2020 | Issue 2

for enterprising students and creative enterprise

BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY Program Revisions Enhance Industry UNLOCKED Relevance, Technology Strengths experience | unlocked The graduate and undergraduate curricula across two tracks preparing students • at Saunders College of Business at for careers with startups or providing the Strong business and industry connections Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) entrepreneurial thinking and expertise are continuously being revised to best more employers now seek. Students • Real-world learning experiences prepare students for success after enjoy RIT’s rich entrepreneurial culture • 94% career outcomes rate graduation. where designers, engineers, scientists, and artists collaborate frequently and the innovation | unlocked latest technology resources in Venture Technology Focused Graduate • Top STEM university resources Program Revisions Creations incubator, The Construct rapid- • A newly-revised master of science global prototyping lab, and Simone Center for Highly-ranked technology- supply chain management (GSCM) Innovation and Entrepreneurship. infused business programs program features top professors • Strong interdisciplinary recognized for industry innovation, such Future program developments include a innovation and entrepreneurship as the Logistics Management Index. STEM certified MBA and an all-new Ph.D. center With significant input from industry program. professionals, students get hands-on passions | unlocked experience while developing data- Now 13 Undergraduate Minor • Students create their own brand driven decision-making skills. GSCM is Programs designed to leverage widely-recognized Saunders College has launched two • Programs customizable across RIT strengths in operations management, new minors for undergraduates. A 9 RIT colleges analytics, logistics, industrial engineering, business analytics minor addresses data • Global campuses and resources global business, and management. analytics, business decision making, and organizational outcomes that sharpens connections | unlocked A technology innovation management data skills across all majors. A human • and entrepreneurship (TIME) master of resource management minor focuses the Dedicated and accessible advisors and faculty science delivers entrepreneurial tools foundational areas of human resources, and skills through real-life business such as hiring, compensation and benefits, • Low student-faculty ratio exposure and Saunders’ integrated global as well as organizational leadership and • 25,000 Saunders Business network. The program shares common innovation. The additions to Saunders bring alumni globally technology-focused core courses the total number of minor options to 13.

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Faculty Additions Bring Research and Industry Strengths

Saunders recently welcomed three new faculty members organizations and individuals high-value to its management and MIS, marketing, and digital business consulting and professional development departments. services. He brings extensive business knowledge, having served in advancing Kristin Bain, Ph.D., joins us as levels of responsibility at Xerox for an assistant professor in our 31 years. Michael received his BA in management program. She received psychology from the City University of her BA in psychology from the New York-Herbert H. Lehman College, University of Northern Colorado, her and MBA in marketing management from Pace University - MA in conflict resolution from the Lubin School of Business. Korbel School of International Study, the University of Denver, and her Jing Tang, Ph.D., joins us from Case Ph.D. in business administration from Western Reserve University (CWRU), David Eccles School of Business, the where she taught business analytics University of Utah. Kristin has taught at the University of Utah and marketing analytics. She received from 2016 through 2018, including traveling to London, UK, her bachelor in management science for classes. She has received numerous awards, submitted from School of Management, University manuscripts for top journal publications, presented at of Science and Technology of China several conferences, and published Business advice: A (USTC), master in management from demonstrability perspective in The Oxford Handbook of University of Chinese Academy of Advice, 299-319 in 2018. Sciences (UCAS), master of philosophy in management from EMLYON Business School and In the MIS, marketing, and digital business academic Ph.D. in design and innovation from Weatherhead School department, Saunders welcomes Michael Caceci, MBA of Management, CWRU. She is currently working on six and Jing Tang, Ph.D. Michael is a lecturer and the owner research projects related to digital platforms and digital and founder of Excellerated Performance, LLC, providing strategies and targeting top journals for publication.

Building A New Era For Business Education

Saunders College of Business is close to These additional cutting-edge spaces breaking ground on a building expansion support collaboration, networking, applied increasing its footprint by 80%. Inspired by research, and business community the latest technology and features found in engagement. These critical elements industry, the addition incorporates applied will catapult Saunders nationally ranked learning and collaboration elements, programs while meeting RIT’s strategic including classrooms, applied research goals to attract a diverse and world-class laboratories, and student team rooms. faculty while luring corporate partners to position students for success. Features include a new 140-person auditorium and a centrally located event “The expansion will enhance interaction space overlooking campus, and the new among students and faculty, with Polisseni ice rink home to RIT’s division-1 more available space for collaboration hockey teams. These spaces offer applied and teamwork. Additionally, the learning opportunities to hone skills and expansion will help enhance our unique expertise on campus for students of the and growing business programs in management information systems, newly acquired hospitality and tourism supply chain management, analytics, management programs. and entrepreneurship.” – Carmyn Gomez MBA ’20

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Saunders College of Business is one of nine and top-ranked Albert J. Simone Center for Join the conversation on social media: colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship to integrate and is accredited by the Association to Advance business education with RIT’s world-leading Collegiate Schools of Business International technical and creative programs. With over (AACSB). Recognized and ranked internationally, 25,000 alumni worldwide, Saunders College Saunders is home to nearly 2,500 undergraduate offers undergraduate (BS), master’s (MS), master @ritbusiness and graduate students enrolled in programs of business administration (MBA), and Executive saunders.rit.edu across RIT Global Campuses in Rochester, MBA (EMBA) programs where students gain [email protected] New York, Croatia, Dubai, Kosovo, and China. real-world business experiences through Saunders College works in partnership with RIT’s a tradition of applied learning, cooperative Rochester Institute of Technology entrepreneurial Venture Creations incubator education, and capstone programs. Saunders College of Business