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BU and Babson Professors Co-Publish New Book
Kathy Kram, Professor in Management at Boston University School of Management and Wendy Murphy, associate professor of management at Babson College, have published a new book titled Strategic Relationships at Work: Creating Your Circle of Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers for Success in Business and Life. The book provides guidelines for building relationships that are crucial to personal success. The book draws upon 30 years of research to offer practical advice on mentoring, coaching, mentoring circles, and developmental networks.
Lubin Alumnus Elected to Pace Board of Trustees
Pace President Stephen J. Friedman announced that Lubin alumnus Joseph R. Ianniello has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Pace University.
Ianniello currently serves as Chief Operating Officer for CBS Corporation. In this role, he oversees all financial operations for CBS. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer where he was responsible for the company’s financial strategy across all of its operations including mergers and acquisitions and risk management.
D’Amore-McKim Associate Dean Named Board Member of GMAC
The Graduate Management Admissions Council has named D’Amore-McKim‘s Associate Dean of graduate programs Kate Klepper, as a new board member. Klepper joins the board at the same time as a new board chair and four other board members.
The Graduate Management Admissions Council was formed in 1970 as an education corporation under New York state law. The GMAC is responsible for the GMAT and follows the philosophy that business and management are critical to the economic and social well being of people worldwide. The council provides information and insights to improve decision-making about the discovery and evaluation of talent for MBA programs.
Fox School to Move Executive MBA to Center City
The Executive MBA program at the Fox School of Business has called the Philadelphia suburbs home for nearly 30 years, but in that time Center City Philadelphia and executive education have each undergone a renaissance. In keeping with the evolution of both, the Fox School Executive MBA program is moving to a downtown location. The Executive MBA program will now be located at The HUB at Commerce Square, an innovative executive meeting facility at 20th and Market streets.
Women Professors Well Represented at Kogod
When Barbara Bird was earning her three degrees, she only had two female professors teaching her. Years later Bird now presides as chair of the Management Department— the first female full Professor to rise through the ranks at the Kogod School of Business. Continue reading…
Haas Applied Innovation Workshop Series Builds Skills
Haas School of Business – UC Berkeley students learned how to design a conversation that sparks creativity and innovation in Lisa Solomon’s workshop called “Designing Strategic Conversations for Innovation.” The workshop is one of a half-dozen offerings in the Full-time Berkeley MBA Program’s new Applied Innovation Workshop Series.
“It was great to learn how you could build an engaging presentation in a larger retreat setting to help people understand what the problems are,” Kavita Patel, MBA 15, said after attending the workshop led by Solomon, an expert within the intersecting spaces of design, leadership, and innovation.
The Applied Innovation Workshop Series is designed to help students build skills that are not generally offered in the formal curriculum to help them in their job search and post-MBA careers. Other workshops have covered everything from mindful leadership to personal storytelling. Continue reading…
Columbia Alums Combine MBAs and Social Enterprises
Two Columbia Business School alumni have created a new social venture in New York City that provides business advisory services to nonprofits and for-profit mission-driven companies. The company is a Teach for America for MBAs interested in nonprofits and social enterprises.
The program, called Inspire Impact, is an incubator fellowship pairing mostly MBA students enrolled in various business schools with social enterprises.
The 10-week program, which has seven MBAs and one engineer, will have classes covering everything from project finance to social media skills. Each student will be matched with an organization to work on a specific project that Nell Derick Debevoise, CEO, and Yael Silverstein, chief strategy and operations officer, have already scoped out, doing a cost-benefit analysis of a new program a group wants to monetize, or looking at different revenue generating opportunities.
“By the end of the summer, they can have a 30,000 foot view of what a career in this field would be like,” says Silverstein. Continue reading…
Mason MBA Alum Spearheads Upset Victory in Panama Presidential Election
One George Mason School of Management MBA alum, Jonathan R. Snowling ’11, recently spearheaded an upset victory for his client Juan Carlos Varela in the race for the Presidency of the Republic of Panama.
Snowling has spent the last two years as a general consultant and campaign director at SR Strategic Communications, a political marketing and corporate public relations group, helping to guide Varela’s political campaign to impressive victories in both the 2013 presidential primary and the 2014 general election. Continue reading…
Cal State Long Beach Receives Study Abroad Grant
Cal State Long Beach will receive a $25,000 innovation grant for study abroad and exchange programs under President Barack Obama’s 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative. CSULB competed against more than 150 proposals for the grant.
Obama launched the initiative with the goal of 100,000 U.S. students participating each year by 2020. According to the State Department, about 40,000 U.S. students study in Latin America and the Caribbean and around 64,000 Latin American and Caribbean students study in the United States each year.
The Obama Administration says that the program will help strengthen ties between the regions and better prepare students for careers in a 21st Century global economy. CSULB’s grant was awarded to the National Council of La Raza/CSULB Center for Latino Community Health and its Centro Salud es Cultura in Long Beach, officials said. Continue reading…
First Master of Business For Veterans Class Graduates From Marshall
The first Master of Business for Veterans (MBV) graduating class has made the transition from military leaders to business professionals thanks to an accelerated one-year business program developed by the USC Marshall School of Business.
