Supply Chain Through a Strategic Lens
Purdue alum Brent Hagan is leading a push to make supply chain a strategic advantage at his direct mail marketing firm.
11.27.2024
Global Supply Chains
How Management Training Can Help Employees Achieve Work-Life Balance in the Hybrid Era
Managers should assist employees in finding work-life balance, regardless of their jobs or work locations.
11.26.2024
How We Work and Live
Guiding the University in Challenging Times
Gary Lehman says the responsibilities of a university’s board of trustees are somewhat similar to those of corporate boards.
11.25.2024
Ethical Leadership
Balancing Tradition with Technology to Provide Better Financial Services
Fintech students discuss a case study of a financial company known for its personal service but looking to adapt technology to boost business.
11.22.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
How High Could r* Have Risen?
Learning about the level of the neutral policy rate will be an important task for the Federal Reserve in 2025, says Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
11.21.2024
Financial Markets
Alternative Investments Offer New Options for Individuals
Daniels School alum David Fox says the ability for individual investors to participate in alternative investments is a positive step, provided they understand the products.
11.20.2024
Financial Markets
How do Large Increases in Sales Effect Worker Health?
Daniels School researchers show that increases in sales subsequently lead to a higher likelihood of workers purchasing anti-depressants and heart-disease medication.
11.19.2024
How We Work and Live
Understanding Economics is Important for an Educated Citizenry
Professor Kevin Mumford says economics education is key for all citizens to understand implications of policy decisions.
11.18.2024
From Data to Decisions
Malpass Talks Inflation, Trade, Spending to Financial Group
Distinguished Fellow of International Finance David Malpass covered a wide variety of topics during a CFA Society Indianapolis event.
11.15.2024
International Finance and Trade
Successful CEOs Share Advice with Top Students
Purdue alums Jason Girzadas, John Krenicki Jr., and Greg Hayes returned to campus to impart lessons in leadership.
11.14.2024
Ethical Leadership
Preparation Triumphs Over Authenticity in Communication Skills
Former White House Communications Director and Daniels School alum Kevin Sullivan says failing to prepare for communication occasions is an opportunity lost.
11.13.2024
Communication is our Cornerstone
It’s a Little Early to Trust Your Life Savings with ChatGPT
Professor Matthew Kovach says ChatGPT and other LLMs are useful tools in making financial decisions, but still lack some necessary human touch and individualization.
11.12.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
Embracing Technology, Enabling Safety is Key to Company’s Success
Former Iconex CEO Craig Gunckel speaks about the importance of being at the edge of the technology curve while emphasizing basic safety at a paper and labeling firm.
11.11.2024
Ethical Leadership
Sustainability Targets and Supply Chains
Daniels School alum Matt Bauke says building sustainability efforts into supply chains helps companies save costs while meeting consumer demands.
11.8.2024
Global Supply Chains
Motivational Approach to Work Produces Better Outcomes
Professors Kate Zipay and Allie Gabriel are studying a motivational approach to work that emphasizes workers’ needs and demands rather than external influences.
11.7.2024
How We Work and Live
Financial Data may be Foggy, but We’re on Track
The Daniels School’s dean looks ahead to the FOMC’s November meeting and says the committee faces uncertainty and muddy data.
11.6.2024
Financial Markets
Working from Home Has Changed the Economic Landscape
Professor Lindsay Relihan says remote work has changed the playing field for cities and commercial real estate companies.
11.5.2024
Putting the Real in Real Estate
Proper Policy Decisions Require Deliberate Data Usage
Distinguished Fellow Douglas Holtz-Eakin shared insights with business students on evaluating policy decisions and public finance during a recent campus visit.
11.4.2024
From Data to Decisions
WNBA Labor Dispute Threatens League’s Momentum
The possibility of a WNBA players' strike or a lockout by team owners exists — but the Daniels School's Jim Dworkin says it's unlikely to happen.
11.1.2024
How We Work and Live
Unlocking Your Leadership Potential Through Self-Awareness
Purdue alumna and HR consultant shares how leaders can unlock their potential by upping their emotional intelligence.
10.31.2024
Ethical Leadership
How Anticipation of New Accounting Standards Affects Cost of Capital and Firm Behavior
Daniels School Professor Lin Qiu examines how anticipation of a new accounting rule could increase companies’ borrowing costs and affect investment behaviors.
