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Movie offers University of Iowa students insight into potential bias in facial recognition technology

Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Students at the University of Iowa got a lesson about racial bias in facial recognition algorithms through the showing of the film "Coded Bias." The screening and talk with the director was coordinated by the Tippie College of Business Department of Business Analytics.
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Tippie professor adapts economic model to understand vaccine hesitancy

Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Richard Peter and his colleague have conducted research to help public health officials better understand COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and tailor messaging to address it.
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A closer look at Amy Kristof-Brown

Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The Des Moines Business Record recently interviewed Dean Amy Kristof-Brown about leading, COVID-19, and where she sees the college going in the years to come.
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What virtual study abroad is like at the Tippie College of Business

Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Twenty-year-old Shelby Enger, a sophomore studying marketing and communications at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, took part in a virtual study abroad course through the school’s Tippie College of Business. During the three-week summer course, “Introduction to Global Business: Asia Pacific,” Enger expanded her knowledge of Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore by virtually touring...
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Breakfast competition heats up among fast food, convenience stores

Tuesday, September 14, 2021
There’s a breakfast war heating up now in Iowa to try and capture customers who are once again venturing out of their homes following pandemic shutdowns. Tippie's Peggy Stover weighs in.
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New college degrees give liberal-arts students more business courses

Friday, September 3, 2021
At the University of Iowa, the business school worked with the college of liberal arts to launch the college's enterprise-leadership major in 2015. Liberal-arts students take some practical business courses—including small-business accounting and business planning—but skip many classes that often don't appeal to nonbusiness students, such as negotiation and human-resource management. Instead...
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Tippie merges MBA programs, with a focus on flexibility and online development

Friday, September 3, 2021
The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business has reinvented its online Master of Business Administration program, merging the part-time professional and full-time programs together with student flexibility as the top priority.
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A look at the flexible future of the MBA

Friday, September 3, 2021
Build it and they will come. That Field of Dreams strategy was just what the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Business employed in creating its online MBA program a couple of years ago–and come they did, from an initial cohort of just 40 students in the fall of 2019 to an enrollment of more than 400 in just a few semesters.
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Stop screening job candidates’ social media

Thursday, September 2, 2021
Social media sites such as Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram have given many organizations a new hiring tool. According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employers check out applicants’ profiles as part of their screening process, and 54% have rejected applicants because of what they found. Social media sites offer a free, easily accessed portrait of what a candidate is really like, yielding a...
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Faculty mourn the loss of former Tippie professor Frank Schmidt

Thursday, September 2, 2021
Frank Schmidt, former emeritus professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, died from a heart attack on Aug. 21 at 77. Faculty at Tippie College of Business are remembering the legacy of an impactful faculty member recorded as an incredibly impactful scholar in his field.