A CELTICS PARTNERSHIP, MORE RANKINGS SUCCESS, & A $50,000 PRIZE

To the Sawyer Business School community:

Greetings from Boston. Our second semester is off to a fantastic start. One exciting piece of news is the partnership with the Boston Celtics that we announced in early February. This collaboration with the 17-time NBA Champions anchors our newly launched interdisciplinary Sports Management program. Available to students in the fall of 2023, the new program is the only one of its kind offered in a Boston-based AACSB-accredited business school.

In this newsletter you'll also learn about immersive learning opportunities with our new X-Lab, an on-campus facility that gives students and faculty innovative tools to understand customer behavior. There's business with purpose, personified by a group of our MBA students who won a $50,000 sustainability competition. We had a huge jump in U.S. News & World Report rankings. And finally there's the integrated expertise that comes from our stellar faculty.

Although it’s only early March, we’ll soon be gathering for Commencement on Sunday, May 21. In the meantime, I wish you all the best.

Amy Z. Zeng, PhD

Dean of the Sawyer Business School

News from the Sawyer Business School

We launched a multi-year partnership with the Boston Celtics as part of our new Sports Management program.

In the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, our online MBA jumped 73 spots in one year.

A group of our MBA students beat more than 60 other teams to win a $50,000 sustainability competition.

We opened a first-of-its-kind teaching and research laboratory that uses cutting-edge eye-tracking technology.

Integrated Expertise

Chenguang Shang, Finance, co-authored a paper in the Journal of Business Ethics that shows that social capital has a strong mitigating effect on financial adviser misconduct in the United States.

Erin Sullivan, Healthcare Administration, co-authored a paper in Medical Care Research and Review that presents a conceptual framework for integrating family caregivers into the health care team.

Müjde Yuksel, Marketing, was named co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Consumer Marketing. She was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Finland later this year. And she will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 UX+Design Conference to be held at Tufts University on April 28.

SBS in Brief

>>The Business School will host an EMBA panel on March 23 in which three of our alumni will discuss conscious leadership, which will be one of the main areas in the newly revised EMBA curriculum to be launched in fall 2023. The panel will be moderated by Kent Gregoire, the founder and CEO of Symphony Advantage and one of seven certified conscious capitalism consultants around the world.

>>One of our current students, Matheus Fonseca, was selected as a "30 Under 30" by Forbes.

>>Last fall we received proclamations from the Massachusetts governor and the Massachusetts House of Representatives commending us for our “vision and steadfast dedication to supporting the critical work of the nonprofit sector.”