The United States has used the consumer price index, or CPI, for more than a century to measure inflation and to calculate the economy’s “real” growth rate—output adjusted for inflation. Research conducted by Smeal faculty members Brent Ambrose and Jiro Yoshida reveals that the CPI is misleading as a measure of inflation. Continue reading
As a second class nears graduation, members of the first cohort from Smeal’s Master of Management and Organizational Leadership (MOL) Program share how the experience prepared them for their current roles. Thirty students graduated from the MOL Program in 2018 and 44 are expected to finish in 2019. Continue reading
Charles H. Whiteman, John and Becky Surma Dean; Michelle Houser, senior director of development and alumni relations; and Rolf Dietrich, Penn state director of international fundraising, connected with Smeal alumni in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Singapore last fall. Whiteman was invited to Guangzhou, China, by the Association to … Continue reading
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A YEAR AGO, we introduced you to State of Business, a new publication for alumni and friends of the Penn State Smeal College of Business. In those pages, we shared many of the things that make the Smeal College unique, from expanding opportunities for graduate business education to making the … Continue reading
