Tippie News

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Student enrollment numbers remain steady in the midst of the pandemic

Saturday, September 19, 2020
Despite a worldwide pandemic and uncertainty about the 2020-2021 school year, enrollment numbers at the Tippie College of Business are holding strong.
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Tippie Associate Director of DEI inducted into the Iowa Latino Hall of Fame

Gabriela Rivera, who was recently inducted into the Iowa Latino Hall of Fame, aims to serve as a welcoming and inspiring role model for UI students and the Iowa City community in her career at the university.
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Study investigates how we invest meaning in our daily work

Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Managers should give their employees room to do their jobs in a way that gives them meaning, as they’ll get more buy in and productivity from workers who feel called to their work.
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Brown receives top academic honor

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
In the world of academia, the success of research faculty is heavily based on how many times their work is cited by their peers. Kenneth Brown, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Program at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business recently received the 2020 Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) Decade Award, one of the top academic honors in his field.
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Gabriela Rivera to be inducted into the Iowa Latino Hall of Fame

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The Iowa Commission of Latino Affairs and the Iowa Department of Human Rights announced Gabriela Rivera, associate director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Tippie College of Business, will be inducted into the Iowa Latino Hall of Fame.
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Tippie promotes Williams and Rivera to DEI positions

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The Tippie College of Business has created two new positions to help the college meet key strategic goals around diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
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Burer receives top INFORMS computing society honor

Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Samuel Burer, professor of business analytics in the Tippie College of Business, along with Renato D.C. Monteiro, received the 2020 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) prize for their pioneering work on low-rank semi-definite programming.
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Entrepreneurs in Africa save the day for Iowa interns

Quick thinking by University of Iowa Tippie College of Business leaders arranged last-minute summer work experiences for students whose internships vanished in the pandemic haze.
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Shaping NFL teams’ digital playbook

University of Iowa graduate Michael Wiebler uses his cinema arts and marketing degrees to help NFL teams improve their digital storytelling.
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Bored at work: workers who feel overqualified are more likely to look for new jobs

Monday, August 24, 2020
Businesses want talented, ambitious people working for them, but a new study from the University of Iowa finds that if those workers are stuck in a job they feel they’re overqualified for, they’re more apt to start looking for a new job.