Questrom Undergrads on Poets & Quants Best & Brightest Business Majors 2021 list
Pictured: Veronica Escobar-Mesa (left) and Frances Smyth (right) The annual Poets & Quants Best & Brightest Business Majors list, begun in 2016, has honored 100 of the most accomplished seniors who majored in business showcasing the Class of 2021 for whom “business is a tool to give back and do good. More
Questrom Partners with Waters Corporation for 2021 Part-Time MBA Case Competition
Team of Minishrang Borgoyary, Carolyn Heusser, Joon Jin and Youngbin Tak took home first place in the virtual competition. The case dealt with how the company might execute and achieve its Sustainability 2025 initiative. Questrom's Professional Evening MBA Program (PEMBA) has held its own case competition—open to just Questrom PEMBA students—since... More
Questrom Part-Time MBA Rises Nine Spots in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Professional Evening MBA Program is the highest ranked part-time MBA program based in Boston U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Graduate Schools Rankings released March 30th. Boston University Questrom School of Business has again been recognized for the strength of its MBA programs. In the part-time MBA ranking, the Questrom Professional... More
Celebrating 21 Years of the New Venture Competition
More than 700 teams have competed and over $171k has been awarded in cash prizes. March 2, 2021–This year, we celebrate the 21st Annual New Venture Competition at Boston University! Over the last 21 years, more than 700 teams of BU Terriers have put forth new and innovative ideas through the competition–these... More
Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic
One year after COVID-19, BU students, faculty, and staff offer tributes to 44 who went above and beyond, including Questrom's Dionne Lomax, markets, public policy, and law lecturer. Nominated by Starrchild Jackson (CAS’21) I have never had a professor like Dionne Lomax. When I first walked into LA 245 last spring, I... More
Dean Susan Fournier, Professor Daniella Kupor Receive Top Honors from Society of Consumer Psychology
Pictured (Left to Right): Susan Fournier, Daniella Kupor At its annual meeting held March 6, the Society of Consumer Psychology (SCP) announced the awardees of their top honors. Susan Fournier, Allen Questrom Professor & Dean, was the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Daniella Kupor, assistant professor of marketing, More
Has 2020 Changed Workplace Culture for Good?
Questrom’s Greg Stoller reflects on his 2020 future-of-work predictions and forecasts what’s ahead for the workforce Disruption has always been a constant in the workplace—but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought on more change than anyone could have expected (or predicted). For example, before the pandemic only 17 percent of Americans were working... More
When Competitors Collaborate, Who Wins? We All Do
Questrom’s Rena Conti on the historic COVID-19 vaccine deal between Merck and Johnson & Johnson President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a rare and historic collaboration between two Big Pharma behemoths and rivals, Merck and Johnson & Johnson, in which the former will help manufacture the latter’s recently approved single-shot COVID-19... More
Questrom Alum Now Heads the BU Young Alumni Council
As a BU undergraduate, Alexis Redman was a student leader—a resident assistant, a Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground student ambassador, a founding E-board member of the Black Business Student Association, and a leader within Umoja, BU’s Black student union. She had a dual concentration in organizational behavior and operations... More
Questrom MBA Team Finishes in the Final 12 at the First-Ever John Lewis Racial Justice Case Competition
Highlights the growing success of students in diversity, equity, and inclusion competitions Kudos to the MBA student team of Faetitia Desamours, Misty Farrell, Jamal Love, Ajay Raghavan, Teilachanell Angel, and Cecilia Yudin, for their success in the inaugural John Lewis Racial Justice Case Competition sponsored by Emory University’s Goizueta Business School... More