Tippie Magazine (Summer 2021) - Tippie College of Business

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PLACE finish
The Henry Fund was named best graduate
student-managed investment fund by
Quinnipiac Global Asset Management
Education Forum. The fund returned 29.99% in
2020, beating the S&P 500 by better than 11%.
3 REASONS
CAPABLE PEOPLE
DON’T LEAD
Palmer Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship
Jennifer D. Nahrgang identified
three reasons talented employees hesitate
when given the opportunity to take charge.
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Social Risk
Leadership could damage interpersonal
relationships with colleagues
Image Risk
Perception of being “ambitious”
or “aggressive”
Blamed for Failure
Fearing a group project stumble could
sour a professional reputation
How can these obstacles be
overcome? Read the Harvard
Business Review article.
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TIPPIE ALUMNI—
Erin Brewer (MBA17), Amelia Hagen (MBA16),
Denis Demini (MBA17), and Alessandro
Rocchi (MBA20)—were part of a unique virtual
opportunity for Tippie students to explore Italy
while examining the business, social, and political
response to the pandemic over winter break.
Hawkeyes
Help
Three Tippie graduate students
volunteered their time to help families
find affordable housing. Working with the
nonprofit Iowa-based mortgage company
Neighborhood Finance Corporation, the
collaboration with the Hawkeyes led to a
78% increase in the number of
purchase loan applications.
1.5%
whole
UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS STUDENT ENROLLMENTS GREW
by 1.5% between Spring 2020 and Spring 2021. By contrast, the University of Iowa as a
saw a 6.2% decrease in undergraduate enrollment over the same period.
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