Business & Economy
Registration Open for Sports, Entertainment and Innovation Conference July 8-10 in Las Vegas
The second annual Sports, Entertainment and Innovation Conference (SEICon)—named by Zoomph as one of the best sports business conferences of 2025—will be held from July 8-10 at MGM’s iconic Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. SEICon is a partnership between UNLV…
Blackstone LaunchPad Student Start-Ups Win in the 2025 New York Business Plan Competition
Three Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) student start-up teams won prizes in the finals of the New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC), powered by Upstate Capital Association of NY, held in Albany on April 24. Carolyn Fernandes G’25 (College…
2025 Raymond von Dran iPrize and Hunter Brooks Watson Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award Winners Announced
Winners of the 2025 School of Information Studies’ (iSchool) Raymond von Dran (RvD) Fund for Student Entrepreneurship iPrize competition and the Hunter Brooks Watson (HBW) Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award were announced on April 10 at the Blackstone LaunchPad in Bird…
Women Leaders in Sports Helping to Create a Promising Future for Syracuse Students
One of the many benefits of the new partnership between the nationally recognized Women Leaders in Sports and the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics is the mentorship that Women Leaders in Sports executives are providing to Falk students….
Whitman School’s MBA Achieves Highest Ranking in 25 Years By U.S. News & World Report; Entrepreneurship MBA Is Ranked No. 29
The residential MBA program at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management is now ranked No. 54 in the nation, up from No. 66 last year and No. 84 a few years ago, by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025…
2 Whitman Seniors Named 2025 Poets&Quants Best & Brightest Undergraduate Business Majors
Two Martin J. Whitman School of Management seniors—Evan Kalish (finance and business analytics) and Talia St. Angelo (finance and marketing)—were selected by Poets&Quants for Undergrads to be highlighted in its annual Best & Brightest Undergraduate Business Majors feature. This is the tenth annual…
Community Bank Donates $10,000 to WISE Women’s Business Center in Celebration of International Women’s Day
In honor of International Women’s Day, Community Bank has donated $10,000 to Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (WISE) Women’s Business Center at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. WISE is a Women’s Business Center dedicated to empowering Central…
Professor’s Editorial Leadership Results in 4* Rating for Influential Entrepreneurship Journal
Johan Wiklund has always had a strong connection to Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP), a highly influential scholarly journal sharing valuable research in entrepreneurship. It was, in fact, where his first paper on entrepreneurship was published early in his career….
Whitman School Professor Peter Koveos Remembered
Peter Koveos, professor of finance and Kiebach Chair in International Business in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, passed away on Dec. 20, 2024. He was 78. Koveos was born in Athens, Greece. At the age of 17, he…
Whitman’s Online MBA Program Again Achieves High Ranking by Poets&Quants
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management is now ranked No. 30 in the nation for its online MBA program by Poets&Quants. The Poets&Quants’ rankings methodology relies on three categories equally relating to admissions standards, employment outcomes at graduation and academic…