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Strong Isenberg Presence on IRS-Focused Consumer Advocacy Panel
March 05, 2015
An Isenberg faculty member and part-time MBA student are Massachusetts’ two appointees to the nationwide Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. The volunteer group voices consumer concerns over IRS policies and issues.
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HTM Student Group Is National Chapter of the Year
February 25, 2015
Isenberg students have won Chapter of the Year honors from the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality. Their student advisor, Will Foley, is NSMH’s advisor of the year.
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Women of Isenberg Conference Airs Women’s Voices, Perspectives, Stories
February 20, 2015
The second annual Women of Isenberg Conference took place on February 7. Coordinated by the student group Isenberg Women in Business, the day-long event attracted 210 members of the Isenberg community, including 42 alumnae, a dozen Isenberg faculty and staff members, and 150 students.
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Professor Schewe Looks Ahead and Reflects on 42 Years at Isenberg
February 12, 2015
Reflecting on his four decades at Isenberg, Professor Schewe recalls former students and alumni and explains his long-standing emphasis on experiential learning. He comments on marketing's transformation and his role as cofounder of the discipline, marketing to generational cohorts.
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Alumni Fuel Faculty Fellowships in Entrepreneurship
January 09, 2015
Two Isenberg alumni—Barry Haase ’62 and David Gaunt ’70 MBA—are supporting entrepreneurship at Isenberg with faculty fellowships.
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Campus-wide Ceremony Celebrates Gene Isenberg's Energizing Legacy
December 08, 2014
On December 4, the campus welcomed the family of the late Gene Isenberg '50, '00H, including his wife Ronnie, their daughter Diane and husband David and their three children Dylan, Carolyn, and Stefan. A tribute was held to honor Gene and Ronnie's leadership and generosity at UMass Amherst and Isenberg.
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Professor Glenn Wong Reflects on His 35-Year Career in Sport Management
November 13, 2014
Wong, a professor in the McCormack Department of Sport Management, reflects on his 35-year career at UMass Amherst. He will be retiring from Isenberg at the end of the current academic year and was recently interviewed by Sports Business Daily about his career as an educator, sport law practitioner, athletic director, and administrator.
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Management Professors Honored at International Conference
October 06, 2014
Management professors Steven Floyd and William Wooldridge were honored on September 21 by the Strategic Management Society at its annual conference in Madrid.
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Management Professor Views Failures as Critical to Success
October 03, 2014
On September 15, Charles Manz, Nirenberg Professor of Leadership, explored the failure-success dynamic in a keynote presentation, "Turning Failure into a Gateway to Success," at a Crisis Management Boot Camp for PR professionals at the historic Yale Club in Manhattan.
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Marketing Faculty Member and Students Bring Breast Cancer Message to Retailers
October 01, 2014
In September, Cynthia Barstow, Isenberg marketing lecturer and founder of the campus group Protect Our Breasts, took a group of PoB students to the Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore where she spoke to retailers about the dangers of chemicals in our every day products.
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Professors Coordinate Workshop on Cybersecurity Risk Analysis
September 18, 2014
Four professors (three Isenberg and one from Engineering) organized the workshop "Cybersecurity Risk Analysis for Enterprise Security" on September 19th at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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Two Professors Honored with Endowed Faculty Positions
August 29, 2014
Hossein B. Kazemi, a Professor of Finance at Isenberg, and Christopher P. Agoglia, Chair of Isenberg's Department of Accounting, have been named to endowed professorial positions.
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Marketing Department Is Driving Force behind National Conference and Seminar
June 19, 2014
Three Isenberg marketing professors-Easwar Iyer, George Milne, and Elizabeth Miller-excelled as co-chairs of the American Marketing Association's annual Marketing and Public Policy Conference in Boston on June 5-7. The Conference, at the Omni Parker House, attracted over 200 participants, including attendees from academe, industry, and the policy world.
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Accounting Banquet Honors Students, Alumni, and Educators
April 25, 2014
Shelly Duncan '92, a partner in Deloitte's Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice, was principal honoree at Isenberg's Annual Accounting Banquet on April 17. Duncan received the department's Accounting Alumni Award, its alumnus of the year honor. A second alumnus, Jason Janoff '93, accepted an award for his commitment to diversity initiatives at Isenberg. Catherine Lowry '96, 01' MBA, a senior lecturer in the department, was honored with the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants' Outstanding Educator of the Year Award. And 60 students received scholarships and other accolades for academic excellence and community service.
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Isenberg Professor's Book Fosters Idea-Driven Organizations
April 16, 2014
Many academics study ideas and innovation, but few focus on generating ideas on an organization's "front lines," where much of the work gets done, observes Alan Robinson, a professor in Isenberg's Department of Operations and Information Management. In a well-conceived idea system, in fact, those front-line insights, should account for 80% of an organization's overall improvement, notes Robinson in his just-published book, The Idea-Driven Organization.
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Navigating Crisis News in the Moment: News Anchor Dave Madsen Speaks to Nagurney's Logistics Class
March 26, 2014
Now in its second year, Anna Nagurney's innovative course, Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare, introduces cutting-edge crisis management and planning skills to Isenberg and other UMass Amherst students. "My goal is to give our students the tools and mindset to act decisively and adaptably in human crises like storms and earthquakes, food shortages, financial contagions, and pandemics," explains Nagurney, who is John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management.
Two high-profile visitors to the course in March were UMass Amherst family and sports medicine physician Pierre Rouzier and Springfield Channel 40 ABC/Fox6 news anchor Dave Madsen. This news story focuses on Dr. Rouzier's relief work in Haiti and at the 2013 Boston Marathon. A follow-up story, which will appear next week, will explore Madsen's media work with local and national crises.
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Innovative Isenberg Course Features Two High-Profile Visitors Talking on Crisis Management
March 19, 2014
Now in its second year, Anna Nagurney's innovative course, Humanitarian Logistics and Healthcare, introduces cutting-edge crisis management and planning skills to Isenberg and other UMass Amherst students. ʺMy goal is to give our students the tools and mindset to act decisively and adaptably in human crises like storms and earthquakes, food shortages, financial contagions, and pandemics,ʺ explains Nagurney, who is John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management.
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Isenberg Researcher's Study Points to Negative Outcomes for NHL Teams with Olympic Participants
February 25, 2014
With the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in the rearview mirror, a 2012 statistical study by Professor Neil Longley of Isenberg's Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management is prompting observers to ask whether the teams of NHL players who participated in the Games will suffer a letdown during the rest of the NHL season.
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Isenberg Professor's Book Advocates Value Approach to Investments
February 10, 2014
For Isenberg strategy professor Anurag Sharma, investing is both a science and an art and, most importantly, a deep discipline. His recently published Book of Value arms the reader with a conceptual framework with which to detect true value in a sea of noise.
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Isenberg Center Partners with Wharton Research Data Services on Strategic Database
January 29, 2014
A prestigious Isenberg asset--the Morningstar CISDM Database--will now be offered by the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School's internet-based data research service, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). The Isenberg database, managed by the school's Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets, tracks qualitative and quantitative information for more than 6,000 hedge funds, funds of funds, and commodity trading advisors (CTAs). Morningstar CISDM also includes a database that provides robust information on 13,000 inactive funds.
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