Dear Colleagues,
Here at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School the definition of “business” is always changing and broadening.
Increasingly, students want business skills that have an impact not just on the bottom line but on society as well. You’ll see examples of that in this newsletter. A group of our Marketing students did research to help international aid agency CARE better understand vaccine hesitancy around the world. And we just initiated a minor in diversity, equity, and inclusion—knowledge and skills that employers are increasingly asking for.
We also continue to increase immersive education opportunities that complement student learning in the classroom, whether it’s making decisions on $200,000 in investments for a student-managed stock fund or helping a cannabis/robotics start-up.
You'll also learn about our thought leadership with business and the pandemic as well as faculty insights. I’m excited to share these stories with you—and you can find many more in the spring issue of the Suffolk University Magazine. Best wishes as you head into the final weeks of the academic year.
Amy Z. Zeng, PhD
Dean of the Sawyer Business School
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New DEI Minor Gives Students Essential Skills for the Workplace
The goal is for our students to have the tools to recognize and solve DEI issues in companies and organizations—something employers increasingly are looking for.
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Digging Deeper Into Vaccine Hesitancy Around the World
Grad students in our Marketing program helped international aid organization CARE better understand how 12 different global segments feel about getting jabbed.
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Thought Leaders: Exploring the Supply Chain Crisis
This past winter, we invited experts from around the world to examine supply chain challenges. The first seminar looked at global food supply chains.
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The Princeton Review: Our Online MBA One of Top 50 in the Country
For the first time, we were recognized for having one of the best online MBA programs in the nation, and we were again ranked one of the best Business Schools.
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Cannabis & Robotics: How to Grow a Growing Business
A group of our MBA students worked with a Boston-based robotics company as they prepare to enter the grow-your-own cannabis market.
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Student-managed Stock Fund Gives Real Investing Experience
Managing real money provides students with a holistic, hands-on education in financial analysis and portfolio administration.
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Linda Melconian, Public Administration, recently published her new book, Lay It on the Table, which chronicles an important part of our national history when Speaker Tip O'Neill led the U.S. House of Representatives to end the Vietnam War.
According to former Massachusetts Senate President Tom Birmingham, "Melconian's book demonstrates a keen understanding of politics in general and Tip O'Neill in particular."
In April, Melconian and Tommy O'Neill, Tip's son, participated in a panel discussion about the book.
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In a paper coauthored with researchers from Drexel University and Washington University in St. Louis, Katrina Graham, Management and Entrepreneurship, recently published a paper in Academy of Management Journal. Their research examines multi-team systems, which are "teams of teams" and common in healthcare, the military, and other industries where multiple teams must work together to solve complex problems. They find that teams and the larger multi-team system perform best when team members balance their interactions with their primary teammates and individuals who are part other teams.
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Sokol Celo and Mark Lehrer, Strategy and International Business, published a paper in Journal of World Business, "How much lateral collaboration is optimal? Insights from computer simulations of MNEs as complex adaptive systems."
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Nataliya Zaiats, Finance, had her co-authored article, "Short seller attention," accepted for publication in Journal of Corporate Finance, a premier journal in the field of finance.
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Andrew Wilson, Marketing, published a blog post with the London School of Economics about deceptive advertising.
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Suffolk University Sawyer Business School
73 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108
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