Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies
Dissertation Defense by Judy (Dung) Tran, Ph.D. candidate, Finance
Wednesday, December 8
9:00-11:45AM
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The Finance Department in the Manning School of Business cordially invites you to attend a doctoral dissertation defense by Judy (Dung) Tran on "Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies." This dissertation focuses on the corporate financial policies in the presence of external and internal frictions. Link to Abstract
Dissertation Committee Members:
Hieu Phan, Associate Professor of Finance (Chair)
Steven Freud, Associate Professor of Finance
Eunju Lee, Associate Professor of Finance
Muhammad Quayes, Associate Professor of Economics
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Crafting Strategy: How to Run a Productive Strategy Session
with Dr. Scott Latham
Wednesday, December 8
12:00PM
iHub Lowell (with Zoom option)
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Strategic planning is a craft that requires a level of expertise. While critical for success, strategy sessions can often be time-wasters if they are poorly designed, badly run, or just an excuse to go offsite. Learn how to run a productive strategy session at this UMass Lowell Innovation Hub (iHub) workshop with Dr. Scott Latham, Associate Professor of Management. If you are heading up a new strategy or currently involved in a strategy initiative, you won't want to miss this event.
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BeHub Featured Talk
Using Experiments to Test Process Theories
with Dr. Ryan Guggenmos
Friday, December 10
9:30-10:45AM
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The Manning School of Business Behavioral Research Hub (BeHub) is hosting a Featured Talk with Dr. Ryan Guggenmos, Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, on How and Why? Using Experiments to Test Process Theories.
Research in applied fields is often tasked with identifying and documenting relationships between constructs, with the aim of improving decisions and/or outcomes. Dr. Guggenmos will discuss how providing clear and convincing evidence on the processes by which causes become effects can be a particularly powerful way to achieve these research goals.
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Accounting Speaker Series
Culture and the Organization of Stock Exchanges: East vs. West
with Dr. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
Friday, December 10
11:30-12:30PM
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The Accounting Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Rashad Abdel-Khalik, Professor of Accountancy and the V.K. Zimmerman Professor of International Accounting at the University of Illinois Gies College of Business. Dr. Abdel-Khalik will discuss Culture and the Organization of Stock Exchanges: East vs. West.
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Essays on Data Science & Analytics: Methodology Development and Applications
Dissertation Proposal Defense by Murtaza Nasir, Ph.D. candidate, Management Science
Monday, December 13
2:00-3:30PM
PTB-462
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The Operations & Information Systems Department (OIS) in the Manning School of Business cordially invites you to attend a doctoral dissertation proposal defense by Murtaza Nasir on "Essays on Data Science & Analytics: Methodology Development and Applications."
Dissertation Advisor: Asil Oztekin, Associate Professor, OIS
Co-Advisor: Nichalin Summerfield, Assistant Professor, OIS
Dissertation Committee Members:
Yao Chen, Professor, OIS
Serhat Simsek, Montclair State University
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Business Analytics Capstone Project Presentations and Poster Session
Wednesday, December 15
5:00-6:30PM
Alumni Hall
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Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the Manning School of Business Operations & Information Systems (OIS) Department Capstone Project Presentations and Poster Session by this year’s Master of Science in Business Analytics graduating students. Industry representatives and community partners will also be in attendance to hear innovative solutions to real-world problems by student teams assigned to work with DCU, MFS, Santander, Storm Smart, and the UMass Unified Procurement Services Team (UPST). Refreshments will be served, and prizes will be awarded to the two best projects.
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DCU/Manning School of Business Innovation Contest Finals |
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Six student teams pitched their ideas for new banking and finance applications at the annual Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU)/Manning School of Business Innovation Contest finals held on December 1, sponsored by the Rist DifferenceMaker Institute, the Manning School of Business, and DCU. The event welcomed a large audience of students, faculty, university administrators, and industry leaders, including Manning Advisory Board member Jim Regan '88, President and CEO of DCU and Thomaz DeMoura, Innovations Director at DCU. The judges for the evening represented a distinguished panel of finance and banking executives:
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David Carter, Director of Information Systems Infrastructure, DCU
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Sandesh Parulekar, Director of Information Systems Development, DCU
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Barbara Russell, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Cap W Global Advisory/Investment Banking Group and Manning Adjunct Faculty
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Michael Zuccaro '83, Head of Financial Planning & Analysis at Aura Biosciences and member of the Manning School of Business Advisory Board
Congratulations to all the teams who were chosen as finalists for this competition! The extensive work they put into their project ideas was evident, as each team presented overviews of their business strategy, market analysis data, target demographics, and more. The teams included students from the Manning School of Business, the Kennedy College of Sciences, the Francis College of Engineering, and the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences:
Chain Bank - Aymaan Shaikh and Hirschfield Ssozi
Credit Champs - Ben McClure and Nick Paolilio
Labor as a Service - Kevin Zhang
Simplicity Bank - Yeaharne Hout, Saema Nazar, Monica Nguyen and Heer Patel
StockToMe - Matthew Kinash, Jackson Sterrett and Matt Allen
Trade Bozz Investment - Toney Benny and Sebastian Pascal
(names in bold indicate Manning students)
Each member of the finalist teams received a $100 prize. The winning team, StockToMe, was awarded $500 per team member and will continue on to the T enth Annual DifferenceMaker $50,000 Idea Challenge next spring.
