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Faculty Focus: Finance Professor Brings Real-World Lessons To Class Oct 2015

Faculty Focus: Finance Professor Brings Real-World Lessons To Class

Business Exchange

Profile of Finance Professor Rebel Cole showcases his preference for using real-world case studies of international finance to challenge students to take on the role of decision-maker and learn from real-life examples.


Scholarly Pursuits: Business Insights From Driehaus Faculty Research Oct 2015

Scholarly Pursuits: Business Insights From Driehaus Faculty Research

Business Exchange

Lessons in Marketing from the "Obama Model"; Lack of Self-Awareness at Work Hurts Team Performance; Award-Winning Research Sheds Light on Shareholder Activism


Three Interventions For Financial Therapy: Fostering An Examination Of Financial Behaviors And Beliefs, Rebekah J. Nelson, Thomas E. Smith, Victoria M. Shelton, Kristin V. Richards Jul 2015

Three Interventions For Financial Therapy: Fostering An Examination Of Financial Behaviors And Beliefs, Rebekah J. Nelson, Thomas E. Smith, Victoria M. Shelton, Kristin V. Richards

Journal of Financial Therapy

Three interventions that address the emotional components of handling finances are proposed. Drawn from a stepwise model of financial therapy, the three interventions introduced here have the specific aim of incorporating the emotional attributes of traditional financial behaviors and beliefs. First, the Financial Genogram identifies family of origin issues that may affect financial behaviors; second, the Financial Landscape intervention is used when emotional stress occurs in collecting and examining financial documents; and third, the Financial Mirror broadens clients’ perspectives of their financial behaviors. Issues in future research and implementation of the Five Step model are addressed in treating financially distressed …


Depaul's Centers And Institutes Connect Alumni To Industry Knowledge Apr 2015

Depaul's Centers And Institutes Connect Alumni To Industry Knowledge

Business Exchange

Summary of the business centers and institutes available to DePaul students, alumni, faculty and professionals. These include the Center for Strategy, Execution and Valuation, the Arditti Center for Risk Management, the Center for Financial Services, the Center for Creativity and Innovation, the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, the Center for Sales Leadership, the Kellstadt Marketing Center, and the Real Estate Center.


Lost In Translation: Till V. Scs Credit Corp. And The Mistaken Transfer Of A Consumer Bankruptcy Repayment Formula To Chapter 11 Reorganizations, Mark J. Thompson, Katie M. Mcdonough Jan 2015

Lost In Translation: Till V. Scs Credit Corp. And The Mistaken Transfer Of A Consumer Bankruptcy Repayment Formula To Chapter 11 Reorganizations, Mark J. Thompson, Katie M. Mcdonough

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

This Article argues that courts overseeing chapter 11 cases have been mistakenly invoking the Supreme Court’s 2004 decision in Till v. SCS Credit Corp.—which specified a consumer-friendly formula for setting the interest rate on the remaining payments on a loan that financed a used pickup truck—at the expense of over a century of Supreme Court precedents that established the contrastingly creditor friendly “fair and equitable” standard for repayment of business debts, as well as disregarding a clear statutory distinction between the present value tests in chapters 11 and 13. This Article also discusses the controversial 2014 decision in Momentive Performance …