10.30.2024
Financial Markets
Unlocking Economic Potential Through Tax Reform
Daniels School Professor Aaron Hedlund shared his expertise on tax reform in Congressional testimony earlier this year.
10.29.2024
Financial Markets
The Important Role of Emotions in Working Well
Center for Working Well celebration features Distinguished Speaker Series keynote on the role of emotions in the workplace.
10.28.2024
How We Work and Live
Building Course Content With Artificial Intelligence
The Daniels School’s John Burr has created large language model tools that help instructors develop course material and measure understanding.
10.25.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
Assessing the Evolution of Monetary Policy
Daniels School dean Jim Bullard spoke at the Shadow Open Market Committee’s 50th anniversary meeting alongside fellow committee members and thought leaders.
10.24.2024
Financial Markets
Modern Policymaking Calls for Prudent, Forward-Thinking Approaches
Put too many parameters on a model and it’s no longer realistic, says economic sciences Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen.
10.23.2024
From Data to Decisions
The Cadence of Monetary Policy
The Taylor rule can be useful for thinking about the pace of adjustments to the Fed’s policy stance, says Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
10.22.2024
Financial Markets
Supporting the Work and Nonwork Lives of Employees
Daniels School HR Competition and Conference focuses on employee wellness and building healthy relationships.
10.21.2024
How We Work and Live
Promoting Processes and Policies That Improve Cash Flow
Daniels School economics alumnus Peter Kingma shares how building a cash culture can help organizations succeed.
10.18.2024
Financial Markets
Helping Higher Education Find its Equilibrium
Purdue’s Jay Akridge and David Hummels have launched a newsletter that focuses on the value and direction of higher education.
10.17.2024
Ethical Leadership
Purdue’s Real Estate Finance Program Has Changed Lives
Mike Eriksen, director of the Dean V. White Real Estate Finance Program at Purdue’s Daniels School, shares his passion for the job.
10.16.2024
Putting the Real in Real Estate
How Compassion Shapes Leaders’ Response to Employee Misconduct
Daniels School professor Kate Zipay contributes to research on leniency and leadership in the face of employee misconduct.
10.15.2024
How We Work and Live
Blending Soft Skills and Technical Expertise in Business Analytics Education
Liz Jackson, managing director of the business school’s Krenicki Center, discusses how combining technical expertise with essential ‘soft skills’ prepares students for the future of work.
10.14.2024
From Data to Decisions
Five Ways to Communicate Well at Work
Daniels School business communication faculty member and executive coach shares five key ways to level up communicating well at work.
10.11.2024
How We Work and Live
Supply Chain Leaders Focus on Resilience
Supply chain expert Amy David says producing domestically, developing a local supplier base, and using alternate transportation routes can decrease the chances of a supply chain disruption.
10.10.2024
Global Supply Chains
Purdue and the Daniels School Host Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
Lars Peter Hansen’s work has laid the foundation for the current understanding of asset prices.
10.9.2024
From Data to Decisions
The Fed’s Rate Cut and Your Current Pricing Playbook
Purdue economics alum Dan Cakora, a business consultant at Vendava, shares his take on the Fed’s rate cut and its impact on pricing.
10.8.2024
Financial Markets
Fulbright Project Focuses on Business Analytics and Data Science Education
The Daniels School’s Zhiwei Zhu has been awarded a Fulbright to collaborate with Szechenyi Istvan University in Hungary.
10.7.2024
From Data to Decisions
Daniels School Welcomes Inaugural Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker
“The Grumpy Economist” John Cochrane visits Purdue to talk inflation — and admits inflation doesn’t matter. Growth is everything.
10.4.2024
Financial Markets
The Daniels School by the Numbers
Purdue’s business school shares key 2023-24 facts and figures that illustrate enrollment trends, giving amounts, faculty and staff hiring and more.
10.3.2024
From Data to Decisions
When Might Turnover Spawn Innovation?
The Daniels School’s Brian Dineen shows how organizations can position themselves to spawn new ideas in the face of employee turnover.
10.2.2024
How We Work and Live
Malpass to Discuss the Evolving Global Financial Landscape
The CFA Society Indianapolis hosts our Distinguished Fellow of International Finance this November.
