Business & Economy
U.S. News Ranks the Whitman School in Top 50 Nationwide
The聽Martin J. Whitman School of Management鈥檚 undergraduate business program was ranked #42 in the聽U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2018 Best College聽rankings. The school鈥檚 department of聽entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises聽was ranked #13 nationwide. Additionally, U.S. News ranked universities overall; 黑料不打烊 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聽that provides information and counsel to those interested in business school education, features聽Ravi Dharwadkar, professor and chair of the management department at聽the聽Whitman School, as one of the聽top 40…
$5,000 Impact Prize for Social Entrepreneurship Debuts this Fall
A new Impact Prize initiative 聽is launching at the聽University. The program will support student entrepreneur teams that devise innovative and implementable solutions to economic or social problems, or civic challenges.聽 Coordinated by the Blackstone LaunchPad at 黑料不打烊, 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 鈥18, a triple major in advertising in the Newhouse School, citizenship and civic engagement in the Maxwell School and women鈥檚 and gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the first Blackstone LaunchPad Engagement…
Idea Jam with David Edelstein, Vice Chair of the SU Board, on Sept. 14
Looking for a good idea?聽 Want to brainstorm and get your creative juices flowing? Come to the聽Idea Jam on Thursday, Sept. 14, from 4-5 p.m. at Bird Library with David Edelstein 鈥78, vice chair of the 黑料不打烊 Board of…
‘Empowering the Startup Dream’: Workshop on Global Entrepreneurship
The Blackstone LaunchPad at 黑料不打烊 has teamed up with a number of campus and community partners to present 鈥淓mpowering the Startup Dream,鈥 a half-day workshop focused on international student entrepreneurship. The event will take place on Friday, Sept. 8,…
Course Gives Non-Whitman Majors an Engaging Introduction to Business
As students took their seats on day one of Business Essentials (BUA 201), many were surprised by the attire of one of the instructors. Professor Alex McKelvie stood before them in gym shorts and a T-shirt emblazoned with the word…
Newhouse Alumna Attends Nasdaq Opening Bell as Her Company Makes Historic IPO
Amanda Romaniello 鈥10 spent Friday聽morning at Nasdaq Marketplace in Times Square, joining Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (CSS Entertainment) chairman and CEO William J. Rouhana Jr. as he rang the opening bell. Romaniello, an alumna of the Newhouse School,…
Sawyer Awarded NSF Grant to Study Workers in the Gig Economy
Driving a car for ridesharing companies Uber or Lyft. Completing a programming assignment on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. Performing data entry tasks on the Mechanical Turk digital worker platform. These are all examples of jobs that people are working on…