Business & Economy
Professor Robert Ashford’s ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ Gains International Support
According to Robert Ashford, Bond Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor in the College of Law, “In the time needed to read this article, the wealthiest 1 percent of the American people will have acquired more capital wealth with the earnings of…
Award-Winning Author, VP of Mozilla, Speaks at Bird Library Sept. 28
Experienced marketing executive, futurist and award-winning author Alex Salkever will speak about his new book, “Driver in the Driverless Car,” on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library. The event is co-sponsored…
Blackstone LaunchPad Offers Two-Part Series, the Funding Roadmap
The Blackstone LaunchPad is joining The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Innovation Connectors to present a two-part series, The Funding Roadmap, on startup and growth capital. The workshops will be presented on Tuesday, Sept. 26, and Monday, Oct. 2. Explore funding opportunities from startup to acceleration…
Applications Open for Global Student Entrepreneur Award
Oct. 25 is the deadline to apply for the 2018 Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), the premier global competition for student entrepreneurs who actively run a business. Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), a private peer-to-peer group, is composed of over 12,000 of…
Blackstone LaunchPad to Help More Startups through Ideator Software Platform
The Blackstone LaunchPad at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ is offering a free new software platform for faculty, staff, student and alumni entrepreneurs. Ideator is a startup management tool created by the Blackstone Entrepreneurship Initiative (a project of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation), working…
U.S. News Ranks the Whitman School in Top 50 Nationwide
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s undergraduate business program was ranked #42 in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Best College rankings. The school’s department of entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises was ranked #13 nationwide. Additionally, U.S. News ranked universities overall; ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ was…
Poets and Quants Names Dharwadkar among Top Business Professors
In a first-of-its-kind list, Poets and Quants for Undergrads, a higher education website that provides information and counsel to those interested in business school education, features Ravi Dharwadkar, professor and chair of the management department at the Whitman School, as one of the top 40…
$5,000 Impact Prize for Social Entrepreneurship Debuts this Fall
A new Impact Prize initiative  is launching at the University. The program will support student entrepreneur teams that devise innovative and implementable solutions to economic or social problems, or civic challenges. Coordinated by the Blackstone LaunchPad at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, the Impact…
EuroTech Information Sessions Scheduled
Fall information sessions for the 2017 EuroTech Immersion Experience trip hosted by the School of Information Studies (iSchool) have been scheduled. This three-credit traveling seminar exposes students to some of the largest global corporations so they can see first-hand how…
Kennedy Patlan named first Blackstone LaunchPad Engagement Scholar
Kennedy Patlan ’18, a triple major in advertising in the Newhouse School, citizenship and civic engagement in the Maxwell School and women’s and gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the first Blackstone LaunchPad Engagement…