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REGISTER: Kogod’s Career-Con 2014
MBA students should always be looking to either explore new career options or secure a position in the field of their dreams. At the Kogod School of Business’ Career-Con, students will be able to find all the necessary resources to create a personal career arsenal in one day.
Taking place on Saturday, September 6 from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., attendees get to select which of the convention’s five sessions best suits them and join prominent employers and successful alums who will share their expertise and advice. Continue reading…
Stern Teams Win $200K in 2013-2014 Entrepreneurs Challenge
NYU’s most promising innovators were recently awarded a combined $200,000 in start-up cash at the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge, held by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The three winning teams – composed of students and alumni from across the University – were chosen after pitching their ideas and enduring Q&A by judges from venture capital, technology and design, education and social enterprise sectors.
April 25 marked the culmination of one of the largest and most rigorous venture competitions in the world. More than 200 teams comprising over 500 entrants from 14 schools at NYU competed this year in one of three challenges: New Venture, for those pursuing start-ups in a variety of sectors; Social Venture, for those pursuing both social impact and financial sustainability; and Technology Venture, for those focused on bringing intellectual property developed at NYU to market. Continue reading…
Kogod Network 2014 Builds Relationships
This year’s Kogod Network, which is the largest networking event of the year for the entire Kogod School of Business community, took place on Wednesday, April 2. Kogod Network 2014 was hosted by the Kogod Center for Career Development (KCCD). Continue reading…
All Three Haas Programs Place in U.S. News & World Report’s Top 10
All three of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business’ MBA programs placed among the top 10 schools in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report ranking. The Evening & Weekend MBA Program ranked #1 again among part-time program, the Full-time MBA Program ranked #7 among full-time programs for the seventh year in a row and the Berkeley MBA for Executives tied for #9, up from #10 last year, among executive MBA programs. Continue reading…
Finalists Selected For 2014 Pepperdine University Business Plan Competition
Judges for the 2014 Pepperdine University Business Plan Competition fast pitch elimination round chose six student entrepreneur proposals from the Graziadio School of Business and Management to advance to the finals on Saturday, March 22.
The judges included ICANN executive Dennis Chang (EMBA ’94), a Graziadio Board of Visitors (BOV) member; serial entrepreneur George Georgallides (MBA ’11), a partner at product development agency Curious Ventures and BOV member Bob Mosbaugh (PKE MBA ’05), executive vice president at Honeywell Safes & Door Locks / LHLP. Continue reading…
Smeal’s Corporate Associates Program Featured in US News & World Report
US News & World Report featured Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business’s Corporate Associates Program in an article about partnerships between companies and universities. In “When Colleges and Companies Partner, All Involved Benefit,” author Chris Hassan cites Smeal’s Corporate Associates Program as an example of a mutually beneficial relationship between a college and industry. He observes that the partnership with Smeal gives companies access to accomplished MBA students and student organizations. The MBA students also benefit from the corporate relationship because they have the opportunity to interact with corporate professionals in advisory boards, case studies, and classroom lectures. The partnership also gives MBA students the opportunity to interact with corporate recruiters, and gives corporate recruiters access to talented potential employees.
The benefits Smeal, MBA students, and corporations receive from corporate partnerships extend beyond corporate support for student events. Corporate partners contribute thousands of dollars per year to sponsor services and programs at Smeal. Corporate support funds scholarship assistance, special gifts, general school support, research, and professional development activities. The companies also send Recruiters in Residence to Smeal, who offer mock interviews and resume reviewing services to students. Smeal hosts two Career Fairs every year that are only open to Corporate Associate companies.
At this time, Smeal lists twenty companies as Corporate Associates. These companies include industry powerhouses like Aldi, AT&T, Deloitte, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Macy’s, PNC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Shell Oil, and others. Smeal also has a corporate partnership with Kohl’s Department Stores.
Rutgers Group Provides Career Resources and Support To LGBT Community
A new group at Rutgers’ Business School Newark/New Brunswick, RBS Pride, aims to provide support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) MBA students. The club aims to extend Rutgers’ well-established support networks for LGBT students to the business school, which does not currently have a LGBT organization. Rutgers has a new LGBTQ Diversity Resource Center, but it focuses its support on undergraduate student concerns. MBAs have a separate set of issues, particularly in terms of workplace and career concerns. The club will give students a chance to talk freely about issues like workplace discrimination and benefits.
RBS Pride founder Jett McGurk hopes that the organization will also give students access to enhanced career resources. She would like LGBT students to have the opportunity to go to events like Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), a conference that provides extensive networking opportunities for LGBT MBA students and recent alumni. The conference also gives students the chance to interact with recruiters from prominant businesses, and discuss workplace issues for LGBT MBAs. Students and organizations from business schools like Harvard Business School and New York University’s Stern School of Business are frequent attendees of the conference and similar events, and McGurk hopes to give Rutgers students the same opportunities to participate.
The group will have provisional status for two semesters, and will officially become a club after organizing events successfully, including an event at the Livingston Campus. While under provisional status, the club will have an opportunity to gain the necessary number of members and elect leaders. The organization is open to members of the LGBTQ community at Rutgers and their allies.
Three Companies Join Smeal’s Corporate Associates Program
Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business recently announced that three new companies have joined its Corporate Associates Program: Volvo, AT&T, and UPMC. The program is a partnership between Smeal and national and international corporations to help develop a corporate presence at the school that provides advantages for companies and for Smeal students. Companies have the chance to recruit potential workers from Smeal, while students benefit from resources provided by Corporate Associates.
Smeal students interact with Smeal’s Corporate Associates in case studies, advisory boards, and class lectures. However, the Corporate Associates Program extends beyond corporate support for student activities at Smeal. The companies contribute thousands of dollars per year to Smeal to help sponsor a variety of programs and services, including special gifts, scholarship assistance, general school support, research funds, and funding for professional development and student activities.
Smeal also hosts two Career Fairs every year that are exclusively for Associate companies. The most recent fair was held September 16 of this year, and nineteen companies attended it. The companies also provide Recruiters in Residence, who help students prepare for the job search by reviewing resumes and running mock interviews.
The three new companies bring Smeal’s total number of Corporate Associates to twenty one. The other Corporate Associates are Dick’s Sporting Goods, Aldi, Bechtel Corporation, Altria, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, PNC, Shell Oil, Macy’s, Grant Thornton, Johnson & Johnson, EY, Ingersoll Rand, Ferguson, Baker Tilly, Deloitte, Heinz, and PPG Industries. Smeal also has a corporate partnership with Kohl’s department stores.
