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Gretchen Hendricks, instructor of business foundations, recently challenged 33 students in her BUS 303: Developing Your Professional Skills, Advanced Elements course to research and create a new business idea they call ThreeWishes, a company that makes kindness the norm.

As a transfer accounting student, Neil VanHaaften, joined the Student Ambassador program at Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Business to get know his peers and professors, especially because he was attending virtually for his first semester.

A team of students from Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Business’ master of science in real estate development (MRED) program recently won the NAIOP MD/DC Chapter’s 2022 Capital Challenge. This year’s win marks the program’s fifth victory in the Capitol Challenge in the last ten years.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ finance professor Derek Horstmeyer gives advice on the current bear market and what investors should expect.

Already an accomplished marketing executive, Patricia Mejia, returned to Â鶹ÊÓƵ to attain the master of science in technology management, graduating in 2012. Mejia is now the chief marketing officer at GoTab Inc., which provides food and beverage establishments with e-commerce solutions, a service increasingly in demand.

Gregory Unruh, academic director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s brand-new chief sustainability officer certification program in Executive Development, has been training sustainability leaders for decades.

The Impact Fellows Program, which is run through the School of Business’s Business for a Better World Center, focuses on helping students learn about how to help businesses achieve sustainable goals,

​​​​​​​The Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship in the School of Business at Â鶹ÊÓƵ established the Opportunity Scholarship to support diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is awarded each fall to one or more incoming first-year master’s in real estate development student(s) from groups underrepresented in the real estate industry and/or those contributing to diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry and Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

On Friday, June 3, more than 20 participants from business schools across the country joined Â鶹ÊÓƵ marketing faculty for a day-long Marketing Research Symposium at the IDIA Classroom Space in Vernon Smith Hall, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Square. In addition to research talks, there was a panel discussion on digital transformation in retail featuring three industry experts.

Due to the pandemic, virtual learning has helped the George Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Business meet learners where they are. We spoke with Rishi Vajpeyi, a student in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Business’ online master's in technology management program (MSTM), about his experience.