http://whitman.syr.edu/newsroom/Get the lastest news from the Whitman School.en-ushttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1734Whitman School of Management welcomes Dr. Jarrod Goenztel, founder and director of the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, as he presents “Prioritizing Resource Deployment in a Humanitarian Response” on Friday, February 10. The presentation will review two projects that explore aspects of prioritizing scarce resources during a large-scale disaster such as characterizing demand and formulating decision model objectives. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a team of researchers surveyed the internally displaced person’s camps and identified urgent needs such as shelter, water and food despite their goal to alleviate human suffering. The presentation will summarize the statistics from Haiti, compare this needs assessment with other approaches and discuss how demand characterization is crucial in coordinating and prioritizing resource distribution. The MIT Humanitarian Response Lab focuses its efforts on making supply chains more responsive to human needs following a crisis. Including supply chain design, Dr. Goenztel also researches information management, transportation procurement and planning, humanitarian needs assessments and the use of technology to facilitate decision-making. The talk will be held in room 525 from 2:00 to 3:30, Friday, February 10.]]>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1732 Marketing students from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University spent part of their winter break gaining first-hand knowledge about their future careers during the Marketing Career Exploration trip in New York City. For three days from Jan. 4-6, the city became a ‘marketing laboratory’ for a select group of 28 students. Top marketing executives working in a wide range of industries in Manhattan opened up their offices to host Whitman students, including, Turner Broadcasting, News America Marketing, Vector Media Group, Durst-Fetner, Draftfcb and Macy’s Inc. The trip was sponsored in part by Lee Goldberg ’06, co-founder and president of Vector Media Group The Marketing Career Exploration trip, which is marking its fifth year, is part of Whitman’s goals to expose students to the many facets of the fast-paced marketing industry. Since 2008, more than 100 Whitman students have benefited from networking with the nation’s leading minds in marketing representing a variety of companies including L’Oreal, the New York Knicks and Third Avenue Fund. “No other business school can boast the same level of alumni support and enthusiasm that Whitman enjoys in New York,” says E. Scott Lathrop, professor of marketing practice and one of the coordinators of the Marketing Career Exploration trip. “Our visits always spark dynamic classroom discussions among our students when we return to Whitman.”]]>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1731For those not familiar, ‘Career Madness’ is Whitman’s career and professional development program, specifically created for Whitman students. Through the sponsorship and engagement of corporate recruiters and alumni, students learn about career options, and how to effectively secure internships/full-time career placements. The program will launch on Thursday, January 26 with a dinner in the Flaum Grand Hall; leading into our workshop programs on Friday, January 27. We have maxed out registrations at 258 students!! And, we have over 35 corporate recruiters and alumni coming to Whitman to mentor and teach our students, beginning on Thursday. The following corporations will be in attendance over the two day program: Anchin Block & Anchin JP Morgan Chase & Co. C&S Wholesalers KPMG Carestream Lockheed Martin CH Robinson Macy’s Chase Designs Manning & Napier Chocolate Pizza Company MedTech Deloitte Mohawk Global Logistics Dick’s Sporting Goods Morgan Stanley Eric Mower and Associates Pratt & Whitney Ernst & Young Prudential Fleet Feet PWC Grant Thornton Ross Stores JCPenney Rothstein Kass Welch Allyn Program brochures are available in the Whitman Career Center for your planning purposes.]]>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1730On Thursday, Jan. 26, 9WSYR's "Bridge Street" television news program will feature the SU chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SU-SIFE), which is based at the Whitman School. Led by faculty adviser Amanda Nicholson, professor of retail practice at Whitman, the SU-SIFE group is composed of more than 80 undergraduate students who use their knowledge to improve the economic, environmental and social sustainability of people in need. Nicholson is scheduled to appear on Thursday's "Bridge Street" program with SU-SIFE President-elect Camellia Loojune, an accounting major in the Whitman School. Throughout the year, SU-SIFE works on a multitude of original projects in the community on the premise that a small group of people can impact the world through commitment, hard work and dedication. Among SU-SIFE's projects is Team Guatemala, helping develop and sell Guatemalan Mayan weavers’ products in the Syracuse University Bookstore, campus, community and by partnering with other schools to expand the markets for the products. To date the group as returned over $85,000 to the weaving groups through three fair trade organizations to help provide the women’s groups with an increased income and scholarships for young women of promise so that they stay through high school and pull their lives out of poverty. And recently, SU-SIFE expanded the program, partnering with Medaille College and with SUNY Oswego on similar efforts at their bookstores. Another SU-SIFE project in Guatemala is Threads of Hope, which helps establish small thread stores across the hills of the region so that the women can cut down on travel costs to obtain their thread, foster a sense of entrepreneurship, and ease the complexity of the supply chain in the weaving communities. For more information on SU-SIFE, visit http://susife.org/.]]