Graduate Programs
Center for Statistical Computing (CSC) welcomes all graduate students, staffs and faculty members to join our statistical workshops at Healey Library, Lower Level Presentation Room # 1. Our workshops include using statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, Stata, R and WinBUGS and topics in applied statistics.
The basic series of statistical workshop descriptions, schedules and registration procedure are listed here
Career Services: Summer 2018 Updates
Extended summer advising hours with Career Specialist Bill Farrick have come to an end for this summer. We know a lot of students appreciated having this option, and we hope to revisit it again in the Fall 18 semester.
Bill will be out on a short medical leave until the end of August. We wish Bill a healthy and speedy recovery!
Students can schedule an appointment with Deborah Federico, Associate Director for Career Education in Bill’s absence. Deb has worked with our College of Management students in the past and we are happy to have her available over the summer for our students once again.
Deborah Federico
Associate Director for Career Education
617.287.5519
deborah.federico@umb.edu
Career Services Office Location:
Office of Career Services and Internships
Campus Center – 1st Floor – 1300 Street
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393
Phone: 617-287-5519
–
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:
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
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.
Date and Time
Date: 11/16/2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
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.
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.
The Graduate Program Office would like to share with you registration notes to get you prepared.
Tara has returned to the office after welcoming her second baby girl in April. Please join us in welcoming her back to the office, as she also extends a warm welcome to all of our new Fall incoming students as well.
Use this for any issue that you may encounter in Wiser. This includes ‘permissions’ or attempting to register for MBAMGT 689 Strategic Management.
Priority is given to requests submitted this way, and are addressed within 24-48 hours (often sooner) during open registration. This is the most effective and efficient way to submit a request for help with registration. Find more details on the Registration and Helpful Links page.
Changes to the schedule can occur prior to the start of open registration, so be sure to check back for any updates.
Check for HOLDS in Wiser:
Thesis Defense:
EFFECT OF FOREIGN OWNERSHIP ON FIRM PERFORMANCE AND
SHAREHOLDER VALUE: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
by: Pruthvi Bhat
Advisor: Mine Ertugrul
Monday, October 30,
2:00 pm
Phd Room – Healey Library
Vitaliy Ryabinin will be defending his thesis on Oct 16, 2:30 pm in the PhD room.
What factors affect magnitude of stock repurchase programs?
:Empirical Evidence
by Vitaliy Ryabinin
Advisor: Eddie Zhao
Stacie Costa
Title: DEVELOPING A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR HEALTH CARE OPERATIONS: CHALLENGES AND REMEDIES
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 27th at 4:30pm
Location: A&F Conference Room (M-5-211)
Degree: MBA with specialization: Finance
Abstract:
The United States health care system has reached a turning point where exorbitant costs and uneven care are no longer acceptable. Costs are rising, and neither hospitals nor insurance companies have any incentive to reduce them as they just try to push costs onto one another. Reforming the United States healthcare system will require a fundamentally different approach for all parties involved.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine and discuss the major problems plaguing the healthcare industry, specifically involving hospitals and other health care organizations. Then, potential and actual solutions will be reviewed. Four major categories for health care challenges and issues are discussed: Payment, Information Systems, Business Strategy, and Operations Management.
Authors and scholars who write about health care challenges often discuss remedies to them. These potential solutions from the literature are discussed in order to understand their feasibility.
Ultimately, the best way to find out if these potential solutions are viable is to ask someone who deals with these challenges every day. Many health care administrators, physicians, nurses, and managers were interviewed to see what they thought about the potential solutions. While many of them agreed with the literature solutions, they also recommended different solutions and offered new findings and insight.
The interviews with health care professionals led to a new framework for change. Recommendations are then made based on the feedback from these interviews. No matter which department they work in, these health care professionals unanimously emphasized the need for positive and productive company culture, standardization in all areas, and further staff education as ways to reduce cost. The results show that these overarching themes will have a major impact on the industry as a whole, regardless of the challenge it faces.
If your room is listed in Wiser as UMassCenter, 1 Beacon St Boston, your class will be held off of the main harbor campus. It will instead be held in downtown Boston, at the One Beacon Building, in the lower level.
Example – Room: UMassCenter 1 Beacon St Boston
Once you arrive at the One Beacon building, you will find the UMass Center, and the classrooms in the lower level. Look for the hallway in between the Santander Bank, and Rebecca’s Cafe. You will see the sign for the UMass Center.
You can get to the One Beacon building by way of the MBTA, using either the Red line or Green line stops of Park Street or Downtown Crossing. There is also parking available on site.
One Beacon Building Highlighted with MBTA stops Park St and Downtown Crossing.