The determination of Ruixia Zheng ’21 MBA, ’22 M.S., took her from a self-described “small and remote town in China” across the world to Syracuse University’s Whitman School. There, she earned not one but two master’s degrees, while at the…
Full-Time Graduate Student Spotlight: Anushree Jagdish ’23 MBA
Full-Time Graduate Student Spotlight: Anushree Jagdish ’23 MBA Hometown: Thane, India Degree: MBA Concentrations: Marketing and Supply Chain Management Anushree Jagdish ’23 MBA came to the Whitman School after working in advertising in her home country of India for a…
Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Rehan “Reh” Balsara ’23
Undergraduate Student Spotlight: Rehan “Reh” Balsara ’23 Hometown: Mumbai, India Majors: Accounting, Business Analytics and Finance Minor: Psychology Rehan “Reh” Balsara ’23 was initially drawn to the Whitman School’s finance program and its emphasis on experiential learning. He says, “During…
SUNY Upstate, Syracuse University Partner for MD/MBA Program
SUNY Upstate Medical University and Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management are launching a joint MD/MBA, which allows students to earn two valuable degrees in a coordinated five-year program. Applicants for this new joint program at Upstate Medical…
Kara Montellano ’23 MBA: Unexpected Detour Led Her to an MBA at Whitman
Kara Montellano ’23 MBA believes that life “has a way of taking you on a detour you didn’t plan for.” Fortunately, her most recent detour took her to Syracuse University’s Whitman School this past fall to pursue an MBA with concentrations in…
Whitman’s Full-Time MBA Program Achieves Highest U.S. News Ranking Since 1998
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University is now ranked #57 in the nation for its full-time MBA program by U.S. News & World Report. This is the highest-ranking for the Whitman School since 1998 and is…
Nneka Akukwe ’21
Nneka Akukwe ’21 MBA Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland Degree: MBA Specialization: Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises and Finance Nneka Akukwe ’20 (MAX), ’22 MBA didn’t know that she would be attending graduate school so soon, but when COVID-19 descended on the…
Whitman MBA Pursues Ph.D. to Share Research on the Intersection of Psychology and Female Entrepreneurship
Whitman MBA Pursues Ph.D. to Investigate the Intersection of Psychology and Female Entrepreneurship Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam Degree: Ph.D. in entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises After participating in the Orange Tank Pitch Competition and the Panasci Business Plan Competition while pursuing her…
MS Reflections: Vatsal Popat ’17
In this “MS Reflections” blog post series, we will be featuring the profile and thoughts of a select few Whitman MS students graduating in 2017. Name: Vatsal Popat Hometown: Bilimora, India Major: M.S. in Business Analytics (December 2017) Background: MBA…
The Whitman School Hosts Third Annual Orange Tank Competition
As part of the 2017 Orange Central celebration at Syracuse University, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management hosted its third annual Orange Tank business pitch competition. During the Orange Tank competition, current Whitman students and alumni entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to…
Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises 2016-2017 at a Glance
Syracuse University‘s Whitman School Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises (EEE) department, consistently ranked as one of the top entrepreneurship programs in the United States, offers students the total entrepreneurship experience. From the unique entrepreneurship courses to the exciting extracurricular activities and experiential learning opportunities, every student…
MBA Reflections: Anila John ’17
In this “MBA Reflections” blog post series, we will be featuring the profile and thoughts of a select few Whitman MBA students graduating in May of 2017. Anila John Major: MBA – Marketing Background: B.A. in economics and commerce Hometown: Ludhiana,…
How Whitman Ranks
Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management combines the resources of a large university with small class sizes and highly individualized attention to offer students the best possible learning experience. Students study under the leadership of exceptional faculty members as…
Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s M.S. in Finance Program Ranked #30 in the Country by TFE Times
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University’s M.S. in Finance Program has moved up three spots to #30 in the country, according to TFE Times’ annual ranking of graduate finance programs. Whitman’s M.S. in Finance program was…
#WhitmanWatch: Amal Mehic
Editor’s note: This week’s #WhitmanWatch students are all graduating members of the Whitman School’s social media team. They’ve been blogging for the past several months; this time, they are the featured stories. Whitman thanks them for all their hard work and…
Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management Adds Business Analytics Specialization to its MBA Program
Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management is now offering a specialization in business analytics to its MBA program, both on-campus and online through MBA@Syracuse. This brings the number of concentrations to seven; the other six include accounting, entrepreneurship,…
Meet the Whitman Instagram Ambassadors
For the next month, we’ll have five Whitman students taking over our Instagram account, @WhitmanatSU. They’ll be sharing photos from campus, documenting their life at SU as a Whitman student. Get to know them and be sure to follow along…
Guest Post: What I Remember & Learned So Far
Have you had that feeling of growing up? That feeling of independence and strength? That rush of freedom? And the responsibility and commitment that come with it? When I left home in July to come to Syracuse, it was the…
Playing My Way Through the MBA
Apart from managing a rigorous MBA schedule, I feel we must take time out for ourselves to do something that makes us happy. For me, that thing is music. I wasn’t able to get my guitar from home, India. However, in…
#WhitmanWatch: Kevin Lynch
Class of 2017 Program: MBA@Syracuse Hometown: Lido Beach, New York & Quebradillas Puerto Rico LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinpatricklynch While many MBA students spend their days sitting in a classroom, Kevin Lynch spends his serving as a management consultant in New York City.…
Whitman MBA Program Ranks #67
Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management full-time MBA program took the #67 spot in Bloomberg Bussinessweek’s annual ranking of top programs across the world. Bloomberg collected data from 177 schools, including Whitman’s MBA program, which is among more than 700 business…
Zubin Jhambani: NASCAR Internship
Zubin Jhambani is an international Whitman student from India in the second year of his MBA. Before attending the Whitman School, Jhambani worked at Accenture as a business analyst for three years. Once he arrived to the United States, he…
Whitman MBA Program a Finalist in GMAC TeamMBA (Vote here!)
Our full-time MBA program is one of the finalists for the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)’s TeamMBA Award. The TeamMBA Award program recognizes schools that exemplify a commitment to social responsibility through the actions of their students and the school’s demonstrated support of…
Finding My Way: Reflections on My First Year
Wow…it’s May already? When did that happen? Amid all the studying, group meetings, student life events, and business-school-greatness, my first year of the MBA program is over. And it was everything I’d signed up for and more. Here are the…
Finding the Time
One of the biggest struggles of grad school, in my opinion, is trying to find time for yourself. When I first started school, I was very worried that I would be constantly studying and never have any time to do…
Fun run with Chancellor Syverud through campus
This morning, we were able to participate in the first ever inauguration run through campus with Syracuse University’s 12th Chancellor Kent Syverud. Amy McHale, Angela Nikolaus and I were on hand to represent the Masters Programs office in addition to…
An Opportunity to Experience
-Content by Jack Weigle ’14 MBA- I completed an experiential learning project this past semester for my Corporate Financial Policy & Strategy class with Professor Barkley. We worked with Driver’s Village to determine whether or not the company should enter…
Can’t be thrifty for Macklemore…
-Content by Aishik Barua ’15 MBA- …But we SU students did not need to think twice about it. Being an SU student got us tickets for only $15 to see Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (as opposed to a $100 for…
Thanksgiving in Alaska
-Content by Jinbin Ma ’14 MBA- When my friends heard of my Thanksgiving break would be in Alaska, their first reaction was “you don’t feel cold enough in Syracuse?” After a ten hour flight from Syracuse to Anchorage, along with…
The city that beckons
Content by Aishik Barua ’15 MBA Up until a few months back, New York City was a dream. However, this Thanksgiving was the fifth time I visited the city (that’s what we call the city that never sleeps, here in…
Whitman Graduate Students Celebrate International Week 2013
Content by: Aayushi Chiripal ’14 MBA From November 12th through November 15th the Whitman School of Management was all about fun, food and fiesta as we celebrated the Whitman International Festival 2013 in association with Whitman Graduate Student Organization and…
Whitman MBAs win annual Duke MBA games for second year in a row
Fifteen MBA students from the Whitman School of Management took first place at the annual Duke MBA Games this past weekend at Duke University in Durham, N.C., repeating their 2012 victory. The annual competition, which raises money for Special Olympics,…
