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News From the Sawyer Business School

Immersive education is a hallmark of the Sawyer Business School experience. Check out this new video that highlights the incredible immersive opportunities students enjoy. Click on the window above.

Startup Boston Week attracted thousands of entrepreneurs to campus and included a discussion with Secretary Yvonne Hao from the Mass. Executive Office of Economic Development. Read what she said.

The Sawyer Business School expanded its tuition-free summer offerings for local high school students, offering a course in sports management and one in entrepreneurship. Read about the courses.

An national expert on policing, Professor Brenda Bond, Public Administration, helps college police organizations around the country adapt to new challenges. Read a Q&A about her work.

Faculty Expertise

A paper co-authored by Management & Entrepreneurship Professor Bari Bendell won the 2024 Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior Award at the Academy of Management Conference. Appearing in Business Horizons, the paper examines loneliness in the workplace and gives managers tools they can use to combat what many are calling an epidemic. Listen to an AI-generated "podcast" that discusses the paper.

Finance Professor Abu Jalal co-authored a paper in Research in International Business and Finance titled “Environmental Regulations, Agency Costs, and Firm Performance” that investigates whether environmental regulations reduce agency costs. “We find that increases in environmental restrictions decrease liquidity and increase financial constraints,” the authors state. Listen to an AI-generated "podcast" that discusses the paper.

Healthcare Administration Professor Peter Martelli received the 2024 “Excellence in Teaching” award from the Health Care Management division at the Academy of Management, the preeminent professional association for management and organization scholars. The award recognizes innovative and outstanding teaching in college classrooms and provides the opportunity to encourage, recognize, and reward the work of excellent, dedicated, and inspiring teachers.

SBS in Brief

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) awarded three Sawyer Business School marketing professors a two-year research grant to study how college students across the Commonwealth are influenced by advertising for the sports-betting industry. “The study’s findings could potentially affect future policy decisions by the MGC,” says Professor Jane Zhu, lead researcher of the team, which also includes Professor Müjde Yuksel and Professor Andrew Smith.

Healthcare Administration Professor Erin Sullivan is part of a Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (BWH) team that is conducting research to help improve physician well-being and enhance patient care. Working with a $1 million grant, the new Center for Physician Experience and Practice Excellence at BWH launches amidst recent studies demonstrating that six in ten physicians often have feelings of burnout, and that turnover attributable to burnout is associated with hundreds of millions of dollars in excess healthcare spending annually.

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