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Academic Departments Celebrate Students and Alumni
April 11, 2019
Annual awards banquets thrown by the Departments of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sport Management, and Accounting honor Isenberg's outstanding students and alumni.
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Homework Assignment: Making Cities Smarter
April 10, 2019
Making the most of solar power in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, solving sewage and water issues in Pittsburgh, maximizing traffic flow in Istanbul—these case studies illustrate how dynamic models and hands-on insights can come together in smart and wannabe smart cities, observed IBM’s Jurij Paraszczak in a lecture on March 8 at Isenberg.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Women of Isenberg 2019: Student-Organized Conference Focuses on “More Than” Campaign
March 25, 2019
The February 23 event's keynote speaker, Diane Isenberg, is the founder of impact investment firm Ceniarth.
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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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