Friday, August 27, 2010
BelWo’s “Creation by Collaboration” competition seeks an innovative idea that makes a new technology work for human development
“Creation by Collaboration” is an initiative created by BelWo Inc aimed at fostering a project in the field of Information Society, bringing Information and Communication Technologies closer to people and communities on an international scale. This initiative acts in favor of global development and the fight against social inequalities.
Through this competition our goal is to be instrumental in assisting with the development of a concept which reduces the division in the world, so that all people have equal access to gain education, resources and prosper. We are launching “Creation by Collaboration” within this context. Our competition will reward the best idea received and will enable its creator to put their idea into the global marketplace. In working with our highly skilled, technological team BelWo will provide the winner with an innovative and collaborative environment in which to develop and introduce their project to the online world. Our winner will receive a custom designed website plus complimentary hosting and maintenance for a year.
The team at BelWo believes that the key to building a business is by building relationships through collaboration, entrepreneurship and innovation. For BelWo, it is particularly about creating cutting edge websites that launch new ideas into the global marketplace. With the challenges our world now faces, our belief that through technology we can change the world and better humanity applies more than ever.
That is why we’ve decided to hold our “Creation by Collaboration” competition. We’re seeking an innovative idea that in some incredible way will have a positive impact upon the world. To the participant of the winning concept Belwo will be creating a free, customized website plus a year of complimentary hosting and maintenance. Our hope is that by giving our winning participant’s concept a face on the internet, in return their vision will better humanity through technological advance. It is simply technology helping technology, thus making a positive impact on our world.
Interested parties should read more about our competition and submit their idea by visiting: http://www.belwo.com/competition/index.html
About BelWo:
BelWo Inc, founded nearly a decade ago, is a privately owned organization headquartered in Troy, NY. We provide cutting-edge IT and business solutions to facilitate an outcome of positive results. As a trusted advisor and partner, BelWo utilizes a combination of the best industry-proven practices, our extensive broad market knowledge and exceptionally high standards to meet the challenges that our clients face. We assist our customers to compete successfully in a continuously changing and competitive business environment.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Upon arriving in Manhattan, the Lally MBA student’s first stop was the Goldman Sachs’ new headquarters, adjacent to the World Trade Center site. The Lally students spent their morning with Kenneth J. Dupuis ’99 of Goldman Sachs. Dupuis talked with the MBA students about his career at Goldman and the history of the firm. He also shared career tips and interview suggestions, discussed “how to sell yourself,” and strategies to use resumes and social networking to succeed in the job search process.
At lunch and throughout the day, the Lally MBA students were joined by a number of other alumni hosts, including Sara Stylinski ’09, Business Analyst at Bank of America; Reed Kipp ’09, Analyst at Ernst & Young; Mike Weiner ’89 MS ‘91 Director of Engineering Recruiting and Training at FactSet Research Systems, and Mary Jo Sorentino ‘08 Actuary at Chartis Insurance. During lunch, the alums talked informally with small groups of Lally’s MBA students about the pros and cons of different careers, life in New York as a new employee, how to prepare for the transition to a career, and also personal job hunt and interviewing tips.
After lunch, the Lally students broke into groups for corporate visits according to their area of interest. Lally Professor Jeff Durgee accompanied a group to midtown to visit Richy Glassberg ’85 Executive VP Media Sales Group at TV Guide to learn about Careers in Media. Another group of Lally MBA students stayed at Goldman Sachs to learn more about finance, and got to visit Goldman’s trading floor. Other groups went to Bank of America with Sara Stylinski, Ernst & Young with Reed Kipp, and with Beth Macey to visit the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Alexander Bringsjord ’11 commented on his experience: “I was one of the three MBA students who met with Reed Kipp from Ernst & Young. It was very refreshing to be able to meet with someone who was right out of RPI and had only been working in finance-related fields for about a year. It was great to make a connection that hit so close to home. He gave my fellow students and me valuable insight in terms of looking to the future.”
