Kimberly Boynton ’13 MBA: Hospital CEO Never Imagined Leading Through a Pandemic When Kimberly Boynton ’13 MBA was studying at the Whitman School, she never imagined that a few years later she would be using some of the skills she…
Dominique Visser ’20 MBA: Online MBA Program Was “Business as Usual” During Belgian Lockdown
Dominique Visser ’20 MBA: Online MBA Program Was “Business as Usual” During Belgian Lockdown Completing the online MBA program in Belgium while COVID-19 had the country locked down was “business as usual for me,” says Dominique Visser ’20 MBA. “I…
Whitman at Work: Entrepreneur Makes Anything But Beer Nothing But Successful
Whitman at Work: Entrepreneur Makes Anything But Beer Nothing But Successful One month after completing his master’s degree in entrepreneurship at the Whitman School, Logan Bonney ’17 M.S. was already putting his education into practice by incorporating Anything But Beer…
Alumni Step Up to Place Real Estate Interns from Boca to Buffalo
Alumni Step Up to Place Real Estate Interns from Boca to Buffalo When Liam Pierce ’21 interned in New York City in the summer of 2019 through the Fetner Architecture and Real Estate Collaborative Summer Program, he couldn’t believe he…
Whitman Alumni Network Supercharged Students with Opportunities During Challenging Summer
Whitman Alumni Network Supercharged Students with Opportunities During Challenging Summer The year 2020 will long be remembered for unimaginable challenges that came with living through a global pandemic. For students at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, it will…
Whitman NYC Intern Persevered Through the Pandemic
Whitman NYC Intern Persevered Through the Pandemic In the last issue of Whitman magazine, we profiled students who were taking part in the inaugural semester of the Whitman School’s NYC Abroad program, an experience that allows students to intern and…
Student Profile: Ying Zhang ’21
Student Spotlight: Ying Zhang ’21 Hometown: Xi’an, China Degree: Ph.D. in Accounting Before deciding to earn her Ph.D., Ying Zhang ’21 already knew she had a keen interest in financial research. After completing a bachelor’s degree in China, Zhang continued…
Student Profile: Marie-Jose Michel Sanchez ’21
Student Spotlight: Marie-Jose Michel Sanchez ’21 Hometown: Miami, Flordia Degree: Online M.S. in Professional Accounting Marie-Jose Michel Sanchez ’21 M.S. is an individual who exemplifies the term “life-long learner.” Earning a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1993 from the University…
Student Profile: Manpreet Singh Saini ’21
Student Spotlight: Manpreet Singh Saini ’21 Hometown: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Degree: MBA Specializations: Finance and Business Analytics Manpreet Singh Saini ’21 MBA earned a bachelor’s degree in information technology in 2015 from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University in…
Student Profile: Salvatore Pepe ’22
Student Spotlight: Salvatore Pepe ’22 Hometown: Yorktown Heights, New York Major: Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises and Supply Chain Management (WHIT); Information Management & Technology (iSchool) Minor: Environment & Society (A&S) Salvatore Pepe’s ’22 (WHIT/iSchool) initial introduction to Syracuse University was…
Wise Women’s Business Center and South Side Innovation Center Help Small Businesses
Meghan Florkowski (left) and Carolyn Tucker. Please note, this image was taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and does not reflect current public health guidelines. Wise Women’s Business Center and South Side Innovation Center Help Small Businesses Two entrepreneurship programs,…
Jeff Grasso ’09: Funding the Making of Stand-Out Job Applicants
Jeff Grasso ’09: Funding the Making of Stand-Out Job Applicants Building a successful career in real estate is all about forming relationships. It’s a lesson Jeff Grasso ’09 learned during his days as a double major in finance and accounting…
Women Business Leaders Share “Infinitely Useable” Information
Tracy Barash and Amy McHale Women Business Leaders Share “Infinitely Useable” Information While many of the summer residency programs focused on issues related to the pandemic, a more universally relevant track, Women as Business Leaders, proved to be extremely popular.…
Canceling MBA Residencies was Never an Option
Canceling MBA Residencies was Never an Option When Syracuse University made the necessary decision to pivot to online learning in March 2020, Amy McHale, assistant dean for master’s programs at the Whitman School, and her team suddenly had a big…
Five Under Five with Steven Pincus ’15
Five Under Five with Steven Pincus ’15 Our Five Under Five column features a Q&A with a Whitman School alumna/alumnus who graduated within the last five years. In this issue, meet Steven Pincus ’15 from Los Angeles. Pincus triple majored…
Whitman Announces a New Major in Business Analytics
Whitman Announces a New Major in Business Analytics A distinctive characteristic of conducting business in the 21st century is collecting and utilizing vast amounts of data in decision making. The Whitman School has launched a new undergraduate major in business…