>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1729G. Thomas Lumpkin, the Chris J. Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship, recently delivered two invited research talks. Lumpkin delivered a pillar session on research at the US Association of Small Business Entrepreneurship conference (USASBE) in New Orleans (Jan. 13, 2012), titled Long-Term Orientation and Entrepreneurship: Research Challenges and Opportunities. Pillar sessions are part of the USASBE program where leaders from the entrepreneurship discipline share insights, best practices and forecasts for the field. Lumpkin has also delivered a keynote speech at the GMLG Conference on Entrepreneurship: Start-ups, Business Models, and Family Businesses in Germany (Jan. 20, 2012), titled Understanding the Family Business Landscape: Implications for Sustainability and Performance. Catering to an audience of academics and practitioners, one goal of the GMLG conference is to address the challenge of “translating” academic findings for practitioners. ]]>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1728Alex McKelvie, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has joined the editorial board of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. Published by Emerald, IJEBR is a journal that publishes conceptual papers and empirical studies related to entrepreneurship and the management of smaller organizations. McKelvie recently joined the editorial board of the Family Business Review (FBR) as well.]]>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1727Dave Bing ’66, H’06, mayor of Detroit, will be the keynote speaker at Syracuse University’s 27th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 21, in the Carrier Dome. This year’s theme is “A Living Legacy: The Fierce Urgency of Now.” "It is an honor to celebrate the life and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," says Bing. “Syracuse University helped give me the knowledge and value system to pursue a career in public service. It is important that we pass that legacy on to the next generation." SU’s annual celebration is among the largest university-sponsored events in the United States to commemorate King. Last year, more than 2,000 people attended the event. “In his social and political life, Mayor Bing embodies the virtues espoused by Dr. King and challenges all around him to live a life of honesty and high moral integrity,” says Marissa L. Willingham, program associate in the Office of Multicultural Affairs and chair of the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee. “In the spirit of Dr. King and consistent with the theme of our celebration, Mayor Bing will challenge us to contribute to world peace through freedom and social justice.” The evening program, which will include the presentation of the 2012 Unsung Hero Awards and entertainment, begins at 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Tickets for the dinner, which precedes the program at 5 p.m., are $25 for the general public and $15 for students without meal plans. Students with meal plans will be charged for one dinner. For ticket information, call Hendricks Chapel at 443-5044. This year’s Unsung Hero Award recipients include Lt. Col. Mary Jo Timpano, director of staff for the 174th Fighter Wing of the New York Air National Guard (community adult category); Emily Kelsey-Gossard, a senior at Marcellus High School (community youth category); Risa Cantu C’DeBaca, a senior majoring in women’s and gender studies and minoring in sociology at SU (SU/ESF student category); Cheryl Spear, SU doctoral student, scholar, advocate and service provider for individuals with disabilities (SU/ESF student category); and Lynda Hamilton ’74, manager of the Brockway Dining Center on the SU campus (SU/ESF faculty/staff category). A community festival celebrating arts, culture and education in the Syracuse community will be held on Jan. 21, from noon-3 p.m. at Dr. Weeks at Shea Middle School, located at 1607 S. Geddes St. The event will include workshops, entertainment and the presentation of the 2012 Youth Unsung Hero Awards to 15 students from the Syracuse City School District. A native of Washington, D.C., Bing was elected the 62nd mayor of the City of Detroit in May 2009. A standout basketball player in both high school and college, Bing was drafted by the Detroit Pistons as their No.1 pick in 1966. He was voted one of the Top 50 basketball players of all time, and was inducted into the Michigan Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 1990. Bing turned his winning strategies from the basketball court to the boardroom as the founder of an automotive supply corporation, the Bing Group, in 1980, where he served as president and chairman until April 2009. For more information about the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, call Hendricks Chapel at 315-443-2901 or visit Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Syracuse-University-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Celebration/179128475430845.]]