News Releases

Obituary: Carnegie Mellon’s Steven Klepper, Renowned Teacher and Researcher, Combined Entrepreneurship and Mainstream Economics To Study Innovation
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Steven Klepper, the Arthur Arton Hamerschlag Professor of Economics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University, died Monday, May 27, at age 64. A renowned teacher and researcher, Klepper’s pioneering work integrated elements of traditional economic models with evolutionary theory, bridging gaps between the study of entrepreneurship and mainstream economics.

Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon Debuts Semiannual Research And Entrepreneurship Showcase: Launch|CMU
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Inaugural Event To Be Held May 21 in Mountain View, Calif.

University Professors- Four Earn Highest Faculty Distinction at Carnegie Mellon
Release Date: Apr 29, 2013
Jared L. Cohon, Dennis Epple, Marcel Just and Steve E. Shreve recognized for intellectual leadership.

Laurie Barkman Named Tepper Women in Business Alumna of the Year
Release Date: Apr 15, 2013
Carnegie Mellon Business School Club Recognizes Pittsburgh Entrepreneur for Giving Back to Students and Community

Tepper School FlexMBA Applications Reflect Interest in Online Learning From Across North America
Release Date: Apr 05, 2013
Access weekends will routinely unite MBA students from across the continent.

Media Advisory: Innovation in Health Care Technology Conference Focuses on Achieving an Improved Health Care System
Release Date: Apr 04, 2013
Friday- April 5, 2013

CMU Qatar Holds 3-Day Startup (3DS) Entrepreneurship Program
Release Date: Apr 04, 2013
Program supported by faculty from the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Reunion Weekend Set to Entertain Graduates from Past Half-Century: April 19-20, 2013
Release Date: Mar 29, 2013
Event to mix alumni, students, faculty, administrators and memories

McGinnis Venture Competition Spotlights Student Innovations at Carnegie Mellon
Release Date: Mar 29, 2013
3 Student Startups Share $60,000 Cash Prize

Carnegie Mellon Students Win Energy Department's Better Buildings Case Competition
Release Date: Mar 28, 2013
Team's Strategies Earn First Place in Two Categories

Carnegie Mellon Boosts Entrepreneurship Efforts By Merging Project Olympus and Don Jones Center
Release Date: Mar 14, 2013
Initiatives Will Combine Strengths in New Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Meltzer Offers Testimony Before the House Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade
Release Date: Mar 05, 2013
Subcommittee warned that “no government entity should have so much power.”

International Film Festival Adds Memorial Tribute To Professor Paul Goodman
Release Date: Feb 28, 2013
Goodman was an active proponent of introducing global theory and a wide variety of multimedia elements into the classroom.

Carnegie Mellon Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Pioneering Interdisciplinary Program Designed To Promote Innovation
Release Date: Feb 13, 2013
April 12 lunchtime panel discussion to examine future product innovation.

Alumnus Andris Zoltners Endows Professorship At Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business
Release Date: Feb 11, 2013
$2.5 Million Gift To Support Field of Operations Research; Professor R. Ravi Named First Recipient

Professor Anthony Stanton honored with the 2013 Michael H. Bruno TAGA Award
Release Date: Feb 01, 2013
Tepper School Professor recognized for his contributions to the advancement of graphic arts.

Carnegie Mellon Business School Faculty Working With City To Optimize Metered Street Parking Near Oakland Campus
Release Date: Jan 31, 2013
February Parking Rates Lowered for some streets near Carnegie Mellon to $1Per Hour in New Flexible Monthly Rate System

PNC Announces New Center for Financial Services Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University
Release Date: Jan 22, 2013
Center Will Focus on Research and Education Aimed at the Financial Services Sector

Carnegie Mellon’s Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund Awards Investments to Six “Greenlighting Startups” Companies
Release Date: Jan 08, 2013
Program Benefits 16 Startups in First Year; CMU “Destination of Choice” for Young Innovators

Obit-Donald H. Jones, Entrepreneur, Teacher, and Visionary
Release Date: Dec 19, 2012
Donald H. Jones, internationally recognized entrepreneur, adjunct professor (1989-2003) and longtime benefactor of the Tepper School of Business, formerly known as GSIA, passed away on December 15, 2012. He was 75 years old.

Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Product Development Program Plans Expansion
Release Date: Dec 14, 2012
Tepper School of Business Joins School of Design and Department of Mechanical Engineering as Partner in Interdisciplinary Education

Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business Introduces New Online Format for its MBA Curriculum
Release Date: Dec 10, 2012
Beginning Fall 2013, the FlexMBA Program Will Create New Model for MBA Education

Hollifield Selected To Become PNC Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon
Release Date: Nov 27, 2012
Newly Created Chair at CMU’s Tepper School of Business is Endowed by PNC Foundation

Social media helps drive traditional media coverage, where each mention packs a bigger sales punch
Release Date: Nov 09, 2012
Study finds that social earned media helps drive traditional earned media.

