Pepperdine University’s Kevin S. Groves, Ph.D., investigates executive development and succession planning, managerial thinking styles, leader social/emotional intelligence, and organizational change. His extensive research in this area has earned the Ascendant Scholar Award from the Western Academy of Management, a non-profit regional division of the US-based National Academy of Management. continue

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Marshall Nickles, a professor of economics at Pepperdine University, has crunched stock market performance going back more than 100 years. He found that investors who buy stocks about midway through a presidential term and then sell about two years later do far better than those who buy at the beginning of the term and sell about a year later. [Full Article]

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Fulltime MBA student Jerry Darko, MBA 2009, received a $2500 grant supporting a service-relate internship from The Pepperdine Voyage: A Lilly Endowment Program on Vocation.

Through an award from the private family charitable organization founded by philanthropist Eli Lilly, Pepperdine Voyage aids students who contribute to service and social action-oriented programs, especially those affiliated with faith-based organizations. Internships funded benefit student engagements that address and/or seek to alleviate poverty and hunger or promote peace and justice. continue

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Len Rushfield, an adjunct finance professor, said the private sector is being asked to invest substantial amounts in risky assets. Many of these investors are not only relying on their own money, but that of members of the public who invest in their funds, he said.

Private investors have made aggressive investments in the past, but normally not in such large amounts, he said.

“Of course, nothing of this is at all standard,” Rushfield said. “Everything is going into new territory. We’ve never been here before.” [Full Article]