Rutgers Prof. Presented with Hall of Fame Award
Rutgers Business School professor Jerome Williams was presented with The PhD Project’s Marketing Doctoral Student Association Hall of Fame Award. The award is a prelude to an induction into The PhD Project’s Marketing Doctoral Student Association Hall of Fame.
Williams, is a distinguished professor of marketing and holds the endowed Prudential Chair in Business at Rutgers. He is also the research director for The Center of Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Rutgers Business School and serves as its PhD program director.
First Chair in Real Estate Named at Rutgers
Dr. Morris Davis, a real estate and urban land economics professor at Wisconsin Business School, has been chosen to hold the Paul V. Profeta Chair in Real Estate at Rutgers Business School and help build Rutgers into a leading center for real estate studies and research.
Davis, who completed his PhD in economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, has held the James A. Graaskamp Chair in Real Estate at the Wisconsin School of Business at Wisconsin University since 2010. He began serving as academic director of the business school’s Graaskamp Center for Real Estate in 2011.
Rutgers Student Wins Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
Rutgers School of Business, Newark student Juan Flores spent 20 hours writing essays and developing a strategy for how to help promote the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program. The essay was part of the application process for the program that gives students an opportunity to study abroad.
Flores learned that he had won the scholarship in April and would be going to Brazil for an intensive, month-long language class in Portuguese.
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.”