Want to Influence Support for Redistributive Tax Policies? Choose Your Words Carefully
Release Date: Nov 02, 2012
New research by Rosalind Chow and Jeffrey Galak examine how public perceptions can be influenced by how cases of income inequality are framed.

NOTICE- Selected Databases to be Shut Down in Preparation for Hurricane Sandy- 10/29/12
Release Date: Oct 29, 2012
The Tepper School of Business is taking proactive measures to protect databases from potential damage due to anticipated power outages that may result from Hurricane Sandy. Selected database servers housed at the Tepper School of Business will be shut down beginning at 10 p.m. on Monday, October 29.

Tayur Receives INFORMS Fellows Award
Release Date: Oct 16, 2012
Tayur becomes fifth Tepper School faculty member to receive INFORMS honor.

Mukhopadhyay Elected INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow For 2012
Release Date: Oct 16, 2012
Honor recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of information systems.

The Good, the Bad, and the Guilty: Anticipating Feelings of Guilt Predicts Ethical Behavior
Release Date: Oct 10, 2012
New study measures guilt proneness and examines how it can influence behavior in the workplace.

Professor John Hooker Creates Ethics Video Series
Release Date: Oct 04, 2012
How's your ethical reasoning? Research shows that successful leaders are better at it than the average person. In this six-part series, Professor Hooker presents framework for analyzing an ethical issue based on the idea that an ethical decision is a logical choice.

Carnegie Mellon Launches Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Release Date: Sep 20, 2012
New University-wide Research Initiative To Meet Challenges of Changing Energy Mix

Rousseau Recognized by HR Magazine Among Most Influential 2012 Top 20 International Thinkers
Release Date: Sep 19, 2012
Honor recognizes individuals with great influence in “people strategy”.

Apt: Blackouts Are a Fact of Life. Let's Deal With Them.
Release Date: Sep 17, 2012
Four steps to making sure that outages do as little damage as possible

Meltzer: The Magnitude of the Mess We're In
Release Date: Sep 17, 2012
The next Treasury secretary will confront problems so daunting that even Alexander Hamilton would have trouble preserving the full faith and credit of the United States.

CMU Provost Kamlet To Address World Economic Forum
Release Date: Sep 11, 2012
"Future of Education" Panel Slated for Wednesday, September 12

New Accelerate Leadership Center Introduces A Personalized, Behavioral-Focused Initiative In Developing MBAs’ Management Skills
Release Date: Aug 31, 2012
Center to Spearhead Co-Curricular Activities and Provide Individual Coaching for MBA Students at the Tepper School

New Research by Jay Apt Finds that Delivering Solar Geoengineering Materials May be Feasible and Affordable
Release Date: Aug 31, 2012
Research by professor Jay Apt, Professor of Technology and Director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business is featured in a press release issued by the Institute of Physics (IOP) on August 31, 2012:

Succession of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Carnegie Mellon University
Release Date: Jul 27, 2012
Mawhinney Follows Boni as Chief of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship

Carnegie Mellon University Receives Net Impact’s Gold Chapter Standing
Release Date: Jul 09, 2012
CMU-Tepper School Net Impact chapter recognized for outstanding achievements.

Academy of Management Honors Linda Argote as OMT Distinguished Scholar for 2012
Release Date: Jul 02, 2012
Award recognizes insightful work and contributions in advancing the field of organizational studies.

Obituary: William W. Cooper, Pioneer in Management Science, Founding Father of GSIA and First Dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs
Release Date: Jun 21, 2012
Cooper remembered as founding father of GSIA and first dean of the School of Urban and Publicv Affairs

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find Physicians Are Biased When Evaluating Medical Conflict of Interest Policies
Release Date: Jun 19, 2012
Same Patterns Found in Finance Industry; Researchers Suggest Need For Third Parties in Conflict of Interest Policy-Making Process

Carnegie Mellon’s Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund Awards Grants to 10 “Greenlighting Startups” Companies Across the US
Release Date: Jun 19, 2012
Program Targeted to Alumni Continues To Make CMU the Top Destination for Young Innovators

Chester Spatt Chosen as Member of Systematic Risk Council
Release Date: Jun 19, 2012
Newly Created Body to Monitor Financial Regulation and Financial Market Reforms