Bringsjord continued, “I gained a lot of strategic information about internships, and what companies such as Goldman Sachs and Ernst & Young are looking for in young employees. I learned what I should and shouldn't be doing to further my chances in those respects, while still in school. I would absolutely recommend to future MBA students to go on the trip. If a student is interested in a career on Wall Street it would be intelligent to take advantage of this trip; it really gave me a solid idea of what the culture of that type of work is like, and made my desires to enter the world of finance even stronger.”
Bringsjord added, “You can't get the feel for what a finance-related career is like in a classroom. Sure, you can get an idea of the type of work you'll be doing, but the classroom atmosphere doesn't prepare you for the hustle and bustle of the financial world like this trip does.”
“This event grows each year,” commented Lally Associate Dean Jeff Durgee. “Next year, we would like to have even more of our great City alumni “adopt” a student or two for lunch and a visit to their offices.”
For more detailed information regarding The Lally School of Management & Technology visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu
At lunch and throughout the day, the Lally MBA students were joined by a number of other alumni hosts, including Sara Stylinski ’09, Business Analyst at Bank of America; Reed Kipp ’09, Analyst at Ernst & Young; Mike Weiner ’89 MS ‘91 Director of Engineering Recruiting and Training at FactSet Research Systems, and Mary Jo Sorentino ‘08 Actuary at Chartis Insurance. During lunch, the alums talked informally with small groups of Lally’s MBA students about the pros and cons of different careers, life in New York as a new employee, how to prepare for the transition to a career, and also personal job hunt and interviewing tips.
After lunch, the Lally students broke into groups for corporate visits according to their area of interest. Lally Professor Jeff Durgee accompanied a group to midtown to visit Richy Glassberg ’85 Executive VP Media Sales Group at TV Guide to learn about Careers in Media. Another group of Lally MBA students stayed at Goldman Sachs to learn more about finance, and got to visit Goldman’s trading floor. Other groups went to Bank of America with Sara Stylinski, Ernst & Young with Reed Kipp, and with Beth Macey to visit the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Alexander Bringsjord ’11 commented on his experience: “I was one of the three MBA students who met with Reed Kipp from Ernst & Young. It was very refreshing to be able to meet with someone who was right out of RPI and had only been working in finance-related fields for about a year. It was great to make a connection that hit so close to home. He gave my fellow students and me valuable insight in terms of looking to the future.”
Bringsjord continued, “I gained a lot of strategic information about internships, and what companies such as Goldman Sachs and Ernst & Young are looking for in young employees. I learned what I should and shouldn't be doing to further my chances in those respects, while still in school. I would absolutely recommend to future MBA students to go on the trip. If a student is interested in a career on Wall Street it would be intelligent to take advantage of this trip; it really gave me a solid idea of what the culture of that type of work is like, and made my desires to enter the world of finance even stronger.”
Bringsjord added, “You can't get the feel for what a finance-related career is like in a classroom. Sure, you can get an idea of the type of work you'll be doing, but the classroom atmosphere doesn't prepare you for the hustle and bustle of the financial world like this trip does.”
“This event grows each year,” commented Lally Associate Dean Jeff Durgee. “Next year, we would like to have even more of our great City alumni “adopt” a student or two for lunch and a visit to their offices.”
For more detailed information regarding The Lally School of Management & Technology visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Drawing upon his career experience of a hostile takeover attempt when he was serving as the as the CEO of State Street Bank, Carter conducted an experiential leadership case study seminar, at the Lally School of Management & Technology challenging MBA students to develop on-the-spot presentations for the Board a takeover target company that finds itself in a crisis situation.
Mashall N. Carter is Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Group and Deputy Chairman of the parent company NYSE Euronext. He has served as a director of the New York Stock Exchange since November 2003. NYSE Euronext, a transatlantic exchange group that includes both the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), is the world’s leading and most liquid exchange group, with both the highest average daily value of cash trading and the largest market capitalization of listed operating companies. During 2008, 42% of the world’s cash equities trading volume took place on NYSE Euronext exchanges.
