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9/10/2019 Featured Story

Manning Professor a ‘Must Read’ in Harvard Business Review

Manning Professor a ‘Must Read’ in Harvard Business Review

An article co-authored by Asst. Prof. of Management Elizabeth Altman on how companies can turn their products and services into multisided platforms was included in Harvard Business Review’s “10 Must Reads 2019” and “10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation.”

9/10/2019 Featured Story
9/5/2019 Featured Story

New River Hawks Welcomed to Campus, Challenged to Soar

New River Hawks Welcomed to Campus, Challenged to Soar

The university welcomed its largest incoming class ever – nearly 3,400 first-year and new transfer students – at a Convocation ceremony that also kicked off UML’s yearlong 125th anniversary celebration.

9/5/2019 Featured Story
8/23/2019 Department News

Business Students Learn from Latino Professionals

Business Students Learn from Latino Professionals

Seven Manning School of Business students attended the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA) national convention in Nashville, Tenn., where they met alumna Natalia Hilton ’00, ’06 and networked with industry professionals.

8/23/2019 Department News
8/22/2019 Department News

Wilson Center Hosts Chinese Management Scholars Workshop

Wilson Center Hosts Chinese Management Scholars Workshop

The Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the annual Chinese Management Scholars Community research workshop, an event that drew almost 50 Chinese scholars from 30 universities from around the world.

8/22/2019 Department News
8/20/2019 Featured Story

Hockey Alum Looks to Leverage UML Assets

Hockey Alum Looks to Leverage UML Assets

Former UML hockey player Ludwig Marek ’98, now a managing director at the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, shared career advice with current River Hawk players during a visit to the Manning School of Business.

8/20/2019 Featured Story
8/14/2019 Featured Story

Boot Camp Makes a Difference in Pitch Power

Boot Camp Makes a Difference in Pitch Power

Each Thursday in June for five hours a day, members of nine DifferenceMaker teams refined, rebooted and reimagined the projects that earned them spots in summer boot camp.

8/14/2019 Featured Story
8/12/2019 Featured Story

For Business Professor, Guatemalan Corruption is Personal

For Business Professor, Guatemalan Corruption is Personal

Asst. Prof. of Management Jose Godinez is collaborating with a university in his native Guatemala to launch a master’s program in corporate compliance. He is also working with the school to conduct a survey on business-related corruption and bribery in Latin America.

8/12/2019 Featured Story
7/31/2019 Featured Story

GE2 Program Celebrates Grand Milestone

GE2 Program Celebrates Grand Milestone

The Global Entrepreneurship Exchange (GE2) program reached the 1,000-student milestone as 75 students and faculty from 12 countries visited campus for two weeks of multicultural collaboration designed to teach the fundamentals of launching a business.

7/31/2019 Featured Story
7/29/2019 Lowell Sun In The News

Grads Travel 7,000 Miles for Commencement

Grads Travel 7,000 Miles for Commencement

Some UMass Lowell students crossed campus to attend graduation this May. Others traveled 7,000 miles. This year, more than three dozen Japanese students who completed online courses flew to campus for commencement.

7/29/2019 Lowell Sun In The News
7/23/2019 Department News

Manning School Hosts Indian Business Students

Manning School Hosts Indian Business Students

Fourteen business students from M.O.P. Vaishnav College for Women in Chennai, India, visited campus for a three-week program that combined coursework led by Manning School of Business faculty and visits to companies like Microsoft and Salesforce.

7/23/2019 Department News
6/24/2019 Featured Story

Finance Students Take AIM at Wall Street

Finance Students Take AIM at Wall Street

Four Manning School of Business finance students – Bony Ganugapanta, Greg Montemurro, Thavady Pech and Katie Sanchez – took part in the CQA Institute’s two-week Advanced Investment Management course at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

6/24/2019 Featured Story
6/21/2019 Featured Story

Biotech East Explores Intersection of Science and Business

Biotech East Explores Intersection of Science and Business

The Manning School of Business and the Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the first-ever Biotech East, a weeklong course for Ph.D. students and postdocs in health, science and medical programs interested in discovering the commercial side of science.

6/21/2019 Featured Story
6/21/2019 Featured Story

Women’s Leadership Conference: Focus on the Work, Not on Fitting In

Women’s Leadership Conference: Focus on the Work, Not on Fitting In

“Be true to yourself” and “prioritize” emerged as key themes at the fourth annual Women’s Leadership Conference. Some speakers and sessions also encouraged women to work at tech firms.

6/21/2019 Featured Story
6/18/2019 Featured Story

Deshpande Symposium Looks to the Future

Deshpande Symposium Looks to the Future

The need to promote entrepreneurship among risk-averse millennials is a challenge facing colleges and universities across the country, according to Amy Nelson, CEO of Venture for America, speaking at the Deshpande Symposium.

6/18/2019 Featured Story
6/18/2019 Featured Story

San Francisco Treat: Business Students Visit Salesforce

San Francisco Treat: Business Students Visit Salesforce

Ten students from the Manning School of Business participated in the Salesforce TrailheaDX developer conference and career fair in San Francisco, where they also got an inside look at the CRM giant’s new global headquarters.

6/18/2019 Featured Story
6/12/2019 Department News

OIS Faculty Present Papers at INFORMS Annual Meeting

OIS Faculty Present Papers at INFORMS Annual Meeting

The Manning School of Business was well represented at the 2018 annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), the world’s largest professional association of operations research and analytics professionals and students.

6/12/2019 Department News
6/6/2019 Department News

Can Business Heal the World?

Can Business Heal the World?

The Donahue Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility welcomed Raj Sisodia, co-founder of the “Conscious Capitalism” movement, for a Distinguished Speaker Series discussion on how business can become the primary agent for healing communities and the world.

6/6/2019 Department News
5/29/2019 Department News

Japanese MBA Students Cap Their Journey

Japanese MBA Students Cap Their Journey

More than three dozen students traveled to campus from Japan to receive their MBA degrees, which they earned online through the university’s partnership with Tokyo-based Abitus.

5/29/2019 Department News
5/24/2019 Department News

Grad Students Honored at Hooding Ceremony

Grad Students Honored at Hooding Ceremony

The Manning School of Business recognized outstanding graduate students at its annual Hooding Ceremony at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, where Ethan Brown ’14 encouraged grads to build a strong alumni network.

5/24/2019 Department News
5/21/2019 Featured Story

UML and Middlesex Work Together for Transfer Success

UML and Middlesex Work Together for Transfer Success

UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College share a common mission: making a world-class education available to all students so that they can achieve their potential. New initiatives are bringing the two schools closer than ever – and creating a model to help all transfer students succeed.

5/21/2019 Featured Story

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