When I began my college career at Whitman, like many of my peers, I was torn on what my major would be. I knew I enjoyed thinking analytically and using numbers to solve problems. It wasn’t until my sophomore year…
Alumni of the Week: Sandeep Ramachandran ’15 MBA
Pursing an MBA has always been my career goal and I was very confident that I wanted to specialize in supply chain management. With a technical background and some supply chain experience, I was always fascinated by how each and…
Understanding Company Culture and Creativity
In the past decade, there has been increasing pressure on businesses to clearly define their “company culture.” Oftentimes, job seekers know that company culture is important, but can be more concerned about getting the job than making sure they fit…
Alumni of the Week: Jingyun Zhu ’15
Before coming to the United States, I earned my bachelor’s degree in finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I hadn’t decided which career path I wanted to take, so I chose to pursue higher education and enlarge my understanding of the financial…
5 Lessons For Vets Before You Start Your Own Business
Here are the top five entrepreneurship lessons currently being taught at 180 military installations across the world. For years, military service has been recognized as one of the leading indicators of entrepreneurial success. According to a report by the U.S.…
Happy Friday: Undergrad Life at Whitman
Happy Friday! Here’s a quick look at undergrad life at Whitman. What’re you doing today?
Alumni of the Week: Maryann Akinboyewa ’15
I started my journey at Syracuse University as an education major. Each morning, as I walked from my dorm in Dellplain to Huntington Hall, I would stare across the street at Whitman. I wanted to be there so badly! Within…
Alumni of the Week: David Skoler ’15
As a freshman at Syracuse University, I was unsure of what my career goals were. I was in the iSchool and loved it, but I knew that I wanted to complement my technology education with something else. Fortunately, I found…
Alumni of the Week: Dani Alderman ’15
When I transferred to Whitman in the first semester of my sophomore year, I had no idea what I wanted to major in or what I wanted to do in terms of a career path. Surprisingly, I enjoyed my introductory…
Professor Lathrop Shares Understanding of Holiday Shopping
Black Friday, Brown Thursday, Cyber Monday… There is an overload of deals surrounding every winter holiday season. Whether you take part in celebrating the winter holidays or not, you are more than likely drawn in to the shopping scene or…
December 2015 Class News, Notes and Thanks
We welcome announcements of new jobs, promotions, board positions, marriages and family additions. Please visit our online submission form to share your news. NEW POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS: Robin Dale Hait ’87 − Regional Sales Ececutive, Vodafone Global Enterprise Marty Kovacevich ‘90 MBA…
Alumni of the Week: Jeff Neal ’06 ’15 MBA
As I began my job search as a senior at Syracuse, I knew being in marketing that it would benefit me to work in a field I am already passionate about. I really wanted to find a position in the…
Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises 2014-2015 Year at a Glance
Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises is a flagship program at the Whitman School of Management, which is consistently ranked as one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the nation. Whitman EEE helps students discover their innate entrepreneurial potential, giving them a set…
Alumni of the Week: Joe Simek ’15
I first applied to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management because I was undecided and liked the idea of wearing a fancy suit in a NYC skyscraper someday. Turns out, you change your mind a lot during college—so much…
Career Center’s Top 5 Tips for Students
Are you looking for an internship, co-op or job? The academic year may have just started but so has the time for job searching. It can be difficult to know where to start, so we sought advice. Here are the top…
Two Whitman Entrepreneurship Professors Receive 2015 Greif Research Impact Award
A paper co-authored by Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s Johan Wiklund, professor of entrepreneurship, and Professor Tom Lumpkin, The Chris J. Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship, was selected to receive the 2015 Greif Research Impact Award. The two…
Featured Alumni Entrepreneur: Max Doblin ’15
If you hide a $100 bill somewhere around campus, people will go out and try to find it. That was the simple hypothesis from which Hypeist was born. Max Doblin ’15 and his co-founder, Blake Danzig, also a graduate of…
Alumni of the Week: Natasha Caminero ’15
When transferring to Whitman, I had no idea what I wanted to study. But the dedicated faculty and staff, whether through the career center, undergrad office, etc., proactively helped me decide what I wanted to do and how to prepare for…
Camille Habayeb ’78: A Feeling of Home 5,519 Miles Away
Feeling “at home” is important in the transition to college. That is true whether the campus is 50, 500 hundred or 5,519 miles away—as it was for Camille Habayeb (far right) when he left his native Beirut, Lebanon, for Syracuse…
Alumni of the Week: Camila Perez ’15
One of my first classes in Whitman upon transferring from David B. Falk my sophomore year was SOM 354: Managing in a Global Setting. This is where Professor Dhawakar encouraged the class to study abroad to experience the business world…