“There’s a recognition that leadership in the military is quite different culturally from leadership and management in the business world,” said James Bogle, who spent 23 years in the Army and is now MBV program director.
Professor and MBV Faculty Director Robert Turrill taught the MBV leadership class to identify and build on skills the students had already acquired from the military. The students also learned both professional and personal development, from quantitative finance skills to the nuances of networking, with a cohort of fellow veterans.
“My time at USC in the MBV has been, what I call, transition 2.0,” MBV graduate Mike Hall said. “Making the transition from military to civilian life can be challenging. I certainly experienced some setbacks. When I started the program, I knew this was going to be my shot to do the transition over again and do it with the support of the Marshall School and USC.”
The MBV program offers out-of-classroom support services, including career guidance, networking, getting students involved in professional organizations and USC Marshall activities.
Frankie Lugo, who is currently serving in the Air Force, said that the program opened his eyes to post-military career opportunities he hadn’t considered. After an in-class presentation from the Disney Co. that focused on their initiative to hire veterans, he reached out to them.
“I want to pursue a career at the Walt Disney Co.,” Lugo said. “I’ve got some mentors over there, and they’re hooking me up with all of the divisions trying to see where I could fit and where my skills could work.”
REGISTER: Kogod Professional MBA Online Info Session
Join Kogod School of Business graduate admission department for an opportunity to learn more about Kogod’s Professional MBA program on June 5 from 12-1pm. This online session will include an overview of the academic and student experience along with the admissions requirements and process. Continue reading…
Rutgers Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Rutgers Business School Supply Chain Management Professor Don Klock was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Procurement Leaders Global Awards. Klock was awarded by the Procurement Leaders Advisory Board for his time spent as long time proponent of procurement and a leader of the growth of the procurement function throughout his career. Continue reading…
Carroll Faculty Honored by American Accounting Association
The American Accounting Association recently gave two awards to faculty at the Carroll School of Management’s Accounting Department. Associate Professor Susan Shu won the prestigious Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award for her co-authored paper “Do Managers Withhold Bad News?” that was published in the Journal of Accounting Research in 2009. The three-year project refutes the conventional wisdom that managers disclose bad news in a timely manner because they don’t want to get sued.
Shu and her colleagues found that managers hide bad news because of career concerns, such as promotion, compensation and fear of job loss. “Often times they gamble that things would turn around,” said Shu. “They hope that if they bury the bad news and things turn around, they’ll be OK. But when the bad news accumulates up to some threshold, they cannot withhold it anymore, and they release it. And often, we’ll see stock price crashes because bad news has been withheld and accumulated for a while.” Continue reading…
Graziadio Dean of School of Business and Managment Accepts Position at George Washington University School of Business
Dean and Professor of Management at the Graziadio School of Business and Management, Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., has accepted the position of dean at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, announced Pepperdine University President Andrew K. Benton in a statement. Dr. Livingstone will start her new position August 1, 2014. Continue reading…
Haas Student Wins Byron Nelson Golf Award
Haas School of Business Senior Brandon Hagy was named the winner of the 2014 Byron Nelson Award during a live television appearance Monday morning on Golf Channel’s Morning Drive. Continue reading…
Drucker Professor Finalist For Women Making a Difference Awards.
Jenny Darroch, professor of marketing at The Drucker School of Management, was recognized by The Los Angeles Business Journal as a finalist for its 22nd Annual Women Making a Difference Awards. These awards honor women of outstanding achievement in the Los Angeles community.
Professor Darroch was named a finalist in the “Rising Star” category. She specializes in marketing strategy, in particular, market definition and market segmentation with a special interest in marketing to women. Continue reading…
Villanova Alumnus Pledges $5 Million Commitment to University
Villanova School of Business alumnus James V. O’Donnell and his wife Charlotte have given Villanova University a $5 million commitment as part of the university’s $600 million Comprehensive Capital Campaign, “For the Greater Great: The Villanova Campaign to Ignite Change.” O’Donnell was the CEO of American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. and the current owner of JOD Wayne Advisors, LLC. Continue reading…
Kellogg Alum Make Difference in Low-Income Areas
The following article was originally sourced from the news piece “The Employment Option” on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
Alan Anderson, 2004 graduate of the Kellogg School of Management, cites this quote as the driving force behind his work as regional executive director of Year Up Chicago:
“Nothing stops a bullet faster than a job.”
Year Up is a non-profit that provides low-income adults ages 18 to 24 with one year of technical and professional training for college credit, as well as help arranging job internships. Since joining Year Up in 2010, Anderson has seen to it that those enrolled in the program have better access to job training and opportunities. He has also been instrumental in negotiating partnerships for the nonprofit, including one with City Colleges of Chicago to allow participants to receive college credit for classes and a deal with IT trade association CompTIA to provide fee waivers for certification exams. Continue reading…
