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Isenberg’s PhD Program Celebrates a Half Century of Scholarship
March 22, 2019
When the University of Massachusetts Amherst debuted its doctoral program in the late 1960s, it was the first public school in New England to offer a PhD in business administration.
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Isenberg Doctoral Program at 50: Accounting PhD Pushes Social Entrepreneurship at Liberal Arts College
March 22, 2019
Dennis Hanno ‘90PhD, who has been president of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., since 2014, learned about more than accounting during his time at Isenberg, where he later served as a faculty member and undergraduate dean: “Isenberg opened so many doors and opportunities for me.”
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Isenberg Doctoral Program at 50: Anne Balazs ’91PhD Leads the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo
March 22, 2019
A prominent marketing educator and researcher focusing on consumer behavior and sales force management, Anne has been dean since August of the University of Toledo’s College of Business and Innovation.
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Susan Fournier ’80 Is the New Academic Dean at BU’s Questrom School of Business
March 22, 2019
“Isenberg’s culture is atypical among business schools,” observes Isenberg alumna and dean of Boston University’s Questrom School of Business Susan Fournier ’80.
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New Isenberg Lecture Series Highlights Innovative Faculty Research
March 19, 2019
In February, the first installment of the Isenberg Faculty Speakers Series featured two assistant professors, Matt Katz from Sport Management and Andrew Kitto from Accounting, offering “30-000-foot overviews” of their research for an audience of their colleagues.
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Isenberg Maintains No. 1 U.S. Ranking for Online MBA Program and No. 1 Regional Ranking for Part-Time MBA
March 12, 2019
For the third straight year, Isenberg’s Online MBA is the highest-ranked web-based master of business administration program in the United States, based on a Financial Times survey of both school programs and alumni satisfaction and success.
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Isenberg Salesforce Day Will Offer a Dynamic Business Skillset
March 06, 2019
On March 19, Isenberg will host a day of panels and speakers exploring the customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce.
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Isenberg Accounting Professors Earn National Research Honors
March 04, 2019
Two Isenberg accounting professors have earned separate honors from the American Accounting Association’s Auditing Section. A paper by Richard H. Simpson Professor of Accounting Chris Agoglia won the Notable Contributions to the Auditing Literature Award. A second paper, by Professor Yoon Ju Kang, won Best Paper honors at the AAA Auditing Section Midyear Conference.
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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.
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New Isenberg Course App Keeps Pace with a Dynamic Discipline
February 27, 2019
Operations and Information Management Lecturer Nora Junaid has created a mobile app for Isenberg students in her course, Introduction to Business Information Systems, that instantly connects students with course material and news about assignments and exam deadlines.
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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.
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New Graduate Certificate in Forensic Accounting Debuts for Fall 2019
February 26, 2019
In the marketplace and in the news, forensic accounting enjoys a rapidly expanding footprint, and Isenberg's new four-course certificate sequence will help more working professionals meet the growing demand in the industry.
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Driven Alumni: Li Li Leung, MBA/MS '03
February 20, 2019
U.S.A. Gymnastics announced in February 2019 that Li Li Leung would be its new president and CEO. Leung, a former gymnast (she competed in the Junior Pan-Am Games and for the University of Michigan in the N.C.A.A. Championships) and alumna of Isenberg's Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management has spent the past 4 years as VP of Global Partnerships for the NBA.
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Isenberg Students Give the Hub Some Love
February 13, 2019
A month after the debut of Isenberg’s game-changing Business Innovation Hub, impromptu interviews with undergraduates reveal unanimous appreciation for the new building and its resources. Students agree that the 70,000-square-foot addition to Isenberg offers great study and social space, and they applaud its architecture, its abundance of natural light, and its internationally diverse café.
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Major League Baseball Talks Diversity
February 12, 2019
Executives from Major League Baseball and the Boston Red Sox participated in the inaugural Isenberg Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion. Tyrone Brooks and Pam Kenn '01 discussed how and why their organizations are working to ensure that players, staffers, and fans all feel welcome.
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Driven Alumni: Tony Jordan '95
February 08, 2019
Tony doesn’t take his success for granted. He worked hard to get where he is today. “There aren’t a lot of people that look like me in the Boston market doing the job that I have. And you know, I was told by others, ‘I don’t know that you can do this, because not many minorities are successful.’ And I put my head down a long time ago to say hey, I’m going to be the example.”
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Finance Professor’s Article Wins Graham and Dodd Scroll Award
February 06, 2019
A paper published in the Financial Analysts Journal in December by a group of researchers that includes Isenberg’s Bing Liang won the 2018 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award from the CFA Institute.
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Isenberg Names Associate Dean for an Inclusive Organization
February 05, 2019
Nefertiti Walker's strategic vision for diversity and inclusion will inform every corner of Isenberg's operations.
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Isenberg PhD Graduate and Dissertation Co-directors Earn National Honor
January 29, 2019
Isenberg PhD graduate Mary Catherine Dodgson ’17 and her dissertation co-directors, Christopher Agoglia and Bradley Bennett, received top honors for her dissertation in the American Accounting Association’s Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section.
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Isenberg PhD Candidates Win Best Paper Award
January 24, 2019
Akshaya Pawar and Raju Gholap, doctoral students in the Hospitality & Tourism Management Department at Isenberg, received the Best Graduate Student Research Paper Award in November at the International Association of Hospitality Financial Management Education (iAHFME) Research Symposium in New York.
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