Lerner College of Business Announces Winners of Startup Business Funding Competition
The University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business announced the winners of the annual Hen Hatch, the school’s premier business startup funding competition. After competing since early March by pitching entrepreneurial ideas to a panel of expert judges in order to receive recognition and funding, three teams in two tracks emerged as the winners of this year’s competition.
Teams were made up of students, alumni, faculty and staff, and pitches were evaluated by a panel of expert judges, including Neil Book, president and CEO, Jet Support Services; Brian Harvell, vice president, Product Engineering, SevOne; Jennie Horn, founder and chief creative officer, Second Base; John Petterson, senior vice president, Operations, Tiffany & Co.; Mike Phelan, venture partner, Osage Venture Partners; and Mark Parsells, executive chairmain and CEO, GDR Acquisitions Company. Continue reading…
Stillman to Expand Leadership Development Program
Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business has announced that alumnus Gerald P. Buccino has made a $1 million gift commitment to the university in order to expand the reach of the school’s Leadership Development Honors Program at the Stillman School of Business.
Buccino is a successful businessman based in Chicago who specializes in saving troubled companies and turning them into profitable enterprises. He is the president of The Buccino Foundation and a Seton Hall University Regent Emeritus. Continue reading…
Over 100 Fox Faculty to be Recognized by Temple University with Merit Awards
The Provost of Temple University, Hai-Lung Dai, recently announced that 767 faculty at Temple will receive merit awards, with one hundred and eight of those recognized coming from the Fox School of Business.
“A merit award reflects our faculty’s continued dedication and commitment to scholarship and students, and highlights the exceptional drive for excellence in teaching, innovation and performance,” Provost Dai said. Continue reading…
Babson College Recognizes Outstanding Students and Alumni with Changemaker Awards
Since 2011, the Lewis Institute’s Changemaker Awards have recognized Babson students and staff who exemplify remarkable effort to create a positive change within the community and in the world. Two of recipients of this year’s Changemaker Awards are Two of this year’s honorees are from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College; Mayank Arora M’15, and the institute’s first ever alumni award was given to Jon Feinman M’10.
Arora is a first-year MBA student, who will participate in MBAxAmerica this summer. This new, six-week program designed for MBA students from the nation’s top business schools incorporates cross-country travel where students participate in six business challenges with innovative entrepreneurs. He serves as the Vice President of Operations for the Babson Energy & Environmental Club. Arora, who strives to become a social entrepreneur, has a passion for sustainability and is working on improving energy efficiency within the residential sector. Continue reading…
Rutgers Business School Honors Founding Director of the Executive MBA Program
Rutgers Business School Professor Emeritus Philip Shaak, the founding director of the Rutgers Executive MBA program, was honored on April 4 during an EMBA luncheon at Rutgers Business School.
Shaak, who once served as an associate dean, said he looks back at EMBA as the most exciting period of his career. “I really liked teaching and that was the most exciting teaching time for me,” he said. “I was extremely fortunate in my career.”
Rutgers current EMBA director, professor Farrokh Langdana, said that he and Assistant Dean Kathleen Connelly Harmon were “honored to be part of (Shaak’s) legacy to RBS.”
“Kathleen and I have often told Professor Shaak that the Rutgers Executive MBA Program has been able to garner all of its global rankings because it was built on the shoulders of giants, such as Phil Shaak and his team,” Langdana said.
During the event, Professor Shaak took some time to talk about EMBA’s early days, the program’s growth and his time at RBS. He described the beginning of the program in 1987, when a tremendous marketing effort was required, and compared it to the ease of attracting candidates today, based on the success and high rankings the program has achieved, as well as the quality of the faculty and teaching. Shaak emphasized that he and his team were able to attract very bright, professional students who were coming back to school after many years of substantive professional experience, and that created a collaborative learning environment for the program. According the Shaak, “One of the key parts of EMBA is it’s not simply a sterile academic exercise. There’s a blending of the academic world with the real world of business. That blending is what makes the program so successful.”
MIT Announces Recipients of the 2014 Jamieson Teaching Awards
MIT has announced that The 2014 MIT Sloan recipients of the Jamieson Teaching Awards are Professor Georgia Perakis and Associate Professor Juanjuan Zhang. The Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award, the most prestigious teaching prize offered by the School, was established in 2006 and is awarded each year to two MIT Sloan faculty members, as well as two electrical engineering and computer science faculty members, for their contributions to educational excellence at MIT.
Perakis, the William F. Pounds Professor of Management, a professor of operations research and operations management, and the MIT Sloan faculty co-director of the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program, was cited for her “dedication, passion, and innovative thinking that have had a long-standing impact on the School.”
Perakis, who has been a member of the faculty since 1998, said she’s passionate about her job because of the students that she teaches and mentors. “The students here are amazing, and they shape who I am. I feel like a constant student because I am always learning from them,” she said.
Zhang is an associate professor who teaches marketing management and studies social interactions and marketing strategies. The Jamieson Prize Selection Committee noted her “dedication to knowledge dissemination and pedagogical innovation, with impact extending across the Institute.”
Zhang said she was “deeply thankful” for the award. “MIT Sloan has been really supportive of my teaching over the years,” she said. “My colleagues have gone out of their way to help, and my students have brought so much enthusiasm into the classroom, which makes teaching an inspiring experience to me.”