10.1.2024
International Finance and Trade
Explore Every Floor of Purdue's Business School of the Future
Step inside the Daniels School’s new home for business education.
9.30.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
AI Summit Will Wrestle with Big Questions
Purdue University and Google are sponsoring a summit, The AI Imperative: Uniting Education, Business and Government, in Indianapolis on November 14.
9.27.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
Putting it Together: From the Taylor Principle to the Taylor Rule
The Taylor Rule is a good starting point for thinking about where the Fed’s policy rate should be, says our Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
9.26.2024
Financial Markets
Celebrating a Year of Working Well
The Daniels School’s Center for Working Well reflects on its beginnings and looks forward.
9.25.2024
How We Work and Live
Are University Faculty DEI Statements a Valid Selection Tool?
Several states have passed laws banning the use of DEI statements in hiring. Linda Sue Ficht says DEI statements are not themselves the problem.
9.24.2024
How We Work and Live
Watch: Dean Bullard on the Economy, Elections and Education
The business school’s dean spoke with Weidenbaum Center Director Andrew Reeves just after the FOMC’s September meeting.
9.23.2024
Financial Markets
Where is the Natural Rate of Interest?
The Federal Reserve has started on its journey to normalize its policy rate, but the destination of monetary policy is uncertain. There are no ruby slippers that can be clicked to take the Committee home.
9.20.2024
Financial Markets
Daniels School Welcomes the Grumpy Economist
John Cochrane is the business school’s first Dean’s Distinguished Lecture speaker.
9.19.2024
From Data to Decisions
Daniels School’s Fintech Center Conference Draws Top Minds in AI
The sold-out conference will focus on artificial intelligence.
9.18.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
Dean Bullard at Weidenbaum Center, on CNBC and more
Bullard will comment on the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee’s September 17-18 meeting.
9.17.2024
Financial Markets
Purdue-India Delegation’s Visit Focused on Semiconductors
The Daniels School’s Jim Bullard traveled to India with President Chiang and other university leaders.
9.16.2024
Global Supply Chains
Building the Future of Business
Coming soon! A building fit for developing future leaders.
9.13.2024
How We Work and Live
The Destination for Monetary Policy
On any journey it is important to know how far you are from your destination, says Daniels School Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
9.12.2024
Financial Markets
Protecting Your Firm When Contracting for Technology through M&A
Firms would be well-advised to weigh the pros and cons of certain contractual safeguards when drafting M&A agreements.
9.11.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
Daniels School Offers a Technology Landscape Speaker Series
Our new speaker series communicates to students the expertise of university faculty and introduces them to technologies.
9.10.2024
Communication is our Cornerstone
Winning the Tech Race: Why American CEOs Must Lead, Not Follow
The U.S. must innovate its way to tech supremacy, which requires our CEOs bring a new lens to their role as leaders.
9.9.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
The Unemployment Gap and Monetary Policy
Current monetary policy can be calibrated using just the inflation gap and the Taylor Principle, says Distinguished Fellow Joe Tracy.
9.6.2024
Financial Markets
Monopoly: More than Just a Game
In a Cornerstone for Business course, Daniels School students learn foundations of economic thought and social organization through an iconic board game.
9.5.2024
Freedom and Capitalism
Ethical Integration of AI in the Classroom
How do we use AI in the classroom? The question has been asked for some time. At the Daniels School, answers have been put in place.
9.4.2024
Ethical Leadership
Calibrating Monetary Policy for a Dual Mandate
The inflation gap and the unemployment gap together provide measures of how the Fed is doing on its dual mandate, says Joe Tracy.
9.3.2024
Financial Markets
Mediation & Arbitration: Similarities, Differences, Recent Changes
Longtime mediator, arbitrator, professor and researcher James Dworkin shares how AI is impacting the field of alternative dispute resolution.
8.30.2024
How We Work and Live
It’s Time to do Good, and not Grow Weary
A key way to think of Data for Good is anything that challenges you to exhort your time and resources on problems that touch the heart and to help people grow and make better decisions, says Matthew Lanham.
8.29.2024
From Data to Decisions
Optimizing Nonprofits’ Staff Management
William Haskell is applying equations to solve a dynamic programming problem.
8.28.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
Celebrations, and Having Fun, Truly Matter
Research shows that having fun in a professional setting enhances problem-solving skills, boosts creativity and productivity, and leads to lower turnover and higher morale.
