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In the Media


New MSFE Director Announced
Dr. Morton Lane now directs the MS Financial Engineering Program.  (2/2010)

Ghosh, Viswanathan, Winter: Toyota Should be Upfront with Customers
Vice President Avijit Ghosh, Professor Madhu Viswanathan, and Gretchen Winter differ somewhat in their assessments of how well Toyota is handling its problems.  (2/2010)

Pennacchi's Views on Better Banking
Finance professor George Pennacchi advocates a model in which banks are required to have "separately capitalized subsidiaries" and deposits collateralized by "extremely safe securities" including Treasuries, "top-rated commercial paper or top-rated bank CDs."  (2/2010)

Pennacchi: New Banking Regulations Represent Uncertain Safeguard
Finance Professor George Pennacchi dissects the proposed Obama administration banking regulation reforms in an interview with News Bureau Business & Law Editor Jan Dennis.  (2/2010)

Entrepreneurship at Illinois
An engineering student blogs about entrepreneurship on campus and mentions the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership.  (1/2010)

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College News Briefs And Press Releases


Walmart Teams with Business and Engineering to Improve Student Skills
Walmart is the newest corporate affiliate of The Hoeft Technology & Management program, the undergraduate minor degree that bridges the Colleges of Business and Engineering.  (1/2010)

"We won again. Excitement reigns."
Dean Hedeman, who is present at the national xTreme Accounting competition in New York, sent the above text message at 2:59 p.m., Friday, January 22nd.  (1/2010)

Scholarship Fund Created for Jared Hardy
A College of Business scholarship fund has been established in Hardy’s honor.  (12/2009)

Trading Training
Matthew Gitelis, junior in finance, and his team took third place at the national level in the Tulane Energy Trading Competition.  (12/2009)

New Masters of Financial Engineering Degree from ILLINOIS
The Department of Finance in the College of Business, and the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce the launch of the Master of Science in Financial Engineering (MSFE) degree program.  (12/2009)

 

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Features


The Pressure to Win: MBAs Take on the Big Ten
This weekend Illinois hosts teams from Indiana University, the University of Iowa, Purdue University and the University of Minnesota to compete in the College’s MBA Strategy Case Competition.  (2/2010)

MBA Student Wins First Prize in Sustainable Global Enterprise Competition
Srinivas Venugopal, a first-year ILLINOIS MBA student, recently received notice that his submission won first place in the 2009 Base of Pyramid Narrative Competition.  (2/2010)

Spring 2010 Business Career Fair Success
2000 students and 116 recruiters attended the Spring 2010 Business Career Fair at the Activities and Recreation Center.  (2/2010)

Finding a Job in a Tough Economy
Rajkumar Sithavan, an international MS-Tech Management student from India who graduated from the College of Business in 2009, landed the perfect job using an unlikely source.  (2/2010)

Undeniable Excellence: ILLINOIS Wins National xTreme Accounting Competition
Representing ILLINOIS at the national level, Jingjing Li, David Robb, Ben Sanchez, Grant Stoffle and Peter Van Eck win the PwC xTreme Accounting competition for the second consecutive year.  (1/2010)

 

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