Purdue, Roche seek entrants in $100,000 life sciences business plan competition
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An entrepreneurial competition at Purdue University will award total prizes of $100,000 for business plans that describe the path to market for products and technologies in the life sciences, biotechnology and biomedicine.Full story: Purdue, Roche seek entrants in $100,000 life sciences business plan competition
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- Purdue management school dean, professor meet with German Chancellor Schroeder
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (SHRO-der) met with two Purdue University management school leaders in Berlin on Thursday (12/5) to discuss business education in his country. - Purdue prof says hockey rule changes miss the goal
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two rule changes intended to add excitement to professional hockey have unintentionally changed the game's incentive structure and encouraged teams to play for ties, says a Purdue University economist. - Purdue team leads charge on new generation co-ops
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Agricultural cooperatives were born from the principle that there's strength in numbers. Today's co-ops go a step further: There's added strength in turning crops, livestock and other commodities into marketable products. - Purdue OKs entrepreneurship center, IPFW student housing
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, 11/22) awarded a contract to build an entrepreneurship center in Discovery Park and revised a plan to build a residence hall complex in Fort Wayne. - Good corporate reputation isn't born – it's nurtured and managed
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Corporations must manage their reputations if they hope to be rewarded by stakeholders in good times and not be faulted by them in bad times, according to the winner of a national contest for MBA papers. - Krannert School receives Indiana distance learning award
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Krannert School of Management has won an Award for Excellence in Distance Education from the Indiana Distance Learning Association. - Business Week poll: Purdue MBA 26th best nationally
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Krannert School of Management MBA program ranked No. 26 nationally in a Business Week magazine ranking of MBA programs out today (Friday, 10/11). - Purdue offers free innovation and entrepreneurship lecture and workshop
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue's Technology Transfer Initiative and the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship are presenting a program on Oct. 17-19 on innovation and entrepreneurship for Purdue students and faculty, businesses, and the general public. - Appointments and promotions; faculty, staff and student honors
• Appointments and promotions: – Pauline Shen has accepted the position of director of development for International Programs and the Graduate School, leaving her former position as director of development in the School of Science. Shen is a member of CASE, NSFRE, Indiana Donors Alliance Seminars and is a fundraising adviser to the Girl Scouts Council, Habitat for Humanity and the Lafayette Urban Ministry. - Krannert School offers executive education for manufacturers
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Krannert School of Management's Executive Education Programs at Purdue University and two Purdue alumni are teaming up to offer a management workshop for executives in manufacturing. - $15 million bioscience center funded
Indiana exec Bindley gives alma mater Purdue $52.5 million WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Indianapolis business and civic leader William E. Bindley today (Friday, 9/27) gave a $52.5 million gift to his alma mater, Purdue University – including $7.5 million that will cover half the construction cost for a new bioscience research center at Purdue's Discovery Park. - Morgan, foundation honored at entrepreneurship celebration
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University and its Krannert School of Management celebrated entrepreneurship's future home on campus during an event on Monday (9/23) in the Elliott Hall of Music. - Indianapolis businessman William Bindley to receive leadership award
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Caspar Weinberger, former U.S. secretary of defense, will be the keynote speaker on Thursday (9/26) at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management Leadership Speakers Series in Indianapolis. - U.S. News: Purdue among best; engineering, business rank high
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's undergraduate programs in engineering and business are among the best in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report magazine rankings released today (Friday, 9/13). - Purdue to launch campaign, break ground, celebrate gifts
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University will launch the most ambitious drive in Indiana history to raise private support as the capstone of a Discover Purdue Week of gift announcements and groundbreakings on Sept. 19-28. - Wall Street Journal poll: Purdue MBA 11th best worldwide
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Krannert Graduate School of Management's MBA program ranked 11th internationally and third among public universities in a Wall Street Journal-Harris Interactive poll of MBA programs out today (Monday, 9/9). - Morgan, foundation honored at entrepreneurship celebration
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University and its Krannert School of Management will celebrate entrepreneurship's future home on campus during a 10:30 a.m. event on Sept. 23 in the Elliott Hall of Music. - Krannert School invites public to business speakers' series
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A baker's dozen of corporate leaders, including CEOs, COOs, consultants, presidents and principals, will present their ideas to Purdue University's Krannert School of Management MBA students this fall. - Purdue builds opportunity in center for entrepreneurs
On Friday the State Budget Committee approved $7 million for the construction of the Center for Entrepreneurship. - Construction continues on hall
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Purdue University student Landon Lockhart, a senior in industrial management from Cleveland, Ohio, listens to Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh discuss corporate - Krannert School offers executive education for manufacturers
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's business school dean and an engineering graduate who went on to be CEO of his own company say rebuilding investor confidence comes down to the personal ethics and integrity of individuals. - Krannert offers mini-MBA to area companies, managers
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Krannert Executive Education Programs are beginning their second "mini-MBA" program for area company management personnel on Aug. 6. - Appointments, promotions, faculty and staff honors
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University finance professor says there is one very important thing for the long-term investor to do in a stock market beset by corporate scandal, accounting doubts and CEO chicanery. - Krannert School offers executive education for manufacturers
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Krannert School of Management's Executive Education Programs at Purdue University and two Purdue alumni are teaming up to offer management workshops for executives in manufacturing. - A Clarion Call for American Manufacturing
Herbert Moskowitz Manufacturing is the Rodney Dangerfield of the early days of 21st century business. The Information Age and the New Economy were to have rendered manufacturing as passé as clipper ships, but without the elegance. Post-dot.com, we don't hear much about the New Economy. But neither do we hear we need to get back to basics of the real economy: manufacturing – making products people want. Manufacturers, government and education must recognize a changed landscape and collaborate in new ways to keep the American economy strong. - Trustees approve new faculty designations, dean, academic programs
