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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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Isenberg's Dr. Melissa Baker Presents on Strategies to Improve the Customer Experience
June 28, 2021
In a recent webinar, Building a Customer Excellence Strategy: The Essentials, hosted by Ivy Exec, Dr. Melissa Baker from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst discussed the importance of managing the customer experience journey both in person and online, and current strategies for firms to improve the customer experience.
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Isenberg Remembers Arthur Elkins ’57
June 15, 2021
On June 8, former Isenberg associate dean, faculty member, graduate, and donor Arthur Elkins died at age 85.
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Faculty Research: Isenberg Professor Shares Supply Chain Expertise During Pandemic
June 11, 2021
Isenberg’s Anna Nagurney has been getting calls from media outlets since it became clear that the coronavirus pandemic was leading to unusual supply chain shortages. Now that vaccines are being distributed, her knowledge of transportation logistics is making her a sought-after expert for national media outlets from NPR to the Wall Street Journal.
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Innovative Isenberg Class Focuses on D&I in Business
June 09, 2021
Two years in the making, Introduction to Diversity and Inclusiveness in Business debuted in January. The seminar attracted fifty students from all seven Isenberg majors.
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Innovations in the Graduate Programs Office
June 01, 2021
In a year defined by the Covid-19 pandemic, Isenberg has moved the needle on innovation, strengthening career and professional development services, program flexibility, analytics curriculum, and improved virtual interactivity for graduate students.
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Virtual Finance Pitch Conference Breaks New Ground
May 27, 2021
This year’s entirely online student investment Pitch Conference on April 8 expanded the geographical reach of its previous, nonvirtual forerunners.
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UMass Student Chapter of CMAA Wins Chapter of the Year Award 2020
May 26, 2021
The Club Management Association of America (CMAA) named the UMass Student Chapter of CMAA as the 2020 Student Chapter of the Year in the middle-size category.
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