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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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Video: Dean Massey on the Future of Work and Isenberg

November 04, 2019
Anne P. Massey has focused on aligning academic programs with the technical, social, and cultural changes happening outside campus walls throughout her career. Watch her video to learn about her perspectives on business education in the context of the fourth industrial revolution.
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Isenberg Summit Focuses on Inclusivity

November 01, 2019
Most of the 350 participants at Isenberg's first Inclusive Leadership Summit were students who learned about the vital nature of the diversity and inclusion work at American companies.
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Faculty Research: Bringing Predictability to Chaos

October 31, 2019
Fousseni Chabi-Yo, associate professor of finance at the Isenberg School of Management, is part of a field of scholars finding new ways to quantify and measure risk.
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First-Year Engineering Student Wins Minute Pitch

October 29, 2019
The four-part Innovation Challenge began with The Minute Pitch on Wednesday, Oct. 16. In front of an audience of nearly 200 students, faculty, staff and supporters, 26 ventures gave 60-second pitches of their startup idea.
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Isenberg MBA Alumnus Helps Bring Energy to Developing Nations

October 24, 2019
1990 Isenberg MBA graduate Mikael Karlsson is head of energy and infrastructure at the London-based investment firm Actis, a leading investor in growth markets across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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David Stern Revisits Three Decades of Innovation in Basketball

October 22, 2019
As commissioner of the NBA for 30 years (1984-2014), David Stern reshaped professional basketball. Stern delivered a keynote address October 16 in his role as Executive in Residence with Isenberg’s Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management.
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Isenberg’s Online MBA Rises to #6 Poets & Quants Ranking

October 16, 2019
The business-school news site Poets & Quants announced its 2020 rankings of Top Online MBA Programs this week, awarding spot number six to Isenberg.
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