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, 6/7) honored three professors on the West Lafayette campus, ratified a new dean on the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne campus and approved two new bachelor of science degrees in industrial technology. - Trustees advance Discovery Park projects, OK alumni center work
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, 6/7) voted to advance two Discovery Park projects: building a biosciences-engineering facility and increasing the investment in the Birck Nanotechnology Center from $51 million to $56.4 million. - Merrill Lynch Case forces Wall Street Reform from Lou Dobbs Moneyline on CNN
LOU DOBBS, HOST: The FBI is facing some of the most severe criticism in its more than 90-year history. It is trying to control the damage. Kelli Arena will report from Washington. - Outside directors improve U.K. CEO selection, stock returns
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The international trend toward more outside members on corporate boards of directors may make for better companies and higher shareholder returns, according to research studies by two Purdue University finance professors. - E-biz center partners to review teaching-research on e-commerce
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Center for E-Business Education and Research (CEER) on May 7 will present Purdue University's across-the-curriculum efforts in e-business. - Appointments and promotions; faculty, staff and student honors
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Officials from federal, state and local agencies will join Purdue University faculty in a computer simulation on April 26 to test what responses work best in an unfolding crisis. - Krannert's new building gets big new 'byte' of data storage
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Krannert School of Management is scaling up its technological infrastructure to prepare for the eventual opening of Rawls Hall, the school's new facility. - Faculty, staff recognized at honors convocation
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Outstanding teaching at Purdue University during the 2001-02 academic year was recognized today (Friday, 4/12) at the annual University Honors Convocation. - $7 million grant to build Purdue entrepreneurship center
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue Board of Trustees today (Friday, 4/12) approved naming the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and accepted the $7 million foundation grant that will make the center possible. - Trustees ratify faculty appointments to named professorships
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, 4/12) appointed three faculty to named professorships. - U.S. News ranks Krannert School MBA among nation's best
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – U.S.News & World Report ranks Purdue University's Krannert School of Management's MBA program fourth nationally in production/operations management and eighth in quantitative analysis. - Researcher: Oversight reforms needed, not divesting consulting
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University professor says tightening the oversight of corporate governance and the auditing profession, proposed in the wake of the Enron implosion, is a much-needed reform. But the proposals to force accounting firms to divest their consulting practices will have little practical effect. - Construction continues on Rawls Hall
Workers erect the steel frame for Rawls Hall on Purdue University's West Lafayette campus. - Krannert MBAs win investment competition, talk with Bartiromo
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two Purdue University business students will be interviewed by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo as part of their prize for winning an investment fund competition. - Monocle Technologies 'eyeballs' $30,000 entrepreneurial prize
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If the winners of Purdue University's 15th annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition have their way, their laser-based spectroscopy technology will test every pill doctors prescribe to their patients. - Purdue entrepreneurial competition showcases new technologies
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University student teams will vie for thousands of dollars in venture capital and other support to fly their fledgling ventures during the 15th annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition on Feb. 28. - Purdue trustees OK more than $30.5 million in building projects
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, 2/8) approved construction of a $23.5 million addition to the School of Chemical Engineering building and a new $7 million Center for Entrepreneurship in Discovery Park. - Purdue, IU MBAs team up at Indianapolis job fair
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – MBA career service offices from Purdue and Indiana universities are teaming up in the Inaugural Old Oaken Bucket MBA Job Fair in Indianapolis on March 8. - Business school dean: How does corporate leadership fail?
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Leadership has been in the scholarly cross hairs for the better part of a century, but the Purdue University management school dean says there is no consensus about whether leaders are born or if leadership can be learned. - Krannert hosts business ethics experts from IU, Notre Dame
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two business professors from Indiana and Notre Dame universities will address the subject of corporate ethics from the points of view of law and religion as part of a class at the Krannert School of Management. - Financial Times survey: Krannert MBAs get satisfaction
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Krannert School of Management received top 10 rankings worldwide in a pair of categories in a Financial Times (London) survey released Monday (1/22). - Communication, perception define customer service satisfaction
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University professor says customer service is largely a matter of perception and managing expectations. - Manufacturing summit to address state challenges, opportunities
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Indiana leaders of manufacturing enterprises are meeting March 19-20 on the Purdue University campus to discuss advanced manufacturing and the policies and collaborations needed to propel the state's economy into the future. - Presidential charisma and greatness: Words do make the man
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two studies led by a Purdue University researcher revealed that U.S. presidents who used more image-based words in their speeches were perceived more favorably in terms of both charisma and greatness. - Economist publication ranks Krannert MBA programs among best
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Krannert School of Management received top rankings in finance, production-operations management, human resources, e-business and career services in a biennial survey of MBA programs worldwide. - $3 million gift lays cornerstone for Purdue's new alumni center
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University will break ground on its first alumni center this spring, thanks to a $3 million gift from a Michigan industrialist and his wife, the university announced today (Saturday, 1/12). - Purdue reprises 'mini MBA' technical management programs
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University's Krannert School of Management is continuing its longstanding collaboration with the schools of Engineering and Science to offer two short-course "mini MBA" programs in April and May for engineers and scientists. - Krannert School invites public to business speakers series
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A baker's dozen of corporate leaders will present their ideas to Purdue's Krannert School of Management students during spring semester. Among the speakers are the president and publisher of The Indianapolis Star, a top Indianapolis Colts executive and the CEO of Guidant Corp.