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DCU/Manning School of Business 2021 Innovation Contest winners, team StockToMe. From left: Dean Sandra Richtermeyer, team members Matthew Kinash, Matt Allen, and Jackson Sterrett, and Thomaz DeMoura, Innovations Director at DCU. |
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Team Simplicity Bank makes their pitch to the judges. From left: Monica Nguyen, Saema Nazar, Heer Patel, and Yeaharne Hout. |
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DifferenceMaker Director Holly Lalos '11, '12 (left) with DCU President and CEO Jim Regan '88. |
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Kellsie Howard '19 Shares Career Advice with Students |
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Manning School of Business alumna Kellsie Howard '19 returned to campus last month to speak to students about finding their career passions. Kellsie is a product manager at Warner Bros. Games and visited the Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business courses taught by Milissa Moynihan, Visiting Faculty Lecturer, Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Kellsie encouraged students to take advantage of resources available to Manning School of Business undergraduates, such as internships, co-ops, student clubs and volunteer opportunities, to help discover what they are passionate about. Kellsie also shared how her experiences with the student leadership organization Joy Tong Women in Business, which she founded during her time as a student, gave her the tools to thrive in the male-dominated industry of video games. Business Alumna Gets in the Game at Warner Bros. (11/22/21, UMass Lowell Feature Story by Ed Brennen. Photo courtesy Ed Brennen.)
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River Hawks Scholars Academy Students-of-the-Month |
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Congratulations to Manning School of Business students Dorys Rosa (Accounting), Jonathan Vixamar (Finance), Luis Maldonado Rezendes (Management Information Systems), and Jessica Tran (Entrepreneurship) who were each selected as River Hawk Scholars Academy (RHSA) Students of the Month in 2021! RHSA Students of the Month are nominated by their faculty, staff and fellow students for exemplifying what it means to be part of the RHSA, which promotes academic success and fosters active campus engagement for full-time, first-year UMass Lowell students who identify as first-generation college students.
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Dorys Rosa (recognized in December) was nominated by her RHSA Peer Leader Heer Patel, who said, “Dorys is one of the strongest students I have talked to thus far," and commended Dorys for her ability to balance her academic responsibilities with personal and social commitments.
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Jonathan Vixamar (November) is a member of UMass Lowell's Division I track and field team, and said he is thankful for the relationships he has built within the RHSA program, with both students and faculty of all age groups and backgrounds. He says he has found a great sense of community at UMass Lowell, and hopes to one day use his education to help the homeless.
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Luis Maldonado Rezendes (March) is a self-proclaimed social butterfly, so remote learning was tough last spring, but he still managed to connect with his professors and he feels like faculty and staff genuinely care about his success. He enjoys hanging out with his friends and said RSHA means "getting extra guidance and being in a community with people from similar backgrounds."
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Jessica Tran (March) became a RSHA Peer Advisor this fall. She hopes to run her own fashion or beauty business, and also looks forward to travelling the world someday. On being a RHSA Peer Leader, Jessica says "college can be a life-changing experience for some, and I want to be able to play a role in helping others reach their goals. For me, the RHSA team has been helpful to me in numerous ways, so I would like to give back to my peers and be a support system for them when they need me."
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Student photos and profile interviews courtesy of Jenna Saade, River Hawks Scholars Academy Team Leader. Full Student of the Month profiles available here.
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FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AND ENGAGEMENT |
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Dr. Luvai Motiwalla Named Coordinator for Master of Science in Business Analytics Program |
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The program was launched six years ago and has enjoyed considerable growth under the leadership of Thomas Sloan. OIS Department Chair Amit Deokar said, "as the Founding Program Coordinator of MSBA, Dr. Sloan has been an excellent leader for the program and has guided the program from the ground up to reach a healthy steady state. We currently have 80+ students combined in the MSBA program and the Business Analytics graduate certificate program. We are truly grateful for Dr. Sloan's time and dedication and we would like to build on this progress.” Dr. Deokar also commended all the participating OIS faculty for playing a key role in helping grow the program.
Dr. Motiwalla's long-term goals as the new MSBA Program Coordinator are to have a leading analytics program that supports the business transformation of the organizations, both for profit and non-profit, in the greater Boston area. He said, "I am excited to help MSBA students gain real-world experience by applying their business analytics skills in projects that support local companies. I would like to expand the MSBA program globally with partnerships and collaborations with international institutions."
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Dr. Ravi Jain Named Coordinator for Master of Science in Finance Program |
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The Finance Department is pleased to announce that Ravi Jain will serve as the next Master of Science in Finance (MSF) Program Coordinator.
The program was launched seven years ago under the leadership of Chan-Wung Kim. Finance Department Chair Steven Freund said, "the Master of Science in Finance program has experienced steady growth under Dr. Kim's stewardship. I especially want to mention Dr. Kim’s work designing and teaching the review course for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Exam. Initially implementing the class as a strictly voluntary endeavor, Dr. Kim was motivated by his desire to help students distinguish themselves in the job market."
Dr. Jain plans to expand the MSF program with additional tracks and to grow the program as a bachelor's-to-master's option for undergraduate finance students. He also intends to involve industry participants and develop partnerships that will give students more real-world exposure. Dr. Jain is widely published in corporate finance and financial markets and has presented his research at numerous regional and national conferences. He is also the faculty advisor of the award-winning Student Managed Fund in the business school.
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AOM Invites Dr. Liz Altman to be Subject Matter Expert |
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The Academy of Management (AOM) has invited Assistant Professor of Management Liz Altman to be a part of a new initiative called the Subject Matter Expert program. This program is designed to help educate the public and the media about management scholarship and research. Dr. Altman will be spotlighted as a resource to global media outlets who are looking for evidence-based research, quotes, and insights on stories relating to management and organizations.
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