Harvard Business Review

In a COVID-related article titled “How to Inoculate Your Team Against Conspiracy Theories”, Brian Webster, an assistant professor of management in the Miller College of Business, and his co-authors explore the concept that people tend to search for illusory patterns in their environment when they experience loss of control.

Angela Ahrendts, Ball State alumna penned a guest column. On the surface, I might have seemed an unlikely CEO for a company that was considered quintessentially British. I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University. I was a classic midwesterner—something the Financial Times had fun mocking when I first took the job. But I’d been fortunate enough to work with and learn from some of the most inspirational leaders in the fashion industry, from Paul Charron to Donna Karan. And I had 25 years of experience on my side.