At Notre Dame, Business is Both/And.
Both performance and principle. Competition and cooperation. Success and service.
We are a deeply connected community founded on the charge that business exists to serve something greater — contributing to the common good, strengthening communities, and shaping a more just and prosperous world.
At the 2026 Shamrock Series, scholars from the Human-centered Analytics Lab demonstrated how in-person facilitators combined with social robots using generative AI can deliver personalized reminiscence therapy for memory care patients.
What Would You Fight For?
More than 700 million people worldwide lack access to clean water. Business professors Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez and Chengcheng Zhai are fighting for universal access to clean water by helping organizations optimize how they manage, maintain, and build water pumps to reduce water scarcity.
A century of purpose. A global alumni community. Nationally recognized programs and faculty. These distinctions reflect what makes Mendoza one of the world's leading Catholic business schools.
48,000+
Global Alumni Network
Notre Dame Business Alumni Worldwide
#4
Best MBA Professors
Best Business Schools for 2027, Princeton Review
#7
Best Undergraduate Business Programs
Poets & Quants 2025
How We Grow the Good in Business
As the first Catholic business school in the United States, we believe business exists to serve something greater, contributing to the common good, strengthening communities and shaping a more just and prosperous world.
Both Personal Development and Societal Benefit A community that forms leaders not only for success, but also for significance.
Both Faculty Excellence and Lifelong Alumni Network Faculty who shape global conversations and a global alumni network that opens doors.
Both Rigorous Research and Real-World Influence Ideas that explain the world, and improve it
Reality Plunge
“The commonality is the belief that business is not morally neutral. It can be a force for good, but only if leaders are formed to see the human beings affected by their decisions.”
At the 2026 Shamrock Series, scholars from the Human-centered Analytics Lab demonstrated how in-person facilitators combined with social robots using generative AI can deliver personalized reminiscence therapy for memory care patients.
Mendoza College of Business welcomes a new cohort of scholars whose research shapes how the College teaches and thinks about today's business challenges.
