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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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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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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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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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Faculty Research Report 2019
November 01, 2019
This booklet highlights the innovative research of seven Isenberg faculty members—one from every department—over a wide range of business scholarship.
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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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Isenberg Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members
October 31, 2019
The school has hired eleven new scholars from a broad range of disciplines for the 2019-2020 academic year.
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Faculty Research: Recent Publications and Awards
October 04, 2019
Isenberg faculty members have been placing papers in top publications and bringing home prestigious awards. Read this sampling of their recent accomplishments.
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Dean and Professor Receive Endowed Faculty Roles
October 02, 2019
Dean Anne Massey has been honored with an endowed chair, and Sport Management Chair and Professor Janet Fink has received an endowed professorship.
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Faculty Research: Isenberg Professors Dig Deep on Technology and Privacy
October 01, 2019
A special issue of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing that tackles questions of tech and privacy from multiple angles was the brainchild of Isenberg’s George Milne and Bruce Weinberg.
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Faculty Research: The Price of Transformational Leadership
September 11, 2019
New research by Isenberg School of Business Assistant Professor of Management Joanna Lin suggests that leaders who engage in “transformational” behaviors often pay a personal cost.
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Isenberg Remembers John Conlon ’49
September 03, 2019
Isenberg mourns the passing of John “Jack” Conlon, a seminal professor and academic leader during the school’s first half century.
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Isenberg Welcomes Dean Anne P. Massey
August 22, 2019
“We are living in an age of acceleration with the rate of technological change increasing,” says Anne Massey. “While the future of work calls for technical skills, it also demands an understanding of the human and ethical sides of management and leadership.” Isenberg’s new dean, who joins the school officially this month, has focused on aligning academic programs with the technical, social, and cultural changes happening outside campus walls throughout her career, and she says she’s excited to join a school where multi-disciplinary programs, industry partnerships, and student-led team projects are already the norm.
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Faculty Research: Relief, by the Numbers
July 23, 2019
Anna Nagurney’s fighting fires these days. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, cyber-hackings, and famines too. Everything in her email box may as well be marked “urgent.”
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Faculty Research: How to Go Viral
July 12, 2019
Marketing Assistant Professor Francisco Villarroel Ordenes studies the intersection of social media marketing, services, and machine learning for textual data.
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Nefertiti Walker Honored by NASSM
June 21, 2019
Nefertiti Walker, Isenberg’s associate dean for an inclusive organization and a professor of Sport Management, received a Research Fellow Award from the North American Society for Sport Management at its annual conference on June 5 in New Orleans.
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Commencement Festivities Salute 2019 Isenberg Graduates
May 16, 2019
Two Isenberg finance majors served as keynote speakers at commencement events: Yaseen Gholizadeh represented his classmates at the school’s Senior Celebration, and Daniella Iannuzzi was chosen to be the UMass Amherst Undergraduate Commencement's student speaker.
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Isenberg Professors Receive Research and Teaching Awards
May 09, 2019
Isenberg gave special recognition to faculty members who have made notable contributions through effective teaching methods and cutting-edge scholarly research during the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Agha Iqbal Ali Honored with Faculty Professorship
April 30, 2019
Professor Agha Iqbal Ali has been named the Karen and Chuck Peters Family Endowed Professor at Isenberg.
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Isenberg Celebrates Fifty Years of Doctoral Studies
April 17, 2019
Isenberg’s 50th anniversary celebration of its PhD program April 5 attracted several generations of doctoral graduates, current PhD students, and faculty—past and present.
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