Women Leaders of the Smith School Speak at Forté MBA Women’s Leadership Conference
On June 20, two expert businesswomen from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, Elana Fine and Vice Dean Joyce E.A. Russell, discussed the importance of speaking up and asking for more at the Forté MBA Women’s Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.
Fine moderated a keynote panel on empowering women entrepreneurs. Continue reading…
MBA Programs Undergo Curriculum and Structure Revisions
MBA programs all over the world have been working to redesign their program curriculum and structure to create a better learning environment and better skills for its students. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) recently held the Curriculum Conference Re(invest+Think+Design). The conference focused on ways that colleges and universities can redesign MBA program curriculum too meet the changing needs of students.
The complications that schools face when redesigning or creating new MBA programs are being able to adapt a curriculum that can help future business leaders to get ahead of industry trends and develop content with immediate relativity and create long-lasting skills with life-time value. Before the AACSB Conference, the organization held three symposia on topics related to redesigning the MBA.
Drucker Professor Bernie Jaworski Receives AMA Lifetime Achievement Award
Bernie Jaworski, the Peter F. Drucker Chair in Management and the Liberal Arts at Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Management, has received The 2015 Mahajan Award from the American Marketing Association (AMA).
According to the AMA, Jaworski is one of the country’s most highly cited and influential marketing scholars: three of his articles on market orientation have been cited more than 15,000 times and have led to a stream of other research from academics around the world. Continue reading…
Zarb Online MBA Ranked by Princeton Review
The Online MBA program at the Zarb School of Business has been ranked no. 15 in the nation by the Princeton Review. This is the first time that the publication has ranked online MBA programs. The rankings rate the top 25 online MBA programs at 80 different schools. The Zarb online MBA is the only program in the metropolitan New York area to make the list.
The rankings were based on information that the Princeton Review received from surveys of administrators, students and graduates of online MBA programs. The surveys focused on five core areas, which included, academics, selectivity, faculty, technical platforms and career outcomes. The scores for each of the core areas were weighted and the score was combined to complete the final score for the program.
GW Business Alumni Honored by DC Chamber of Commerce
Michael Akin, George Washington University School of Business BA ’03, MBA ’07, and current president of Reingold LINK, has been named the 2015 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Washington DC Chamber of Commerce. Akin received this award thanks to his role in growing his company from a small shop with local clientele to a national brand with more than 60 clients around the country. Continue reading…
Leavey MBA Promoted to CFO
Mike Kourey, MBA alumnus of Leavey ‘86, has been promoted to CFO of Medallia, according to a press release from the school. Medallia is one of the world’s largest customer experience management companies in the world and boasts clients like Four Seasons, Sephora and Airbnb amongst others. The company was started in 2001 by consultants to Fortune 500 executives after they saw a direct correlation between customer loyalty and the commercial success of a company. Continue reading…
