Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business

By Stephen Schmidt By nature, Lindsay (Durbin) Mullenger, BS BA ’10, is usually risk averse. So it was very much an oddity when she decided to end her corporate career in the summer of 2021 to focus her attention on her startup online retail business, Petite Keep.

How have you gauged the quality of a company’s financial report? Maybe you considered the audit report, whether the firm met earnings targets or how quickly the financial statements were filed. You could learn from each of these items, but not until after year-end. What if there were an easily-obtained metric providing information about the quality of the financial statements prior to year-end?

By Stephen Schmidt Jeremy Terman, BS BA ’16, is a rhino — and has been for a long time. It was a distinction that was officially recognized when he was working as an intern at Verizon as a junior at the Trulaske College of Business in the summer of 2015, when his mentor handed him a copy of Rhinoceros Success: The Secret To Charging Full Speed Toward Every Opportunity by Scott Alexander.

By Stephen Schmidt One could call it a precursor to a baptism by fire. In 2007, Rashel (Kelly) Hughley, BS BA ’04, MBA ’06, had an uncle show up at her home in Kansas City, Missouri, with a CD with one song on it — “Here I Am to Worship” — and a request that she, a first soprano, sing it two days later during the Sunday service at their local church, where he served as the pastor.

By Stephen Schmidt After having to restrict school-related travel opportunities last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students at the Trulaske College of Business are beginning to travel again to build their networks in the finance world, as they look to the next chapter in their lives. Two programs, in particular, have been able to get off the ground once more this semester — with a new appreciation for these opportunities. Tigers on Wall Street / Cornell Leadership Program

By Kelsey Allen Professors in the Management Department in the Trulaske College of Business are publishing research that’s challenging assumptions that drive decision-making in the workplace. Here’s a look at four researchers and their findings. Rethinking the Employment Application

Story courtesy of the Missouri School of Journalism By Austin Fitzgerald As part of an ongoing, multidisciplinary collaboration with AT &T to explore the use of 5G in college classrooms, students studying strategic communication at the Missouri School of Journalism are working to understand what 5G can do for healthcare.

On November 2 & 3, 2021, the University of Missouri International Trade Center, along with trade assistance partners from across the region, hosted the 2021 Mid-America Trade Summit.

By Stephen Schmidt For Dylan Frazier, something just clicked. Although he cannot put his finger on the exact moment he fell in love with the sport of pickleball, it happened quickly — like the pace of the sport itself. In March 2016, Frazier was 14 when he first stepped onto a pickleball court at a nearby rec center while on a trip to Florida to visit his grandfather. Little did he know that he was not too far away from the site of the World Pickleball Championships in Punta Gorda.

Gender-based assumptions and stereotypes influence a wide array of social behavior. These stereotypes are so prevalent we often don’t realize their impact. Gender bias, and other biases, influences nearly every decision we make, resulting in numerous obstacles for women in the workplace. These barriers often limit women from participating in certain occupations and reduce the number of women who “rise to the top.”