Before joining the NYSE, Mr. Carter served as Chairman and CEO of State Street Bank. Prior to State Street, Mr. Carter was with Chase Manhattan Bank for 15 years, in positions related to finance, operations and global securities businesses. A former Marine Corps officer who was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart during two years’ service as an infantry officer in Vietnam, Mr. Carter served from 1975-76 as a White House Fellow at the State Department and Agency for International Development.
In Fall 2009, Carter delivered the Jerome S. Reinert ’56 Visiting Executive Series lecture entitled Navigating a Perfect Storm—Regaining Our Bearings After the Global Financial Crisis.” More than 300 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community professionals attended the lecture at Rensselaer’s EMPAC venue.
About the Lally School of Management & Technology
The Lally School of Management & Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s oldest technological university. Building on Rensselaer's world-class facilities and leadership in science and engineering, Lally is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. Lally offers graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degree programs in management, a full time One Year MBA and an executive MBA program. Lally’s programs focus on the strategic management of technology and creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in New York’s Tech Valley, Lally offers a growing portfolio of collaborative programs with enterprises and academic institutions in the Indian sub-continent, China, Europe, and the Middle East. Lally continues to deliver high-quality business education in one of the most personalized classroom settings of all the top MBA programs. Of the best MBA programs eligible for ranking by Business Week, Lally’s program ranked #34 in top undergraduate business programs overall.
For more detailed information on the Lally School & the various MBA programs they offer please visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu/
Mashall N. Carter is Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Group and Deputy Chairman of the parent company NYSE Euronext. He has served as a director of the New York Stock Exchange since November 2003. NYSE Euronext, a transatlantic exchange group that includes both the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), is the world’s leading and most liquid exchange group, with both the highest average daily value of cash trading and the largest market capitalization of listed operating companies. During 2008, 42% of the world’s cash equities trading volume took place on NYSE Euronext exchanges.
Before joining the NYSE, Mr. Carter served as Chairman and CEO of State Street Bank. Prior to State Street, Mr. Carter was with Chase Manhattan Bank for 15 years, in positions related to finance, operations and global securities businesses. A former Marine Corps officer who was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart during two years’ service as an infantry officer in Vietnam, Mr. Carter served from 1975-76 as a White House Fellow at the State Department and Agency for International Development.
In Fall 2009, Carter delivered the Jerome S. Reinert ’56 Visiting Executive Series lecture entitled Navigating a Perfect Storm—Regaining Our Bearings After the Global Financial Crisis.” More than 300 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community professionals attended the lecture at Rensselaer’s EMPAC venue.
About the Lally School of Management & Technology
The Lally School of Management & Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s oldest technological university. Building on Rensselaer's world-class facilities and leadership in science and engineering, Lally is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. Lally offers graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degree programs in management, a full time One Year MBA and an executive MBA program. Lally’s programs focus on the strategic management of technology and creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in New York’s Tech Valley, Lally offers a growing portfolio of collaborative programs with enterprises and academic institutions in the Indian sub-continent, China, Europe, and the Middle East. Lally continues to deliver high-quality business education in one of the most personalized classroom settings of all the top MBA programs. Of the best MBA programs eligible for ranking by Business Week, Lally’s program ranked #34 in top undergraduate business programs overall.
For more detailed information on the Lally School & the various MBA programs they offer please visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu/
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The inspiration of Jean A. Howard, associate director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at Lally, Tech Launch Pad (TLP) fills a critical need at Rensselaer by offering a pre-incubation program focused on the student’s innovation. Its accelerated ‘real world’ approach to entrepreneurship prepares young entrepreneurs and MBAs for the next steps in business creation, specifically, feasibility evaluation and strategy/entity creation. If the entrepreneur cannot demonstrate feasibility, moving forward is difficult if not impossible.
