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Isenberg is Prominent at Graduation Ceremonies
May 15, 2012

Isenberg students and alumni made their mark at UMass Amherst's 2012 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony on May 11 at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Isenberg's 1,000+ graduating seniors accounted for 1/5 of the year's graduates.

Isenberg Professor Advocates Idea Systems for Greater Adaptability
May 9, 2012

In an interview at the World Innovation summit in Doha, Qatar, Professor Alan Robinson, Director of Isenberg's Full-Time MBA Program and an expert on idea generation and dissemination in organizations, describes idea systems that help create more agile, adaptable organizations.

Hislop Family Honored at Hospitality & Tourism Management Gala
May 9, 2012

On May 3, the Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management (HTM) at the Isenberg School of Management honored the Hislop family with its highest alumni accolade, the Stephen E. Elmont Award.

Job Market Is Brighter for Isenberg Seniors
May 8, 2012

Good news for Isenberg seniors: In a survey of college career specialists in western Massachusetts, Nicholas P. Wegman, executive director of Isenberg's Chase Career Center, noted an increase in hiring over the past five months.

Isenberg Marketing Professor to Receive Outstanding Educator Award
April 30, 2012

George R. Milne, a professor of marketing at Isenberg, has been named the 2012 Robert B. Clarke Outstanding Educator Award recipient by the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation.

Isenberg MBA Program Partners with California Health Care Network
April 25, 2012

The Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst has teamed up with Sutter Health, a network of physicians and hospitals in Northern California, to offer all Sutter employees discounted tuition enrollment in online MBA courses.

Isenberg Contestants Thrive in Business Plan Competition
April 24, 2012

Plate Technologies, with Isenberg team member Anshuli Patil '12 MBA/MPP and Sangram S. Parelkar, a postdoctoral research associate in polymer science and engineering, has won second place in the campus-wide business plan competition, The Innovation Challenge.

Isenberg Students Excel in International Case Competition
April 23, 2012

An Isenberg MBA student team has placed fourth in the Aspen Institute's 2012 Business & Society International MBA Case Competition, a prestigious international business school challenge that asks students to devise solutions that balance corporate profitability with positive social and environmental impacts.

Isenberg Professor in Regional PBS Interview
April 17, 2012

In a ten-minute interview on the regional PBS show Connecting Point, Anna Nagurney, a professor of Operations Management at Isenberg, discussed paradoxes and planning of transportation networks and her innovative new course, Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare.

Isenberg Researchers Detect Emerging Generational Cohort
April 12, 2012

A team of Isenberg researchers-Charles Schewe, professor of marketing, Kathleen Debevec and William Diamond, associate professors of marketing, and Thomas Madden '82 Ph.D., a professor of marketing at the University of South Carolina-believe that a new generational cohort may be emerging from the cohort known as Millennials.