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Supply Chain Certification Program at UMass Boston: CERTIFIED SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONAL (CSCP)

Supply Chain Certification Program at UMass Boston: CERTIFIED SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONAL (CSCP)

An intensive, seven session CSCP exam preparation course
APICS Boston Chapter & College of Management at UMASS Boston
Co-sponsor a Certified Supply Chain Professional Program

Time: Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM
Start Date: Saturday February 9
Location: UMASS Boston Campus

Are you willing to get certified?
The CSCP program helps you demonstrate your knowledge and skills for developing more streamlined operations. Since its launch in 2006, more than 24,000 professionals in 100 countries have earned the CSCP designation.

UMASS Boston Students receive a discount of $700
More detailed information and Registration:
https://bostonapics.org/meetinginfo.php

For other questions, please contact Dr. FoadMahdavi: foad.mahdavi@umb.edu

APICS Certification Course-Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM please contact Dr. FoadMahdavi: foad.mahdavi@umb.edu

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The New England Venture Summit – December 11th -12th

Opportunity to Volunteer and attend The New England Venture Summit

This exclusive venture capital summit will bring together over 500 VCs, Corporate VCs, Private Investors, Investment bankers and CEOs of cutting edge companies, will feature an impressive line-up of more than 120 VCs on interactive panels; presentations from more than 50 Top Innovators and high-level networking opportunities.

To join us as a volunteer, please fill out the form Click Here

The “Featured Company” Coaching Session on December 11th is an intimate gathering of VCs and companies selected to present. The session features VCs on a panel discussion followed by presentations from the featured companies with the VCs providing feedback. The session will then be followed by a cocktail reception which you are welcome to join us for.

The full day Venture Summit is on the 12th.

Students are able to gain free admission and in turn help out for part of the day and enjoy the summit for the other part.

The volunteer time slots are:

Tuesday, December 11th
9:00am – 5:30pm (the reception follows)

Wednesday, December 12th
6:30am – 5:30pm

Here is a link to the program website for full details:
https://wwww.youngstartup.com/newengland2018 

VC funds confirmed to speak:

