<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>College of Business News</title><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_home.aspx</link><description>The latest news in the College of Business</description><item><title>Viswanathan to receive the Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement</title><description>The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will honor alumni, faculty, and students at the annual International Achievement Awards banquet on April 11 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1831</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1831</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Best Professor in Entrepreneurial Leadership Award</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, was awarded as an important agent of change at the World Education Congress 2012 held in Mumbai.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1636</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1636</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>USC Awards 2011 Page Prize Honorable Mention Award to Viswanathan</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, received the 2011 Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize Honorable Mention Award for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula. The prize is administered by the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1599</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1599</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Michael and Viswanathan Honored with Campus Award for Excellence in Teaching</title><description>Steven Michael, professor of business administration received an award for undergraduate teaching and Madhu Viswanathan, also a professor of business administration, was honored for graduate teaching.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1559</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1559</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Toast to Madhu Viswanathan</title><description>Dean Larry DeBrock congratulates Madhu Viswanathan for being named the Diane and Steven N. Miller Professor of Business.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1547</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1547</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Wins Pollay Award</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, is winner of the Sauder School of Business?s 2011 Richard W. Pollay Prize honoring intellectual excellence in research on marketing in the public interest.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1528</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1528</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Video Entry Highlights Business and Campus Commitment to Sustainability</title><description>"Like" the linked video with your Facebook account to vote for it in Second Nature's Climate Leadership Awards.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1516</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1516</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sustainability Principles Need to Be Integrated into Business Education</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, believes environmental and poverty issues will likely be among the biggest challenges for tomorrow?s leaders of industry.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1510</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1510</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Almost Home Shelter Project Wins Spark:Concept Gold Award</title><description>A group of students in Madhu Viswanathan's Sustainable Products and Business Plans course won a Spark Gold Award. The group was sponsored by Ralph Hammann from Architecture.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1502</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1502</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Noel and Viswanathan Give Super Bowl Commercial Insights</title><description>Hayden Noel, assistant professor of business administration, and Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration respond to questions about Super Bowl Commercials</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1470</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1470</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>600 BUS101 Students Compete for Scholarships</title><description>$4,200 in scholarships was awarded to 28 winners for designing products to help meet basic needs of people throughout the world.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1451</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1451</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Webale Nyo: Life Lessons from Uganda</title><description>Undergraduate student Steve Sprieser shares his thoughts about a recent visit to Uganda where he worked with a small community to improve their business skills.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1387</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1387</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Marketplace Literacy Project a High Potential Program</title><description>A program initiated by Professor of Business Administration Madhu Viswanathan is identified as a high potential program in this Hindu Business Line story.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1372</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1372</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Spring 2011 ICES "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students"-Draft</title><description>A draft version of the spring 2011 ICES "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students" has been posted on the Center for Teaching Excellence website (http://cte.illinois.edu). Below are listed those faculty and teaching assistants who work in the College of Business.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1338</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1338</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Audio: Viswanathan Discusses Marketplace Literacy Movie, Shakti Rising</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, is interviewed about the movie Shakti Rising on local radio station WEFT 90.1FM.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1260</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1260</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Cases Contribute to Indian Mini MBA</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, and a colleague have designed an MBA with a difference, tailormade for the bottom of the pyramid.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1202</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1202</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>It's an Art: Crafting Solutions for the Subsistence Marketplace</title><description /><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1274</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1274</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>BADM 532/3: Inc. Magazine's Best Entrepreneurship Courses
</title><description>Business Administration Professors Madhu Viswanathan and John Clark teach BADM 532/533: Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces, a course sequence included in Inc. Magazines' 2011 Top 10 list.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1184</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1184</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>List of Business Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students-FALL 2010</title><description>The results for the FALL 2010 administration of student ratings of instructors are now available. Results are based on ICES questionnaires.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1148</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1148</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Assists Team Creating Cell Phone Animations for Marketplace Literacy</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, is working with researchers at Illinois to produces animated educational videos that people around the world can watch, over and over again, on their cell phones.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1140</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1140</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Contributes to Scientific Animations Without Borders Initiative</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, professor of business administration, is collaborating with a campus group to create and distribute cell phone animations to improve marketplace literacy.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1126</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1126</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Paper Receives JPP&amp;M/Kinnear Award</title><description>The Thomas C. Kinnear/Journal of Public Policy &amp; Marketing Award will be presented at the American Marketing Association?s 2011 Winter Marketing Educators? Conference in Texas to Madhu Viswanathan and two colleagues.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1082</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1082</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Research Runner-up for Journal of Marketing Awards</title><description>Professor Madhu Viswanathan and colleagues wrote a paper identified as runner-up in two prestigious Journal of Marketing Awards.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1078</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1078</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Lessons Scripted Into Film on Microfinance in WSJ
