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Speaker Offers Tips for Crowdfunding New Ventures
April 20, 2021
Roy Morejon spoke to Charles Johnson’s course, New Venture Funding, about the best ways to use crowdfunding platforms.
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Venture Wins $31,000 in the 2021 Innovation Challenge Final
April 19, 2021
Five student-led startup teams competed in the final round of the four-part Innovation Challenge on April 7, and the biggest winner was Nutriply, which was awarded $31,000 in equity-free funding.
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Faculty Research: McCormack Department Launches Sport Rivalry Research Lab
April 14, 2021
Associate Professor David Tyler, a 2013 PhD graduate, and fellow McCormack doctoral alum Joe Cobbs ’10 are cofounders of Know Rivalry, a pathbreaking research lab devoted to identifying and measuring rivalries.
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Coming Around to Campus
April 12, 2021
The Class of 2024 college cohort was invited to return to campus for the spring semester, and many are attending the seminar Big Ideas in Business in person in the Learning Commons of Isenberg's Business Innovation Hub.
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Accounting Research at Isenberg Secures National Status
April 02, 2021
A new survey by Brigham Young University ranks Isenberg among elite accounting programs for its research into the role of judgment and decision making (JDM) in accounting practice.
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Finance Grad Brings Online Career Platform to Isenberg
March 31, 2021
Isenberg alumnus David Kozhuk ’08 is CEO and founder of uConnect, based in Cambridge, which is designed to improve access to career services through its virtual career center platform.
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Faculty Research: Tracking Pandemic Leisure
March 16, 2021
Assistant Professor of Sport Management Bradley Baker has used social media and data from fitness trackers to study leisure trends over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Women of Isenberg 2021
March 05, 2021
The Women of Isenberg event, which took place online because of the pandemic this year, was organized and executed by students as an opportunity to network among professional women and gain career insights.
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Dean Massey Hosts Lunchtime Chats
March 02, 2021
Monthly Lunchtime Chats focus on the five priority areas that Dean Anne Massey has identified as ways to advance Isenberg’s reputation and propel the school even higher among the top tier of public business school programs
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Lou Wigdor Retires After 40 Years of Writing About Isenberg
February 25, 2021
In the four decades since Lou Wigdor joined Isenberg’s staff, his colleagues have learned to appreciate more than just the articles and profiles he writes about alumni, faculty, and students.
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Five Ventures Selected as Innovation Challenge Finalists
February 22, 2021
In front of a panel of four judges, 17 student-led startups gave five-minute pitches describing their ventures and participated in a 10-minute Q&A session.
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Faculty Research: Isenberg Professor Shares Supply Chain Expertise During Pandemic
February 05, 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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McCormack Introduces Groundbreaking Women in Business Course
January 28, 2021
The Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management has announced a first-of-its-kind new course, Women in Business, which is launching during the spring 2021 semester for 25 students who aspire to pursue a career in the sports industry.
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Isenberg Team Makes National Finals in Deloitte’s Audit Innovation Campus Challenge
January 26, 2021
A team of six accounting undergraduate students earned a spot in the national finals for a case competition focused on the future of work.
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Online MBA Rises in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
January 26, 2021
On Tuesday, U.S. News & World Report named Isenberg’s program number 26 among MBA programs in the Best Online Education Program rankings.
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Isenberg’s Poets & Quants Undergraduate Ranking Improves Again
January 12, 2021
In the publication’s annual ranking of undergraduate business programs, the Isenberg School of Management rose two spots to number 34 in the nation.
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Innovation Challenge Winners Focus on Microbes
January 06, 2021
The winning student team has developed a wipe that kills bacteria, including MRSA, on surfaces for up to two months.
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Mentorship and Growth Mindset Elevate Recent Grad’s Game
December 15, 2020
Josh Estes ’19 MBA/MS, who recently became an analytics coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers, benefited from McCormack’s long-term networking and mentoring relationship with retiring Amherst College basketball coach Dave Hixon.
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Princeton Review Recognizes Campus for Its Graduate Entrepreneurship Studies
December 11, 2020
For the first time, UMass Amherst has earned recognition on Princeton Review’s annual roster, Top Schools for Graduate Entrepreneurship Studies.
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Melcolm Ruffin ’13 Joins 30 Under 30 Notables
December 11, 2020
Melcolm Ruffin, a 2013 Isenberg sport management graduate, has been named to Forbes Magazine’s annual "30 Under 30" roster in the sports category.
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