Kyle Adkins, Principal, Savano Capital Partners | Karine Agajanian, Analyst, Anzu Ventures | Sanjay Aggarwal, Venture Partner, F-Prime Capital Partners | Magdi Amin, Investment Partner, Omidyar Network | Peter Arkell, Investor, Norwest Venture Partners | Ibraheem Badejo, Sr. Director, Johnson & Johnson Innovation | Sunny Bai, Associate, CRCM Ventures | Janet Bannister, Partner, Real Ventures | Peter Bastien, Partner, Next47 | Alex Beletsky, Investor, Sidecar Angels | Woody Benson, Venture Partner, Launch Capital | Joshua Berg, Investment Manager, GM Ventures | Victor Bian, Associate, Intellectual Ventures | Laura Bock, Investor, QED Investors | Nabil Borhanu, Managing Partner, Graphene Ventures | Will Borthwick, Senior Associate, Bold Capital Partners | Eric Breese, Managing Director, Evonik Venture Capital | Maxx Bricklin, Founding Principal, Bold Capital Partners | Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners | Jason Cahill, Founder & Managing Director, McCune Capital | Neil Callahan, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Pilot Growth Equity | Sara Chamberlain, Managing Director, Energy Foundry | Raymond Chang, Managing Director, NXT Ventures | Christopher Chu, Managing Director, Samsung Catalyst Fund | Meghan Cross Breeden, Managing Partner, Red Bear Angels | David Cruikshank, Partner, ARCH Venture Partners | Sophia Dardashti, Associate, WorldQuant Ventures | Ekaterina Dorozhkina, Managing Partner, Starta Ventures | Miriam Eaves, Venture Partner, BP Ventures | Kathryn Meng Elmes, Investment Associate, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center | Alison Ernst, Senior Manager of Investments, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center | Teresa Esser, Managing Director, Silicon Pastures | Michael Fanfant, Investor, Runa Capital | David Feldman, Analyst, Indicator Ventures | Mark G. Fields, Partner, Alsop Louie Partners | Shawn Flynn, Investment Director, Bay Angels | Prashant Fonseka, Principal, Tuesday Capital | Haley Fradkin, Investment Associate, Plum Alley | Kyle Fugere, Head of Ventures, dunnhumby Ventures | Matt Gatto, Partner, Insight Venture Partners | Joy Ghosh, Investor, Bain Capital Ventures | Stephen Gilfus, Founder, Blackboard Inc. | Jamil Goheer, Managing Partner & Cofounder, CoVenture | Ben Gorman, Associate, F-Prime Capital Partners | Edward Greer, Corporate Technology Scout, Dow Ventures | Jacob E. Grose, Investment Manager, BASF Venture Capital | Zain Gulamali, Investor, Amazon Alexa Fund | Marina Hadjipateras, Co-Founder & General Partner, Trail Mix Ventures | Hunter Hartwell, Principal, Forte Ventures | Laurence Hayward, Founding Partner, Independence Equity | Nathaniel Henshaw, Managing Director, CEI Ventures | Lindsay Hyde, Venture Partner, Moderne Ventures | Oren Isacoff, Principal, Longitude Capital | Nicolas Jacques-Bouchard, Principal, Panache Ventures | Jamie James, Managing Partner, GreenSoil Building Innovation Fund | Noel Jee, Investor, Illumina Ventures | Lacey Johnson, Principal, Green D Ventures | Ajay Kamat, Managing Director, Pear Ventures | Alex Kaufman, Investment Associate, JetBlue Technology Ventures | Patrick Kenealy, Managing Director, Ridge Ventures | Jack Kerrigan, Managing Director, Razor’s Edge Ventures | Jonathan Kerstein, Associate, Red Sea Ventures | Nyla Koncurat, Managing Partner, Karlani Capital | Daniel Kwak, Investor, Point72 Ventures | Vivek Ladsariya, Partner, SineWave Ventures | Donna Lecky, Managing Director, Health Venture Capital | Linus Liang, Senior Associate, Signia Venture Partners | Bion Ludwig, Associate, Savano Capital Partners | Kyle Lui, Principal, DCM Ventures | Tamim Abdul Majid, Principal, OCA Ventures | Coppelia Marincovic, Investment Manager, Solvay Ventures | Tom Mastrobuoni, Chief Financial Officer, Tyson Ventures | Hiroki Matsuda, Investor, Sozo Ventures | Derek Mazur, Senior Associate, Sante Ventures | David Miller, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Clean Energy Ventures | Julia Moore, Partner, Breakout Ventures | Kirsten Morbeck, Managing Director, SpringRock Ventures | Amit Mulgaonkar, Investor, Mithril Capital Management | Sheila Narayan, Managing Director, Golden Seeds | David Nault, General Partner, Luge Capital | Sara M. Nayeem, Partner, New Enterprise Associates | Brian Panoff, Senior Principal, Shell Ventures | Sumay Parikh, Principal, Quake Capital | Daniel Povitsky, Vice President, Sinai Ventures | Vinny Pujji, Investor, Insight Venture Partners | Venu Raghavan, Vice President, Wasson Enterprise | Gopal Rajaraman, Investment Principal , Motorola Solutions Venture Capital | Wanda Reindorf, Managing Director, Clean Energy Ventures | Brendan Rempel, Associate, OpenView Venture Partners | Martin Ringlein, Venture Partner, NextGen Venture Partners | Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners | Louis Schick, Founding Partner, NewWorld Capital Group | Chris Seitz, Associate, Excel Venture Management | Connie Sheng, Founding Managing Partner, Nautilus Venture Partners | Alex Shtarkman, Associate, Revolution | John Simon, Managing Director, Sigma Prime Ventures | Sidarth Singh, Investor, Stripes Group | Emily Snyder, Associate, Borealis Ventures | Siri Srinivas, Associate, Draper Associates | Luisa Sucre, Associate, Revolution | Lyndsey Toeppen, Vice President, Sandbox Insurtech Ventures | Tibor Toth, Managing Director, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center | Laurel Touby, Partner, Supernode Ventures | Chisom Uche, Associate, SixThirty | Alexander Urban, Principal, Shell Ventures | Claude Vachet, Managing Partner, Cycle Capital Management | Maria Velissaris, Investor, Pipeline Angels | George Voren, Associate, Flagship Pioneering | Anthony Walsh, Principal, BioInnovation Capital | John Wei, Sr. Investment Manager, SABIC Ventures | Jamie M. Weston, Managing Director, Spring Mountain Capital | Christopher J. Whalen, Managing Director, New Technology Ventures | Thomas Whiteaker, Partner, Propel Venture Partners | Jillian Williams, Investor, Anthemis Group | Troy Williams, Managing Director, University Ventures | Lu Zhang, Founder & Managing Partner, Fusion Fund | Sanjay Zimmermann, Associate, White Star Capital and many more.

