Thinking about a master’s degree? An information session about College of Business graduate programs will take place Thursday, November 14 from 5:30-6:30 pm in AOB 101. The session will share details about coursework, application requirements, and accelerated and online programs. Pizza and drinks will be served.
The following programs will be discussed:
Elham Asgari, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship in the College of Business, and co-authors Richard A. Hunt and S. M. Abidul Islam were awarded the Tariq Farid Franchise Institute Award for Best Paper on the Topic of Franchising at the 2024 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC). The award will be presented at the 2025 BCERC Conference, June 4-7 at Babson College.
The award-winning paper is titled, “Franchising in the Metaverse: Entrepreneurial Pathways for Virtual and Mixed Reality.” An abstract of the paper is below.
Asgari’s research interests include corporate entrepreneurship, technological innovations, star employees, and the small satellite industry. She is a Charles C. and John G. Gates Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
College of Business students from the Michigan Tech chapter of the American Marketing Association were among 400 students from over 30 universities who participated in competition at the 2024 AMA Regional Conference on October 23, 2024, at University of Wisconsin Whitewater.
In the Digital Marketing Strategy Competition Micah Vogler (marketing) and Jaylen Body (management) were finalists.
In the Marketing Strategy Competition, Olivia Perry (marketing), Maia Nelson, and Lydia Sterly (marketing) were finalists.
In the Gatekeeper Competition, Ruby Walker (marketing) was a finalist and she and took home fourth place overall.
After candidate interviews for the Houghton County administrator position on October 16, the county board voted to offer the job to current county finance director Chelsea Rheault ’22 (B.S. Accounting). Rheault was praised for her strong financial management skills and her contributions over the past three years
Read more in the Daily Mining Gazette.
Michigan Sea Grant has announced that Master of Engineering Management candidate Ola Ayeni has been named a finalist for the 2025 class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.
The Knauss program matches graduate students and recent graduates with host agencies in Washington, D.C., such as congressional offices, the National Marine Fisheries Service, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For one year, fellows work on a range of policy and management projects related to ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources. Fellows can be placed in the federal, legislative or executive branches.
After spending six years as a network infrastructure engineer and another six as an environmentalist and circular economy practitioner in Nigeria, Ayeni wanted to strengthen her skills in sustainability and leadership. This led her to pursue a master’s in engineering management at Michigan Tech — a program where she could combine her technical expertise with managerial insights.