Even More Rankings Success, a National Award & 2023 Commencement

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To the Sawyer Business School Community:

On a picture perfect spring day, we celebrated the Class of 2023 at Commencement, where we awarded 370 undergraduate and 433 graduate degrees. Welcome to our newest alumni!

Alumnus Abraham "Abe" Ceesay, MBA '05, CEO of Rapport Therapeutics, reflected on his own time as a Suffolk student and urged graduates to take the success they find in business and use those skills to elevate the greater good. You can read more about our incredible day below.

Just because summer is slowly ramping up doesn't mean that we are slowing down here at SBS. In July we will host our second entrepreneurship and data analytics programs for students from several local high schools. In August we welcome academics from around the world to the Academy of Management conference in downtown Boston. And in early September we will host 2023 Startup Boston Week, which will bring more than 5,000 entrepreneurs, startup employees, investors, and influencers to campus.

Nevertheless, the next few months will still afford opportunities to recharge, reconnect, and recall our incredible year. We hope you are able to do the same!

Amy Z. Zeng, PhD

Dean, Sawyer Business School

News From the Sawyer Business School

Alumnus Abraham (Abe) Ceesay, MBA '05, was the honorary degree speaker at the Sawyer Business School's 2023 Commencement. "Set your sights on huge challenges," he urged graduates.

Our MBA was again ranked "one of the best" by The Princeton Review. The Business School also placed No. 6 overall for having the greatest resources for women.

The Business School received national recognition with the "Inspiring Programs in Business" award for its support of students from under-represented groups entering the field of business.

MBA student Cèline Pahl-Hiltl takes a break from the Swiss culinary scene to study the analytics and strategy side of the family business, the world's oldest vegetarian restaurant.

Integrated Expertise

In St. Louis, Lauren Hajjar, Public Service, applies her work in organizational effectiveness and resilience to advance delivery of mental health services.

John Li, Information Systems & Operations Management, co-authored a paper titled "Designing an incentive mechanism for information security policy compliance: An experiment" in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Erin Sullivan, Healthcare Administration, was the first author of a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Primary Care in Peril: How Clinicians View the Problems and Solutions." It highlights the findings of a large survey of primary care clinicians in every state in America, revealing a discipline under severe stress.

Pelin Bicen and Jane Zhu, both Marketing, were co-authors of a paper in ScienceDirect titled, "Being lean: Conceptualizing and operationalizing the Lean Innovation Capability (LIC) of innovative companies." Through extensive analysis, they discovered that firms possessing higher levels of LIC showcase a remarkable ability to innovate successfully, even in environments where resources are scarce.

SBS in Brief

Faculty Excellence. In a ceremony at the end of the spring semester, several members of the SBS faculty were recognized for their exemplary efforts in teaching, service, and other categories.

Teaching Excellence Award: Robert Smith, Marketing
Scholarship Excellence Awards: Katrina Graham, Management, and Erin Sullivan, Healthcare Administration
Practice Excellence Award: Skip Perham, Marketing
Service Excellence Award: Shari Worthington, Entrepreneurship, and Russell Seidle, Strategy and International Business
Exemplary Faculty Award: Jane Zhu, Marketing

Beta Gamma Sigma. This past spring 156 Sawyer Business School students (71 master's degree students, 19 juniors, and 66 seniors) were invited to join Beta Gamma Sigma. BGS is the largest honor society in business education and recognizes the top 10% in undergraduate classes and top 20% in graduate classes each academic year.

Batter Up! This summer several of our marketing students are working with the Brockton Rox, a collegiate summer baseball team based in Brockton, Mass. They'll be doing research, analysis, and helping the team improve its fan experience.

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