To join us as a volunteer, please fill out the form Click Here

The “Featured Company” Coaching Session on December 11th is an intimate gathering of VCs and companies selected to present. The session features VCs on a panel discussion followed by presentations from the featured companies with the VCs providing feedback. The session will then be followed by a cocktail reception which you are welcome to join us for.

The full day Venture Summit is on the 12th.

Students are able to gain free admission and in turn help out for part of the day and enjoy the summit for the other part.

The volunteer time slots are:

Tuesday, December 11th
9:00am – 5:30pm (the reception follows)

Wednesday, December 12th
6:30am – 5:30pm

Here is a link to the program website for full details:
https://wwww.youngstartup.com/newengland2018 

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Healthy Living, Community Impact & the Environment

Healthy Living, Community Impact and the Environment

A Discussion with Jeff Bellows, Vice President Corporate Citizenship & Public Affairs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Thursday, November 15, 2018, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

University Hall, 4th floor, Room 4110

Join us to learn:

  • How communities can help foster health living
  • How Blue Cross integrates social responsibility & sustainability into business strategy
  • About a work culture that promotes healthy lifestyles enabling employees to
  • do their best work

Jeff leads the corporate citizenship and public affairs teams at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), helping to enhance the company’s reputation through strategic community investments, focused volunteerism, environmental sustainability activities and effective outreach to community organizations, business and elected officials. He is responsible for strategically linking corporate social responsibility, public affairs activities and community investments to the overall business strategy of the company, highlighting BCBSMA’s commitment to corporate citizenship and grassroots initiatives in Massachusetts.

Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Boston College      and a master’s in political communications from Emerson College.

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Vineyard Vines Experience & Values Leading to its Success

Business Intelligence and Supply Chain Management

The Vineyard Vines Experience and Values Leading to its Success

 

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

University Hall, 3rd Floor, Room 3370

 

Vineyard Vines is excited to share its success story during the past 20 hears.  The Vineyard Vines team will address how the company values lead to a successful journey that its just the beginning of a wonderful future in the retail world.  Attend this information session to learn how to be a successful leader in the retail industry, and know about career opportunities for you at Vineyard Vines.

 

 

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CFA Scholarship for 2019: Now Accepting Applications til October 10th

The Finance Curriculum Committee of the Department of Accounting and Finance is now calling for applications for the CFA Scholarship for 2019.
The deadline to apply is October 10th.

Please see the CFA Scholarship document to apply: CFA Scholarship: Call for applications 2019

Overview:
The College of Management is participating in the CFA University Affiliation Program. We are listed on the CFA Institute website and entitled to award CFA Program Awareness Scholarships to ten students this fiscal year. The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) is a globally respected, graduate-level investment credential established in 1962 and awarded by CFA Institute, which is widely recognized and respected in the financial industry. To earn the CFA charter, candidates must pass three sequential, six-hour examinations.1 The scholarship waives the one-time CFA Program enrollment fee (if applicable) and reduces the exam registration fee (includes access to the curriculum eBook) to US $350.

