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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 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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Isenberg’s Culture and Community Praised at Graduation Events
May 12, 2016
“No matter where we go, no matter what we do, we carry the Isenberg brand with us,” Senior Class Speaker Stephanie Berenson ’16 told an audience of over 4000—graduating seniors, their families, and Isenberg faculty and staff—at Isenberg’s Senior Celebration at the Mullins Center on May 7. “We are part of each other. We are each other’s network, and one day, as graduates, we will be a resource for Isenberg students just as alumni have been for us,” emphasized the dual marketing/journalism major.
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Isenberg Top Public Undergraduate Business School in Northeast
May 02, 2016
Isenberg is the highest ranking public undergraduate business school in the Northeast, according to Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2016 Undergraduate Business School Rankings. Climbing three places since the 2014 ranking, Isenberg now ranks 11th among public undergraduate business school programs in the United States. The new rankings clearly illustrate Isenberg’s growing national stature, with the school moving up 45 spots among private and public business schools since 2010.
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HTM Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Baker
April 19, 2016
Assistant Professor Melissa Baker received the College Outstanding Teacher Award this year for her teaching effectiveness, positive impact on her students and overall outstanding performance.
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Traci Hess Named Douglas and Diana Berthiaume Endowed Professor
April 04, 2016
When asked to account for her recent appointment as Douglas and Diana Berthiaume Endowed Professor of Information Systems, Traci Hess replies with characteristic modesty: “More than anything else, it reflects Isenberg’s growing national footprint in the Information Systems field." That is evidenced, she says, by her program’s national prominence in iconic rankings* based on publications in her discipline’s top research journals.
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McCormack Forges New Educational Partnership with Japan’s J.League
February 04, 2016
In a new partnership with the J.League, Asia's premier professional soccer league, the McCormack Department of Sport Management will teach online courses in sport marketing and finance. "We aim to share the best in sport management practices in the U.S.," remarks McCormack professor Steve McKelvey.
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Finance Professors at the Movies: Reflections on “The Big Short”
February 03, 2016
Four Isenberg finance professors who recently attended a showing of “The Big Short” applauded the movie for its accurate portrayal of the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis and for its clear explanation of complex financial concepts. In a discussion following the movie, several of the professors expressed approval for regulations that focus on interrelationships among different segments of the financial system.
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Standing at the forefront of Human Resource Management
January 20, 2016
“People are critical resources for organizations. But compared with other 'assets,' people have opinions and emotions; they can walk out the door and never return. They can also withhold effort, be lazy or excel when they choose to. Yet, all companies need employees.” It is this dance between business and the people who fuel it that makes the field of Human Resource Management so intriguing to Prof. David Lepak, the internationally renowned scholar whom Isenberg has proposed for its Berthiaume Chair in Business Leadership at Isenberg.
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Congratulations to HTM professor Albert Assaf, the recipient of this year's @UMassAmherst Outstanding Teacher Award… https://t.co/7DzhIw5tgC — 8 hours 19 min ago
Celebrate “hump day” with fellow alumni living in the Greater Boston Area for our first summer happy hour and enjoy… https://t.co/CeVfIgPV0j — 4 days 22 min ago
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