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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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Faculty Research: OIM Professor Shares Work on Improving Society Through Better Operations
December 17, 2019
During the fall 2019 semester, six faculty members presented “30,000-foot overviews” of their research projects to their Isenberg colleagues in the spirit of promoting collegiality and cross-departmental collaboration.
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Finance Class Project Focuses on the Food Future of Western Mass.
December 13, 2019
A student team in Professor Mila Getmansky Sherman’s Alternative Investments course worked with Isenberg finance alumnus Michael Philipp ’82 MBA to evaluate the pros and cons of investing in a local, sustainable food hub in the Pioneer Valley.
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Faculty Research: Maintaining Auditor Independence
December 11, 2019
Professor Christopher Agoglia explores the relationship between auditors and clients in a recent paper, published with Associate Professor Bradley Bennett.
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Isenberg Online MBA Empowers Physicians in Leadership Roles
December 05, 2019
Imparting business skills to physicians has been a priority for Isenberg’s online program throughout its twenty-year history. Currently, 375 physicians comprise about 26 percent of the program’s 1,500 students.
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Celebrating Innovation Challenge and Hult Prize Winners
December 04, 2019
Hosted by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, a Celebration of Innovation Challenge: The Seed Pitch and Hult Prize was held on Wednesday, November 20. An audience of more than 100 students, faculty, staff, and community members were on hand as the top four Seed Pitch teams and the Hult Prize winner and runner-up were recognized and gave minute-long pitches of their ventures.
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Insights from a Sport Management Change Agent
December 04, 2019
Isenberg sport management graduate Dennis Mannion ’81 spoke to McCormack students about his work as a change agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Ravens, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, and Philadelphia Phillies.
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Business and Entrepreneurship Librarian Begins Isenberg Office Hours
December 03, 2019
The W.E.B. Du Bois Library’s Business and Entrepreneurship Librarian Alison Messier has started holding office hours in the Isenberg building.
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Isenberg Graduate Sheds Light on Investments that Drive Change
November 21, 2019
PhD graduate Stavros Siokos ’98, managing partner of Astarte Capital Partners LLP, was a guest speaker sponsored by the campus student chapter of INFORMS.
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