The Curriculum Committee of Department of Accounting and Finance now call for applications for this scholarship for 2019 June Exams. To be eligible for candidacy, you must: i) be currently enrolled and have studied in UMASS Boston for at least one semester, ii) be in good standing with the College of Management and the University of Massachusetts Boston, iii) have outstanding academic and service achievements. The curriculum committee starts accepting applications now. The application deadline is October 10, 2018 (11:59 pm EST). The curriculum committee will choose four scholarship recipients from the applicants based on their course records, academic achievements, and project and service participation. Priority will be given to the candidates who take the exams of level 2 or 3.

See attached document above to apply by October 10th.

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Business, Accounting and Finance Career Expo

The Business, Accounting and Finance Career Expo is around the corner!! Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 from 3:00pm-6:00pm in the Campus Center Ballroom 3rd floor.  Currently we have over 45 companies registered and more on the way! What better place to start your internship and job search then to attend this career fair! You can go to Beacon Careers Online to sign up  and  see the list of companies attending. Here is the link: https//candidate.gradleaders.com/UMassBoston/Candidates/Login.aspx?pid=2368.

Here is a partial list of the companies attending:

Enterprise, Ernst & Young, Federal Reserve Bank, John Hancock, Liberty Mutual, State Street, Vertex, Wellington Management Company, And Many More!! 

Ways to Prepare for the Career Fair:

Career Services & Internships is having Resume Quick Checks in the Atrium on Monday, Sept 17th, Wednesday, Sept 19th and Thursday Sept 20th of next week from 11:00am-1:00pm.  Stop by and have your resume reviewed

 How to Prepare for the Career Fair Workshops: Friday, September 21st from 9:00am-10:00am at University Hall 3rd Floor, Room 3370

Monday, September 24th from 3:30pm-4:30pm at University Hall 3rd Floor, Room 3370

If you cannot attend the above workshops, please watch the video below on how to prepare for a career fair:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cl7BHAz4uw&t=7s.

So get your resume pumped up and ready to be seen!! The time is now.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, September 25th at the Business, Accounting and Finance Career Expo!

You don’t want to miss this opportunity to meet some great employers!

Business attire is required.

 

 

 

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Study Abroad: China – Open House DATE: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 TIME: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00pm WHERE: McCormack, 1st Floor, Room 0421

Study Abroad: China – Open House
DATE: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
TIME: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00pm
WHERE: McCormack, 1st Floor, Room 0421

MBAMKT680     Entrepreneurship in the U.S. and China
June 13 – June 28, 2018, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu

The Program
China, now home to over 1.3 billion people and the world’s second-largest economy, has become increasingly important as a market for, and source of, goods and services in all sectors. 21st-century managers need to understand the risks and benefits of doing business in China. In an ever-more globalized world economy, managers at all levels need to understand different ways of doing business in dissimilar cultures and adopt the “best practices” in marketing, finance, and operations from around the world.

 

This course will offer students an in-depth look at how business is conducted in China, the impact of Chinese culture on business practice, and potential business opportunities there. In about two weeks, we will visit two “capital” cities and one northeastern city in China: Beijing, the current Chinese capital and the political and cultural center of the country; Chengdu, the most innovative and dynamic city with rich culture and natural resources in the western region of China; and Shanghai, the financial capital and one of the most dynamic cities in the world at the moment. During our visit in China, besides the unique cultural tours (such as Great Wall and Forbidden City in Beijing, panda center in Chengdu), we will visit Chinese and multinational corporations in different industries and interview the executives of those corporations. This course will be taught by UMass Boston Professor Raymond Liu who successfully led the class in China for the last 13 summers.