Supply Chain Professor Uses Innovative Spirit to Help Community
Supply Chain Professor Uses Innovative Spirit to Help Community Over the past several months, Julie Niederhoff, associate professor of supply chain management, spoke to multiple major media outlets, including CNN, NBC Nightly News and The New York Times about supply…
Preparing for a Fall Semester Like Never Before
Preparing for a Fall Semester Like Never Before While the spring 2020 semester abruptly moved to online learning due to the pandemic, the Whitman School, along with the entire University, had the opportunity to learn from and improve upon that…
Student Innovators Created Positive Opportunities in Hard Times
Student Innovators Created Positive Opportunities in Hard Times COVID-19 has certainly had a negative impact on the Syracuse University community, but some Whitman students were able to find a small piece of the positive in recent months. And while there…
Whitman Takes Competitions Virtual
Whitman Takes Competitions Virtual The pandemic has hindered many students from traveling to business competitions. However, at the Whitman School, undergraduate seniors were able to complete their spring 2020 capstone with a virtual pitch competition. Graduate students were also able…
Recruitment Teams Adapt to Pandemic Restrictions
Recruitment Teams Adapt to Pandemic Restrictions So how does college recruitment work during such an uncertain and unusual time? While there’s been plenty of talk about the impact of COVID-19 on current students at Syracuse University and the Whitman School,…
New Accounting Electives Now Being Offered
The field of accounting includes many specialized areas of interest to undergraduate and master’s students. The Whitman School curriculum allows students to customize their degree by including electives from which they can choose. Three electives became available this past academic…
#WhitmanWatch: Kruti Valia
Graduation: May 2019 Hometown: Mumbai, India Majors: MBA Marketing LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krutivalia Kruti Valia ’18 sought out Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management to get more out of the professional world with a world-class MBA. With an undergraduate degree in statistics, Kruti believes…
Syracuse Life Trustee Launches University’s First Giving Day With $500,000 Gift Challenge
The generosity of Daniel A. D’Aniello ’68, a University Life Trustee, and his wife, Gayle, is the catalyst behind the launch of Boost the Cuse, Syracuse University’s first ever Giving Day on Oct. 17. The D’Aniello family has pledged $500,000…
Get to Know Whitman’s Undergraduate Student Clubs and Orgs
At Syracuse University‘s Martin J. Whitman School, students can meet and network with students and professionals who share their business and entrepreneurial interest. With approximately 12 undergraduate student clubs and organizations, Whitman students are provided a chance to learn from professionals and…
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 Whitman School Hosts Alumni NYC Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Syracuse University‘s top-ranked Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises department at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management will host an Entrepreneurship Bootcamp on Saturday, Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Fisher Center in New York City. The NYC Entrepreneurship Bootcamp is designed for Syracuse University alumni who are thinking…
Six Ways to Make Your St. Patrick’s Day Grand
Adjunct Instructor Will Geoghegan of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University‘s online MBA program fondly remembers his years celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at his home in County Tipperary, Ireland. He recalls children with little pins, adults adorned…
Finance Department Focused on Quality Education
According to the finance department chair, Dr. Ravi Shukla, the department has been updating its curriculum to ensure that students graduating with a finance degree are getting the education necessary to smoothly transition into their first full-time position. Specifically, the…
Whitman MS finance program ranked #33
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University’s MS in Finance program has moved up to #33 in the country, according to TFE Times’ annual ranking of graduate finance programs. Whitman’s MS in Finance program was chosen from the…
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…
Five Businesses that are Innovating Supply Chains
Innovative online retail companies are learning how to compete with well-established companies by creatively managing their supply chain. By combining best practices and technological advancements, these companies are disrupting their competitors while maintaining lean inventories and cutting out the middleman…
2015 Salzberg Program to Honor Unilever
The H.H. Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management at the Whitman School is hosting the 66th annual Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program on Oct. 8 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at the School’s Lender Auditorium This year’s recipient of…
