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“Twisted Leadership” Offers Energizing Insights
August 23, 2017
Professor Charles Manz's new book "Twisted Leadership" offers business leaders a new way to think about leadership and suggests how to avoid the "leadership disease" - the idea that leadership is something that resides in one person who influence lower-level workers.
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Isenberg-based MSBDC Network Energizes State’s Small Business Development
August 09, 2017
The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) network, with its state headquarters at Isenberg, continues to catalyze entrepreneurship and small business development in the Commonwealth.
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Management Award Recognizes Enduring Faculty Collaboration
July 19, 2017
Isenberg professors of organizational studies and management Linda Smircich and Marta Calás are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Pasmore-Woodman Award.
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Berthiaume Center Fellows Prep Award-Winning Startups
June 22, 2017
On May 25, three UMass Amherst-based startups—all recipients of advice and technical assistance from Isenberg School of Management MBA Fellows working through the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship—were among 12 monetary award recipients/graduates of the Valley Venture Mentors (VVM) Accelerator program in Springfield.
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Earl Stafford '76: The Business of Giving
May 23, 2017
“What’s important is that you dream,” advises IBLA honoree Earl W. Stafford ’76. “Dream not only of what is possible, but of what you consider to be improbable—and go for it,” urges the Isenberg graduate. That entails “using your success to go out and help others. It is just as important to business education as accounting or finance.”
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Isenberg Celebrates Graduates of the Class of 2017
May 19, 2017
This year's commencement ceremonies celebrated the nearly 1,700 combined graduates of Isenberg's undergraduate, MBA, MS, and PhD programs.
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Innovation Challenge Celebrates Student Entrepreneurship
April 11, 2017
ElectroPure, a student team and developer of a water treatment/purification device for homes, schools, and other small-scale water systems, took first-place honors in the finals of the 2017 Innovation Challenge business plan competition on April 6th.
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Isenberg Graduate Brings Roof-Top Farming to Nation’s Capital
March 15, 2017
Jeff Prost-Greene ’12 is one of two Isenberg alums honored this year in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of Social Entrepreneurs. Prost-Greene is one of three founders of Up Top Acres, which owns and operates roof-top "farms" in Washington, D.C.
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Women of Isenberg Conference Highlights Diverse Perspectives
March 08, 2017
In February, 350 students, alumni, faculty, and staff attended the fourth annual Women of Isenberg conference, which brings together women from all career levels to talk about their unique experiences and challenges as women in business.
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Alumnus Talks Key Strategies for Company Turnaround at Crocs
February 01, 2017
Bob Munroe ’82, General Manager of the Americas for the iconic shoe brand, Crocs, discusses the key strategies involved in the company's turnaround.
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Isenberg Graduate Named Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur
January 24, 2017
Robbie Bergquist '14 and his sister Brittany have been named to Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 Class for social entrepreneurship. They founded their nonprofit Cell Phone for Soldiers as teenagers and have continued to grow the company ever since.
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Student Team to Explore Business Potential of Its “Fake-News” Detector
December 20, 2016
After making a splash with her student team in November at Princeton University’s HackPrinceton hackathon, Nabanita De, a UMass Amherst master’s student in Computer Science, turned to the Isenberg-based Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship for business advice.
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Social Entrepreneurship Day Explores Progressive Businesses and Their Hybrid Missions
December 12, 2016
The pursuit of business and social goals in “hybrid” social enterprises was a key theme in the second annual Social Entrepreneurship Day, on December 6th in the Student Union’s Cape Cod Lounge. Coordinated by the Isenberg-based Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the day-long event featured a keynote presentation by Cornell University/ILR School professor Marya Besharov and separate practitioner and academic panels.
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The Innovation Challenge kickoff event of the year - the Minute Pitch
November 07, 2016
The Berthiaume Center was proud to host the kickoff event for this year’s Innovation Challenge, where students from Geography, Chemistry, Management, and Mechanical Engineering took home prizes. This Minute Pitch Competition boasted a greater variety of disciplines represented, an increase in number of graduate student participants, and greater quality of ideas than we have seen in the past. Over 60 teams from across campus submitted applications to compete in the event and 31 were selected to present their ideas to an audience of approximately 150 and a panel of 5 judges.
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Sports Innovator Focuses on the Future
October 21, 2016
“What are the true opportunities for cross-pollination in a world sports community? What skills and network will you need?” asked sports agent/marketing innovator J.B. Bernstein ’91 in Professor Todd Crosset’s graduate course, Social Historical Foundations of Sport. The UMass grad is best known for creating The Million Dollar Arm contest in India, which generated the first two athletes from India to sign professional sports contracts in North America.
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Alumnus/Restaurateur Is Long on Business Savvy and Drive
October 06, 2016
At his Michelin-starred Restaurant Marc Forgione, Isenberg HTM grad Chris Blumlo '99 insists that "every point during the customers stay be positive." Blumlo's m.o. calls for attentiveness to customers, business diligence, and improvisation in response to unforeseen challenges.
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Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network Clients and Counselors Honored
July 25, 2016
Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) Network clients and counselors were honored at the U.S. Small Business Administration's annual Massachusetts Awards Ceremony in May. Isenberg has been headquarters to the MSBDC Network since 1980.
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Parents of Students and Recent Graduate Honored at Isenberg Celebration
June 21, 2016
This year's 4th annual Isenberg Business Leadership Awards, held at the Colonnade Hotel and Boston and attracting 330 members of the Isenberg community, honored Chuck and Karen Peters of New England Wire Products and Recent Alumni awardee Brian Tino, account executive at InVision.
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Isenberg’s Culture and Community Praised at Graduation Events
May 12, 2016
“No matter where we go, no matter what we do, we carry the Isenberg brand with us,” Senior Class Speaker Stephanie Berenson ’16 told an audience of over 4000—graduating seniors, their families, and Isenberg faculty and staff—at Isenberg’s Senior Celebration at the Mullins Center on May 7. “We are part of each other. We are each other’s network, and one day, as graduates, we will be a resource for Isenberg students just as alumni have been for us,” emphasized the dual marketing/journalism major.
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Isenberg Undergraduate Team Excels in Business Ethics Competition
May 03, 2016
A team of five Isenberg undergraduates scored two first-place and one second-place finish in the International Business Ethics Case Competition, on April 20-22 in Cambridge. The team explored First Amendment and other issues involving free-speech versus abusive messaging on a social networking site.
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