First Ever Family Enterprise Case Competition (FECC) Held at the University of Vermont
Content provided by Max Jones ’13 MBA – History was made on a recent trip to the University of Vermont over winter break. Under the guidance of Entrepreneurship Professor Alex McKelvie, a team of Whitman School of Management MBA candidates,…
Investment Analysis-Experiential Learning, Davis Hull ’13 MBA
“Buy”, “Sell”, “Hold” These are phrases people commonly associate with investments. Recently, as part of Whitman’s experiential learning program, we served as portfolio managers over millions of dollars in virtual money. We had to pick investments weekly and were judged on our…
The Whitman Entrepreneur
Whitman offers prospective graduate students many paths to a successful career – be it the renowned supply chain and marketing programs or the highly ranked entrepreneurship program. In making my decision to join the Whitman community to pursue an MBA in Entrepreneurship…
Lara Marto: MBA PepsiCo Intern
Hello everyone! I have a very dear friend in the MBA program who wanted to share her internship experience with all of you, and hopefully you will enjoy her perspective from an international internship! So without further ado, I introduce you to…
Perspective: Giving Back to Our Communities
Hello again, everyone! At the end of May I started an internship with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) knowing almost nothing about veterans and military life. The little I did know I had gleaned from watching HBO’s…
Summer Internship – July Update
Hello again from San Antonio! I’m over halfway through my summer internship at USAA so I wanted to update you on how things are going. The finish line is in sight for my first project, and I’m looking forward to…
Summer in NYC – Davis Hull ’13 MBA
Time is flying by. I have already been in NYC for five weeks. It’s a culmination of sorts as I waited forever for this summer to get here and now it’s flying by. Allow me to reintroduce myself. I am…
Let the journey begin…
Greetings Everyone! My name is Porsche Nichols. I am originally from Los Angeles, California and began my journey to obtain a Master’s degree at Syracuse University last summer to pursue my MBA in Marketing and MS in New Media Management.…
Summer Internship
Hello from San Antonio, Texas! My name is Laura Reidel and I will be starting my 2nd year of the MBA program this fall. I’ll be updating you throughout the summer on how my internship is going, but first here’s…
Fresh Start!
Hello Everyone! I am Shweta Srinivaz and I am a soon-to–be second year MBA student, majoring in Marketing and Supply Chain. I am really excited and thankful for the opportunity to be part of our Whitman blog team! Before I…
Introductions and Internship Beginnings
Hello everyone! My name is Eliza Spencer and I’m a rising 2nd year MBA student concentrating in marketing. I’ve been asked to blog this summer about my internship and future plans, but first I’d like to tell you a bit…
End of 1st Year Reflections- Davis Hull ’13 MBA
So as the 1st year of my MBA program comes to a close I am amazed at how fast the year has flown by. This is exactly what students and administrators told me. I feel like just yesterday we started…
Real Work for MBAs
A recent interview/article from the Wall Street Journal discussed how MBA programs are engaging students in increasingly larger projects for companies. Dr. Pepper/Snapple recently turned over its Yoo-hoo chocolate milk drink brand to be managed by two students from UT…
Yearly Banquet for Whitman
A banquet was held for all Whitman graduate students and faculty Friday, April 13th at Syracuse Stage to celebrate accomplishments and unwind as the semester comes to a close. We had a really unforgettable night! With an opportunity to relax…
Syracuse/Cornell Mixer – Davis Hull ’13 MBA
Over the last 12 months while attending interviews, career fairs, and company presentations I continued to run into the same people over and over. Through these friendships that I built, we came to the consensus that since we would see…
Syracuse Wins Duke MBA Games
Over the weekend of March 30-April 1 I had the amazing opportunity to compete in the Duke MBA games. The Duke MBA games is an event for MBA programs to network, compete in events (such as crabwalk, brief case toss,…
Dairylea, Emily Bolton ’12 MSE
In my Corporate Entrepreneurship course, we are working with companies located in Syracuse and conducting an Entrepreneurial Audit on their business (which is basically assessing how innovative/proactive the company is and how they could improve). My group is working with…
What Makes the Whitman MBA Experiential Learning Program Unique?
Last month I had the opportunity to present on the topic of “Measuring Experiential Learning Outcomes” at the GMAC/MBA Roundtable Leadership Conference. Following my presentation, the subsequent discussions confirmed that our program is unique in at least a couple of…