Isenberg School of ManagementUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

DEAN'S REPORT2016 - 2017

FROM THE DEAN | 21 | FACULTY

From the Dean

Reflecting Back, Moving Forward

Building Our Talent Pool

Launching Entrepreneurs

Faculty Highlights

Diversity

Undergraduate Program

Graduate Programs

Driven to Give

An Engaged Alumni Community

Boston Business Community

The Business of B-Schools

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As we celebrate our 70th anniversary, we continue to shine as one of the premier business schools in the country. We’ve skyrocketed in the rankings, and we’ve made critical investments in our infrastructure, academic programming, and alumni engagement. Isenberg is a top choice for esteemed students and faculty thanks to our reputation for success. Last year, we:

From the Dean

• Broke ground on our 70,000-square-foot BusinessInnovation Hub, slated to open in 2019. This student -centric space, complete with a large learningcommons and enhanced career center, will elevatehands-on learning and facilitate interactions withbusiness leaders.

• Deepened our commitment to diversity and inclu-sivity. We’re proud that our Full-time MBA program,class of 2018, is 58% female, and we’re committed tobuilding a culture of diversity and inclusivity.

• Recruited exemplary faculty to lead the way incutting-edge research and business leadership,including a new Hospitality & Tourism Managementdepartment chair. In 2016-2017, we welcomed 11 faculty members, who represent a range of knowledgeand professional experience.

• Attracted outstanding, driven students whograduate to earn coveted positions, advancegroundbreaking research, and achieve major accom-plishments. Isenberg BBA students have a 90% jobplacement rate.

• Fostered a culture of philanthropy and highlyinvolved alumni eager to engage and supportIsenberg. Our wildly successful Senior Gift Cam-paign recruits rising graduates to contribute toIsenberg early on.

Sincerely,

Mark A. Fuller, PhDDean, Isenberg School of Management Thomas O’Brien Endowed Chair

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1947The School is founded in in North College.

The Harold Alfond addition adds 52,000 square feet and a student atrium.2002

Reflecting Back

1997A substantial gift from Eugene and Ronnie Isenberg names the School of Management in Gene's honor.

Moving ForwardIsenberg’s Business Innovation Hub, slated to open in the spring of 2019, elevates our students' educational experience—helping take their coursework and their professional opportunities to the next level. The $62 million student-centric design adds 70,000 square feet of modernized classrooms and labs to promote experiential learning, and an expanded career center with additional interview spaces. The project also includes a 5,000-square-foot, light-filled learning commons that will also serve as an event center to facilitate interactions with business leaders and alumni.

With over 3,600 undergraduate students (1,000 more than ten years ago), the building is equal parts practical and flexible, designed to accommodate Isen-berg’s growing student body and execu-tive-in-residence programs. The unique opportunity pairs Boston architecture firm Goody Clancy and Bjarke Ingels Group of New York and Denmark to complete a renovation and addition to Isenberg’s complex at the center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus.

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Celebrating 70 years of history. View the full timeline at:

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Work on the Business Innovation Hub began in 2016. The distinctive design by two leading architectural firms will minimize glare while maximizing sunlight.

BUSINESS INNOVATION HUBBREAKING GROUND ON THE

BUILDING OUR

Talent Pool

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MUZAFFER “MUZZO” UYSALDepartment Chair and

Professor, Department of Hospitality and Tourism

Management

PhD, Recreation Resources Development, Texas A&M

MBA, University of New Haven

THOMAS MOLITERNO

Vice Dean and Associate Dean of Research and Engagement, Earl W. Stafford Professor in

Entrepreneurial Studies

PhD, University of California, IrvineMBA, Boston University

MA, University of Kentucky

JEFF ST. GERMAINE Lecturer, Operations

& Information ManagementIndustry Experience: Data

warehouse & business intelligence analyst

MA, Industrial/Organization Psychology, Golden

Gate University

ELIZABETH FOLLMER Assistant Professor, ManagementResearch Interests: Organizational Behavior, Human Resources

PhD, Organizational Behavior & Human Resources, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa

FOUSSENI CHABI-YO Assistant Professor,

FinanceResearch Interests: Asset

Pricing, Tern Structure, Options, International

Finance, Deriviatives

FRANCISCO VILLARROEL ORDENES Assistant Professor, MarketingResearch Interests: Online Consumer Behavior and Deployment of Big Data, Content Marketing, Service Recovery Strategies

