News from the Sawyer Business School

Introducing SEED. Its goal is to deliver custom business services through a dynamic collaboration of Suffolk University faculty, alumni professionals, and students working across several disciplines from marketing and advertising to finance, legal, accounting, and funding. Learn more about SEED.

Introducing BASE. Providing a dynamic support network of faculty, mentors, and students, BASE empowers aspiring new entrepreneurs to turn their business dreams into reality. Learn more about BASE.

Business School in Brief

Mass Fintech Hub: Suffolk is now a corporate member of Mass Fintech Hub, a unique collaborative focused on cultivating a robust tech ecosystem in Massachusetts. This network of technologists, financial experts, academics, and capital providers provides resources to fintech entrepreneurs to build their businesses and offer guidance to help them scale.

Plug and Play: Suffolk is working with the Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, CA, to create a new AI Center of Excellence in Boston. The goal is to create a strategic hub that combines the resources of the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem with local incubators and accelerators to drive AI adoption, innovation, and talent development across the Northeast.

Faculty Research

Professor Mona Al-Amin and Professor Mahed Maddah co-authored a paper that has been accepted by the Journal of Healthcare Management titled "Sensing the voice of healthcare consumers: It’s time to effectively listen."

The authors present a guiding framework, data sources, and analytical methods that healthcare organizations can utilize to establish and integrate more robust, timely, and impactful approaches for capturing and responding to the voice of the healthcare consumer.

Professor John Li co-authored a paper in the Journal of Business Research titled "Unraveling the Paradoxical Effects of Digital Transformation on Organizational Resilience: The Role of Customer and Supplier Concentrations." 

The study examines the paradoxical effects of digital transformation by focusing on two critical dimensions of organizational resilience: resistance capacity and recovery capacity.

Professor Hasan Arslan and Professor Seokjin Kim published a paper on inventory management in Annals of Operations Research titled "Managing perishable inventory when strategic customers form a reference on product availability." From the abstract:

"Our framework deals with stochastic dynamic inventory models for stocking decisions of a retailer selling a single perishable product in the presence of strategic customers who time their purchases."

Professor Tamara Stenn has published a new book, The Profitable Good: A Bold Playbook for Sustainable Business Growth: With SDGs, Fair Trade, and Sustainable Business Models.

The book is a practical guide for entrepreneurs, business leaders, professionals, and students who want to build ventures that thrive financially while creating meaningful impact. Learn more about the book.

Professor Emeritus Carlos Rufin co-edited Handbook of Research on Base of the Pyramid Entrepreneurship. The book surveys the evolution of research on entrepreneurship at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) since the emergence of the field over two decades ago.

In the book, experts highlight how entrepreneurship among low-income populations globally can enhance mainstream processes and management theory and methodology.