“Entrepreneurship is often thought of as a solo endeavor. The reality couldn’t be more different. To turn technical innovation into commercial success requires a collaborative approach between the inventor and a team of experts in business, financing, law, and marketing to name a few. Tech Launch Pad, at the Lally School, incorporates a practical and multi-disciplinary approach that’s key to entrepreneurial success,” according to Howard.
The TLP pilot, launched in Summer 2009, attracted student entrepreneurs, MBA program graduates and businesses from across the campus including a strong contingent from the School of Engineering. Bill Dailey, ’98, MBA/J.D., was tapped by Howard to run the pilot. Students were introduced to the practical aspects of business management, from feasibility studies to incorporating; from negotiating synergistic partnerships to current financing options. "It's not enough just to have good technology. There’s more to bringing something to market than just having a technology that works,” said Dailey.
Ke Xia, Ph.D. biochemistry ’09, and co-inventor of Promethean Revolution, LLC, participated in the pilot. When asked what he thought of it, Xia summed it up by saying, “TLP at Lally helped us accomplish in 36 hours what would have taken us 2 years of stumbling around to figure out.”
Designed specifically for business students with good ideas and that “fire in the belly,” Tech Launch Pad is not for students trying to figure out whether or not they want to be an entrepreneur. “This course is for technically savvy students interested in launching a business or who currently are already in business. In short, this course is about practicing, doing and acting—grounded on the assumption that everyone in the course is there to develop a business,” according to Bruce Rothenberg, associate director of student technology in the Lally School of Management & Technology and the current TLP instructor.
Of the 17 student businesses that have completed either the pilot or Fall semester TLP course, 8 continue forward with their business concepts. “The accelerated format delivers the information you need to push along your idea while not taking a lot of your time," says Anthony Guidarelli, ’09, computer and systems engineering, and co-founder of Blink Applications. “Tech Launch Pad pushed us to move our idea along technically and to develop an actual demo that resulted in us being asked for the first time how much money we were looking for.”
TLP also helps to bridge the gap between university and community, with a secondary goal of keeping new companies in the Capital Region and adding to the area’s future economic development. And that’s where TLP’s structure and community involvement is important.
The practicum relies on guest lecturers and introduces students to seasoned local entrepreneurs and business professionals. Jonathan Ashdown, Ph.D. ’11, of UltrasoniComm, is quick to point out that TLP helped him to establish a network among VCs and angel investors he otherwise would not have, in addition to building a strong group of advisors.
“Because of its positioning within a premier technological institute, the Lally School brings a unique perspective on technological entrepreneurs and business creation. We’re teaching high-tech entrepreneurism—that’s our niche—and TLP has the potential to contribute to the region’s long-term, overall economic development,” according to Rothenberg.
About the Lally School of Management & Technology
The Lally School of Management & Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s oldest technological university. Building on Rensselaer's world-class facilities and leadership in science and engineering, Lally is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. Lally offers graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degree programs in management, and an executive MBA program. Lally’s programs focus on the strategic management of technology and creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in New York’s Tech Valley, Lally offers a growing portfolio of collaborative programs with enterprises and academic institutions in the Indian sub-continent, China, Europe, and the Middle East. For more information on the Lally School of Management & Technology and their MBA Programs please visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu
“Entrepreneurship is often thought of as a solo endeavor. The reality couldn’t be more different. To turn technical innovation into commercial success requires a collaborative approach between the inventor and a team of experts in business, financing, law, and marketing to name a few. Tech Launch Pad, at the Lally School, incorporates a practical and multi-disciplinary approach that’s key to entrepreneurial success,” according to Howard.
The TLP pilot, launched in Summer 2009, attracted student entrepreneurs, MBA program graduates and businesses from across the campus including a strong contingent from the School of Engineering. Bill Dailey, ’98, MBA/J.D., was tapped by Howard to run the pilot. Students were introduced to the practical aspects of business management, from feasibility studies to incorporating; from negotiating synergistic partnerships to current financing options. "It's not enough just to have good technology. There’s more to bringing something to market than just having a technology that works,” said Dailey.
