Exchange (2018) - Tippie College of Business

DEPARTMENT NEWS
QUOTED
NOTED
This idea that there’s just
money
“
lying around that United
Technologies can pick up by fixing
things in Rockwell is unlikely. My
sense is that United is thinking of
this more as a play for power in that
market. The bigger they get, the more
they control the supply chain.
”
Amrita Nain, associate professor, director of
the Full-time MBA Program Finance Academy,
and Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow, in
“Rockwell Collins likely to maintain strong Iowa
presence if merger happens, analyst says,”
The Des Moines Register
BERRY-STOELZLE
receives
ARIA AWARD
Thomas Berry-Stoelzle,
associate professor of
finance and director of
the Vaughan Institute of
Risk Management and
Insurance, received the
Early Career Scholarly
Achievement Award from
the American Risk and
Insurance Association
(ARIA). Berry-Stoelzle
received the certificate
at the group’s annual
meeting in Toronto,
Canada, in August 2017.
ERIK LIE PASSES FINANCE DEPARTMENT
EXECUTIVE OFFICER BATON TO TOM RIETZ
EMPLOYMENT DATA
96%
EMPLOYMENT RATE
FOR CLASS OF 2016
finance majors six months
after graduation
—UI Pomerantz Career Center
QUOTED
NOTED
We have some
unique
“
potential in
the state because of
the wind energy and
ethanol production
here. We’re rigged
up already with the
infrastructure to
get the ethanol to
the market. So it
seems like a natural
fit for the state.
”
Tom Rietz, Soumyo Sarkar
Professor of Finance and
department executive
officer, in “Ethanol’s next
breakthrough? Turning
greenhouse gas into fuel,”
The Des Moines Register
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