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Beaches and bees: How an unlikely encounter brought a Tippie MBA to Comoros

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
An Iowa MBA and a Mandela Washington Fellow teamed up to teach modern beekeeping and business strategies to aspiring producers in Africa.
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Employers are hiring Iowans now for holiday jobs, from retail to deliveries

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Peggy Stover, who directs the UI’s Marketing Institute, says many retailers are looking to make immediate hires as we’re now less than a month from Thanksgiving.
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Working Iowa: Holiday hiring push ahead of shopping rush

Monday, October 28, 2024
Holiday hiring is already ramping up, says Tippie Marketing Institute Director Peggy Stover.
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Study shows when media attention gets hot, companies often cut back on lobbying

Wednesday, October 23, 2024
A Tippie resarcher dug into the subject of how companies adjust lobbying efforts when responding to negative news.
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UI logistics study: Package delivery drivers should walk more, drive less

Monday, October 21, 2024
The study found delivery times could be cut by about 50-percent if companies designed routes built around walking.
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How CFOs can give good earnings guidance

Sunday, October 20, 2024
Guidance is both art and science, and getting it right is important
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Credit seems easier to get, survey says, but people worry about missing payments

Wednesday, October 16, 2024
In a survey taken this September, people said that access to credit is a lot better than it was a year ago, and people also think loans will become even more available this time next year.
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Former Aflac president Fred Crawford named Tippie’s first executive in residence

Wednesday, October 16, 2024
The executive in residence program was created to bring an experienced risk management and insurance business leader to campus.
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Former Aflac president Fred Crawford is Tippie’s first RMI executive in residence

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Fred Crawford, the former president and COO of supplemental health insurance provider Aflac and a University of Iowa alum, will be the Tippie College of Business’ first executive in residence.
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Tippie researcher fights bias by developing new AI algorithms

Monday, October 14, 2024
A Tippie College of Business researcher has developed two algorithms that can be used to reduce racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence. Qihang Lin developed the algorithms with the help of an $800,000 grant received in 2022 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon.