Day: November 14, 2017

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Thesis Defense – DIGITAL LEARNING: EXPECTATION OF CONTEMPORARY WORKFORCE

Thesis Defense Notice:

ABSTRACT

DIGITAL LEARNING: EXPECTATION OF CONTEMPORARY WORKFORCE

Monday, November 20, 2017
2:00pm
Healey Library,
College of Management PhD Room

 

Vignesh Natarajan, B.TECH., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ( India )

MBA, University of Massachusetts Boston

MS, University of Massachusetts Boston

Advised by Professor Romilla Syed

The advancement of technologies has disrupted and influenced most of the industry verticals. One of such a profound impact is on education especially how the digital is transforming the today’s learning and lays the foundation for rising tailored needs of different learners’ segments. It is critical for any digital learning providers to understand different segments of learners, their attitude towards e-learning platforms and objectives so that they can better serve the learners in an effective manner. This paper is an attempt to identify learners’ , who are in current workforce, attitude toward online courses, measure how much learners have used online courses for their education, determine which reasons learners used online course and identify the barriers of why learners have not taken online courses and the likeliness that learners would take online courses in the future. The data collection is a result of an online survey fielded to a randomly selected list of specific job board users.

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Salary Negotiation and Gender Wage Gap Workshop

Date and Time
Date: 11/16/2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Details and Registration 

Join us for this important workshop!

Certified American Association of University of Women (AAUW) salary negotiation facilitators will teach you how to negotiate for a new job as well as for earned raises or promotions.

Thursday, November 16, 2017
6-8 p.m.
UMass Boston Campus Center
2nd Floor, Alumni Lounge

$10/person
Free to current students

Through facilitated discussion, and role-play you will  learn:
•About the gender pay gap, including its long term consequences
•How to identify and articulate your personal value
•How to develop an arsenal of persuasive responses and other negotiation strategies, including how to get a raise or promotion
•How to conduct objective market research to benchmark a target salary and benefits.

Find more information about the collaborative initiative between AAUW and the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement here»

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Thesis Defense: Pruthvi Bhat, Master of Science in Finance (MSF)

Pruthvi Bhat, Master of Science in Finance (MSF) student, submitted his thesis on the Effect of Foreign Ownership on Firm Performance and Shareholder Value:  Evidence from India. 

Pruthvi, also known as Pru, took advantage of the Master Thesis Option (MTO) courses to prepare and showcase his analysis of 3,000 Indian companies to investigate the effect of equity ownership by foreign promoters on firm performance and shareholder value in these firms.

Pru is grateful to have had this opportunity to conduct this research and publish his findings.  He expressed his deepest gratitude to Professor Mine Ertugrul for her guidance during his research and professor Atreya Chakraborty for his incredible support and motivation throughout his MSF journey at UMass Boston.  In addition to earning his MSF, Pru completed a Master of Science in Information Technology at UMass Boston.

 

Pru serves as an investment risk manager at APG Asset Management in New York City, a $500 billion asset management firm.  He attributes his professional success to his academic experience as a graduate student at UMass Boston and further differentiating himself by participating in the MTO research project.