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Eric Nuss, a Tippie Executive MBA alum of 2012, on designing the Dental Business Institute to help participants learn, and actually experience, the business side of growing a successful practice.

Information systems was once a relatively sleepy undergraduate major at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, despite being taught by a sophisticated team of professors with expertise in applied mathematics, computer science and engineering. That all changed a few years ago when Nick Street, the chair of the school’s management sciences department, and his colleagues realized they were sitting on top of a huge untapped opportunity.

Tima Bansal, professor at the Ivey Business School in Canada, is visiting the Tippie College of Business on October 4-5 to discuss how businesses can make sustainable changes that can positively affect the community.

Students in the Business Analytics Academy, a part of the Tippie College of Business’ full-time M.B.A. program, will soon have a more competitive edge to their degrees now that it has been designated as part of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program.

Airbnb, a marketplace for people to list and rent vacation homes and rooms to stay, was founded in 2008 in San Francisco. As the service grows in popularity in the state, cities in Iowa including Clear Lake, West Des Moines, Fairfield and Coralville are looking to regulate its use. "There is a great demand for this type of service. It was founded as a means to accommodate people during large business conventions," explains Art Durnev, a professor of finance at the University of Iowa. 

The magazine also ranked undergraduate programs in business and engineering. Among all public and private universities, the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business placed 33rd, up one spot from last year.

The realm of finance is like a body of water; one moment it is turbulent and choppy and at other times it resembles the smoothness of glass.