What are you teaching?…What are you working on? I teach courses in operations management and business analytics for both undergraduate and graduate students, including BUS 355: Decision Modeling and Analytics, BUS 361: Foundations of Operations Management; BUS 455&552: Prescriptive Analytics, and BUS 491&591: Production and Service Operations Management. I work on research projects in supply…Continue Reading Q&A with Dr. Yu
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Alumni Spotlight: Trish Skoglund (MBA ’07)
How did a business graduate degree help you? My graduate degree helped open many doors for me in my career. The course work helped prepare me for a diverse career in business management that would take me all the way to Alaska and south to Houston and Florida. What are you doing now? After 13…Continue Reading Alumni Spotlight: Trish Skoglund (MBA ’07)
Pilot Venture Challenge 2021 Results
UP students pitch and win! The Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation once again hosted its annual venture pitch competition, Pilot Venture Challenge, as a live, virtual event due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, that didn’t seem to deter students from developing invention and venture ideas to pitch. This year there was a record…Continue Reading Pilot Venture Challenge 2021 Results
Q&A with Dr. Parkman
What do you teach?…What are you working on? I continue to teach my normal rhythm of classes (even in this very abnormal time); Marketing Strategy for the MBAs and Marketing Research and Product Design and Development for the undergraduates. I’m very fortunate because the classes that I teach directly relate to my research interests outside…Continue Reading Q&A with Dr. Parkman
Q&A with Dr. Hao
What are you teaching? I usually teach BUS 210 Managerial Accounting (Fall) and BUS 312 Cost Accounting (Spring) Why should students take your class? Accounting in general is the backbone of business in its way to track a company’s financial health and stability. As a course, accounting lays the valuable groundwork for skills and knowledge…Continue Reading Q&A with Dr. Hao
Alumni Spotlight: Ricardo Lopez (MSF ’17)
Contributed by Ricardo Lopez How did a business graduate degree help you? I originally attended UP as an international undergrad student from Mexico City. As I was graduating with a Finance degree, I was lucky enough to find a job that was compatible with my work visa requirements. That job as an analyst for RVK,…Continue Reading Alumni Spotlight: Ricardo Lopez (MSF ’17)