Academic Credit

Participants can earn three elective credits in the UMass Boston MBA Program. This course will count toward a specialization of your choice (depending on the topic of your final project) and will satisfy the International Business requirement. In addition, all the students who assign this course can earn three more credits by taking an independent study course with Professor Raymond Liu

Program Fee
The tentative program fee, exclusive of your airfare, will be $3,220 (3 credits) or $3,870 (6 credits- Main Course + Independent Study).

The fee will be split into 2 payments:

  1. Tentative Logistics Fee: $1,750. This fee is payable to the travel vendor. (Details will be forthcoming).
  2. Tentative Tuition Fee: $1,470 (3 credits); add $650 for the additional 3 credits. ). This fee is payable to

UMass Boston in early June.

The $1,750 fee will cover housing, meals, guest speakers, group-sponsored city transportation, and tour tickets in China.  The fee does not include insurance, visa application fee, or transportation between the U.S. and China.

Application Deadline
Because of the nature of the course, the class size is limited to 20. We will review applications on a first come first served basis up to March 30th. However, early applications are strongly encouraged as flight tickets will be very expensive if booking later.

To Apply or for Further Information
To request an application, or to receive additional program information, please contact:

Karol  Castaneda

International Programs
College of Advanced Professional Studies
(617) 287-6995/ karol.castaneda@umb.edu

Open House China MBA Smr18

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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.

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UMass Boston Tobacco Free Campus Policy

Tobacco Free

—Tobacco Free
A memo issued from James Overton, Interim Co-Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Robert Pomales, Executive Director, University Health Services outlines the Campus wide Tobacco-Free policy in effect as of January 19, 2016.

For information about Smoking Cessation, resources and support, please visit the UMass Boston University Health Services – Tobacco-Free Living  page.

— Memo Begins–

This memo is to inform you of the implementation of the UMass Boston Tobacco-Free Campus Policy.   This policy will be implemented on January 19, 2016.

There is considerable evidence that concentrations of smoke are harmful to nonsmokers, as well as smokers. Findings of the Surgeon General indicate that tobacco use in any form, active and passive, is a significant health hazard. The University of Massachusetts Boston has a responsibility to its faculty, staff, students, and visitors to provide a safe and healthy environment.

The Tobacco-Free Campus Policy is intended to eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke, provide an environment supportive of tobacco free lifestyles, mitigate the risk of accidental fire, eliminate the health risks associated with expectoration from smokeless tobacco, and eliminate the environmental impact of cigarette litter.

With this action, the University of Massachusetts Boston will join the other four campuses of the UMass System, which have implemented a tobacco-free campus policy.

This Policy applies to anyone within the UMass Boston campus including students, staff, faculty, contractors, and visitors.

Definitions:
Tobacco: For the purposes of this policy, “tobacco” refers to any and all tobacco and/or nicotine products, whether inhaled or ingested, as well as electronic cigarettes.

Policy:

  1. In compliance with state law, the use of tobacco is prohibited in all buildings, including all buildings owned or leased by the University of Massachusetts Boston.
  2. The use of tobacco is also prohibited on all university grounds, including the Bayside property.
  3. The use of tobacco is prohibited inside all university owned or leased vehicles, regardless of location.
  4. Applications for exceptions to this policy may be sought (e.g., for religious celebrations or practices, artistic performances, and smoking research).

The chancellor has appointed a Tobacco-Free Policy Committee representative of students, faculty, and staff to promote the success of this policy. Members include representatives from:

Student Affairs
University Health Services
Faculty Council
Human Resources
Environmental Health and Safety
Undergraduate Student Government

Faculty and staff shall have access to on campus coaching and counseling, including private consultation and group cessation programming, through the University Health Services and through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

The university will develop and fund a smoking cessation program to assist students, faculty, and staff who wish to quit smoking.
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For more information about Smoking Cessation, resources and support, please visit the University Health Services – Tobacco-Free Living page.

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