Economics and Management

“It’s a huge legal document with a lot of SEC regulations,” says Laura Newbury, ’18, of Intel’s annual report. “I wasn’t breaking them or going over the line, but sometimes nudging what we could do within those rules.” An intern who “nudges” SEC guidelines sounds like a supervisor’s worst nightmare, but Newbury says her work was about best practice. She spent the summer with Intel’s external reporting headquarters in Portland, Oregon, following the company mandates to “rock the boat” and “change something.”

Vicki Baker, professor of economics and management, has been studying the changing definition and scope of liberal arts colleges, and her research has drawn the interest of national media.

“When people come in to a tax situation, it’s stressful,” says Albion College junior Maggie Troost, who will spend some 80 hours this spring working with the College’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. “I feel like we can show people they don’t have to be stressed out, because we can relax and not only talk about taxes.”

Vicki Baker, associate professor of economics and management at Albion College, along with professors in Arizona and Pennsylvania, are researching the needs and concerns of a subset of professors who, according to Baker, “don’t get a lot of attention.” Their work has been bolstered by a $50,000 grant from the New York-based Henry Luce Foundation that will engage 20 mid-career professors in a yearlong study and result in a new book on the subject in 2017.

Memorial service scheduled for May 10 in Chelsea