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The Beard Institute of the Palumbo Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University hosted an Ethics Luncheon April 12th at the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh, PA. The Honorable Cynthia A. Baldwin, Vice President and General Counsel, Penn State University, and Retired Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court spoke about "The Responsibility of Ethical Leadership."Read More

Stephanie Malone, senior accounting major, and Johnna Premich, senior marketing and international business major, won the Outstanding Scholarship Award at the Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium on April 11, 2012 for their poster presentation "Two research assistants' reflections on a team newcomer study."Read More

The Beard Institute will host a panel presentation, Boardroom Dynamics: Priorities of an Effective Board, on Tuesday, April 17, at 7:30 a.m. in the Power Center Ballroom. Experts will share their multiple board experiences and explore best practices for effective board governance.Read More

For the second time in as many years, the A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration has been named among the nation’s top 100 undergraduate business schools by Bloomberg Businessweek.Read More

Jim Byrne, executive director of The Beard Institute, served for 22 years on the Lennox International Board of Directors. His professional journey, which carried him through the then-new fields of computers and technology, started with his graduation from Duquesne’s School of Business in 1957.Read More

Business Professor Dr. David Saiia has designed a simple machine that can turn discarded plastic bottles into a superior roofing material for tropical climates.Read More

The Fall 2011 Service/Active Learning Report is now available on the Beard Institute Web site.Read More

Dr. Robert Sroufe, Murrin Chair of Global Competitiveness, Beard Institute Director of Applied Sustainability Marketing and Supply Chain and Inna Nirenburg, MBA '01, publish Sustainability: Responsible Supply Management in this month’s issue of "Inside Supply Chain" magazine.Read More

For the second year in a row, Duquesne made an impression at the national State Farm College Marketing & Sales Competition.Read More

Duquesne marketing major and women's tennis team member Tara Majdalani continued Duquesne's tradition of service to the community by volunteering her time to research and write a feature piece on the Passavant Hospital Foundation for the February edition of Northern Connection, a North Hills community magazine.Read More

Duquesne University's School of Business will host the 3rd annual Inter-Collegiate Project Management Triathlon from April 13-15, 2012.Read More

On January 24, 2012, as part of the Distinguished Ethics speaker series, Dr. R. Bruce Bickel, Senior Vice President and managing director of PNC's Private Foundation Management Services, presented a program on Ethical Leadership.Read More

"Ethics in the Workplace" appears in Dynamic Business Magazine, an affiliated publication of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. If an ethical issue is not even recognized, it will not be addressed. This article addresses the topic of making sure that we do not have ethical blindness in the workplace.Read More

Dr. Ralph Pearson, Provost of Duquesne University announced that Dr. Amy Phelps has been named a Gaultier Fellow in response to her work in the area of Service Learning.Read More

The Beard Institute held its annual symposium, Sustainable Business: Responsibility and Results on November 10, 2011 at the Fairmont Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA.Read More

Economics professors Drs. Antony Davies, Pavel Yakovlev and Matt Ryan have received a grant to research the effects of regulatory policies on small businesses.Read More