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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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Nagurney Named OMEGA RHO Keynote Speaker
May 16, 2018
John F. Smith Memorial Professor Anna Nagurney of Isenberg's operations & information department, has been selected as the OMEGA RHO Keynote Speaker at the annual INFORMS conference this November with her Plenary: Networks to Save the World: OR in Action. The OMEGA RHO Distinguished Lecture on Operations Research and Management Science is among the most prestigious series of lectures in the world and have been presented as a plenary at ORSA/TIMS and INFORMS Meetings since 1983. Previous speakers include Deans at Wharton and MIT and two Nobel Prize winners.
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Isenberg Finance Educator Honored with Endowed Professorship
May 08, 2018
Isenberg is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Bing Liang to the newly created Charles P. McQuaid Endowed Professorship. The professorship’s benefactor is Isenberg finance graduate Charles P. McQuaid ’74 who retired after 35 years at Columbia Wanger Asset Management in Chicago.
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Isenberg Accounting Educator Professor Honored with New Professorship
May 08, 2018
Professor David Piercey has been appointed as the first John F. Kennedy Endowed Professor. Chair of Isenberg’s Department of Accounting and John Spinney Faculty Fellow, Piercey is a nationally prominent researcher in behavioral accounting. The endowed professorship’s benefactor, John F. Kennedy ’76 M.S., is a long-time supporter of Isenberg and its students.
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Isenberg Professor Celebrates Economic Journal’s Twentieth Anniversary
February 15, 2018
“During my twenty years with MassBenchmarks, two themes connected with the state’s economy have figured prominently in our journal,” its Executive Editor and Isenberg professor Robert Nakosteen told a gathering of fellow economists, and leaders—business and political. “The first is the state’s dynamic mix of high-technology and education-intensive industries. The second has been the uneven sharing geographically of that prosperity.”
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