PhD, Marketing, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Netherlands

MS, Marketing, Manchester Business School, UK

TIFFANY TRZEBIATOWSKI Assistant Professor, ManagementResearch Interests: Personal Identity, Threat and Loss, Diversity, Discrimination

PhD, Organizational Behavior/Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MA, Human Resources and Industrial Relations, University of Minnesota

ROBERT FEINGOLD Lecturer, Finance

Industry Experience:Managing High-Yield

Bonds, Levered Loans, Distressed Debt, and

Small Cap Equity Portfolios

MBA, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

NORA JUNAID Lecturer, Operations & Information ManagementResearch Interests: Psychological and Human Behavioral Implications of Computers, Especially in the Workplace

PhD Candidate in Business, Bentley University

MBA, Lebanese American University

EMILY MUST Lecturer, Mark H. McCormack of Sport ManagementResearch Interests:Sport-Anchored Urban Redevelopment, Measurement and Analysis of Social Capital, the Impact of Sports Stadiums and Mega-Events

PhD Candidate, Sport Administration, University of Colorado, Greeley

MS, Sport Management, Barry University

WILL NORTON Lecturer & Director of the

Center for Sport Research, Mark H. McCormack Department

of Sport ManagementResearch Interests:

Sports analytics, new media, professional sport industries

MBA/MS Sport Management, Isenberg School of

Management

B.A., Political Science/International Relations, The

College of Wooster

JENNIFER ROY Lecturer, AccountingResearch Interests: Not-for-profit and Retail Industry Tax

JD, Western New England College School of Law

Dean Thomas Moliterno joined Isenberg’s Depart-ment of Management in 2011 and was appointed Associate Dean at Isenberg in 2014. In his new role, he supports the work of the school’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship. Dean Moliterno is a prominent researcher in the areas of resource-based theory, behavioral theory, and strategic human capital. His articles have appeared in Administrative ScienceQuarterly, Strategic Man-agement Journal, Journal of Management, among others.

Professor Muzaffer “Muzzo” Uysal is an internationally celebrated professor and researcher in the travel and tourism field. Themes in his research (five books and 150+ articles in refereed journals; 15,000 citations) include tourism’s economic impact and job satisfaction among hospitality workers. Before Isenberg, Professor Uysal chaired the undergrad-uate hospitality program at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business. In July 2016, Professor Uysal was honored with the John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award.

PhD, Economics, University of Montreal

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Entrepreneurs Isenberg

MBA fellow Julian Lustig worked with the

Berthiaume Center to forge

ties between the region’s investors and entrepre-neurs, many of them campus based. Through the university’s new Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS), Julian focused on finance, including his interests in venture capital and socially responsible investments.

In September 2016, he founded the Venture Consulting Club, an entrepreneurial gathering node for Five College students who invest their eclectic skills in local startups, many of whom receive resources from the Berthiaume Center, Valley Venture Mentors, and other business catalysts.

Julian will continue working with entrepreneurs in his full-time position with Kirschbaum Devel-opment Group, a fast-growing company specializing in web app development and software solu-tions for business. He attributes his success to professors at the Berthiaume Center who “have all been terrific mentors.”

Julian Lustig

SPOTLIGHT PROFILE

LAUNCHING THE NEXT

Making this a better world shouldn't

be separate from everything else in

business. — EARL STAFFORD, FOUNDER & CEO

STAFFORD FOUNDATION

Social entrepreneurs are driven by people, planet

and profit.

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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP DAY

The pursuit of business and social goals in “hybrid” social enterprises was a key theme in the second annual Social Entrepreneurship Day, held on December 6th in the Student Union’s Cape Cod Lounge. Coordinated by the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship, the day-long event featured a keynote presentation by Cornell University/ILR School professor Marya Besharov and separate practitioner and academic panels.

INNOVATION CHALLENGE

The Innovation Challenge is a four-part, cross-campus business competition to help the most promising ventures on campus gain the resources they need to take their business or product to the next level. The 2017 first-place winner was the interdisciplinary team

of Julie Bliss Mullen (a PhD candidate in civil engineering) and Barrett Mully (MBA candidate) with their business plan for ElectroPure, a water treatment/purification device for homes, schools, and other small-scale water system. They took home $26,000 to fund their startup.

The Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship is about teaching, mentoring, and connecting. In its third year, it supports a range of cross-campus programming to engage and inspire.