</title><description>The film, ?Shakti Pirakkudhu? explains what film-maker Usha Rajeswari sees happening to micro-financed women-owned businesses in Tamil Nadu, India.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1055</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1055</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Blogs About Innovative Empowerment of Poor Americans in HBR Online</title><description>Professor Madhu Viswanathan suggests developing know-why through marketplace literacy may be what's needed to enable US would-be micro-entrepreneurs to realize their creative potential and revitalize their communities.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=991</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=991</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Gives Parkland College Commencement Keynote</title><description>Professor Madhu Viswanathan addressed approximately 1,100 Parkland College candidates for graduation on May 14, this year.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=840</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=840</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>50th Annual Spring Luncheon</title><description>A record crowd of 800 College of Business alumni attended the annual celebration and networking event.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=857</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=857</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Helps Create Virtual Global Farming Community</title><description>Business Administration Professor Madhu Viswanathan and a team of ILLINOIS educators, one MBA student, and two staff members created the Sustainable Development Virtual Knowledge Interface.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=852</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=852</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan to Address TEDxUIUC 2010</title><description>Professor Madhu Viswanathan will present at a new event being organized by MBA students on April 10, 2010 in the Business Instructional Facility. The theme is "Bold-Ideas, Innovations, Performances."</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=795</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=795</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Faculty Accolades</title><description>Several faculty in the college have won prestigious teaching awards this spring.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=757</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=757</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Transforming Lives With An ILLINOIS MBA</title><description>After receiving his MBA and working in the U.S., Anshul Pathak '98 returned to India and founded the wildly successful Town Schools to educate rural Indians.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=746</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=746</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ghosh, Viswanathan, Winter: Toyota Should be Upfront with Customers</title><description>Vice President Avijit Ghosh, Professor Madhu Viswanathan, and Gretchen Winter differ somewhat in their assessments of how well Toyota is handling its problems.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=731</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=731</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>MBA Student Wins First Prize in Sustainable Global Enterprise Competition</title><description>Srinivas Venugopal, a first-year ILLINOIS MBA student, recently received notice that his submission won first place in the 2009 Base of Pyramid Narrative Competition.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=732</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=732</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Wins International Award</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan will receive the India International Friendship Society?s Bharat Gaurav Award, given annually to honor people whose work promotes India?s heritage and contributions at home and abroad.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=668</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=668</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Receives Prestigious Bharat Gaurav Award</title><description>Business Administration Professor Madhu Viswanathan will be presented the Bharat Gaurav Award from the India International Friendship Society this winter.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=655</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=655</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan on Marketplace Literacy in WSJ</title><description>Rural marketplaces represent the next frontier of socio-economic growth. They offer value-creation opportunities to private enterprises and public and civic institutions alike.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=590</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=590</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Podcast: Marketing to Poor Consumers</title><description>Madhu Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Business Administration, talks about how companies can market to poor consumers without being seen as exploiting them, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal's Erin White.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=444</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=444</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viswanathan Honored at Annual Innovation Celebration</title><description>Professor Madhu Viswanathan and other notable contributors were honored by the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation and the University for their efforts supporting the technological development of Champaign County.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=349</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=349</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mapping Out New Markets</title><description>To Professor Madhu Viswanathan, understanding the 4 billion people who live in poverty and the potential they represent as consumers and entrepreneurs is all about life lessons first, business lessons second.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=247</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=247</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>The New World Market</title><description>Associate professor Madhu Viswanathan on  teaching the poor how to become better-informed buyers and sellers</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=219</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=219</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fighting Poverty in India</title><description>Associate Professor Madhu Viswanathan on  how teaching the poor how to become better-informed buyers and sellers helps combat poverty.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=220</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=220</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>In the classroom: 
Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces</title><description>An interdisciplinary look at developing new markets? That's been done. A class in product development? Ditto. But a course that combines new product development and the broader issues of poverty and sustainability in emerging markets, taught from both a business and an engineering perspective? Now that's something new.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=195</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=195</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>