Ke Xia, Ph.D. biochemistry ’09, and co-inventor of Promethean Revolution, LLC, participated in the pilot. When asked what he thought of it, Xia summed it up by saying, “TLP at Lally helped us accomplish in 36 hours what would have taken us 2 years of stumbling around to figure out.”
Designed specifically for business students with good ideas and that “fire in the belly,” Tech Launch Pad is not for students trying to figure out whether or not they want to be an entrepreneur. “This course is for technically savvy students interested in launching a business or who currently are already in business. In short, this course is about practicing, doing and acting—grounded on the assumption that everyone in the course is there to develop a business,” according to Bruce Rothenberg, associate director of student technology in the Lally School of Management & Technology and the current TLP instructor.
Of the 17 student businesses that have completed either the pilot or Fall semester TLP course, 8 continue forward with their business concepts. “The accelerated format delivers the information you need to push along your idea while not taking a lot of your time," says Anthony Guidarelli, ’09, computer and systems engineering, and co-founder of Blink Applications. “Tech Launch Pad pushed us to move our idea along technically and to develop an actual demo that resulted in us being asked for the first time how much money we were looking for.”
TLP also helps to bridge the gap between university and community, with a secondary goal of keeping new companies in the Capital Region and adding to the area’s future economic development. And that’s where TLP’s structure and community involvement is important.
The practicum relies on guest lecturers and introduces students to seasoned local entrepreneurs and business professionals. Jonathan Ashdown, Ph.D. ’11, of UltrasoniComm, is quick to point out that TLP helped him to establish a network among VCs and angel investors he otherwise would not have, in addition to building a strong group of advisors.
“Because of its positioning within a premier technological institute, the Lally School brings a unique perspective on technological entrepreneurs and business creation. We’re teaching high-tech entrepreneurism—that’s our niche—and TLP has the potential to contribute to the region’s long-term, overall economic development,” according to Rothenberg.
About the Lally School of Management & Technology
The Lally School of Management & Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s oldest technological university. Building on Rensselaer's world-class facilities and leadership in science and engineering, Lally is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. Lally offers graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degree programs in management, and an executive MBA program. Lally’s programs focus on the strategic management of technology and creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in New York’s Tech Valley, Lally offers a growing portfolio of collaborative programs with enterprises and academic institutions in the Indian sub-continent, China, Europe, and the Middle East. For more information on the Lally School of Management & Technology and their MBA Programs please visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Lally continues to deliver high-quality business education in one of the most personalized classroom settings of the top programs. Of the 139 programs eligible for ranking by Business Week, Lally’s program was the third smallest as measured by overall enrollment of 379 students, 8th smallest by faculty student ratio of 11.0, and had an average class size of 31 students.
At the same time, Lally graduates are well prepared for career success: median starting salaries for Lally graduates, at $55,000, ranked 7th highest among schools surveyed, tying with 13 other schools, including #1 ranked Notre Dame, and several top-10 schools such as Cornell, Boston College, University of Virginia, and UC Berkeley/Haas. Students reported finding jobs most often in technology, financial services and consulting firms with companies such as Avenity, Microsoft and Cisco Systems.
BusinessWeek also cited student survey quotes on entrepreneurship training at Lally: "I think Rensselaer is one of the only schools that stresses entrepreneurship very heavily in the curriculum. I will feel very comfortable getting together with colleagues in the near future and starting a business, thanks to the skills that I have developed at Rensselaer."
BusinessWeek is a leading business magazine, with more than 4.7 million readers each week in 140 countries.
