OnlineMasters.com, “a trusted source of unbiased college rankings and higher education planning,” has named the graduate management program at NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management a Best Online Master’s in Management Program for 2019. It is ranked No. 18 out of 47 of the best programs identified nationwide, and shares kudos with such respected institutions as Harvard University, New York University and Drexel University.
Entrepreneurs looking to develop their startup businesses are invited to a free Lean Startup Jumpstart Seminar. The introductory training workshop will be held April 10 at Seton Hall, April 17 at Stevens Institute of Technology, May 1 at NJIT and May 8 at New Jersey City University.
Graduate students from Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), as well as Newark College of Engineering, worked with the CEOs of nine new ventures — seven in the Newark area, one from Manhattan and one from Finland — to help develop and execute their ventures’ go-to-market strategies.
It was his first conference presentation and he aced it. Yasser Farha, a doctoral student in Martin Tuchman School of Management’s (MTSM) Ph.D. program in Business Data Science, attended the annual gathering this past January of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), and there received great feedback after speaking about his research developing machine-learning tools to measure the disposition of students toward entrepreneurship.
Two faculty members from NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) — Associate Professor of Finance Michael Ehrlich and Professor of Marketing Rajiv Mehta — have been honored as “professors to know” by BSchools.org, an online resource for individuals interested in pursuing an MBA.
In her paper, “An Empirical Study of Bank Stress Testing for Auto Loans,” Assistant Professor of Accounting Ming Fang presents an empirical study of stress testing for portfolios of auto loans. Along with her co-authors — Deming Wu, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, United States, and Qing Wang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China — she finds that loans aged five years or more have significantly higher default probabilities. This finding, they say, raises concerns about the increasing maturity of auto loans in recent years.
Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga was just 2 years old when he and his parents left their home in Bogota, Colombia, and migrated to the United States. They settled in Rockaway, N.J., with the aid of his aunt in nearby Parsippany and began a new life, far from the mounting violence triggered by their native country’s illegal drug trade.
Ellen Thomas, associate professor of marketing, and Cesar Bandera, associate professor of entrepreneurship, both at Martin Tuchman School of Management, presented their findings on new venture pivoting at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
By Shravanthi Budhi
NJIT’s Salesforce Student Ambassador Group has successfully completed the fall 2018 semester with a lot of landmark achievements.
The Salesforce Student Ambassador Program, launched fall 2017 by a student leader, Shravanthi Budhi, and a faculty adviser, Melodi Guilbault, is a partnership platform initiated by Salesforce and the university’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM).
Marjorie Perry ’05, president and CEO of MZM Construction and Management, sits in a meeting room inside NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC). Her well-manicured hands are folded on top of a large conference table. Pink nail polish adds a pop of color to her all-black ensemble. She removes a Harvard-emblazoned lanyard from around her neck and lays it on the table. “I’m scared to death,” she says.
