Business & Economy
Alumna Develops a New-Fashioned Sustainability Initiative
Fast fashion may seem affordable, but its true cost goes beyond the price tags on clothing. The industry’s unsustainable, unethical practices have negatively impacted the environment and its current lack of government regulations has allowed these practices to run rampant…
Center on Disability and Inclusion Awarded $1.7M to Support Employment for Individuals With Disabilities
The School of Education’s Center on Disability and Inclusion has been awarded a five-year, $1.7 million New York State Education Department (NYSED) Core Rehabilitation Services contract to support individuals with disabilities interested in obtaining, maintaining or advancing in employment. The…
Whitman’s Online MBA Program Achieves High Ranking by Poets&Quants
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management is now ranked No. 29 in the nation for its online MBA program by Poets&Quants, an improvement from its No. 31 ranking last year. The Poets&Quants’ rankings methodology relies on three categories equally…
Whitman School MBA Team Wins $50,000 First-Place Prize in Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Competition
A team of Whitman School of Management students took first place over more than 500 teams from universities across the nation in the Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Competition, held at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in November. Whitman’s…
2023 Student Entrepreneur Impact Prize Winners Announced
Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) announced winners of the 2023 Impact Prize competition for social entrepreneurship held last month at Bird Library. Twenty-two student teams from Syracuse and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) pitched ideas for…
Whitman School Joins Partnership to Provide Seamless Admission for Onondaga Community College Graduates
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management has announced a new partnership with Onondaga Community College (OCC), designed to support direct transfer admissions for OCC students to the Whitman School. This admissions partnership expands the August 2023 launch of similar…
Alumna Tells Stories With Vintage Clothes at the Black Citizens Brigade
On a recent trip to visit extended family, Cjala Surratt ’22, founder of the Black Citizens Brigade, was presented with a gift—her late grandmother’s boiler room jacket. Surratt’s grandmother had been a ship-fitter in Norfolk, Virginia, and the clothing item…
Ben Ford ’23 Accepted Into Techstars Silicon Valley Program
Ben Ford ’23, founder of Fundwurx and an alumnus of both the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the School of Information Studies, was accepted into the elite and highly competitive Techstars Oakland Powered by J.P. Morgan program. Ford was…
Whitman First Program Helps First-Generation College Students Succeed in Business School
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management recently announced the launch of the Whitman First Program, an initiative to support first-generation college students by helping them adapt more easily to the many facets of a business school environment. “This academic…
Syracuse University, the Whitman School Now Hold No. 2 Spot Globally in the TCU Entrepreneurship Productivity Rankings
Syracuse University and the Whitman School of Management now rank among the top two universities in the world for entrepreneurship research productivity. That’s according to the 2023 edition of the TCU Global University Entrepreneurship Research Productivity Rankings, the only global,…