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Faculty Highlights PROGRAM INNOVATION

Businesses are speaking up, ask-ing for graduates who understand how to employ data and analytics. Isenberg is listening, launching “Big Data” curricula that prepare students to harness data for opti-mal decision making.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS & ANALYTICS (MSB&A)This accelerated program, introduced this year, provides graduates of non-business majors with the business analytics tools and techniques that are increasingly necessary to be effective in organizations of all kinds.

OPERATIONS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT LABThe OIM Solutions Lab, generously donated by OIM alumni, is a team-based, high-technology classroom that enhances course con-tent, student learning, and career preparation.

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN BUSINESS ANALYTICSWith this online certificate, working professionals deepen their ability to make sound data-based and judgment decisions.

Research at Isenberg advances knowledge in seven academic disciplines and brings innovation to industry.

HRISTOPHER AGOGLIA Isenberg’s accounting faculty ranks #1 in the nation in research investigating judgment and decision making by auditors. A leader and cutting-edge researcher in this domain is Richard H. Simpson Endowed Professor Christopher Agoglia. This summer, Professor Agoglia becomes senior editor of the top American Account-ing Association section journal, Auditing: A Journal ofPractice & Theory.

ILA GETMANSKY SHERMAN Isenberg Finance Professor Mila Getmansky Sherman and two coauthors have received the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute’s premier honor—the 2016 Graham and Dodd Award for Excellence. The award was for their Financial Analysts Journalarticle, “Interconnectedness of the CDS Market,” which deployed a network perspective in exploring interconnectedness between dealers and nondealers in the credit-default swaps market.

LBERT ASSAF Studies measuring hotel performance have accen-tuated the positive while neglecting the negative, notes Hospitality & Tourism Management Professor and PhD coordinator Albert Assaf. That is a key conclusion in his “Why Negative Outputs Are Often Ignored: A Compre-hensive Measure of Hotel Performance,” which appeared in the journal Tourism Economics and won the prestigiousThea Sinclair Award for Journal Article Excellence.

TEVE MCKELVEY Steve McKelvey, a professor in Isenberg’ s Mark H. McCor-mack Department of Sport Management, is this year’s Betty van der Smissen Leadership Award honoree. Professor McKelveyreceived the award—the highest academic honor focusing on the intersection of law and sport—at the Sport & Law Recreation Association’s annual conference in March.

EORGE MILNEPhD Director George Milne, whose research spans information privacy, consum-er behavior, public policy, and a wealth of other topics, was this year’s Isenberg Research Award recipient.Professor Milne’s recent publications investigated factors that contribute to Facebook brand content popularity and the impact of quantified personal “self-data” on a consumer’s motivation. Professor Milne has energized Isenberg’s PhD program, which graduated a record 18 students in May.

NNA NAGURNEY John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management Anna Nagurney has received an award for Distinguished Service from INFORMS, the largestsociety for professionals in operations research, manage-ment science, and analytics. Professor Nagurney, who is internationally celebrated for her research on the interaction of transportation, communications, financial, and other networks, is long-time faculty advisor to UMass Amherst’s award-winning student chapter of INFORMS.

IRTON COWDEN Birton Cowden, director of new ventures at Isenberg’s Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneur-ship, has received an award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Innovation from theUnited States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The honor recognizes Cowden’s prowess in conducting “SOLD!,” an entrepreneurial sales skills “boot camp” for students. Selling to customers, investors, and other stakeholders, he emphasizes, is a vital entrepreneurial skill.

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DIVERSITY | 1211 | FACULTY

As one of ten finalists for the Ernst & Young Inclusive Leaders Awards, the Isenberg student chapter of BAP started the initiative, “Let’s Talk, I’m Inclusive,”

to promote inclusiveness at Isenberg, UMass, and local elementary schools.

NSMH CHAPTER

Isenberg’s student chapter of the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality was named national chapter of the year at the society’s annual conference. NSMH excelled in supporting the organization’s mission and vision, increasing membership and visibility, joining community service activities, and developing members professionally.

MAKES A DIFFERENCE

DiversityDR. WALKER’S research interests arewomen in leadership and developing diverse and inclusive cultures in sport organizations. She serves on the Athletic Council at UMass Amherst and works closely with UMass Athletics. Dr. Walker is co-chair of the Diversity Committee for the North American Society for Sport Management, serves on the espnW College Advisory Panel, and is a member of the LGBT Sports Foundation Coalition Leadership Team. Her work has been noted on espn.com, espnW.com, and TIME Sports. She completed her MBA from Stetson University and her PhD from the University of Florida. Dean Fuller remarks, “We are indeed fortunate to have among us a scholar and leader in the area of diversity and inclusion who can play a role in advancing our institution-wide diversity mission.”