>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1726Representatives from Syracuse University’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), the EBV Foundation and EBV corporate sponsors PepsiCo, Walmart and Humana visited the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 9. Their visit highlighted the work the EBV program and foundation are undertaking to provide cutting-edge entrepreneurship training to open the door to small business ownership to post-9/11 veterans with service-related disabilities. EBV graduate Elizabeth Perez-Halperin, president and founder of GC Green, a post-9/11 service-disabled veteran-owned green build general contracting and consulting firm, rang the NYSE Closing Bell. Perez-Halperin, a graduate of the EBV at Texas A&M, was joined on the bell podium by EBV founder and IVMF executive director Mike Haynie, fellow EBV program graduates and representatives from the EBV Foundation and corporate sponsors. “It is an honor that the EBV took part in the closing bell ceremony at the NYSE. We are pleased by this recognition and thrilled about our ongoing relationship with our corporate sponsors who help us provide opportunities for meaningful and needed training in entrepreneurship for our nation’s returning veterans, veteran business owners and their families,” says Haynie. Since its founding in 2007, 450 veterans from across the nation have graduated from the EBV, which has spurred the creation of more than 200 new veteran-owned businesses. Founded at SU’s Whitman School of Management  and operated under the auspices of the IVMF, the EBV program is offered through a national consortium of eight world-class schools across the country, including SU; the University of California, Los Angeles; Florida State University; Texas A&M University; Purdue University; the University of Connecticut; Louisiana State University; and Cornell University.]]>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1722Three faculty members in the Whitman School have recently joined the editorial boards of respected journals in the fields of business and management. Fred Easton, professor of supply chain management and director of the Robert H. Brethen Operations Management Institute, has joined the editorial board of Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ). DSJ is published on a quarterly basis and is the publication of choice for established and emerging researchers in operations/supply chain management (SCM) and information systems/technology (IT). The journal publishes research papers that address contemporary business problems while simultaneously providing managerial and/or theoretical insights into SCM and IT. Mike Haynie, Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship and executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, has joined the editorial board of the Journal of Management Studies (JMS). Published on behalf of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, JMS is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles on organization theory and behavior and strategic and human resource management—from empirical studies and theoretical developments to practical applications. JMS offers in-depth coverage of organizational problems and organization theory, latest developments in strategic management and planning, cross-cultural comparisons of organizational effectiveness and concise reviews of the latest publications in management studies, as well as debate on topical and important issues on management. Alexander McKelvie, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has joined the editorial board of the Family Business Review (FBR). FBR has been published quarterly since 1988 and is a scholarly journal devoted to the exploration of the dynamics of family-controlled enterprises, including firms ranging in size from the very large to the relatively small.]]>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttp://whitman.syr.edu/Newsroom/News.aspx?id=1720Sixty-three student teams representing over 300 Whitman undergraduate seniors completed in the semi-annual Capstone Business Plan Competition held Dec. 9-10 at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. At the conclusion of both the fall and spring semesters Whitman's Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises hosts the Capstone Business Plan Competition. Every Whitman senior participates in the Capstone experience - an experiential program that brings together all of the elements of the Whitman education in the context of an original business concept that students conceive and develop as a viable, sustainable, and truly innovative new venture. A participant in the competition, Victoria Di Napoli ’12, notes that “This class brought together students from all majors and backgrounds within the business school. It allowed the students to combine their knowledge and skill sets which they are not able to experience to this degree in any other class.” Student-teams present their business plans before panels of judges composed of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and others from the entrepreneurial community in Central New York. First place and a prize of $500 was awarded to WaterPort, LLC, consisting of teams members Christopher Grant, Victoria Di Napoli, William Craine, Hunt Lau and was mentored by Ken Walsleben. “It was a great personal achievement and testament of our hard work,” notes Victoria Di Napoli ‘12, speaking on behalf of the entire team. “We are very grateful for everyone that helped us along the way in developing our idea and guiding us to the best resources.” Second place and a prize of $300 was awarded to Sweet Spot, consisting of team members Olga Litvinenko, David Ben-Hayun, Mitchell Bernstein, Katie Galezo, Kelly Geer and was coached by Whitman faculty member John Torrens. Third place and a prize of $200 was awarded to DENTprotect, consisting of team members Zach McClure, Roz Amirfazli, Alyssa Georgian, Crystal Zhou, Jon Eisenberg (also mentored by Torrens). Honorable mentions were given to teams Reference Points and Snowshield. Reference Points team members included Jonathan Carrubba, Joseph Ottenstein, Jorie Richlin-Zack, Erica Taylor and Robert Zaccaria and was coached by Alejandro Amezcua. Snowshield team members included Conrad Cutler, Hyunji Kim, Brandon Tan, Alexandra Tartell, Sarah Rittenhouse and was coached by John Torrens. The top teams also earn the chance to represent the Whitman School at national business plan competitions. For more information, contact Lindsay Wickham, Falcone Center events and communications manager, at (315) 443-3550 or lwickham@syr.edu.]]>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT