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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 Senior Thesis: The Robots Are Coming
May 10, 2019
In May, Isenberg students Jenny Quan and Jessica Morrison and five other Isenberg student teams presented their thesis topics, arguments, and recommendations in Anurag Sharma’s Honors Thesis Seminar.
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Isenberg MBA Team Places Second in International Competition
May 02, 2019
A team of Isenberg MBA students (Paige Hill ’19, Allison O’Neill ’19, Mike Cook ’19, and Yosh Schulman ’20) placed second in the Aspen Institute’s 2019 Business & Society International Case Competition in April.
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Isenberg Graduate as Change Agent
April 30, 2019
“Change must be systematic and sustainable,” emphasized Dennis Donovan ’71, ’72 MBA in a 90-minute presentation and workshop for MBA students in April.
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Isenberg OIM Students Excel in C&S Case Competition
April 26, 2019
On February 13, Isenberg student teams placed first and second in the C&S Wholesale Grocers Supply Chain Case Competition.
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Grand Opening of the Business Innovation Hub
April 19, 2019
Isenberg’s April 12th ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Business Innovation Hub was a milestone. Students, faculty, and alumni celebrated the 72,000-square-foot, publicly and privately funded building that has nearly doubled Isenberg's usable space.
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Academic Departments Celebrate Students and Alumni
April 11, 2019
Annual awards banquets thrown by the Departments of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sport Management, and Accounting honor Isenberg's outstanding students and alumni.
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Innovation Challenge Lives up to its Name
April 08, 2019
Let's Talk About It won top honors among the six ventures competing for seed money at the 2018-2019 Innovation Challenge Final.
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Women of Isenberg 2019: Student-Organized Conference Focuses on “More Than” Campaign
March 25, 2019
The February 23 event's keynote speaker, Diane Isenberg, is the founder of impact investment firm Ceniarth.
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Isenberg Salesforce Day Will Offer a Dynamic Business Skillset
March 06, 2019
On March 19, Isenberg will host a day of panels and speakers exploring the customer relationship management (CRM) platform, Salesforce.
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Six Ventures Advance to Innovation Challenge: The Final
March 01, 2019
In front of a panel of four judges, 15 student-led teams gave five-minute pitches describing their ventures and participated in a 10-minute Q&A session.
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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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UMass Startups Keep Winning Federal Small Business Grants
February 26, 2019
The increased visibility of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in western Massachusetts is one of the clearest signs of the push to support campus scientists and engineers in moving their ideas from academia into the realm of active small businesses: Five startup companies based on ideas and technology developed on campus are currently receiving SBIR grants from federal agencies.
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Isenberg Students Give the Hub Some Love
February 13, 2019
A month after the debut of Isenberg’s game-changing Business Innovation Hub, impromptu interviews with undergraduates reveal unanimous appreciation for the new building and its resources. Students agree that the 70,000-square-foot addition to Isenberg offers great study and social space, and they applaud its architecture, its abundance of natural light, and its internationally diverse café.
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Boy Meets School: Business Prodigy Finds Entrepreneurial Environment
December 05, 2018
How a business prodigy found at UMass the entrepreneurial environment he had been searching for.
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Building Better Villages Wins Hult Prize at UMass
December 04, 2018
Aiming to improve the residential foundation for rural communities in India, the venture team consists of Aashish Kumar (computer science), Kavya Ramachandran (chemical engineering) and Achintya Kumar (engineering).
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TempGrams Wins Top Prize at Innovation Challenge: The Seed Pitch
November 30, 2018
In front of a panel of industry experts, 17 teams gave five-minute pitches of their venture ideas and participated in Q&A with the judges, competing for $15,000 in equity-free funding.
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$2,500 Awarded to Start 2018-19 Innovation Challenge
November 06, 2018
In front of an audience of nearly 200 students, faculty, staff and supporters, 27 teams gave 60-second pitches of their venture idea. Determined by a panel of industry expert judges, $2,500 in prize money was awarded to the first-, second- and third-place teams and the audience choice selection.
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Start Them Up: Inside Berthiaume Center’s Summer Accelerator with five promising ventures
October 16, 2018
It’s a steamy Friday afternoon in early June, and the window air conditioner in the third-floor conference room in Bartlett Hall is working furiously to provide relief to the handful of students gathered around a large meeting table. The setting is unmistakably a university classroom in summer, but once Birton Cowden begins to speak, it becomes immediately clear that this is anything but a typical college course.
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Isenberg's Innovative New Building
September 25, 2018
Meet the new star of UMass Amherst’s campus, and the result of finding the answers to those questions, the Business Innovation Hub. Designed by the Boston architectural firm Goody Clancy and the Bjarke Ingles Group (BIG) of New York and Copenhagen, the circular building’s most striking design feature is the series of three-story-tall, copper-clad fins that create a vertical lattice for the glass outer wall. Along with their dynamic look, the slats function as a way to allow natural light in without overheating the building.
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