NEFERTITI WALKERDirector of Diversity & Inclusion Assistant Professor, Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management

National Chapter of the Year Award

EY Inclusive Leadership Award

Undergraduates at the McCormack Future Industry Leaders Conference.

Isenberg has a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusivity, and we continue to take this commitment to the next level.

WOMEN OF ISENBERG CONFERENCE

The fourth annual conference, held in February, connects current students and alumnae. This year’s keynote speaker was Karyn Schoenbart ’78, president and chief operating officer of The NPD Group, a top 25 marketing research company, based in Port Washington, New York.

BETA ALPHA PSI

Students participate in an interactive panel during this year's Women of Isenberg Conference.

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GIVING STUDENTS A

COMPETITIVE EDGE

The nation’s leading firms and emerging companies seek out Isenberg graduates. They’re confident that our students are well-prepared, innovative, collaborative, and ambitious. Our entire community—from faculty members to advisors to alumni—is laser focused on helping students achieve goals and accelerate careers. Our graduates place in companies such as:

SHARPENING SKILLS FROM DAY 1

We introduce students to Isenberg's extensive career development resources, such as workshops, seminars, and advising.

DEAN'S LEADERSHIP SEMINAR

This course allows students to glean career guidance directly from Dean Fuller, alumni visitors, and senior-year mentors.

SOPHOMORE CAREER COURSE

In this required course, we give our students real tools to hone interview techniques and develop optimal resumes.

RECRUITER VISITS

The Chase Career Center hosts multiple recruiter events, giving students and companies the opportunity to interview face-to-face at Isenberg for internships and jobs.

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UNDERGRAD PROFILE

Hailey Cockrum By the time Hailey Cockrum ’17 graduated as

an Operations & Information Management (OIM) major this spring, she had several full-

time job offers on the table. She passed them all up. Instead, she skyrocketed to SpaceX.

SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) is Elon Musk’s latest venture.

Based in Hawthorne, California, the company builds rockets, rocket engines, spacecraft, avionics, and accompanying software. Its

rockets deliver payloads into the Earth’s orbit, including supplies to NASA’s International

Space Station.

Hailey, who completed Isenberg’s Supply Chain Management track, will join SpaceX in

an intern-to-hire role as a materials planner. Additional hands-on internships at Pratt &

Whitney also helped her earn the spot. “As an OIM major, I couldn’t have had a better

learning experience,” she says. “I wasn’t just taught; I really learned.”

Hailey says she grew intellectually and professionally

from a rich mix of courses taught by professors whom she describes as mentors, including Professor Traci Hess. "She was

my advisor. I will always look up to her as a role model."

HAILEY WILL JOIN SPACEX IN AN INTERN-TO-HIRE ROLE AS A MATERIALS PLANNER.

JOB PLACEMENT90%

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

CAREER READY

Bloomberg Businessweek, 2016

7TH BEST RECRUITER SURVEY AMONG PUBLICS *

FROM THEIR FIRST DAY AT ISENBERG TO THEIR FIRST DAY ON THE JOB

BBA '16, 3 months out

From physicians to entrepreneurs to C-suite executives, our MBA programs allow people to thrive in disruptive times.

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Isenberg has long been recog-nized as one of the top-ranked MBA programs in the nation.

This year, The Financial Times ranked Isenberg’s Online MBA program #1 in the U.S. and #3 in the world. The Online MBA program ranked second for increase in salary after earning an MBA, with a 43 percent increase.

Isenberg’s MBA program—both Full-time and Online—offers an expan-sive course of study, including business analytics, finance, healthcare

Stephanie HoltMarketing & Sales Operations,

Cisco CloudLock

With $140,000 in undergraduate loans, Steph-anie Holt thought grad school was out of the question. Isenberg’s fellowship changed every-thing, allowing Stephanie to earn a full-time MBA without saddling on more school debt. Since graduating from Isenberg, she jumped from a management position at Sherwin-Williams to a startup that Cisco recently acquired—leading to a 40-percent salary bump. Stephanie credits Isen-berg with imparting the skills that got her there.

“I knew that if I wanted to move to the next level, I needed an MBA,” Stephanie says. “I’d advise anyone to go for what they truly believe in, because it will pay off.”

