Manning School of Business News

11/6/2018 Featured Story

For This River Hawk, Red Sox’ Championship Means the World

For This River Hawk, Red Sox’ Championship Means the World

Business major Drew Epperson, student manager of the UML baseball team, experienced the Red Sox World Series victory like few others, thanks to his dad’s coaching job with the Sox.

11/6/2018 Featured Story
11/6/2018 Featured Story

Business Student Eyes Big Break on ‘American Idol’

Business Student Eyes Big Break on ‘American Idol’

Manning School of Business student and aspiring singer Nicole Hayek auditioned for executive producers of “American Idol” in Louisville, Ky., with hopes of advancing to the celebrity judges.

11/6/2018 Featured Story
11/6/2018 Department News

Manning School Co-hosts Women’s Accounting Leadership Series

Manning School Co-hosts Women’s Accounting Leadership Series

The Manning School of Business and the Institute of Management Accountants co-hosted the Women’s Accounting Leadership Series, a semiannual event that provides a forum for professionals in accounting and finance to exchange ideas on leadership development and strategies for success.

11/6/2018 Department News
11/2/2018 Featured Story

Student Investors Stockpile Another Victory

Student Investors Stockpile Another Victory

For the sixth time in 10 years, the Manning School of Business’ Student Managed Fund was the UMass system’s top finisher in the annual investing competition sponsored by the UMass Foundation.

11/2/2018 Featured Story
10/29/2018 Featured Story

Students Design Backpacks of the Future

Students Design Backpacks of the Future

A total of 30 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from colleges across the campus competed during the first Future Pack Design Challenge, held at the new Fabric Discovery Center.

10/29/2018 Featured Story
10/24/2018 Featured Story

Are Robots Coming for Your Job?

Are Robots Coming for Your Job?

Manning School of Business faculty Scott Latham and Beth Humberd examined four ways that jobs will respond to automation in a research article published in MIT Sloan Management Review.

10/24/2018 Featured Story
10/22/2018 Featured Story

Extended Family: UML Welcomes Textile Scion to Campus

Extended Family: UML Welcomes Textile Scion to Campus

Marjorie Yang, chair of the $1 billion Hong Kong-based textile company Esquel Group, visited campus and talked to students about sustainability and social responsibility. Her father, Y.L. Yang, earned a master of science in textile chemistry from the Lowell Textile Institute in 1948.

10/22/2018 Featured Story
10/19/2018 Department News

Basketball Hall of Fame CEO Holds Court with Students

Basketball Hall of Fame CEO Holds Court with Students

John Doleva, president and CEO of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and former vice president at Spalding Sports Worldwide, shared career advice during a visit with Manning School of Business students.

10/19/2018 Department News
10/15/2018 Featured Story

DifferenceMaker Celebration Brings Star Power

DifferenceMaker Celebration Brings Star Power

The fourth annual DifferenceMaker Celebration was twice as good as expected. Not only did CNBC commentator Ron Insana serve up a helping of witty business talk on the very day the Dow plunged more than 800 points, but Dean Kamen – the New Hampshire-based engineer and Segway inventor – showed up and spoke to the sold-out crowd, too.

10/15/2018 Featured Story
10/15/2018 Featured Story

President Meehan Offers ‘Lessons in Leadership’

President Meehan Offers ‘Lessons in Leadership’

UMass President Marty Meehan returned to campus to discuss the power of education and the importance of college affordability as part of “Leaders in Lowell,” a speaker series run by a pair of Lowell Catholic High School students.

10/15/2018 Featured Story
10/4/2018 Department News

Accounting Students in Demand for Tax Season

Accounting Students in Demand for Tax Season

Accounting students from the Manning School of Business met with two dozen firms that were on campus to recruit for co-ops, internships and full-time jobs at the annual Accounting Career Fair.

10/4/2018 Department News
10/3/2018 Department News

Accounting Grads Make the Grade on CPA Exam

Accounting Grads Make the Grade on CPA Exam

Accounting graduates from the Manning School of Business who took the CPA exam for the first time this year had a 59.7 percent pass rate, which ranks eighth out of 33 colleges and universities across the commonwealth.

10/3/2018 Department News
9/27/2018 Department News

RSM Ramps Up Recruiting Efforts at Manning School

RSM Ramps Up Recruiting Efforts at Manning School

Accounting alum Chris MacKenzie ’84, office managing partner at RSM, Boston, met with Manning School of Business faculty and students to ramp up recruiting efforts at the audit, tax and consulting firm.

9/27/2018 Department News
9/25/2018 Featured Story

From Somali Refugee to College Soccer Powerhouse

From Somali Refugee to College Soccer Powerhouse

Men’s soccer player and sophomore business administration major Abdi Shariff-Hassan, a Somali refugee, is a key figure in author Amy Bass’ book “One Goal,” which is being featured in the 2018 Lowell Reads series.

9/25/2018 Featured Story
9/18/2018 Featured Story

Alumni Help Feed Dell’s Employee Supply Chain

Alumni Help Feed Dell’s Employee Supply Chain

Business grad Mai Pham and engineering alum Nabil Saleh, who both landed jobs at Dell Technologies after graduation, returned to campus to tell students about opportunities in the field of supply chain operations.

9/18/2018 Featured Story
9/17/2018 Department News

Wilson Center Examines ‘Born-Global’ Social Ventures

Wilson Center Examines ‘Born-Global’ Social Ventures

The Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship hosted Prof. Lei Li from the Nottingham University Business School in China for a research seminar on “born-global” social ventures.

9/17/2018 Department News
9/6/2018 Press Release

Expert: Nike's Campaign to Attract Millennials is Costing Brand Boomers' Business

Expert: Nike's Campaign to Attract Millennials is Costing Brand Boomers' Business

Scott Latham, business strategy expert and Manning School of Business professor, says Nike's controversial campaign with Colin Kaepernick is costing the brand customers.

9/6/2018 Press Release
8/30/2018 Department News

From China to Lowell, Young Entrepreneurs Join Forces

From China to Lowell, Young Entrepreneurs Join Forces

More than 150 students from 11 countries, including 27 UML students, participated in two-week Global Entrepreneurship Exchange program sessions this summer in China and Lowell.

8/30/2018 Department News
8/28/2018 Eagle-Tribune In The News

Nudging Students into the Accounting Profession

Nudging Students into the Accounting Profession

Hoping to increase the pool of people who choose accounting as a profession, a trade group is launching an early college academy at Haverhill High School that will enable students to earn up to 12 college credits through UMass Lowell.

8/28/2018 Eagle-Tribune In The News
8/21/2018 Press Release

Prestigious UMass Award Recognizes Educator in UMass Lowell’s Manning School of Business

Prestigious UMass Award Recognizes Educator in UMass Lowell’s Manning School of Business

UMass Lowell faculty member Deborah Finch has been honored for her outstanding commitment to students with one of the University of Massachusetts system’s most prestigious awards, the Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

8/21/2018 Press Release

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