Business
- Boeing Center for Technology and Information Management - Focused collaboration between business and academe. Businesses provide professors and students with access to in-house real-world technology, and these researchers use these data and machines to formulate theories on operations and supply chain management to better improve logistics and processes.
- Center for Research in Economics and Strategy - supports empirical and scientific research to aid in the understanding of how markets behave, how firms strategize, and how industries evolve.
- Reuben C. Taylor Experimental Laboratory - a high-technology facility for conducting experimental research to analyze negotiation, market behavior, and decision making. Included in the laboratory is a computer network that allows participants to make decisions and communicate with others in real-time.
- Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies - established in 2004 with a grant from the Kauffman Foundtation. The Center's initiatives focus on corporate innovation, application and commercialization for early-stage science, student-initiated ventures (such as the Hatchery course and the Olin Cup competition), social entrepreneurship, and connecting the University with the St. Louis start-up community.
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