After only four years of participation, the Janes Financial Center Residents won the local round of the CFA Institute Research Challenge, advancing to the America’s Regional round in Seattle, Washington. Here, they will be representing Chapman and the CFA Society Orange County, competing against teams from universities across North, Central and South America for the
Most Schools and Universities across the country host Career or Opportunity Involvement Fairs; however, few are as enlightened as Chapman University Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics. Attending this event as a student was truly an eye opening experience. It not only provided me with a chance to network, meet individuals and companies that I
Wall Street is and always will be the financial capital of the world. Fortunately, Chapman students of the Argyros School of Business and Economics had the opportunity to visit this financial behemoth and get an inside look at one of the most important and influential industries in the world. Every year, Argyros School Dean Reginald Gilyard and
While studying abroad on the train in Madrid, I wanted to share the amazing experiences I was having in Spain by sending snippets of music my friends and I normally listen to back in California; however I could not find an efficient way to do so. Returning to the states full of inspiration, I set out
Inspired by his 2017 return to the Argyros School classroom, President Emeritus Jim Doti challenges his business statistics students to join him in running the OC Half Marathon on Sunday, May 7. Dr. Doti, and the rest of the informal Chapman running group, are adopting the Hal Higdon’s Novice Training program for completing the 13.1-mile half marathon distance.
The A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University hosted the 39th Annual Economic Forecast on December 15, 2016 and released the forecasts for the United States, California, and Orange County. Approximately 1,000 Chapman students, alumni, and Orange County business and community leaders were in attendance at the conference in the University’s Musco
When life gets hectic, most people start to ignore their fitness. I was no different. My wife, Samantha, and I transferred to Chapman from Fresno, not knowing anyone on campus when we arrived. Like most college students, we wanted to meet new people, but developing a network outside of class seemed impossible. If I wasn’t
Election Day marks a historic moment for the Leatherby Center as it celebrates the nationwide success and impact of Voter, a mobile app developed by Chapman Launch Lab students. Voter asks a few questions about your political opinions, outlines political issues as you swipe through, and then presents you with the political candidates who most
Four Chapman faculty members have set out to uncover new opportunities for societal impact by examining and analyzing large amounts of data. Dr. Hesham M. El-Askary hopes to stabilize the relationship between extreme weather and resulting outages, ultimately resulting in higher customer satisfaction. Dr. Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook seeks to identify Orange County at-risk mothers and their
Dr. Vernon Smith, of Chapman University’s Economic Science Institute, delivered a talk entitled, Faith and the Compatibility of Science and Religion, at Acton University on June 16. Watch the entire talk online.
June 27 – July 01, 2016 The Economic Science Institute hosted a one week-long International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) and Thomas W. Smith Foundation sponsored workshop on experimental economics for high school students. Taught by Andrew Smyth, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Economic Science Institute and soon to be Assistant Professor of Economics at Marquette University.
Operating in this new big data-driven world, corporations and individuals find themselves faced with the challenge of navigating through massive amounts of information, making sense of it, and applying it to improve their business. While data comes more easily, it is much more complex. Mr. Anand K. Nallathambi shared his insights into how students can create value