Voices of the Whitman School of Management
By taking a transdisciplinary approach, Sustainable Enterprise Partnership (SEP), a collaborative effort between Syracuse University and its partners, aims to provide world-class education and research on sustainable enterprise management. SEP students are able to learn about the many facets of sustainability,…
For more than 15 years, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management‘s professional business fraternity, the Xi Tau chapter of Delta Sigma Pi (DSP), has made giving back to the community a priority. As a member of DSP, students must participate in more…
Each year, Syracuse University‘s Martin J. Whitman School of Management enrolls a new class of accomplished students from a wide variety of backgrounds. Get to know this year’s incoming class. Embed Code <blockquote class=”embedly-card”><h4><a href=”http://voices.whitman.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/WBTN_Fall2017.jpg”>null</a></h4><p>null</p></blockquote> <script async src=”//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js” charset=”UTF-8″></script>
Name: Maria Goranova Graduation Year: 2007 Major: Management Maria Goranova Ph.D. ’07, associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, still fondly looks back on her life as a Ph.D. in management student at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse…
Syracuse University’s MBA@Syracuse has earned a #23 ranking on The Princeton Review’s list naming the top 25 online MBA programs for 2018, accessible at www.princetonreview.com/best-business-schools. The online MBA program, delivered in partnership with 2U Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU), includes live weekly classes…
According to Ready4, a Boston-based company that creates test prep apps, Syracuse University’s full-time MBA is the #25 most desired program. The study, now in its third year, uses survey data that obtained the preferences of more than 200,000 current…
Tridib Mazumdar, director of the Earl V. Snyder Innovation Management Center and the Howard R. Gendal Professor of Marketing at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management, has spent nearly 10 years examining stars, movie stars that is, as…
David Park loves to learn. In fact, his decision to become an entrepreneurship professor is rooted in that love. He joined the Whitman School faculty in September 2017 as an assistant professor of entrepreneurship. “I am an avid learner. Especially,…
Not all crimes are judged morally equal. In fact, when it comes to committing a crime, a new study by Lynne Vincent, assistant professor of management at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Scott S. Wiltermuth of the…
Name: Lindsay Swanson Graduation Year: 2018 Hometown: Burlington, Vermont Majors: Supply chain management and Marketing Management When Lindsay Swanson first visited Syracuse, she could tell the Martin J. Whitman School of Management was the small community on a big campus she…
Name: Lauren Sullivan Graduation Year: 2017 Major(s)/Minor(s): Marketing and Public Relations Hometown: Chatham, New Jersey For the last four years, Lauren Sullivan ‘17 has made Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin J. Whitman School of…
Class of 2018 Majors: Finance and Accounting Hometown: Blue Bell, Pennsylvania LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisondittrich Harry Dittrich’s father helped shape his interest in business from a young age. The decision to apply to Syracuse University‘s Martin J. Whitman School of Management came easy. “One of…
Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs were ranked #13 and #17 respectively by Princeton Review/Entrepreneurship Magazine in the annual rankings, which were based on a survey that included topics such as the percentage…
A longtime leader and widely respected scholar in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management has been selected to serve as interim dean. Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele G. Wheatly today announced that S.P. Raj, Distinguished Professor of Marketing and…
By Syracuse Staff With the “Fight for $15” making headlines, opinions abound about whether raising the federal minimum wage will have a positive or negative effect on unemployment rates. Advocates of an increase cite the impossible task of making ends meet…
The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship housed within Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management recently received the 2016 NASDAQ Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, an organization that brings together entrepreneurship centers to advance excellence in entrepreneurship. This award is given…
When MBA student, Kaitlynn Harvester ’16, now Kaitlynn Ihrke, met John Petosa, professor of accounting at Syracuse University‘s Martin J. Whitman School of Management, she knew that he would be one of her favorite professors. However, what Harvester didn’t know…
Members of the surviving families of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks gathered in July at the 9/11 Memorial Museum Education Center in New York City to take part in an entrepreneurship bootcamp hosted by Tuesday’s Children and the Martin J.…
Entrepreneurs beware! Research by Alexander McKelvie, department chair of entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises at Syracuse University‘s Martin J. Whitman School of Management, shows habitual entrepreneurs, those who launch multiple start-ups throughout their careers, may display symptoms of behavioral addiction. Know the signs and negative impacts of entrepreneurship addiction. Embed Code:…
Natarajan Balasubramanian, associate professor of management at Syracuse University’s Whitman School, has made a career of questions and answers. Before joining academia, he provided answers to business and finance questions as a consultant. Today, he is the one asking questions,…
Some say being in the right place at the right time makes all the difference in life. To Professor Alexandra “Alex” Kostakis that statement holds true as the right timing led her to Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of…
Abigail (Abby) Hamilton’s passion for entrepreneurship started long before she came to Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. From the lemonade stand she started at age 10 to Patriot Portrait, her photography service that she began in high…
Ravi Shukla, associate professor of finance at Syracuse University’s Whitman School, still has the teaching evaluations from the first statistics course that he taught to undergraduates as an MBA student. “The university needed somebody and my supervising professors suggested my…
As a tax manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City, Amy Bacon’s job changes nearly every day. She currently works in the firm’s private company services group and is responsible for managing tax compliance, reviewing tax provisions and providing tax…
Spring cleaning doesn’t just mean organizing the office or dusting filing cabinets. Consider refreshing the digital foundation of your business by removing the clutter from your analytics processes and systems. Data quality is a key factor of successful business analytics…
Ken Walsleben’s career came full circle when he joined the faculty at his alma mater. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1983 with a degree in economics and returned to teach in the Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises Department at the…
Editor’s note: The following article first appeared in Whitman Magazine in the spring, 2016. It was written by Alison Kessler. Since 2015, Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s student-managed consulting firm, Consurtio, has provided students with opportunities to build professional…
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…
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…
The First Annual Whitman Sales Case Competition is in the books. Co-hosted by the American Marketing Association and Delta Sigma Pi, the sales competition was comprised of seven teams of undergraduate students from all classes, freshmen to seniors. After a…
Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management (Whitman), in partnership with 2U, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWOU), today announced the launch of BusinessAnalytics@Syracuse, a Master of Science in Business Analytics degree offered online that will expand its existing MBA@Syracuse program. BusinessAnalytics@Syracuse is designed to prepare students…
As a 20-something New Yorker steps into the Kate Spade store on 5th Avenue, Nicole Walters ’07 notices something immediately… a yoga mat tucked under the arm of the potential patron. Walters inquires about which yoga studio and type of…
The following post was written by Whitman junior, Joshua Manzi. I found out around March that I had gotten the job to work as a resident adviser for Summer College. At the time I had no clue what the program…
If you have a passion for an arts-related industry, any good mentor would (or should) tell you that without business knowledge you can expect to be cycled in and out of the industry very quickly. I came to Whitman as…