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Faculty Research: HTM Professor Recognized as Among Mostly Highly Cited in the World
November 19, 2021
Muzzo Uysal, professor and chair of Isenberg’s HTM department, was recognized by Philadelphia-based Clarivate Analytics, owner of the Web of Science, as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers in 2021.
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Isenberg Innovation Continues with Teaching Fellows
November 17, 2021
One of online teaching’s greatest challenges is getting students to feel engaged. It’s also a prime area for innovation.
Last year, Isenberg announced its first group of Teaching Fellows, an initiative that recognizes the innovative application of new technologies in the classroom. The Fellows are responsible for sharing best practices with the full faculty, to enhance the school’s instructional quality across departments, programs, and teaching levels—which, in 2020, included adapting swiftly to the Covid-19 pandemic. All five of the first cohort of Isenberg Teaching Fellows had experience teaching in the school's graduate programs.
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Master of Science in Accounting Program in High Demand
November 17, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic did not dampen interest in Isenberg’s professional graduate accounting degree program: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Accounting program in fall 2020 passed 300 students for the first time.
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Isenberg’s Online MBA Rises to #18 Poets & Quants Ranking
November 08, 2021
The business-school news site Poets & Quants announced its rankings of the Best Online MBA Programs of 2022 today, awarding spot number 18 to Isenberg—an improvement of three places from last year’s ranking—out of a record 52 school included in the evaluation process.
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Isenberg Names Five Faculty Fellowships
November 04, 2021
This fall, Dean Anne Massey announced that five members of Isenberg’s faculty have received new fellowships recognizing their outstanding research contributions and productivity. All of the new fellowships, which last for a five-year term, have been made possible by generous donors who support the Isenberg School of Management’s priority of “Sustaining Faculty Excellence.”
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McCormack MS Alumni at the Tokyo Olympics
November 03, 2021
Three graduate alumni who attended the Olympics this past summer shared their stories.
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Remembering Ronnie Isenberg
November 02, 2021
Ronnie Isenberg died at age 91 on September 25 at her home on Martha’s Vineyard. She will be remembered along with her late husband Gene Isenberg ’50, ’00H for their longstanding support of their namesake school, which gained its moniker in 1997 after the couple made the largest donation of its kind from an individual in the history of UMass Amherst.
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HTM Professor Wins UMass Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award
October 15, 2021
Melissa Baker is the first faculty member from Isenberg's Hospitality & Tourism Management department to win the university-wide teaching honor.
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The Isenberg Covid-19 Response Initiative Serves Local Businesses in Need
October 08, 2021
The Covid-19 economic crisis hit Massachusetts hard in 2020, with customers staying home, stores closing, and businesses having to lay off employees: At one point in July, the state had the highest unemployment rate in the country. At the same time, Isenberg students saw their work experience opportunities decline as hiring freezes and declines in the job market took hold.
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International Olympic Committee Member Anita DeFrantz Named McCormack Executive-in-Residence
October 04, 2021
U.S. Olympian Anita DeFrantz, the senior member of the Olympic Movement in the United States who has twice been elected vice president of the International Olympic Committee, will serve as the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management Executive-in-Residence at the Isenberg School of Management this fall.
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Isenberg’s Pioneering Online MBA Program Celebrates 20 Years of Success
September 30, 2021
“Our faculty members are seriously invested in teaching this population—online students are a core focus at Isenberg, not an afterthought," says Traci Hess, associate dean of graduate programs. "That is what has made the program successful for 20 years, and will make it stand out as a leader in online education for many decades in the future.”
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Faculty Research: Women in Finance Scholarship
September 29, 2021
Mila Getmansky Sherman is a coauthor of “Female Representation in the Academic Finance Profession,” which will be published by the prestigious Journal of Finance.
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Student Group Offers Online Financial Literacy Course
September 29, 2021
The UMass Amherst chapter of the Smart Woman Securities organization, which focuses on women in the finance industry, put together an online curriculum for community public school students called “Making Cents of Finance.”
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Isenberg Climbs in U.S. News Undergraduate Program Rankings
September 14, 2021
In the U.S. News & World Report rankings published this week, Isenberg has climbed into the top 30 of the nation’s premier public business school undergraduate programs, moving up four slots from 34th last year.
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Marketing In-Person Races Through a Pandemic
August 06, 2021
Lucy Diaz '01 became vice president of brand marketing for Tough Mudder in January, just as the company was coming out of a year of cancelled races and gearing up to restart events safely in the spring.
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Sharing Success Through Community College Mentorship
August 05, 2021
Senior Adam Syme has worked with with Holyoke Community College's Champions Mentorship Network to share his own knowledge and experience about transferring to UMass and Isenberg with a first-year student.
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Isenberg Students Selected for Poets & Quants Best and Brightest MBA List
July 22, 2021
Two Isenberg Online MBA students, Brian R. Burnbaum, MD, and Amy Morton-Sogi, have been included in the fourth annual Online Best & Brightest MBAs list compiled by the online publication Poets & Quants.
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Student Team Takes 2nd at Marketing Competition
July 02, 2021
A team from the Isenberg course Internet Marketing won second-place honors in this year’s International Digital Marketing Competition.
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Isenberg Chapter Wins Regional BAP/Deloitte Best Practices Competition
July 02, 2021
In March, students in Isenberg’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting honor society, came out on top in the regional round of this year’s BAP/Deloitte Best Practices Competition.
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McCormack Alum Bill Munson, NFL’s Longest-Tenured Team Employee
June 30, 2021
The 1973 MS graduate recently completed 44 years with the Buffalo Bills.
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