Recent Articles
Jesuit Business Education
Boler Professor’s Long-Held Vision Realized
Long before she earned a doctorate or joined a university faculty, Dr. Tina Facca-Miess kept a quiet vision of how her personal faith and professional purpose might one day intersect.

-
Jesuit Business Education
Boler Global: Empowering Marginalized Populations Through Entrepreneurial Training in India
John Carroll’s Global Business Culture and Entrepreneurship Program creates opportunities for JCU students to connect with entrepreneurial-minded peers across the globe.
-
Jesuit Business Education
Boler Dean advocates for more international, tech and innovation experiences
Elad Granot, Ph.D., the new Dean of the Boler College of Business, brings a uniquely qualified perspective on the importance and value of providing international immersion experiences in business higher education.
-
Wealth & Equity
Learning to work together like peanut butter and jelly.
How does a team from a small Jesuit business school such as John Carroll University reach the Americas’ semifinal round of the global CFA Institute Research Challenge?
-
Responsible Leadership
How One Boler Class Categorizes Hope As An Appreciating Asset
Experiential learning opportunities provide a unique lens for students in the Boler College of Business MBA program.
-
Jesuit Business Education
Boler College Students Look to Supercharge Their Data Analytics Portfolio
Imagine you’re a John Carroll University economics major, well-versed in solving the problem of prediction with economic theory, but unsure if you have career options that involve data analytics.
-
Jesuit Business Education
Meredith Whitney, PMP - Program Manager/ Product Identity, Google
Meredith Whitney reminds graduates from business and non-business fields that in 2021, every job calls for an ability to navigate technology and markets. She shares her notes on applying the core value of a John Carroll University education — a nimble and curious mind — to a series of increasing challenges in technology start-ups. Whitney talks about how a certain ease with ambiguity helped her land a prized role as program manager at Google.
-
Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Boler Adds Social Innovation Research Expertise to Global Voices of Refugee Youth Effort
Boler College faculty bring social innovation research expertise to select governments, NGOs, a major research firm along with UNHCR and the UN Refugee Agency to support post-primary education for refugees and host communities.
-
Responsible Leadership
The Case: Enron and Fraud
Enron, once America's seventh largest corporation, soon became a byword for corporate greed, scandal and corruption.
-
Sustainable Growth & Resiliency
Charles Donou-Adonsou, Ph.D., Boler College Visiting Professor of Economics
How can Westerners begin to appreciate economics in the developing world?
-
Sustainable Growth & Resiliency
Blockchain 101: Why Real-Time Verification Matters
As a reliable data platform showing transaction history recorded in real-time, Blockchain technology streamlines accounting and auditing professions.
-
Responsible Leadership
How Duplicity, Degradation, and Dishonorable Actions Deteriorate Employee Well-Being
When most people think about unethical actions, they think about actions that cost the company money and bad publicity.
-
Jesuit Business Education
Making the Business Case
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Inspired Business . Why a publication that looks at responsible leadership as a strategic necessity, and why now? We believe there is a growing audience of active and aspiring business leaders who agree with the Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation issued last year by the Business Roundtable calling for companies to benefit all stakeholders – customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders.
-
Wealth & Equity
Mastering the Learning Curve of Student-Managed Stock Funds
It’s not uncommon for colleges to entrust a group of students with real money and budgetary decisions.
-
Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Will the Next Book You Buy in College be Your Own?
What happens when seven Boler College students walk into a different kind of bschool.
-
Sustainable Growth & Resiliency
Ryan Franks, MBA ’20, Energy Storage Response Group
Where do you see the biggest opportunity for advance in the area of “smart” energy?
-
Responsible Leadership
How Accountancy Can Do Better on Diversity
As the nation takes a closer look at systemic racism, business educators and the professionals ask hard questions.
-
Responsible Leadership
Michael Parks, Boler College of Business Executive in Residence, American Red Cross
You’ve been in some pressure situations during your 35-year US Coast Guard career. What does an experience like directing emergency response following the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 teach you about leadership?
-
Wealth & Equity
CFA Challenge: Mastering Uncertainty
During a long career as an analyst and Chief Investment Officer, Tony Aveni (Boler Executive-in-Residence) watched US and global equity markets rise and fall with regularity, if not absolute predictability.