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Accelerating Success

Investing in Business Education

Aligning passion with purpose accelerates success. Saint Louis University’s Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business has long combined Jesuit values with world-class academics to produce ethical leaders whose entrepreneurial spirit enhances their communities.

As an essential component in SLU’s success, we aim to strengthen our business education programs as part of our drive to elevate SLU’s national profile. With funding from Accelerating Excellence: The Campaign for Saint Louis University, we will create an innovative learning environment that challenges students to think creatively and strategically in a technology-intensive and innovation-based global economy.

Learn more about our focus on business education.

The Campaign In Action: Business Education

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SLU Graduate Programs Again Rank Among Nation’s Best

SLU has 29 graduate and professional programs ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s top 100.

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Chaifetz MBA Program Makes Top 100

The school's MBA program was ranked 77th in Poets&Quants 2021-2022 MBA program rankings. 

Tricia Bagsby, Ph.D.
Professor Named to Business Journal's 40 Under 40 List

Tricia Bagsby, Ph.D., the Medart Endowed Clinical Professor in Family Business in the Chaifetz School of Business, was named to the 2021 list.

Lewis Sheats
New Director Named for Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship

Lewis Sheats assumed the role in November.

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Meet a SLU Researcher: Marc Painter, Ph.D.

An assistant professor of finance at Saint Louis University, Painter's research uses innovative data sources to see finance trends in a different way.

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New Fund Supports Programming Expansion in Chaifetz  Center for Entrepreneurship

The Donald L. Ross Entrepreneurship Opportunity Fund, will be used to start programs and initiatives that will promote the Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship and its activities. 

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Three of The Chaifetz School of Business' Graduate Programs Rank in Top 15

In total, U.S. News & World Report ranked five of the Chaifetz School's programs in the Top 50 for 2021

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SLU Names New Dean of Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business

Barnali Gupta, Ph.D., has been selected as the next Edward Jones Dean for the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business at Saint Louis University.

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SLU Ranks as a Top School for Undergraduate Business Students

Poets & Quants ranked The Chaifetz School as No. 60 for Outcomes and No. 72 overall in the nation.

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Faces of the Campaign: Patricia Bagsby, Ph.D.

Donor support allows SLU to attract and retain world-class faculty like Patricia Bagsby, Ph.D. She holds the Medart Professorship in Family Business, a new position in SLU's Chaifetz School of Business created by a gift to the campaign.

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Using Big Data to Support Economic Development

Michael Podgursky, Ph.D., leads SLU's effort to use big data to improve educational outcomes and workforce development in St. Louis.

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SLU’s Entrepreneurship Programs Rank Among the Best

 Entrepreneurship programs at Saint Louis University’s Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business are among the best in the country, according to recent rankings from the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.

Michael Podgursky, Ph.D.
Podgursky to Lead New Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research

Podgursky’s hiring is an important step as SLU aims to attract world-class faculty to deepen academic excellence and enhance its business education programs – both key goals of Accelerating Excellence: The Campaign for Saint Louis University.

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Pestello Discusses Tech in Education at Global Banking Symposium

SLU President Fred P. Pestello, Ph.D., served as a panelist for a symposium co-organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), a London-based independent think tank.