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Management Department
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.
Degree Options in Management
Degree Options in Management
Isenberg offers flexibility that allows students to pair the management major with a complementary field of study, such as computer science, foreign languages, music and performing arts, and environmental science. For those students what want to specialize, we offer three Concentrations: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Human Resource Management and Sustainable Business Practices
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.
Competitions
Competitions
Isenberg Strategy Summit
Isenberg Strategy Summit
Isenberg Strategy Summit
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Showcasing the Capsim Strategy Simulation Competition and the Isenberg Undergraduate Consulting Group’s Case Competition Finals.
Isenberg Ethics Competition
Isenberg Ethics Competition
Isenberg Ethics Competition
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Student competitors discuss the ethical implications raised by a particular case and provide recommendations that are ethical, as well as being financially viable and legally compliant. Winners of the Undergraduate Competitive Division are invited to join the Isenberg Ethics Team and will be eligible to compete for Isenberg in external competitions.
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
Nicki Amos
Lecturer
Michael Blomfield
Assistant Professor
Marta Calás
Professor
Frank Caruso
Lecturer
Ina Ganguli
Professor of Economics
Emily Heaphy
Professor & John F. Kennedy Faculty Fellow
Charles J. Johnson
Clinical Professor
Jennifer Kish-Gephart
Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca
Berthiaume Chaired Professor of Leadership
Matthew D. Langenkamp
Lecturer
Honggi Lee
Assistant Professor
Mzamo Mangaliso
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Jennifer Merton
Associate Department Chair, Law Lecturer Coordinator, & Senior Lecturer II
Temitope S. Oladimeji
Assistant Professor
Bogdan Prokopovych
Senior Lecturer II
Feng Qiu
Assistant Professor
Orlando Richard
Earl W. Stafford Endowed Professor
Anurag Sharma
Associate Professor
Brian Shea
Lecturer
Bruce Skaggs
Flavin Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies: Management
Management Department News
Isenberg Faculty Rank Among World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists
Isenberg Faculty Rank Among World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists
Isenberg School of Management faculty are again among the most prestigious researchers in the world, according to the Top 2% Scientists List. This
Isenberg Faculty Rank Among World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists
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Management Faculty Gather for Fall Retreat
Management Faculty Gather for Fall Retreat
The fall 2025 retreat brought together 23 faculty members of the Isenberg School of Management's Department of Management to strengthen collegial ties
Management Faculty Gather for Fall Retreat
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Isenberg Welcomes New PhD Candidates
Isenberg Welcomes New PhD Candidates
The 10 new PhD candidates represent several countries and academic backgrounds, and they are excited to contribute to the Isenberg community through
Isenberg Welcomes New PhD Candidates
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Department of Management
Room 227
Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts
121 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
Phone: 413.545.8096