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Melissa Baker Named a Favorite Business Professor by Poets & Quants
May 15, 2020
Isenberg Hospitality & Tourism Management Associate Professor Melissa Baker was named a "Favorite Business Professor of the Class of 2020" by the business school ranking and analysis website Poets & Quants in May.
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Isenberg Graduation Is a Virtual Celebration
May 15, 2020
Isenberg honored seniors and their families on May 8 with virtual video reflections and praise from professors, alumni, and fellow classmates.
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Isenberg Honors Outstanding Teaching and Research
May 05, 2020
Eight faculty members received awards for exceptional teaching and research at Isenberg’s All School Meeting on April 30.
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Meet the 2020 Senior Speakers
May 05, 2020
Read about all seven outstanding senior speakers here.
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Senior Speaker 2020: Morgan Smith, HTM
May 05, 2020
“To succeed in the hospitality industry, you have to have an inner passion to serve people."
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Philadelphia Eagles Draft HTM Grad
April 30, 2020
Isenberg Hospitality and Tourism Management grad Jack Driscoll ’18 is joining the Philadelphia Eagles as a fourth-round draft pick.
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Faculty Research: Where Should Hotels go (and Grow) Next?
January 28, 2020
Professor Albert Assaf finds that hotel operators face a dilemma: They need to grow, but in a world increasingly saturated by Airbnb and other private rental options, opening in the wrong location can be a costly mistake.
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Faculty Research: OIM Professor Shares Work on Improving Society Through Better Operations
December 17, 2019
During the fall 2019 semester, six faculty members presented “30,000-foot overviews” of their research projects to their Isenberg colleagues in the spirit of promoting collegiality and cross-departmental collaboration.
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Faculty Research Report 2019
November 01, 2019
This booklet highlights the innovative research of seven Isenberg faculty members—one from every department—over a wide range of business scholarship.
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Faculty Research: Recent Publications and Awards
October 04, 2019
Isenberg faculty members have been placing papers in top publications and bringing home prestigious awards. Read this sampling of their recent accomplishments.
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Isenberg Professors Receive Research and Teaching Awards
May 09, 2019
Isenberg gave special recognition to faculty members who have made notable contributions through effective teaching methods and cutting-edge scholarly research during the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Isenberg Celebrates Fifty Years of Doctoral Studies
April 17, 2019
Isenberg’s 50th anniversary celebration of its PhD program April 5 attracted several generations of doctoral graduates, current PhD students, and faculty—past and present.
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Academic Departments Celebrate Students and Alumni
April 11, 2019
Annual awards banquets thrown by the Departments of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sport Management, and Accounting honor Isenberg's outstanding students and alumni.
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Isenberg PhD Candidates Win Best Paper Award
January 24, 2019
Akshaya Pawar and Raju Gholap, doctoral students in the Hospitality & Tourism Management Department at Isenberg, received the Best Graduate Student Research Paper Award in November at the International Association of Hospitality Financial Management Education (iAHFME) Research Symposium in New York.
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Professor Baker Honored with Lilly Fellowship
July 09, 2018
Melissa Baker, an assistant professor in Isenberg’s Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, is recipient of a 2018-19 Lilly Fellowship. The nationally competitive fellowships foster teaching excellence through pedagogy workshops and seminars, course development and redesign, third-party assessment of teaching skills, and other resources. The Institute for Teaching Excellence & Development has awarded the fellowships since 1986.
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Isenberg Professors Honored for Teaching and Research
May 31, 2018
Isenberg Professors Albert Assaf, Nefertiti Walker, Sean Wandrei, Fousseni Chabi-Yo, Bruce Skaggs and Matthew Linn were honored for their outstanding teaching and research.
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Gratitude and Innovation Highlight 2018 Annual HTM Awards Dinner
May 01, 2018
The 2018 Annual HTM Awards Dinner at the Boston Park Plaza featured an awards ceremony and vibrant gathering for networking, attracting 440 alumni, faculty, students, and other movers and shakers from Greater Boston’s hospitality community and Florida, Washington, D.C., California, and other states.Richard M. Kelleher ’73, one of eight awardees, was honored with HTM's Distinguished Industry Industry Leader award.
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Young Alumni Panel
November 14, 2017
The Young Alumni Panel featured five recent Hotel & Tourism Management graduates; Brianna Cole ’16, Seth Roberts ’17, Victoria Quill ’16, Alex Darling ’16, and Lindsay Tice ’17. The panelists discussed the journey to their current positions, aspects of their jobs, and what the transition from college to career has been like. They all provided great insight with unique aspects to their individual experiences. Other key topics discussed were negotiating salaries, how to know if a company is the right one, moving to a different city, and work-life balance.
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Isenberg Hospitality Graduate Reveals a Celebrity Chef’s Savvy and Grit
November 09, 2017
“Remember, it’s all about journeys. Be patient!” HTM graduate and high-profile Manhattan-based chef Marc Forgione ’01 advised his mostly student audience in the Campus Center Auditorium in late October. Since its debut in 2008, Marc’s establishment, Restaurant Marc Forgione, has earned coveted Michelin stars and review kudos from the New York Times, Forbes magazine, and the Zagat Guide. In 2012, Marc won the Food Network’s Next Iron Chef competition, instantly gaining international “chef” celebrity status. So why did Chef Forgione regale his student audience with the good, the bad, and the nitty gritty details of his notable ascent?
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Victoria Vega '88 Accepts Presidency of the Society for Hospitality and Foodservice Management
October 27, 2017
Victoria Vega, Vice President of Operations for Unidine Corporation’s Corporate Culinary Group and Senior Living Culinary Group, recently assumed the presidency of the Society for Hospitality and Foodservice Management (SHFM) at the association’s annual conference in October. This is one of the highest accolades in the industry. Vega currently serves as president-elect of the organization’s board of directors. “I’m proud to have been selected to serve the association that represents the interests of so many of my peers and colleagues,” said Vega. “I look forward to advancing the organization’s agenda over the next year and outlining my goals for my brief time as president at the upcoming conference.”
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