Management Alumni News

Collegiate Summer Venture Program Celebrates Startup Success

August 06, 2019

Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship and Valley Venture Mentors (VVM), the Collegiate Summer Venture Program (CSVP) wrapped its 10 weeks of programming, mentoring, networking and curriculum with a Celebration on Monday, July 29, at VVM’s Hub in Springfield, Mass.

Isenberg Senior Thesis: The Robots Are Coming

May 10, 2019

In May, Isenberg students Jenny Quan and Jessica Morrison and five other Isenberg student teams presented their thesis topics, arguments, and recommendations in Anurag Sharma’s Honors Thesis Seminar.

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.

Isenberg Graduate as Change Agent

April 30, 2019

“Change must be systematic and sustainable,” emphasized Dennis Donovan ’71, ’72 MBA in a 90-minute presentation and workshop for MBA students in April.

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.

Innovation Challenge Lives up to its Name

April 08, 2019

Let's Talk About It won top honors among the six ventures competing for seed money at the 2018-2019 Innovation Challenge Final.

Professors Milne and Skaggs Honored with Endowed Faculty Roles

April 05, 2019

Isenberg's George Milne is named Carney Family Endowed Professor, and Bruce Skaggs is named the Flavin Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies.

Isenberg Dean’s Faculty Fellowship

April 02, 2019

Interim Dean Tom Moliterno recently announced the first two recipients of the new Isenberg Dean’s Faculty Fellowships for 2019: Senior Lecturer Michele Burch, OIM, and Professor of Organization Studies Linda Smircich, Management.

Author and Facebook Investor Dissects Cyber Privacy

April 01, 2019

Roger McNamee, the author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, talked to an Isenberg audience on March 5 as part of the Department of Management’s Ethics Speaker’s Series

Six Ventures Advance to Innovation Challenge: The Final

March 01, 2019

In front of a panel of four judges, 15 student-led teams gave five-minute pitches describing their ventures and participated in a 10-minute Q&A session.

UMass Startups Keep Winning Federal Small Business Grants

February 26, 2019

The increased visibility of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in western Massachusetts is one of the clearest signs of the push to support campus scientists and engineers in moving their ideas from academia into the realm of active small businesses: Five startup companies based on ideas and technology developed on campus are currently receiving SBIR grants from federal agencies.

Isenberg Alum and Entrepreneur Brings Collaborative Art to Kids

December 18, 2018

Chris Bent '12 founded Piccles, a collaborative online coloring app targeted to children in hospitals and other medical facilities. The 2012 Innovation Challenge runner-up (for Crowd Solar, which used crowd-funding to help communities buy renewable energy) has consulted with Matt Glennon's marketing classes on his new venture.

Boy Meets School: Business Prodigy Finds Entrepreneurial Environment

December 05, 2018

How a business prodigy found at UMass the entrepreneurial environment he had been searching for.

Building Better Villages Wins Hult Prize at UMass

December 04, 2018

Aiming to improve the residential foundation for rural communities in India, the venture team consists of Aashish Kumar (computer science), Kavya Ramachandran (chemical engineering) and Achintya Kumar (engineering).

TempGrams Wins Top Prize at Innovation Challenge: The Seed Pitch

November 30, 2018

In front of a panel of industry experts, 17 teams gave five-minute pitches of their venture ideas and participated in Q&A with the judges, competing for $15,000 in equity-free funding.

Start Them Up: Inside Berthiaume Center’s Summer Accelerator with five promising ventures

October 16, 2018

It’s a steamy Friday afternoon in early June, and the window air conditioner in the third-floor conference room in Bartlett Hall is working furiously to provide relief to the handful of students gathered around a large meeting table. The setting is unmistakably a university classroom in summer, but once Birton Cowden begins to speak, it becomes immediately clear that this is anything but a typical college course.

The Year in Great Ideas: A Look Back at the 2017-18 Innovation Challenge

July 30, 2018

Hosted each school year by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the Innovation Challenge is a series of four entrepreneurial competitions that replicates the process of developing and pitching a winning business venture. From the opening Minute Pitch event in the fall through the high-stakes Final round in the spring, teams have the opportunity to refine and improve their business plans and messaging, and to win thousands of dollars in seed money — thanks to sponsors Ernst & Young, The Heiser Family, Norman “Bud” Robertson, Kumar Ganapathy, Jeff Glassman, Darn It! and John & Sally Burke — to help make their ideas a reality. October 25, 2017: The Minute Pitch The venue: Amherst Room, Campus Center The prize: $2,500, awarded to the top three teams and the audience choice

Case Competitions Drive Business Ethics at Isenberg

July 02, 2018

In April, a team of five Isenberg undergraduates won first place in the annual International Business Ethics Case (IBECC) competition’s main undergraduate event. This year’s three-day competition, at the Marriott Copley Place Hotel in Boston, attracted 28 undergraduate teams from five countries. (Graduate programs also vied in their own division. An Isenberg MBA team placed second in a 90-second competition in that division.) For the main undergraduate event, each team devised its own case topic for legal, financial, and ethical dissection.

Senior Profile: Erin Messier

June 12, 2018

I will definitely miss the community of Isenberg because of the incredible faculty, staff, and Deans who truly care about students and who help those students succeed starting on 'Day One'.

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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