Rutgers Alumnus Featured Speaker for CFO Lecture Series
Rutgers Business School MBA alumnus Olena Paslawsky, will return to the school as the featured speaker for the school’s CFO Lecture Series. The CFO Lecture Series will be held April 23. Paslawsky will speak about her career and specifically her transition to the non-profit world from corporate finance. Paslawsky’s talk is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in Bove Auditorium on the Rutgers campus.
The CFO Lecture Series is one of the school’s most distinguished events, highlighting the success of its alumni as well as the strength of its connections to corporations in Newark and the region. Other MBA alums who have participated in the series include Sheri McCoy, chief executive of Avon and Michael O’Neill, chief executive of Broadcast Music Inc.
Wharton Welcomes New Director of MBA Admissions
The Wharton School has hired Frank DeVecchis as the new Director of MBA Admissions. Before his appointment to this position, DeVecchis was an academic advisor for around 200 Wharton MBA students. DeVecchis came to Wharton in 2009 as the Associate Director of the Wharton Fund. In 2011, he became the director of the Global Immersions Program and in 2013 he briefly served as the interim director of MBA Program Academic Affairs. He most recently served as the Director of MBA Academic Operations.
DeVecchis does not plan to make any big changes in the program immediately but will take time to find what he can do to improve it over the next few years. However, he does plan to make two immediate changes to the office by hiring a data analyst and a Senior Associate Director, who will be specifically focusing on the diversity of the applicants.
Smith MBAs Consult Projects in the Middle East
Three Smith School of Business MBA students, Patrick Gallice, Carlos Cedeno, and Hirokazu Masuoka, were selected to join a consulting team that traveled to the Middle East over Spring Break, 2015. They studied the feasibility of using greywater for small-scale crop production, assisted in finding solutions to water scarcity in the region, and worked to solve a complex environmental problem that implicates legal, public health, and economic issues.
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LMU Revises MBA Program
Loyola Marymount University will introduce a significantly revised curriculum for its MBA program beginning the Fall 2015. The new revised curriculum will allow students to complete the MBA program in only 24 months rather than giving students a maximum 5-year deadline to complete the program. Students currently enrolled in the program will continue with the old curriculum, while new incoming students for the Fall 2015 will begin this new 24 month program.
The redesign for the program will feature a two-calendar-year program that will be split into two sections. During the first year, classes will be structured as a cohort and will take all core classes together. During the second year, students will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of courses to complete electives and choose an area of emphasis.
New Booth Study Finds Employers Prefer to Hear Interviewee’s Voice
According to a new study by Booth School of Business professor Nicholas Epley and Ph.D. candidate Juliana Schroeder found that when employers and recruiters listened to a job candidates qualifications from their own mouth as opposed to reading them, the candidates were rated as more competent, thoughtful and intelligent, even when the words used were exactly the same. So it’s your voice that may actually help you land the job of your dreams job.
“The Sound of Intellect: Speech Reveals a Thoughtful Mind, Increasing a Job Candidate’s Appeal,” will be published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Psychological Science, the highest ranked psychology journal. Continue reading…
Jones Students Compete for Startup Money
The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University held their fourth annual Owl Tank, an event modeled after ABC’s Shark Tank. Taneshia Barton ’10, founder and CEO of BlackBoxx and president of the Jones Graduate School Entrepreneurs Organization (JGSEO) welcomed everyone and explained the purpose of the event: “to give exposure to businesses that may not conform to the traditional venture capital profile.” Continue reading…
