Rutgers Names Business School Professor as Provost
Rutgers University- Newark has selected Rutgers Business School Professor Jerome Williams as the next provost of University in Newark. Williams will begin his new position on Sept. 1, 2015. Williams has been with the Rutgers Business School since 2010. He has served as the Prudential Chair in Business, director of the PhD program and has also overseen research at The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.
As provost, Williams will represent Rutgers-Newark on the Rutgers system Promotion Review Committee. He will also work with university leaders to solidify support of a wide range of scholarly pursuits and collaborations. Williams will also help to build a high impact research program for Rutgers-Newark and to help the school to work with other Rutgers-Newark leadership team members to grow institutional partnerships and initiatives.
Rutgers Alumnus Shares PMBA Experience
Dan Zuccarello waited more than 30 years to return to school for his MBA. On May 21, he graduated from the Rutgers School of Business-Camden. Zuccarello, who currently serves as a manager of the quality control laboratory at Daiichi-Sankyo, a global pharmaceutical company in Bethlehem, Pa. began his MBA program in the 1980s at Rutgers School of Business- New Brunswick.
After reading an advert for the program that he received in the mail, explaining that the program only met on Saturdays and attending an information session on the Professional MBA program offered at the Rutgers-Camden campus, Zuccarello decided it was time to go back to finish his MBA. “I always felt my career was limited because I was only a scientist,” Zuccarello told Rutgers News. “I had no business background and all of my education was in biology and chemistry. I was an analytical chemist for 35 years, but was running a business. I was being asked to handle finance, accounting, and human resources and I had no background in it. I wasn’t a fish completely out of water, but I wasn’t comfortable.”
Rutgers Center for Real Estate Selects Advisory Board Members
The Center for Real Estate at the Rutgers Business School has gathered top real estate professionals to serve as the “Founding Members” of its professional Advisory Board. Advisory Board members will serve as a channel of information for the Center and will help to promote productive discussion among students, industry peers and government.
The members of the Advisory Board will also have the opportunity to teach a class for students at the Center for Real Estate by acting as an adjunct professor or guest lecturer. Members will also be able to participate in Center-run conferences and guest speaker series and become a mentor for a student. As a student’s mentor, members will attend career days and provide internship opportunities for students.
Rutgers-Camden Establishes Leadership Institute
Rutgers University–Camden has established the Leadership Institute, which will connect students to programs, events and other opportunities to enhance their college experience. The Leadership Institute will help students identify their talents, passions and career opportunities through mentoring and advising. The Institute will work in partnership with Rutgers–Camden’s Career Center, the Rutgers University Alumni Association, Civic Scholars program, the Business Leadership Development Program and other initiatives to provide academic and career mentoring for students.
Students participate in the institute for their first two years at Rutgers. Leadership training programs will still be available for students in their junior and senior years. First-year students accepted to the Leadership Institute will receive a scholarship, renewable upon the completion of four Leadership Institute approved activities per semester.
Alumnus Appointed Chair of Rutgers-Camden Board of Trustees
Sandy Stewart, a Rutgers University-Camden graduate, (CCAS ’81, GSC ‘87) was appointed chair of the university’s Board of Trustees on July 1, 2014.
The Rutgers–Camden alumnus was first appointed to the Board of Trustees in 2006. As chair, Stewart will serve on several committees as an ex officio member, including the Board of Trustees Joint Investments Committee, the Governance Improvement Task Force, the Rutgers University–Camden Alumni Association Board, and the Advisory Board of the Camden Small Business Incubator.
CaseWare Analytics Donates Technology and Services to Rutgers
CaseWare Analytics announced today that it has donated $250,000 of technology and services to The Rutgers Accounting Research Center. The contribution will support the efforts of the Rutgers Continuous Auditing and Reporting Lab (CAR) to advance audit practices through the use of technology.
“Today, we lead the field in research in the areas of Continuous Auditing and Enhanced Business Reporting, and are constantly seeking solutions to take advantage of the Real-Time Economy,” said Miklos Vasarhelyi, Director of Rutgers Accounting Research Center, Rutgers University. “The donation of CaseWare Analytics’ technology has been vital to our project’s development. In a world with rapidly growing data, our students will be prepared to view this environment as an opportunity to add tremendous value and insights.”
As a leading supplier of software for data analytic and continuous auditing, CaseWare Analytics is proud to support the work of Rutgers University students.
“CaseWare is continually pursuing new solutions to address business issues, and continuous auditing is at the forefront of our efforts,” said Andrew Simpson, Chief Operating Officer, CaseWare Analytics. “Rutgers University produces some of the brightest professionals entering the workforce, and we are pleased to assist them in giving future auditors exposure to next generation technologies they will be using in their careers.”
The benefits of automated analysis and alert systems enable businesses to establish an accountability system that is second to none, effectively enhancing the governance structure within any organization. The Rutgers Accounting Web has been a leader of accounting and auditing research for the past two decades. U.S. News and World Report has ranked Rutgers as a top producer of Fortune 500 CEOs and job placements for MBA students.