About the Lally School of Management & Technology
The Lally School of Management & Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s oldest technological university. Building on Rensselaer's world-class facilities and leadership in science and engineering, Lally is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. Lally offers graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degree programs in management, and an executive MBA program. Lally’s programs focus on the strategic management of technology and creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in New York’s Tech Valley, Lally offers a growing portfolio of collaborative programs with enterprises and academic institutions in the Indian sub-continent, China, Europe, and the Middle East.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation’s oldest technological university. The university offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the humanities and social sciences. Institute programs serve undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals around the world. Rensselaer faculty are known for pre-eminence in research conducted in a wide range of fields, with particular emphasis in biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, and the media arts and technology. The Institute is well known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development.
http://lallyschool.rpi.edu
At the same time, Lally graduates are well prepared for career success: median starting salaries for Lally graduates, at $55,000, ranked 7th highest among schools surveyed, tying with 13 other schools, including #1 ranked Notre Dame, and several top-10 schools such as Cornell, Boston College, University of Virginia, and UC Berkeley/Haas. Students reported finding jobs most often in technology, financial services and consulting firms with companies such as Avenity, Microsoft and Cisco Systems.
BusinessWeek also cited student survey quotes on entrepreneurship training at Lally: "I think Rensselaer is one of the only schools that stresses entrepreneurship very heavily in the curriculum. I will feel very comfortable getting together with colleagues in the near future and starting a business, thanks to the skills that I have developed at Rensselaer."
BusinessWeek is a leading business magazine, with more than 4.7 million readers each week in 140 countries.
About the Lally School of Management & Technology
The Lally School of Management & Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, America’s oldest technological university. Building on Rensselaer's world-class facilities and leadership in science and engineering, Lally is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. Lally offers graduate, doctoral and undergraduate degree programs in management, and an executive MBA program. Lally’s programs focus on the strategic management of technology and creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship. Located in New York’s Tech Valley, Lally offers a growing portfolio of collaborative programs with enterprises and academic institutions in the Indian sub-continent, China, Europe, and the Middle East.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation’s oldest technological university. The university offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the humanities and social sciences. Institute programs serve undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals around the world. Rensselaer faculty are known for pre-eminence in research conducted in a wide range of fields, with particular emphasis in biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, and the media arts and technology. The Institute is well known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development.
http://lallyschool.rpi.edu
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Lally’s graduate and undergraduate business programs received top rankings from U.S. News & World Report, Business Week and Entrepreneur magazine.
U.S. News & World Report Ranked Lally in #27 in Entrepreneurship U.S. News’ Business School Specialty Rankings are based on ratings by business school Deans and Directors from the 426 master’s programs accredited by AACSB.
Business Week Specialty Rankings Put Lally #7 in Ethics, #7 in Calculus, #9 in Sustainability, and #12 in Quantitative Methods in their “Undergraduate Business Specialties: Best of the Best.” Business Week surveyed thousands of business majors at more than 100 schools about how well their schools teach standard academic specialities. Students ranked programs on a scale of 1 to 5 for 12 different specialty areas, including—for the first time—Sustainability—where Lally made the top 10! Lally, one of the smallest programs surveyed, with one of the smallest average class sizes, ranked #36 overall among the Top Undergraduate Business Programs, and #21 for academic quality.Business Week - Lally #36 overall in Top Undergraduate Business Programs, and #21 for academic quality.
Entrepreneur Magazine’s MBA Student Survey Ranked Lally in the Top 15 B-schools in Operations in its "Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools" The rankings come from a national survey of 19,000 MBA students by The Princeton Review.The Student Opinion Honors survey reports across six categories: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, and Operations.
U.S. News & World Report Ranked Lally in #27 in Entrepreneurship U.S. News’ Business School Specialty Rankings are based on ratings by business school Deans and Directors from the 426 master’s programs accredited by AACSB.
Business Week Specialty Rankings Put Lally #7 in Ethics, #7 in Calculus, #9 in Sustainability, and #12 in Quantitative Methods in their “Undergraduate Business Specialties: Best of the Best.” Business Week surveyed thousands of business majors at more than 100 schools about how well their schools teach standard academic specialities. Students ranked programs on a scale of 1 to 5 for 12 different specialty areas, including—for the first time—Sustainability—where Lally made the top 10! Lally, one of the smallest programs surveyed, with one of the smallest average class sizes, ranked #36 overall among the Top Undergraduate Business Programs, and #21 for academic quality.Business Week - Lally #36 overall in Top Undergraduate Business Programs, and #21 for academic quality.
