The best-laid (and best- presented) plans
In October, a group of Quinlan School of Business students—mostly undergraduates—took home two out of three awards at one of the nation’s largest data analytics and technology conferences, beating out teams of MBA and PhD candidates from Emory, Georgia Tech, and Cornell, to name just a few. The “Data Driven: Teradata 2014
Partners Conference and Expo” was held in Nashville. The winners were selected by the audience of several hundred, including Fortune 500 ex- ecutives, voting via a smartphone app. The first team—made up of Rory
Dayton, Vasyl Ilchyshyn, Madeline Mills, and Natalie Perkins—analyzed Felice’s, Loyola’s student-run pizzeria, to win the “Most Practical/Business Value” award. The project was a study in data consolidation—an analysis and restructuring of the database sys- tem used in tracking Felice’s finances.
Ultimately, the yield was extra savings and a realistic waste-minimization plan for the organization, with an outlook as far as 2017. The second team—made up of
Emily Edkins, Naznin Larya, Matt Soroczak, Laura LeBeau, and Sarah Mucerino—examined how to maxi- mize marketing and funding for the nonprofit organization Kids With Autism Can, for which the Quinlan students won “Best Presentation.” “This competition really sheds light
on the kinds of young professionals we’re preparing here at Quinlan,” says Professor Nenad Jukić, who served as the coach. “We focus on making sure our students get the knowledge and skills to be highly competitive in the job market while making sure they also understand not just business practices but also the importance of ethical conduct and responsible leadership.”
James Garbarino, PhD, speaks in Dubai about understanding and preventing violence against children.
CENTER FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
Helping children cope with violence
James Garbarino, PhD, wrote the first version of his violence prevention workbook for children 20 years ago. “I saw it as a way of enabling adults to interact with children around issues of vio- lence in their lives,” Garbarino says. “It’s built on the framework that the way you change aggressive behaviors and beliefs in kids is by dealing with their ideas, and giving them exercises that let them practice alternatives.” The book, Let’s Talk About Living in a World with Violence,
contains exercises for children such as writing a letter about violence in their lives. Garbarino estimates that the book has been used by 35,000 children in the United States, in schools, counseling relationships, and emergency rooms. This past September marked the release of an Arabic language version for distribution in the Arabic-speaking world. In conjunction with the release, Garbarino presented a two-day program in Dubai on understanding and preventing violence against children. He hopes that the book will be of as much help to Arabic-
A group of Quinlan School of Business students took home two out of three awards at one of the nation’s largest data analytics and technology conferences.
speaking children as it has been to those here, and that it may open the door for other relationships with the Arabic-speaking world. Garbarino is the Senior Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Human Rights of Children and holds the Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychology.
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