Alumni Profile: Quinlan’s Nicole Vasquez, MBA ’11, Founder of The Shift in Chicago
A recent article appearing in Loyola Magazine, profile Quinlan School of Business alumni Nicole Vasquez, MBA ’11.
Vasquez told the magazine, “I was attracted to Loyola’s all-star reputation and how easily it fit into my schedule.”
Vasquez’s first company, BLEND, was founded after she began attending communal events at 1871, Quinlan’s entrepreneurial hub and coworking space Continue reading…
New Ranking of Top 50 Online MBA Degrees Lists George Washington University’s #17
A recently published list of the Top 50 Online MBA Degrees by TopManagmentDegrees.com has ranked George Washington University’s Online MBA Program as #17 overall. TopManagmentDegrees.com’s business education rankings, dubbed the “Super Ranking,” are put together in a way that to help prospective students make a smart choice about where to invest their time and money.
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Quinlan Opens John and Kathy Schreiber Center Up For Business in Chicago
We’ve been writing a lot about the John and Kathy Schreiber Center lately in this space. The Loyola community was finally able to official celebrate the opening of the new home of the Quinlan School of Business with a ribbon cutting and building blessing on August 27.
Quinlan is moving to the new 10-story building on the Water Tower campus named for the Schreibers, alumni John Schreiber and his wife Kathy, who promised $10 million to the school last year. According to Crain’s, the building will found at the corner of State Street and Pearson Avenue will house Loyola’s Family Business Center, Center for Risk Management and its Supply and Value Chain Center in addition to hosting undergraduate, graduate and executive-education business classes. Continue reading…
DePaul University Offering MBA Degree With Real Estate Focus
As the real estate industry rebounds from its bursted bubble a few year back, DePaul University’s Kellstadt School of Business provides various opportunities for graduate students who want to enter or advance in the field.
“After the real estate slowdown of the last few years, the job market for real estate graduates has improved substantially recently,” Charles Wurtzebach, chairman of the Department of Real Estate at DePaul University, said in an article on the school’s website. “All sectors of commercial real estate appear to be expanding and need new employees to keep up with the expansion. Many of our students have been successful in getting multiple offers at graduation.” Continue reading…
George Mason University Ranked #47 is Best Universities Worldwide for Business List
China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently put together the Academic Ranking of World Universities — a study of faculty and alumni data from 1,200 schools around the world in order to rank these institutions of higher education. In the rankings, George Mason University ranks 47th for economics and business — a testament to the George Mason School of Business.
In addition to the high rank in the world of business, Mason was also ranked among the top 151-200 of the best 500 universities in the world by. It is the eighth year Mason has placed in that tier in the Academic Ranking of World Universities since the rankings began in 2003. Continue reading…
JHU Carey Associate Professor Conducts Study on Beauty
Ah, to be beautiful. There have been countless studies that show that those deemed as beautiful people go on to have better lives than the rest of us. Metrics used to gauge this include career path, income and more positive attention from society. However, according to an article from BizEd, a new study from a JHU Carey School of Business professor shows that what constitutes “beautiful” can rapidly change. Continue reading…