8.27.2024
How We Work and Live
The Taylor Principle with Inflation Uncertainty
How could the Taylor Principle be modified to incorporate uncertainty over underlying inflation?
8.26.2024
Financial Markets
Nurse Deployment Program Saves Indiana Millions of Dollars, Addresses Shortage
Pengyi Shi is applying a state-wide, data-based solution to a national crisis: nursing shortages.
8.23.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
Dean to Assess Powell’s Take on Economy, Fed’s Plans
Bullard to comment on Fed chair Jerome Powell’s much-anticipated speech Friday.
8.22.2024
Financial Markets
Learning to Lead with Empathy
Online graduate students visited campus for an intense course, guest speakers, campus immersion and face-to-face bonding.
8.21.2024
Ethical Leadership
AI Use in the College Classroom
The Daniels School provides specific, comprehensive leadership on when and how students can use AI in their work.
8.20.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
On this First Day of School, We Look to the Future
The Daniels School is informed by foundational pillars that promote deep study of transformative texts and creating and sustaining meaningful partnerships.
8.19.2024
Ethical Leadership
Faculty: Experiment, Rethink, Redesign, and Develop an Attitude of Continuous Improvement
Just back from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business conference in D.C., Cara Putman shares how any college course can champion active learning.
8.16.2024
Communication is our Cornerstone
Malpass on the Yen Carry Trade, Japan’s Rate Increases and More
Capital is being pushed away from small businesses, contends the Daniels School’s Distinguished Fellow of International Finance.
8.15.2024
International Finance and Trade
Monetary Policy Challenges During Uncertain Times
International forum hosted by the Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank features business school dean on U.S. inflation.
8.14.2024
Financial Markets
Measuring Underlying Inflation
Using improved measures of underlying inflation, we can see that the Fed has been tightening monetary policy.
8.13.2024
Financial Markets
Google Releases Updated Scholar Metrics
These metrics provide a gauge as to which scholars’ research findings are being communicated far and wide.
8.12.2024
Communication is our Cornerstone
Bullard: The Fed Won’t Make an Emergency Rate Cut
Purdue’s business school dean talks inflation, the labor market and more with Central Bank Central.
8.9.2024
Financial Markets
Purdue Finance Expert Weighs in on Best Online Banks
The Daniels School’s Executive Director of Business Leadership Rich Ryffel contributed to MarketWatch’s resource guide.
8.8.2024
From Data to Decisions
Address Caregiver Burnout Now, or Suffer Later
A lack of clear, updated workplace policies may lead to shortages of doctors and engineers, says work-life balance expert Ellen Ernst Kossek.
8.7.2024
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Little-known groups of investors date back to the Rockefellers and DuPonts.
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The Daniels School dean is a former member of the FOMC.
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Business school dean Jim Bullard appears on the Mercatus Center’s podcast to discuss the Federal Reserve’s upcoming framework review.
7.29.2024
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Purdue Alum, Yale Professor Speaks on Sports Betting Markets
West Lafayette native and financial markets researcher Tobias Moskowitz returns to campus.
7.26.2024
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Key Macroeconomic Conference a True Midwestern Collaboration
Daniels School to host 30th anniversary of the Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting.
7.25.2024
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Municipal Finance Conference Draws Bipartisan Interest
Academic, government and industry leaders gather to discuss infrastructure, ESG and more.
7.24.2024
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What Businesses Can Learn from McKinsey’s 2024 Global Survey on AI Adoption
Survey shows there’s been a significant shift from experimentation to integration of generative Artificial Intelligence, proving gen AI is no longer a novelty.
7.22.2024
When Business and Technology Intersect
New Container Port Provides Midwest Value
Burns Harbor will become the first container port on Lake Michigan and has the potential to transform supply chains throughout the Midwest.
7.19.2024
Global Supply Chains
For Leaders, a Coaching Approach is a ‘Must Have’ — Not a ‘Nice to Have’
Wabash VP of Talent David Teeter encourages every leader of people to be more coach-like, the most selfless form of focusing on wellbeing that a leader can demonstrate.
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How We Work and Live
Making Dollars and Sense of Building Codes
Real estate expert Mike Eriksen and project team members will use a HUD grant to study the role of building codes as a land-use restriction with a goal of boosting housing supply nationally.
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