To earn her MBA, Stephanie commuted four days every week from Boston, and she says the drive time was worth it. Ambitious and innately curious, Holt says she’s eyeing her next certifi-cation and “the next big thing I want to learn.”

Dr. Andrew Norden Deputy Chief Health Officer

IBM Watson Health

In college and medical school, Dr. Andrew Norden took virtu-ally no business classes, yet he discover that his position as an associate chief medical officer for Dana-Farber Medical School demanded business knowledge. He enrolled in Isenberg’s online MBA, taking one course at a time over four years.

“There were key business disciplines that I wasn’t knowl-edgeable about, with respect to things like operations and quality improvement, marketing, and finance,” he said.

Dr. Norden now works as the deputy chief health officer at IBM Watson Health, where he helps physicians with knowledge overload, particularly in genom-ics and oncology. He says there’s been an uptick in the number of doctors now earning MBAs. “Doctors recognize that an MBA offers useful skills that many of us lack,” he said. “There’s a real rec-ognition these skills matter first. I treated this as a key step in my professional development.”

#1 Online MBA in the U.S.

58% 43%INCREASE IN SALARY AFTER EARNING AN MBA

FULL-TIME MBA

ONLINE MBA

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

administration, marketing, and sport management. From physicians to entrepreneurs to C-suite executives, our MBA programs allow people to elevate their careers or change industries entirely.

OF THE FT CLASS OF 2018 IS MADE UP OF WOMEN

Online & Full-time MBA students participate in a two-day gaming simulation workshop as part of the Strategic Business Decisions course.

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DRIVEN TO GIVE | 1817 | DRIVEN TO GIVE

The class of 2017 is breaking philanthropy records in the Senior Gift Challenge, giving at a rate that far exceeded their goal. Isenberg is successfully tapping seniors to think about giving back while they're still on campus, increasing young alumni donations and engagement.

THIS YEAR'S CHALLENGE This year, Dean Fuller raised the bar for the class of 2017: to have 50% of seniors donate to the senior gift. The Dean and other alumni also offered a series of challenge gifts, providing additional

monetary incentives for the senior class if they met, and then exceeded, the 50% goal. The seniors blew away the challenge with nearly 70% contribution to the senior class gift! This outstanding accomplishment will be commemorated with an announcement in the Boston Globe.

ALUMNI GIVING Isenberg seniors are not alone in giving back. Alumni and friends have enabled the school to add five endowed professor positions in the past twelve months alone.

Driven to GiveBUILDING A CULTURE OF GIVING

Dean Fuller challenged the 2016 senior class to a 30% participation rate in the Senior Gift Challenge, vowing to shave an “I” in the back of his head if they met the challenge. The seniors rallied around the goal, and Dean Fuller attended graduation with a new haircut.

LAST YEAR’S CHALLENGE

I'm driven to give because many Isenberg alumni have played a role in helping me succeed and have carried me on their backs. Now it's my turn!"

“- MEGHAN BATES ’17

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Isenberg Day at Fenway

NYC Alumni Night, 48 Lounge

Dean Fuller at the Isenberg Business Leadership Awards Dinner

Boston Alumni Night

HTM NYC Alumni Event

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In 2016, over 2,000 alumni & friends attended 20 alumni-focused Isenberg events held in Amherst, Boston, and New York City. In comparison, in 2015 Isenberg held seven alumni-focused events with about 700 attendees. These events culminate in the school’s premiere alumni event, the Isenberg Business Leadership Awards.

CHUCK AND KAREN PETERS Chuck and Karen Peters are president/owner and VP of administration of their 36-year-old family business, New England Wire Products, a full-service manufacturer in Leominster of product displays. The company makes customized racks for Home Depot, Walmart, Staples, and other customers. Chuck, who majored in mechanical engineering, and Karen, who majored in political science, have supported Isenberg through gifts to the Dean’s Fund for Excellence and to Isenberg’s Business Leadership Awards.

A strategic account executive at InVisionApp Inc, Brian helps corporations and agencies to streamline their creative processes. Driven by invaluable lessons of resiliency while at UMass, Brian had made it a goal to give back to and foster the Isenberg community. He has hosted the school’s Senior Trivia Night for the last six years, hires Isenberg students for summer internships, and supports the school financially, partnering with former Isenberg Undergraduate Dean Carol Barr in creating the Barr/Tino Leadership Scholarship.

