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McCormack Master’s Students Consult with OOFOS and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee
April 23, 2020
For the final-semester sport management MBA/MS practicum, two student teams have spent much of the semester working with the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), and OOFOS.
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Faculty Research: Pandemic Gaming
April 22, 2020
The current climate of social distancing has been good for multiplayer online gaming, notes Isenberg OIM Assistant Professor Zachary Sheffler.
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Faculty Research: Isenberg Professor Coleads $2.4 Million Cross-Disciplinary NSF Risk Project
April 10, 2020
Mila Getmansky Sherman is coleader of a new $2.4 million National Science Foundation–funded project that aims to improve the systems allowing for cross-discipline academic collaboration.
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Isenberg Online MBA Students Offer Tips for Learning Remotely
April 07, 2020
We reached out to students who know all about online learning to get strategies for staying connected virtually.
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Isenberg Together
April 03, 2020
Students, faculty members, staffers, and alumni have all risen to the challenge of supporting one another and continuing our good work from a distance during this unprecedented global pandemic.
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Networking Meetups Go Online
April 02, 2020
With social distancing making in-person meetings impossible, Trista Hevey realized that networking events would have to join the school’s classes in the virtual space.
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Technology Takes the Stage at the Annual Women of Isenberg Conference
March 31, 2020
Now in its seventh year, the daylong Women of Isenberg Conference offered ten panels that explored leadership, entrepreneurship, technology issues, and other topics.
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2020 Accounting Department Update
March 30, 2020
Isenberg's Accounting Department is proud to share its recent successes and national recognition.
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Isenberg MBA Rises Through Rankings
March 17, 2020
In the newly released U.S. News & World Report 2021 Best Graduate Schools Rankings, Isenberg’s On-Campus MBA program was named number 53 among the nation’s full-time MBA programs.
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Four Ventures Advance to Innovation Challenge: The Final
March 10, 2020
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the four-part Innovation Challenge continued with The Semifinal on Wednesday, February 26. In front of a panel of four judges, 16 student-led startups gave five-minute pitches describing their ventures and participated in a 10-minute Q&A session.
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Lisa Masteralexis Wins Leadership Award
March 09, 2020
Isenberg Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Sport Management Lisa Pike Masteralexis received the Betty van der Smissen Leadership Award last week at the annual conference of the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Isenberg Accounting Alumnus of the Year: Dan Newton ‘90
March 03, 2020
With a quarter century of tax experience in public accounting and industry, and in domestic and international taxation, Dan Newton ’90—this year’s Accounting Alumnus of the Year—has continuously extended his horizons.
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Isenberg’s Online MBA Program Again Ranks First in the U.S., Third Worldwide
March 02, 2020
For the fourth year running, Isenberg’s Online MBA has achieved number-one status among U.S. business schools in the annual Financial Times survey of online MBA programs.
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“Disaster Historian” Offers Danish Resilience Insights
February 25, 2020
When Rasmus Dahlberg, an assistant professor at the Royal Danish Defence College, spoke at Isenberg last week, he described his collaboration with the Danish Emergency Management Agency to imagine what would happen if a Russian nuclear-powered ice-breaking ship collided with another ship and ran aground, creating a nuclear emergency.
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Berthiaume Connects Campus Entrepreneurs with Isenberg MBAs
February 19, 2020
Through the Berthiaume Center’s new venture counseling initiative, Office Hours, on-campus MBA students advise startup founders from across the UMass Amherst campus on ideas and business plans.
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Smart Woman Securities Chapter Takes Off
February 12, 2020
Isenberg students brought UMass Amherst into the ranks of a select group of universities—including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale—by creating a new chapter of a club called Smart Woman Securities (SWS) on campus.
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Faculty Research: Where Should Hotels go (and Grow) Next?
January 28, 2020
Professor Albert Assaf finds that hotel operators face a dilemma: They need to grow, but in a world increasingly saturated by Airbnb and other private rental options, opening in the wrong location can be a costly mistake.
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Recent MBA Graduate Puts Isenberg Lessons to Work for Johnson & Johnson
January 24, 2020
Paige Hill ’19 MBA is bringing new skills and ideas to her team in the human resources operations of the giant medical devices and consumer goods company.
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UMass Amherst Hult Prize Winner Focuses on Food Waste
December 24, 2019
This year’s UMass Amherst round of the Hult Prize, hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, was won by an Isenberg-led venture called Qualtags, which aims to develop stickers that will more effectively show when food has spoiled.
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OIM Students Lend Support to Berthiaume Startups
December 18, 2019
During the fall semester, a course in project management taught by Radu Vlas, an operations and information management lecturer, married student teams with local venture founders vetted through Isenberg’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship.
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