Clinical Associate Professor of Business Administration Robert J. Gilbert's Project in Marketing Class is one of the most popular marketing courses for College of Business Administration students at Pitt. Award-winning client teams made up of undergraduate students gain hands-on experience while learning critical marketing skills and assisting clients, like Nissan.
The paper, "Firm size and the gains from acquisitions" in the Journal of Financial Economics (Volume 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pp 201-228) was the third most cited paper in the Journal of Financial Economics in the past five years. The paper was written by Sara Moeller, Frederik Schlingemann, and Rene Stulz from Ohio State.
The Communications of the Association for Information Systems (Volume 24, Article 14, 2009), recently reviewed publications from nine leading IS journals during calendar years 2003 to 2007. In the core basket of three journals, Dennis Galletta and Varun Grover (PhD) were tied for 10th. In the official basket of six journals, Varun was tied for 4th, Dennis was tied for 9th and William King was tied for 25th. In the extended basket of nine journals, Varun was tied for 7th, William was tied for 15th and Dennis was tied for 19th.
Carolyn Weisberger Mendelson has been honored with the NASAA Distinguished Service Award of 2009 by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) to recognize outstanding work in the area of securities law and investor protection. Mendelson began work with the Pennsylvania Securities Commission in 2004. On behalf of Pennsylvania, she has been a member of NASAA's twelve state auction rate securities taskforce which has returned over $60 billion to investors and $600 million in penalties and fines against Wall Street firms for their prior marketing and sales practices of auction rate securities. Mendelson also chairs NASAA's broker dealer market regulatory committee.
Living in Pittsburgh is even easier than going to school in Pittsburgh. The Economist named Pittsburgh the most livable city in the United States in 2009. In this unique tapestry of neighborhoods, many within minutes of Katz and the College of Business Administration, you'll have a plethora of fun choices about where to hang your hat. Check out the University of Pittsburgh's Award Winning Cool Pittsburgh site
Consulting Field Projects provide students with meaningful experience-based learning opportunities. Each term, these courses allow teams of masters and undergraduate students from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and the College of Business Administration to work on projects of critical importance to client organizations representing a broad range of industries as well as government and nonprofit organizations.
The final requirement of these Consulting Field Projects is for each team to participate in the McKinsey Cup Competition. Teams present their project summary as well as their findings and recommendations to a panel of judges who evaluate each presentation based on its analytical rigor and content.
This April, Katz will celebrate a milestone - the school's 50th anniversary of graduate education. To mark this milestone, we're compiling a list of 50 things that students, alumni, faculty, and staff love about Katz. The list will be published in the spring 2010 issue of Pitt Business magazine. Perhaps it was a favorite spot for team meetings, a memorable professor or staff person, an unforgettable project or assignment, or the best happy hour in Pittsburgh. Tell us what you love about Katz - and then tell someone else too!
