Business & Economy
Applications Open for 2025 ACC InVenture Campus Qualifier
Syracuse University is currently accepting applications through Jan. 31 for the 2025 campus qualifier competition for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize. Four finalist teams will be selected from the applicant pool to compete in the live (virtual) question-and-answer…
SyracuseCoE Announces Innovation Fund Awards to Four Cleantech Companies Working With Faculty and Students
Four startup companies have been selected to receive awards through the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) Innovation Fund. Designed to support projects that help companies overcome research and development (R&D) barriers to commercialization of potentially…
Team of Whitman Graduate Students Takes the Win at Energy and Emerging Markets Case Competition
It’s always exciting when Syracuse University competes against Duke University. But, this time it wasn’t on the basketball court. Three students from the Whitman School of Management traveled to the Duke campus in November to compete in the final round…
LaunchPad Announces Orange Central Student Showcase Winners
Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) hosted its 2024 Student Showcase as part of Orange Central Alumni Weekend Nov. 1 in Bird Library. Alumni were invited to award “‘Cuse Cash” to student founders showcasing their products, with top winners receiving…
Whitman School Business Programs Highly Ranked for Entrepreneurship in 2025 Princeton Review
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management moved up one spot to No. 13 in the country for its undergraduate business program in The Princeton Review’s Top 50 Undergraduate and Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship rankings. “This rise in the rankings…
Gift From Syracuse Parents Debbie and Ajay Nagpal to Create New Faculty Fellowship
Ajay and Debbie Nagpal recently pledged a major donation to create the Nagpal Family Faculty Fellowship, which will support a faculty fellow in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The Nagpals’ gift is part of the Forever Orange Faculty…
Annual Whitman Salzberg Awards Recognize Leaders in Supply Chain, Highlight Companies’ Expertise in Research and Best Practices
The Whitman School of Management held the 75th Annual Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program on Oct. 3, enhancing student learning by bringing in high level executives in the transportation and supply chain fields for companies that are moving the…
LaunchPad Awards 6 Student Start-Up Fund Grants
The Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University Libraries has awarded six $2,500 Student Start-Up Fund grants, formerly the Innovation Fund, so far this Fall 2024 semester. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis to undergraduate and graduate students who need help…
2024 Gartner Ranks Whitman’s Supply Chain Management Graduate Program Among Top 25
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management was named by Gartner Inc. as one of the top 25 in the country for its supply chain management (SCM) program, earning a No. 22 ranking in graduate programs. Gartner sent out individualized…
LaunchPad Announces 2024 ’Cuse Tank Winners
Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) hosted its annual ’Cuse Tank entrepreneurial competition on Friday, Sept. 27, during Family Weekend in Bird Library. More than 35 student entrepreneur teams from various schools and colleges across campus participated in a “Shark-Tank”…