Just in time for Thanksgiving Day on Thursday (Nov. 26), the Indiana Business Research Center in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has offered a menu of interesting statistics.

Retailers beware. Some tried-and-true discounting tactics for pepping up holiday season sales can be a boon for some products -- but a bust for others.

A study co-authored by a professor in IU's Kelley School of Business suggests that fans do have a great impact on games and that officials often are not objective in their efforts to be fair to both teams.

CA, Inc. and Kelley School of Business at Indiana University will hold a Regional Case Competition on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at the Indiana University Bloomington campus. The winning university will be invited to compete against teams from around the world at the second International Case Competition on the Strategic Value of IT Management, held in conjunction with CA's user conference, CA World 2010 in Las Vegas, May 15-17, 2010.

IU's Kelley School has been experimenting with social media in the form of blogs, Facebook groups and Twitter feeds in recent years. The latest development is a redesigned Web page called Kelley 360.

Indiana University economists presenting their annual forecast today (Nov. 5) are confident that 2010 is going to be better than this year. Unfortunately, 2009 was "really, really awful."

IU's Kelley School of Business will present its national, state and local economic forecasts for 2010, beginning with a presentation on Thursday (Nov. 5) morning in Indianapolis, followed by similar events in nine other cities across the state.

The Indiana Business Research Center at IU's Kelley School of Business has been named winner of three of the seven Awards of Excellence presented this year by the Association for University Business and Economic Research.

The Leading Index for Indiana (LII) for the month of September was unchanged from the August index. The August index, previously flat from July, was revised upward. The LII is produced by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, in order to help Hoosier businesses and governments better understand market conditions in the state.

While the forecast for 2009 holiday retail sales is not as grim as a year ago, when seasonal activity fell by 3.8 percent from 2007, the Center for Education and Research in Retailing at IU's Kelley School of Business still projects a 1 percent decline.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has been named winner of the 2009 Award for Exceptional Contributions in Entrepreneurship Research by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC).

A diverse panel of Indiana University professors will speak on the issue of health care reform Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union. This free, open-to-the-public event is co-sponsored by the Indiana Memorial Union Board and the Teachable Moments Committee of the Commission on Multicultural Understanding.

The Jacobs School of Music and the Kelley School of Business' Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Indiana University are working in partnership to develop an entrepreneurial perspective for the next generation of musical leaders.

The successful Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series will return to the Bloomington headquarters of one of the state's oldest and most successful companies, Cook Medical, for the second of its 2009-10 seminars on Friday, Nov. 13.

On Thursday, October 15, 2009, Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd addressed the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University host as part of the school's CEO speaker series. The event, attended by undergraduate and MBA students, as well as faculty and staff of the Kelley School, took place in the forum of the Godfrey Center (1275 E. 10th Street).

The IU Kelley School of Business recently earned two of the top three honors in the annual Student Case Study Competition hosted by the Indiana CPA Society.

On Friday, October 9, 2009, sales teams from fifteen universities across the United States met in Bloomington to participate in the third annual National Team Selling Competition. The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University hosted the event and Altria Sales & Distribution sponsored it. Altria Sales & Distribution employees role played the position of buyers and senior management and also served as judges.

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has created a new economic index that will enable Hoosiers to better understand market conditions in the state.

On Nov. 5, the Indiana University Business Outlook Panel will begin a statewide tour to present its economic forecast for 2010, with presentations in Indianapolis and Bloomington.

Indiana University Bloomington professors have prepared comments about Hispanic issues to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month, which began Tuesday, Sept. 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries -- Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- and continues until Oct. 15. IU professors Peter Guardino, Darlene Sadlier and Carol O. Rogers share their thoughts on topical issues relevant to these issues.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $203,549 to a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Indiana University and North Carolina State University. The project focuses on using virtual worlds to support business processes, such as product development, involving team members often spread over corporate campuses, multiple time zones or even different continents.

Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending Web site, will speak at Indiana University Bloomington next Thursday (Sept. 24).

Justin and Katharine Greis graduated from Indiana University in 2004, but their ties remain strong to the Bloomington campus. Last year, they helped establish a memorial fellowship to honor the special life of Katharine Greis's father and to provide financial assistance to students in the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program at Kelley.

A lecture by T. Boone Pickens, one of America's most successful businessmen and the founder of an ambitious, grassroots campaign aimed at reducing the nation's dependence on imported oil, will be presented live on the Web, Sept. 18, by IU Kelley School of Business.

Four entrepreneurship professors from Indiana University are listed as top researchers in their field in a research study authored by three Howard University scholars.