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Jack ’57 and Suzy Welch Visit the Isenberg School of Management: Insights from the Welch Way
“Doing great in school—graduating with high grades—is extremely important. Your chances of launching a successful career go way up the curve,” emphasized Jack Welch ’57 ...
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Price of Gas Drives Online Course Registration Up
While an on-campus experience is desirable for many, there are many others who find that learning from a distance can be desirable ...
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Engineering Student Discovers Marketing Skills at the Isenberg School; Wins Annual Technology Innovation Challenge
Without question, Isenberg Scholar Brian Mullen has lived up to his Isenberg Scholarship’s aim of fostering meaningful ties among business, science, and technology ...
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Isenberg School Professor Receives Prestigious Financial Accounting Standards Board Appointment
On July 1, 2008 Ray Pfeiffer, a full professor in the UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management, begins a year as Research Fellow with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ...
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Commencement Celebrations Emphasize Past Accomplishments, New Beginnings
A near-perfect spring day greeted the Isenberg School’s graduating seniors and their families at the UMass Amherst campus’s 138th undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 24th.
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Not to Worry. Recent Quality Problems at Toyota are Opportunities for Learning, Isenberg School Professor Insists
For Toyota, public revelations last year about lapses in quality have been extraordinary, admits Isenberg School operations management professor Alan Robinson ...
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Tips for College Seniors Entering the Work Force
A video interview with Nicholas Wegman, Executive Director of the Isenberg Chase Career Center, offering tips to seniors entering the work force.
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Conference on Humanitarian Logistics Offers Immediate Real World Applications
When Professor Anna Nagurney organized “Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa,” she gained a far more powerful experience than she had bargained for ...
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MBA Program for Physician Executives Ranked 12th in the Nation
In a national survey of business graduate school programs for physician-executives conducted by Modern Healthcare magazine, the Isenberg Online Part-Time MBA program ranked 12th in the nation.
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Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network’s Export Center Honored with National Award
The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network’s Massachusetts Export Center on April 21 became the first recipient of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small Business Development Center Service Excellence and Innovation Award.
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Students Find Volunteer Tax Work Rewarding, Not Taxing
“Working as a VITA volunteer has been a terrific learning experience. It’s given us an opportunity to make decisions on our feet, to work as a team ...
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Basketball Hall of Fame Is Ideal Setting for Marketing Alumni Event
The Marketing Department held their alumni networking event on April 3rd at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield ...
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Center for Spectator Sport Research Looks at Sponsorships and Fan-Based Studies
The Center for Spectator Sport Research is working with sports leagues and sponsors to conduct marketing research that helps match commercial brands with the fans that follow individual sports ...
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FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair Returns to the Isenberg School
On February 15, Sheila Bair, the Isenberg School professor who has served as chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation since July 2006, returned to campus ...
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Marketing Department Announces Spring Semester Speaker Series
The Marketing Pro-Seminar announces upcoming guest speakers
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Isenberg School to Strengthen Student Diversity with $500,000 Ernst & Young Grant
The Isenberg School of Management has received a commitment of $500,000 from the Ernst & Young Foundation University Fund for a new initiative ...
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Isenberg School Celebrates International Education Week
“Our students live and work in an increasingly global economy. International awareness and experience are critical to their education and success after graduation,” insists Isenberg School undergraduate dean Carol Barr ...
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New Isenberg School Professor Touts Business-to-Business Branding
Try naming a consumer product or service that isn’t susceptible to branding, challenges the Isenberg School’s newest marketing professor Brian Brown ...
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The Isenberg School Remembers Harold Alfond
Leading philanthropist and founder of the Dexter Shoe Company Harold Alfond died on November 16 at a family home in Belgrade Lakes, Maine ...
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Isenberg School’s Part-Time MBA Program Receives Regional and National Ranking by BusinessWeek
The Isenberg Part-Time MBA program achieved rankings of 5th in the Northeast and 29th Nationally in BusinessWeek’s 2007 Top Part-Time MBA Programs rankings ...
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