Trapani and Bakamitsos tapped to lead Executive Education
John M. Trapani III and Yiorgos Bakamitsos have been appointed as the new heads of executive education at the Freeman School.
John M. Trapani III and Yiorgos Bakamitsos have been appointed as the new heads of executive education at the Freeman School.
While all this might sound like 21st century Wall Street-style art dealing, nothing could be further from the truth. Research into past art markets has revealed the existence of sophisticated dealer networks in the 19th century and possibly even earlier.
So it turns out there’s a reason why you could never throw out that wobbly old bookcase you put together in college. It’s the Ikea effect. In a new article in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Freeman School’s Daniel Mochon argues that consumers tend to value products they build themselves— such as furniture from Ikea—more than similar professionally built products
John Elstrott spoke to students, business leaders and entrepreneurs in Boulder, Colo., on Sept. 29 as part of An Evening at the Epicenter, a series of interactive talks dedicated to promoting local, socially responsible and green businesses.
New Dean Ira Solomon hopes to make Freeman a “school of choice” for business students from around the world, but first he plans an ambitious effort to grow the school’s faculty by 40 percent in the next few years.