How to select the best financial advisor
By FADEL N. LAWANDY / CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FACULTY It is often argued that having a great money manager is as critical as having a great family doctor. While the family doctor works to insures one’s physical health, the money manager works to insure one’s financial health. Yet there are three factors that the average consumer
Argyros Student Profile – Jun Lee – Chapman MBA
This blog regularly profiles students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Jun Lee, who will graduate from Chapman’s Full Time MBA program in 2014. Name: A: JUN YONG LEE Graduating Year: A: 2014 Program here at the Argyros School of Business and Economics (ASBE): A: Full Time MBA
The Greatest Class No One Knows About: Spontaneous Order and the Law
What’s a Spontaneous? At the beginning of each semester, I always have the same conversation. “Hey Mike, what classes are you taking?” Usually, I reply with a boilerplate list of regular law school classes, “I got lumped into professional responsibility, corporations, federal taxation, and evidence.” That’s a regular law school semester. But this year…it was
How Do Societies Avoid Collapse?
How Do Societies Avoid Collapse? Featured on The Property and Environment Research Center Blog, Friday, June 7, 2013 Economic research has long been subject to the same pitfall: it lacks a laboratory in which to carry out simple experiments. Unlike sciences such as physics or chemistry, economic data are messy, imperfectly measured, and affected by
IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents, "The Egoism and Altruism of Intergenerational Behavior" with Dr. Kimberly Wade-Benzoni
May 10, Kimberly Wade-Benzoni, Ph.D. – The Egoism and Altruism of Intergenerational Behavior Abstract: Some of the most important issues in society today affect more than one generation of people. In this article, the authors offer a conceptual overview and integration of the research on intergenerational dilemmas—decisions that entail a tradeoff between one’s own self-interest
"Of Houses and Hamburgers", By Vernon L. Smith featured in The Daily Beast
Some markets are ugly. Others work miracles. An article by Vernon L. Smith featured in the Daily Beast. “The Great Recession began in the fourth quarter of 2007. Measured in Depression clock time, 2012 was 1934, when the U.S. economy expanded 7.7 percent. Today such expansion seems remote. Rather, the economy is still stuck in
How Product Labeling Killed Some Truly Righteous Weed and Might Even Raise Your Hospital Bill
How Product Labeling Killed Some Truly Righteous Weed and Might Even Raise Your Hospital Bill by Megan McArdle In this article, published in the Daily Beast online, Author Megan McArdle uses experiments run by the Economic Science Institute’s Dr. Bart Wilson to discuss how transparency may have unexpected results to a market. Check out the full
University of Houston takes first place for medical software firm in the California Dreamin’ Investor and Fast Pitch Business Plan Competition
ORANGE, CA – The California Dreamin competition, now in its second year at Chapman University, brought together students from top university entrepreneur programs around the country to prove that they have the best business plan. The event, by invitation only, took place April 26 and 27 and featured 25 schools competing for $230,000 in prize
Argyros Student Profile – Emily Hormuth – Chapman MBA
This blog regularly profiles students at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. This week, we talk to Emily Hormuth, who will graduate from Chapman’s Full Time MBA program in 2014. Name: Emily Anne Hormuth Graduating Year: 2014 Program here at the Argyros School of Business and Economics (ASBE): Full Time MBA Hometown: Tustin, CA
An opportunity to network with female entrepeneurs at Aspirely
Aspirely will be hosting a Champagne Brunch on April 26, 2013 from 11:00am – 1:30pm. Female entrepeneurs are invited to come meet the Aspirely Moms in a Champagne Brunch full of conversation, resources and connection. To register for the event, please go to the event registration page (use code FAF50 for 50% off). From the
SWAV apparel wins the Chapman University Business Plan Competition
Student entrepreneurs are thriving at Chapman University. With resources like the Leatherby Center for Entrepeneurship and the eVillage, Argyros School students are exposed to a host of opportunities and valuable resources outside of the classroom. In addition to seminars, distinguished speakers, and mentoring programs, the Leatherby Center hosts two business plan competitions annually – the
The IFREE/ESI Lecture Series Presents Raymond Deneckere, Ph.D. - "Multi-Dimensional Screening: A Solution to a Class of Problems"
Apr. 19, Raymond Deneckere, Ph.D. – Multi-Dimensional Screening: A Solution to a Class of Problems Abstract: We develop a general method for solving multi-dimensional screening problems in which the ‘physical’ allocation space is one-dimensional, and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of ‘exclusion’ in the optimal mechanism. We illustrate the application of our