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  • March 31, 2017

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    IdeaLab teams proposed healthcare solutions
    Twenty-one RIT students from multiple disciplines participated in the spring IdeaLab@RIT, held March 25-26, and developed possible solutions to challenges provided to them by Rochester Regional Health patients and healthcare personnel.

  • March 31, 2017

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    Women in Business hosts etiquette dinner
    Meet Harianne Hewitt, a second-year double major in business management and international hospitality and service management and president of the Women in Business club.

  • March 30, 2017

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    Business alumna named to ‘Forbes’ list
    Merrill Lynch financial advisor Fern (Grossman) Schwartz ’77 (business administration) has been named to the Forbes list of “America’s Top Women Wealth Advisors” for 2017.

  • March 27, 2017

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    RIT brings business lessons to elementary school
    Saunders College of Business and Junior Achievement of Rochester are teaming up with the Rochester City School District for an all-day learning marathon to educate K-6 children in School No. 50 about business, economics and free enterprise.

  • March 10, 2017

    Poster for RIT's "Sharpen the Saw" event

    Saunders College hosts EMBA alumni event
    The 14th annual Sharpen the Saw day hosted by Saunders College of Business will continue to offer some razor-edged advice for RIT Executive MBA alumni. More than 70 participants are expected to attend the daylong campus event on Friday.

  • March 10, 2017

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    Companies with RIT ties get $1M from state
    Four early-stage companies launched at RIT have received more than $1 million through New York state’s Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise Investment Fund.

  • March 9, 2017

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    RIT alumna to be on SXSW panel
    RIT’s Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism winners are headed to the South by Southwest conference and festival in Austin, Texas. It’s Time: ExOut Extremism co-CEO Olivia Hauck ’16 will be participating as a panelist, and co-CEO Jessica Kellner ’16 will be in attendance.

  • February 27, 2017

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    Saunders College alumni strike ‘Shark Tank’ deal
    Nathan Coleman ’09 (marketing) and James Brooks ’09 (international business) gave up 17.5 percent of e-commerce retail company The Elephant Pants to fashion mogul shark Daymond John for $500,000.

  • February 22, 2017

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    Global Payments exec headlines Power Your Potential
    Jane Elliott will be discussing “What is your personal Big Hairy Audacious Goal” as Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology hosts the eighth annual Power Your Potential women’s leadership event on March 3.

  • February 15, 2017

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    RIT to receive I-Corps grant

    A partnership between NTID and the Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship will use National Science Foundation funding to provide support for deaf and hard-of-hearing STEM entrepreneurs.

  • February 15, 2017

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    Alumni pitch business on ‘Shark Tank’
    Two Saunders College of Business alumni will pitch their Elephant Pants product line on the ABC network reality TV show Shark Tank in an episode airing Feb. 24.

  • February 3, 2017

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    Three named international education chairs
    Saunders College of Business Professor Robert Barbato, Associate Professor Michael Palanski and Associate Professor Zhi Tang were named the Paul and Francena Miller Chairs in International Education for the 2017-2018 academic year.