BRIAN TINO

96% of alumni value these events as meaningful networking opportunities

AN ENGAGED

Alumni Community

2016 IBLA HONOREES

2016 ISENBERG BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AWARDS (IBLA)

Former Governor William Weld; Dean Mark A. Fuller; Steve Wynn; CEO of Wynn Resorts, and Bob Luz; President & CEO Massachusetts Restau-rant Association, at the HTM Awards Dinner

Professor Anna Nagurney with Johanna Zuber at the NYC networking night

“Isenberg interns and graduates at my company all have that Isenberg stamp—a work ethic that is better

than the rest,” insisted Chuck Peters, who with his wife Karen Peters, were principal honorees at Isenberg's 4th annual Business Leadership Awards Dinner on June 14. Brian Tino, was the Recent Alumni honoree. The gala alumni event at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston attracted 330 members of the Isenberg community.

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CONNECTING WITH THE

Boston Business Community

SPEAKER SERIES

Isenberg unveiled a new speaker series, DRIVEN: A CONVERSATION WITH . . . , inviting seminal business leaders to address the Isenberg community at the UMass Club on One Beacon Street in Boston. Each speaker is a change agent whose ideas are reshaping the landscape of business thought and practice.

For its inaugural event, Isenberg presented Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and chief scientist at Primary Data. A Silicon Valley icon, Wozniak shaped the computer industry with his design of Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In recent years, he has devoted time to improving computer capabilities in schools.

A SPEAKER SERIES

Isenberg is proud to partner with WBUR, Boston's NPR station, and to work with NPR journalists Tom Ashbrook and Asma Khalid for the DRIVEN: A CONVERSATION WITH.... speaker series.From left clockwise: UMass

President Marty Meehan, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Dean Mark A. Fuller; Steve Wozniak during audience Q&A; Speaker series attendees at the UMass Club overlooking the Boston Skyline

Robin Chase, co-founder of ZipCar and transportation entrepreneur, spoke this spring about her vision of what’s to come for the transportation industry and the rapid development of ridesharing and self-driving cars.

BRANDING IN BOSTON

Isenberg took over Bay Back Station—a hub for tens of thousands of commuters daily—in a not so subtle way, branding two subway lines with large banners that support what it means to be driven, including phrases like: “We challenge your thinking so you can challenge the world.”

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The Business of B-Schools

UG DEGREE CONFERRAL FULL-TIME TENURE SYSTEM FACULTY

ENDOWMENT & OPERATING BUDGET

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University of Cal-Berkeley | Haas

Indiana University | Kelley

University of Virgina | McIntire

University of Michigan | Ross

University of Texas-Austin | McCombs

University of Minnesota | Carlson

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | Kenan-Flagler

University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign

University of New Jersey-Newark | Rutgers

Penn State University | Smeal

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Maryland | Robert H. Smith

University of Tennessee | Haslam

University of Washington | Michael G. Foster

University of Mass-Amherst | Isenberg

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$33,088,336Total Operating Budget

FINANCIAL SUMMARY FY 2016

State Support $18,133,503

Continuing & Professional Education: $11,223,641

Philanthropic Gifts: $1,896,474

Income from Endowment: $318,324*

Other: $841,022

Endowment Operating Budget

Isenberg's ascent in the rankings means we are compet-ing with an outstanding set of public business schools. In order to take it to the next level, Isenberg needs greater resources to succeed.

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*At donor request, some income used to establish new endowment.

Isenberg's goal to be one of the top five public b-schools in the nation is an aspiration within reach. Our strategy and efforts are working, illustrated by grow-ing reputation, student preparation and job placement, innovative programs, and wold-class faculty recruiting. We are indeed punching above our weight and we need additional alumni support to move to the next level. Join us in helping to build pride in the Isenberg brand.

Punching Above Our Weight

PLACEMENT RATEBBA ’16, 3 months out

MEDIAN STARTING SALARY

Businessweek Undergraduate Business School Rankings

43,000 ALUMNI IN 82 COUNTRIES

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STUDENTS

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55,000US News and World Report, 2018 Financial Times, 2017

BEST ONLINE MBA IN THE U.S.

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Isenberg School of ManagementUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst www.isenberg.umass.edu

Founded in 1947, the Isenberg School of Management on the Univer-sity of Massachusetts flagship Amherst campus has over 43,000 alumni in 82 countries. Isenberg offers its AACSB accredited courses to 5,100 students on campus, online and in blended formats. The School’s 3,600 undergraduates major in seven business disciplines, including industry specialties in sport management and hospitality & tourism management. Isenberg’s 1,500 graduate students earn MBA, MS, or PhD degrees.