Saunders Business Beat!
Check out your monthly recaps covering all the exciting news from you, our Saunders community, and upcoming events. Learn about event promotions, our newly launched Saunders Ambassador Program, and more at Saunders announcements.
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Accomplishments from Saunders Students
Learn more about these accomplishments and read previous months online.
Saunders Faculty and Staff Go Above and Beyond
- Soon Hyeok (Steve) Choi, Ph.D., assistant professor of international hospitality and service innovation, has won the Best Practitioner Research Award from the American Real Estate Society for his co-authored paper, “Pricing the Upside Potential to Downside Risk.” The award, which will be presented in March 2024 at the American Real Estate Society, includes a cash prize of $2,500.
- Duygu Akdevelioglu, Ph.D., assistant professor of management information systems, marketing, and analytics, co-authored an article with Vic Perotti, Ph.D., professor of management information systems, marketing, and analytics, “The impact of consumer personality and social network position on brand community engagement,
” in the Journal of Brand Management.
- Duygu Akdevelioglu, Ph.D., assistant professor of management information systems, marketing, and analytics, co-authored the article, “Thinking big about going small: Conceptualizing the human-technology integration spectrum,
” published in the Journal of Macromarketing.
Learn more about these accomplishments and read previous months online.
Alumni News and Recognitions
- Nikolas Kelly '20 (supply chain management), co-founder and chief product officer of Sign-Speak,
and Nicholas Wilkins '19 (computational mathematics), '19 MS (computer science) were featured in The Rochester Beacon in an article, “Sign-Speak joins AWS Impact Accelerator.” Kelly placed first in the 2021 Vanden Brul Awards.
- Bill Michaels '89 (hotel/motel administration/management), president and owner of Fly Creek Cider Mill & Orchard, Inc., won the Mohawk Valley Choice Award for Best Tourism/Season Attraction. The award, sponsored by the Observer Dispatch/USA Today, "recognizes the finest businesses that contribute to the region's economic vitality and enrich the lives of its residents." The cider mill is located in Fly Creek, NY.
Learn more about these accomplishments and read previous months online.
Students, alums, faculty, and staff can share their news with your Saunders community by emailing us at communications@saunders.rit.edu.
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News
- Ondrej Frydrych ’97 (MBA) this summer established the Peggy Tirrell Endowed Scholarship for International Students—named after Saunders College’s popular senior associate director of graduate business programs and admissions.
- A growing cohort of RIT students are enrolling in the university’s Combined Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Degrees program, which provides pathways for highly focused, goal-oriented students to earn both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in a shortened, consolidated experience.
- RIT is ranked 98th as a “National University” in the 2024 edition of U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges,
jumping seven spots from last year. This list of 443 includes the nation’s best research universities offering a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master’s and doctoral programs, and emphasize faculty research or award professional practice doctorates.
- Christopher Ferrari '23 (political science and marketing)
completed his co-op at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Ferrari received the Kristine and John Simmons Public Policy Scholar Internship Fund to help make this co-op more affordable.
- Natali Valdez, assistant professor at Purdue University and Presidential Fellow at Yale University, visits RIT
to share her research on social and political factors surrounding maternal medical policy as the featured speaker for the 2023 Eugene H. Fram Signature Lecture in Critical Thinking.
- In the 2023 World University Online MBA Americas Rankings,
by QS Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Saunders College Online Executive MBA program placed 27th among 52 programs in three countries.
- RIT business students and faculty have experienced a number of major enhancements to Max Lowenthal Hall since the start of the fall semester, as the home of Saunders College of Business nears completion of a multi-million dollar expansion and renovation project.
- Saunders Executive MBA, according to the Online MBA Report,
ranked #15 among the top 25 private universities and colleges (7% of schools considered), #14 among top schools in the East, and #2 among top schools in New York State.
See these and past news online.
Media Coverage
- WHAM-TV
talks to Laharish Guntuka, assistant professor in the Department of Management, about the ripple effect of an auto workers strike.
- Essay written by Rajendran Murthy, associate professor in the Department of MIS, Marketing, and Analytics, published by The Wall Street Journal. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
- Optics and Photonics News talks to Jennifer Freer, liaison/librarian to the Saunders College of Business, about ethical and copyright issues with ChatGPT.
- Laharish Guntuka, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, was interviewed by RochesterFirst.com (WROC) for a story, “Supply chain expert: Energy costs could be up this quarter.”
- Neil Hair, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing and executive director of the center for teaching and learning, was interviewed by the Rochester Business Journal for an article, “Local universities prepared to teach ethics of using generative AI.” “Nobody can turn the Internet or AI off,” Hair is quoted as saying. “But there are guardrails we need to put in place so that our students and faculty know how they can use it effectively.”
See these and past media coverage online.
Blogs
- Saunders College of Business and Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences collaborated with the US State Department, the US-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Smart Cities Partnership, and Arizona State University to host a Symposium on Accelerating Science, Technology, and Circular Economy in Southeast Asia,
in Jakarta, Indonesia. View photos from the conference.
- Saunders College of Business was represented at the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) 45th Annual Conference and Exposition
in Philadelphia, PA. In attendance were four Saunders MBA students; Bill Dresnack, associate professor and MBA program director; Maria Richart, RIT director of career services and cooperative education; Lisa Boice, Saunders assistant dean for student services; and Julio Talledo, Saunders assistant director of business development.
- Brother and sister Brendan '15 (computer science and computational math) and Bianca Shah '15 (management), CEOs at International Tea Importers Inc., were the featured speakers at the 2023 Favatas Lecture Series.
- Brick City Weekend was a resounding success! From the "Dan Tessoni room dedication" for the Tessoni Business Center, "Sip & Savor" and "Exploring the World of Bourbon," Tigers could expect to have a memorable and engaging experience.
Read these and past blogs online.
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Upcoming Events
- 5 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7
Leading High Performing Teams Leadership Certificate Program
- 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, November 8
Beat the Hackers: Preventing Cyber Attacks Across the Organization - MBA Workshop
- 12 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8
Understanding Job Offers and Salary Negotiations
- 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8
MBA & Graduate Chat: Ask Me Anything
- 11 a.m. on Friday, November 10
Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series: Dogan Gursoy
- 5 p.m. on Friday, November 10
Hospitality Open House Reception
- 1 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14
M&T Bank – Co-ops & Leadership Development Programs
- 4 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14
Supercharge Your Job Search with AI
- 12 p.m. on Friday, November 17
Technical Workshop - Business Analytics Competition
- 1 p.m. on Monday, November 27
Hotel Real Estate and Investment: Your Path to Financial Prosperity
- 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29
Application Deadline: Herbert W. Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Student Award
See these and upcoming events online.
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