Isenberg’s management department simulates the real-world challenges you’ll face on the job so you’ll be ready to tackle any complex issue thrown your way.  Our faculty challenge students to answer questions about how theory applies to the real world through experiential learning.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

The Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship plays a central role promoting entrepreneurship and innovation across the UMass Amherst campus. Headquartered in the Isenberg School of Management, the Center is a cross-campus network of scholars, innovators, and entrepreneurs, with a three-fold mission of supporting research, education, and practice, all targeted at facilitating the transformation of ideas into business realities.

Mzamo Mangaliso
Students graduate from our program equipped with conceptual and practical skills for leadership, entrepreneurial skills for new ventures, techniques for solving complex problems, and proficiencies for managing change—all of which are essential for organizational survival in the increasingly globalizing competitive environment.
Mzamo Mangaliso
Department Chair, Associate Professor
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Management Department News

Student Spotlight: Abbey MacDonald '27
Student Spotlight: Abbey MacDonald '27
Abbey MacDonald , a first-year management major with a secondary major in both economics and legal studies from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, recently
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Supporting Ukraine Through Academic Partnership
Supporting Ukraine Through Academic Partnership
When Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, Isenberg School of Management Professor Anna Nagurney—the daughter of refugees who fled Ukraine during World
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Student Spotlight: Emma LaCava ’24
Student Spotlight: Emma LaCava ’24
Emma LaCava ’24, a junior from Chelmsford, Mass., is a management major in Isenberg who is pursuing a dual degree in event management, through BDIC
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Management Faculty

Management Faculty

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Errol D. Alexander Jr.
Errol D. Alexander Jr.
Adjunct Faculty, Certified Human Resource Generalist
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Michael Blomfield
Assistant Professor
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Rebecca Bragg
Lecturer - part-time
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Marta Calas
Marta Calás
Professor
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Ina Ganguli
Ina Ganguli
Associate Professor of Economics
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Emily Heaphy
Emily Heaphy
Associate Professor & John F. Kennedy Faculty Fellow
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Paige Hill
Paige Hill
Adjunct Lecturer
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Charles Johnson
Charles J. Johnson
Clinical Associate Professor & Associate Director of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship
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Jennifer Kish-Gephart
Associate Professor of Organization Studies
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Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca
Berthiaume Chaired Professor of Leadership
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Matt Langenkamp
Lecturer - part-time
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Mzamo Mangaliso
Mzamo Mangaliso
Department Chair, Associate Professor
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Charles Manz
Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Business Leadership
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Jennifer Merton
Associate Department Chair, Law Lecturer Coordinator and Senior Lecturer
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Temitope Oladimeji
Temitope S. Oladimeji
Assistant Professor
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Bogdan
Bogdan Prokopovych
Senior Lecturer
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Feng Qiu
Feng Qiu
Assistant Professor
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Orlando Richard
Orlando Richard
Earl W. Stafford Endowed Professor in Organizational Studies
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Anurag Sharma
Anurag Sharma
Associate Professor
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Brian Shea
Lecturer
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Department of Management
Room 227
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts
121 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003

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Phone: 413.577.7022