The Importance of Corporate Culture Today
How important is culture? In 2014, “culture” was named word of the year. And because culture is so important, corporations like Zappos and Twitter are stepping up to the plate to find new ways to improve corporate culture and meet the…
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…
Falcone Center: SBA Accelerator
At the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, we believe that everyone deserves to climb the economic ladder to success. We are passionate about our purpose and committed to use entrepreneurship to develop Syracuse. Entrepreneurs…
Whitman’s Summer Vacation
The Whitman School may be on summer vacation but it’s bustling with construction activity. The stairwell flooring is being replaced, and the Flaum Grand Hall is being renovated to accommodate larger groups and events that are typical for the space. In addition,…
Whitman PhD Candidates Present at Babson Conference
The Whitman School was proud to sponsor and participate in the 35th annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) this past month at The Verve Crowne Plaza in Natick, Massachusetts. The BCERC is the largest entrepreneurship research conference in the…
U.S. Secretary of the Army Visits Whitman
John M. McHugh, U.S. Secretary of the Army and former member of Congress representing Northern and Central New York, visited Syracuse University and the Whitman School on Thursday, May 21, to learn more about the Institute for Veterans and Military…
Faculty Research Update: The Impact of Tenant Diversification on Spreads and Default Rates for Mortgages on Retail Properties
Editor’s Note: Yildiray Yildirim, Michael Falcone Chair in Real Estate and professor of finance, authored the below article regarding his recent research. Yildirim also was honored as a 2015 Fellow of the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics.…
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Market – Yesterday and Today
Editor’s Note: The following article was written by David Nass ’91, managing director and co-head of real estate finance at UBS. After the credit crisis, I questioned if the commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) market would revive. There were many…
Student Perspective: Real Estate Investment Trusts
Editor’s Note: The following perspective was submitted by Chase Reiter ’15. Can REITs continue their post-recession momentum? Concerns over the strength of the economic recovery and uncertainty about rising interest rates have led skeptics to believe U.S. REITs, or Real…
Whitman School of Management Professor Named One of World’s Best 40 Under 40 Professors
Will Geoghegan, assistant professor of management at Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management has been named one of the World’s Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets and Quants. The annual listing highlights “excellence in research and teaching prowess,” according to the website.…
Top 3 Things College Students Should Do with their Tax Refunds
You’ve just filed your tax return and “woo hoo!” you’re getting a refund! That Apple watch is looking pretty good and it’s now within your reach, but, not so fast! Careful consideration of where you spend this bonus money is…
Whitman School of Management Hosts 6th Annual Conference on Africa Business and Entrepreneurship
The Kiebach Center’s Africa Business Program at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host the 6th Annual Conference on Africa Business and Entrepreneurship Apr. 16 through 18 at the Whitman School. The conference offers a…
Whitman School’s Accounting Students Offer Free Income Tax Assistance April 3
Accounting students at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will offer free income tax assistance to all Syracuse University students, faculty and staff on Friday, April 3, between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. in Flaum Grand…
Whitman Programs Ranked Among the Best in the U.S. and Globally
More Reasons to Be Proud of Your Alma Mater In the past two weeks, Whitman has earned four rankings that place the school and its programs among the world’s elite. Whitman’s online MBA program, MBA@Syracuse, took the 5th spot in…
Professor of Practice Sue Smith Brings Corporate-Tested Know How to the Classroom
The first marketing course Professor Sue Smith ever took was through an MBA extension program that Syracuse University ran in Corning, N.Y. “It was taught by Whitman Professor Emeritus Ted Wallin, and it changed the course of my career. I…
Whitman Alum to Appear on ABC’s Shark Tank
A Whitman alum, Evan Watson ’11, will appear on this Friday’s episode of ABC’s Shark Tank, along with his co-founders, Pete Kistler ’10 BS (iSchool) and Patrick Ambron ’09 BS (Newhouse), as they pitch BrandYourself, a personal online branding company,…
Whitman School Collaborates with Staples to Analyze Supply Chain Management Opportunities
The H.H. Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University is collaborating with Staples, Inc., in the first of its kind relationship to bring innovation and new research to the supply chain field. The collaboration will allow Whitman School…