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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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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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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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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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Finance Professor’s Article Wins Graham and Dodd Scroll Award
February 06, 2019
A paper published in the Financial Analysts Journal in December by a group of researchers that includes Isenberg’s Bing Liang won the 2018 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award from the CFA Institute.
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Isenberg Names Associate Dean for an Inclusive Organization
February 05, 2019
Nefertiti Walker's strategic vision for diversity and inclusion will inform every corner of Isenberg's operations.
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Accounting Professor Kitto Honored with PCAOB Fellowship
December 24, 2018
Andrew Kitto, an assistant professor in Isenberg’s accounting department, was selected as an Economic Research Fellow at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the regulatory body that oversees the audits of public companies.
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Global Financial Crisis Revisited: CISDM Conference Examines What We Learned
October 29, 2018
Ten years ago, the globe was gripped in a historic financial crisis. Markets crashed, entire countries defaulted – Greece is still reeling from the effects -- and the event forced major policy shifts that have shaped the financial landscape across the globe. This was the topic of presentations and discussions at the Isenberg School of Management’s annual CISDM conference on October 4.
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Professor Baker Honored with Lilly Fellowship
July 09, 2018
Melissa Baker, an assistant professor in Isenberg’s Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, is recipient of a 2018-19 Lilly Fellowship. The nationally competitive fellowships foster teaching excellence through pedagogy workshops and seminars, course development and redesign, third-party assessment of teaching skills, and other resources. The Institute for Teaching Excellence & Development has awarded the fellowships since 1986.
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Isenberg Professors Honored for Teaching and Research
May 31, 2018
Isenberg Professors Albert Assaf, Nefertiti Walker, Sean Wandrei, Fousseni Chabi-Yo, Bruce Skaggs and Matthew Linn were honored for their outstanding teaching and research.
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