Professor Steve Ng’s Investment Fund course is not only one of the most popular and unique classes at GSOM, it’s a must-take course for any hopeful investor. It offers an opportunity for students to team manage an equity portfolio on behalf of the Clark University endowment. Besides covering the usual topics, such as financial statement…
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2018 Beta Gamma Sigma Induction Ceremony Held
Clark University’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM) inducted 44 students into Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society exclusively for business programs accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – at a ceremony on May 17, on the college’s main campus.
Beta Gamma Sigma is a prestigious national honor society that recognizes and promotes scholarship in business. Membership is the highest recognition a business student can receive in a program accredited by AACSB International. Beta Gamma Sigma has just 500 collegiate chapters in the United States. To be eligible, students must be enrolled in a bachelor’s degree business administration program or the MBA, master’s in accounting, master’s in finance, or master’s in business analytics program. Only those ranked in the top 10 percent of the undergraduate/BA program, or the top 20 percent of a master’s program, are eligible for membership.
Clark students inducted include:
Undergraduate Juniors: Salma Shawa; Huy Le; Phat Tran; Brandon Lau Zelaya; Alisa Gelfand; Nana Akosua Larbi-Tieku
Undergraduate Seniors: Joshua DeMelo; Charlotte Donovan
Graduate Students: Yilun Zhang; Su Li; Vladislav Kiveliyk; Meghan Kelly; Pauline Jurasinski; Joyce Anne Dimaano; Elizabeth O’Toole; Vanessa Charles; Traci Veteto; Adrian Chaisson; Elizabeth Chmielewski; Mariami Iashagashvili; Lynne Miles; Kelly Rourke; Lucas Petricone-Berg; Matthew Woods; Nicole Raby; Zhikai Wan; Namisha Bhattarai; Ruoxi Han; Yumeng Hou; Bhisma Kandel; Fan Wu; Matthew Sullivan; Yuang Zhao; Jishun Wu; Mingjie Xu; Sixin Ding; Shengnan Luo; Hao Chen; Jingjie Shang; Wanting Huang; Yun Sun; Ruoxi Zheng
Second Recognition: Samuel Balian and Haley Smith
Associate Dean Barbara Bigelow presents the undergraduate management award to Joshua DeMelo.
Also honored for their leadership and service were three GSOM students, who received special recognition:
The William ’53 and Agnes Hausrath Leadership Award: Malina Joshi
The Morton H. ’51 and Vivian B. Sigel Endowed Fellowship Award: Fiona McDonnell
The Morton H. ’51 and Vivian B. Sigel Undergraduate Management Award recipient: Joshua DeMelo
GSOM’s Beta Gamma Sigma 2018 Chapter Honoree is tenured professor of accounting, Dr. Dileep Dhavale of Worcester. Dr. Dhavale has been serving the students of GSOM since his arrival in 1987. As a CPA and with numerous publications, honors, and awards to his name, Dr. Dhavale also acts as chair, reviewer, panelist and discussant in regional and national academic meetings of several management and accounting organizations. He is also a frequent speaker at local chapters of professional societies such as Institute of Management Accountants, American Production and Inventory Control Society, American Society for Quality Control.
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Grad Students Take Part in VITA Tax Prep Program
During the spring semester of 2018, twenty-two GSOM students took part in Worcester’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. Accounting, finance, and management students prepared tax forms and other documents as part of the VITA program for low-income residents and those with disabilities or limited English language skills. The group assisted residents at the Worcester Community Action…
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Numerous Companies Host GSOM Students as Interns
Congratulations to all of our accounting, management, and finance students who completed internships this summer, and a special “thank you” to the companies who hosted them! Here’s just a handful of the students captured in photos:
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Senior in Accelerated MBA Completes Research in Lebanon
Anthony Jreije ’18 investigates the politics of gentrification in Lebanon’s capital By Meredith Woodward King Imagine paying 90 percent of your income on rent. That’s a reality facing many residents of Beirut — and a focus of Anthony Jreije’s research into the politics of gentrification in Lebanon’s capital. The Clark University undergraduate’s project has been…
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A Professor’s First Year in GSOM… and How Weather Can Assist Auditors
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Planting the Seeds of Green Logistics
Graduate School of Management students gain real-world experience integrating environmental thinking into supply chains Prior to enrolling in Professor David Correll’s supply chain management class at Clark University’s Graduate School of Management, what most students know about the topic can be summed up in a UPS catchphrase: “It’s logistics.” “It’s true,” Correll says with a…
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Management students share research on sustainable fashion with retail giant, L.L. Bean.
Students unlock the secrets of marketing to millennials Consumer Behavior and Branding Strategy classes share research on environmentally sustainable fashion with L.L. Bean Several Clark University management students headed off to their summer internships with major fashion retailers armed with fresh knowledge of millennials’ shopping habits, thanks to a marketing class they took this spring. <<Read more>>…
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Part-time MBA Student at Home in Clark’s Graduate School of Management
CarrieAnne Cormier, a local, part-time student in Clark’s Graduate School of Management, spoke to us about her experience in GSOM, what brought her to Clark’s MBA program, and how she’s already utilizing her newfound knowledge in her position as Vice President of Retail Operations and Strategy at Avidia Bank. Her goal is an MBA with a…
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2017 Beta Gamma Sigma Induction Ceremony Held
On May 18, Clark’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM) inducted 34 students into Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society exclusively for business programs accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Beta Gamma Sigma is a prestigious national honor society that recognizes and promotes scholarship in business. Membership is…