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Management Award Recognizes Enduring Faculty Collaboration
July 19, 2017
Isenberg professors of organizational studies and management Linda Smircich and Marta Calás are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Pasmore-Woodman Award.
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Isenberg Celebrates Graduates of the Class of 2017
May 19, 2017
This year's commencement ceremonies celebrated the nearly 1,700 combined graduates of Isenberg's undergraduate, MBA, MS, and PhD programs.
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Professor Sherman Nets Timely NSF Funding
May 10, 2017
Mila Getmansky Sherman, a finance professor at Isenberg, has received a $196,518 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Digging into Data Challenge. Professor Sherman’s award will fund a 3+ year research project.
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Isenberg Announces New Director of Diversity & Inclusion
April 14, 2017
Nefertiti Walker, assistant professor with the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, will lead Isenberg’s diversity initiatives as its first Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Professor Walker will bring experience and proactivity to the school’s commitment to an increasingly inclusive culture. That includes greater diversity and inclusiveness among students, faculty, and staff.
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Innovation Challenge Celebrates Student Entrepreneurship
April 11, 2017
ElectroPure, a student team and developer of a water treatment/purification device for homes, schools, and other small-scale water systems, took first-place honors in the finals of the 2017 Innovation Challenge business plan competition on April 6th.
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Faculty Profile: Emily Ma
April 10, 2017
Meet the newest Hospitality & Tourism Management faculty member Emily (Jintao) Ma whose teaching and research focus on organizational and service behavior and improvement in hotels and restaurants.
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Hands-on Learning Opportunities for McCormack Students Chronicled in Top Industry Journal
March 30, 2017
A recent article in the leading industry trade journal SportsBusiness Journal by McCormack senior lecturer and internship director Tony Lachowetz underscores the value of experiential learning for sport management students.
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Finance Professor Honored for Pioneering Paper
March 28, 2017
Finance professor Mila Getmansky Sherman and two coauthors have received the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute’s premier honor—its 2016 Graham and Dodd Award for Excellence—for their journal article, “Interconnectedness of the CDS Market.”
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Women of Isenberg Conference Highlights Diverse Perspectives
March 08, 2017
In February, 350 students, alumni, faculty, and staff attended the fourth annual Women of Isenberg conference, which brings together women from all career levels to talk about their unique experiences and challenges as women in business.
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Capstone Marketing Course Integrates Challenges and Skills
February 24, 2017
Professor Charles Schewe’s course, Tools for Professional Success, gives students the opportunity to explore real business challenges for different clients and propose solutions during a final presentation. Peter Warren '17, Liz Imbrogna '17 and Rachel Kirshtein '17 were assigned to Peter Pan Bus Lines. Their research targeted the Northeast's college student population along with opportunities for Peter Pan's charter services and general ridership.
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Professor McKelvey Honored with Top Sport Law Award
February 16, 2017
Professor Steve McKelvey is this year’s Betty van der Smissen Leadership Award honoree. Bestowed by the Sport & Law Recreation Association (SLRA), the award is widely viewed as the single highest honor focusing on the academic intersection of law and sport.
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Lessons Learned from Blood Supply Chains
February 08, 2017
Demand for blood is down overall, which leaves blood suppliers in crisis. Operations professor Anna Nagurney says that tactics such as mergers and resource sharing between suppliers can improve efficiency and reduce waste in this delicate supply chain.
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Sport Management Professor Applauds New Celtics-GE Partnership
February 03, 2017
Sport management professor Matthew Katz weighs in on the new partnership between GE and the Boston Celtics. Katz's teaching and research focus on sport marketing, including the behavior and psychology of sports fans.
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New Sales Club Is Catalyst in Selling “Sales” at Isenberg
January 03, 2017
It’s a Cinderella story in the making. In their first immersion in a major collegiate sales competition, four Isenberg undergrads representing the school’s recently launched Sales Club were third runners-up at the venerable Northeast Intercollegiate Sales Competition (NISC) in November. The Isenberg students excelled in a field of 19 colleges and universities and 120 students. In the contest, at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, students (four and five per institution) role-played 10-minute videotaped sales calls with private industry “partners” serving as fictional sales...It’s a Cinderella story in the making. In their first immersion in a major collegiate sales competition, four Isenberg undergrads representing the school’s recently launched Sales Club were third runners-up at the venerable Northeast Intercollegiate Sales Competition (NISC) in November. The Isenberg students excelled in a field of 19 colleges and universities and 120 students. In the contest, at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, students (four and five per institution) role-played 10-minute videotaped sales calls with private industry “partners” serving as fictional sales prospects.
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Isenberg Feature with BusinessWest
November 18, 2016
Dean Mark A. Fuller recently sat down with BusinessWest editor George O’Brien for a discussion about Isenberg’s dramatically improved national reputation and our aspirations to elevate it further. In the interview—the magazine’s current cover feature—he outlined the strategic and tactical elements that we will continue to deploy in growing Isenberg’s reputational capital. He also underscored the importance of measurable execution in that pursuit.
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Climate Change Is Featured Theme at Annual CISDM Conference
November 15, 2016
At this year's Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets’ (CISDM) Annual Research Conference, one of many insights featured was how risk management and other analytical strategies in the finance profession’s tool kit can make a positive difference in the battle against climate change.
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In Award-Winning Paper, HTM Professor Advocates Balanced Perspectives in Hotel Performance Evaluations
October 27, 2016
A paper written by professor Albert Assaf is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Thea Sinclair Award for Journal Article Excellence. The award recognizes the previous year’s (2015) top paper published in the influential journal, Tourism Economics.
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Two New Full-time Lecturers Join McCormack Faculty
October 04, 2016
The faculty of the McCormack Sport Management Department has expanded this fall to include two new full-time lecturers, Emily Must and Will Norton.
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Ground Breaking Ceremony Celebrates Isenberg’s Business Innovation Hub
September 21, 2016
On September 16, Isenberg alumni, students, faculty, and staff celebrated ground breaking for the school’s $62 million Business Innovation Hub. When the Business Innovation Hub does open in January of 2019, the futuristic building complex will add 70,000 square-feet of classrooms, labs, and student-focused spaces.
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New Hospitality & Tourism Chair Internationally Renowned in Research and Industry
September 05, 2016
A relationship-builder, innovative educator, and internationally renowned researcher, Professor Muzzo Uysal brings experience, acumen, and energy to his new role as chair of the Hospitality & Tourism Management department.
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