UIC School of Business IDS Seminar Series With Matthew Taddy
On Friday, December 4 from 1:45PM – 3:45PM, Matthew Taddy, an associate professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Chicago Booth, will speak at the UIC School of Business. Taddy’s appearance comes as part of the school’s Information and Decision Sciences (IDS) Seminar Series, where each week, IDS faculty from across the nation bring their latest research to faculty, staff and students. Continue reading…
Smith School International Education Week Kicks Off With Global Competence in Business Panel
According to a news story on the university’s website, The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business kicked off International Education Week with a panel discussion on Global Competence in Business. The panelists reflected on the way that global security, sustainability, environmental performance and supply chain security are all modern day issues that impact all multinational companies.
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Novartis CEO Talks Health Care Industry At Carey Leaders + Legends Series
Joseph Jimenez, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Novartis, spoke at a Q&A session at the Carey Business School last month as part of the school’s Leaders + Legends speaker series. The talk was entitled “A Time for Change: The Future of Healthcare” Continue reading…
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Ingrid West, Sellinger MBA ’08, Wins Excellence Award
Ingrid West, MBA ’08 — an alumni of the Sellinger School of Business and president of Acton Mobile Industries, has been named the recipient of SmartCEO’s Circle of Excellence Award for top large technology companies.
According to her company bio, West has full responsibility for strategic and administrative management activities at Acton Mobile Industries, a Baltimore, MD-based provider of modular space rental services to the construction, commercial, industrial, education, healthcare and government markets. She joined Acton in July 2012 as CFO and was promoted to President in December 2013. Prior to Acton Mobile, her most recent role was as VP & CFO of Davis Calibration, a Private Equity owned service provider. Continue reading…
Kellstadt Entrepreneurship Program Ranked #15 In Nation
According to an article on DePaul University’s website, the Princeton Review ranked The DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business’ entrepreneurship program as #15 in the nation. This is five spots higher than last year.
“We offer students a unique combination of classroom and real-world experiences,” DePaul Coleman Entrepreneurship Chair Harold Welsch (BUS ’66, MBA ’68), founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at DePaul said in a statement in the article. “We teach students the theoretical principles involved in entrepreneurship, but we also make sure students get out into the community to learn how entrepreneurship works.” Continue reading…
JHU Carey Team Wins Biopharma Case Competition
According to a press release on the school website, students from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School took home the $6,000 first prize at the 4th Annual Biopharmaceutical Case Competition.
Teams were made up of three to five students MBA and Healthcare Management programs representing top business schools such as the Wharton School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management and Yale School of Management. Continue reading…