Entrepreneur Magazine’s MBA Student Survey Ranked Lally in the Top 15 B-schools in Operations in its "Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools" The rankings come from a national survey of 19,000 MBA students by The Princeton Review.The Student Opinion Honors survey reports across six categories: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, and Operations.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has launched a new one year MBA Program. Patterned after global MBA programs that are the norm outside the U.S., the new 51-credit hour program replaces the school’s previous 2-year MBA degree program.
The new MBA program was developed by a senior faculty committee comprised of Lally Dean David A. Gautschi, Dr. Jeffrey F. Durgee, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Associate Professor of Marketing, Dr. Iftekhar Hasan, Cary L. Wellington Professor of Finance, and Dr. T. Ravichandran, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.
The new program reflects the growing trend toward accelerated and specialized master’s programs in management education. The demand for intensive, shorter MBA programs, already growing, has only increased during the current economic downturn. According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey of accelerated MBA programs, the primary factor for students in choosing these programs is the ability to enter the work force faster. The majority of current one year MBA programs are outside the U.S., and the international focus is a large draw for many students. Lally’s new intensive MBA program not only offers students an accelerated way to boost their careers, but also reflects the globalization of technology management and the global demand for MBA degrees.
The new program enables students to complete an MBA degree in as little as one year by streamlining elective requirements and offering coursework through the summer and semester intercession periods. The accelerated program will continue to teach Lally’s signature integrated MBA curriculum, which emphasizes the connections between functional business areas, preparing students for real world situations where they will work on teams across business functions such as finance, operations, research & development and marketing.
Lally MBA students can choose from four different program options, ranging from 12 to 24 months, and a wide variety of curricular options to build a customized degree program. For those looking for accelerated training, with a minimum disruption of their career path and maximum value, the New, One Year, Full Time option is the most intensive and shortest degree program. For students who want to gain more work experience or to change careers, internship and specialization modules can be added to create an MBA tailored for each student’s needs and career goals. Customized MBA programs can be completed within 17 to 24 months at the Lally School. For further information on the Lally School of Management & Technology and the MBA programs offered visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu/
The new MBA program was developed by a senior faculty committee comprised of Lally Dean David A. Gautschi, Dr. Jeffrey F. Durgee, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Associate Professor of Marketing, Dr. Iftekhar Hasan, Cary L. Wellington Professor of Finance, and Dr. T. Ravichandran, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management.
The new program reflects the growing trend toward accelerated and specialized master’s programs in management education. The demand for intensive, shorter MBA programs, already growing, has only increased during the current economic downturn. According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey of accelerated MBA programs, the primary factor for students in choosing these programs is the ability to enter the work force faster. The majority of current one year MBA programs are outside the U.S., and the international focus is a large draw for many students. Lally’s new intensive MBA program not only offers students an accelerated way to boost their careers, but also reflects the globalization of technology management and the global demand for MBA degrees.
The new program enables students to complete an MBA degree in as little as one year by streamlining elective requirements and offering coursework through the summer and semester intercession periods. The accelerated program will continue to teach Lally’s signature integrated MBA curriculum, which emphasizes the connections between functional business areas, preparing students for real world situations where they will work on teams across business functions such as finance, operations, research & development and marketing.
Lally MBA students can choose from four different program options, ranging from 12 to 24 months, and a wide variety of curricular options to build a customized degree program. For those looking for accelerated training, with a minimum disruption of their career path and maximum value, the New, One Year, Full Time option is the most intensive and shortest degree program. For students who want to gain more work experience or to change careers, internship and specialization modules can be added to create an MBA tailored for each student’s needs and career goals. Customized MBA programs can be completed within 17 to 24 months at the Lally School. For further information on the Lally School of Management & Technology and the MBA programs offered visit: http://www.lallyschool.rpi.edu/
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