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Welcome to the first issue of Pitt Business. Pitt Business promotes our stakeholders and provides information about the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration (CBA).
Pitt Business is intended to tie together our interests, showcase members of the Katz/CBA community, and celebrate our accomplishments.
CBA Senior Founds Investment Banking Club
CBA senior Ang Lee is, in a word, “driven”. He has secured a postgraduate position with a prominent Wall Street firm, and is now helping his classmates do the same through his newly founded Investment Banking Club.
Read more about Lee and the Investment Banking Club >
Also in Student Spotlight
A doctoral student’s remarkable progress through his PhD studies >
An MBA student’s independent study is helping the West Penn Allegheny Health System >
Ray Jones: One of BusinessWeek’s “Favorite Profs”
A BusinessWeek survey reveals that Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management Ray Jones can make a business lesson out of just about any experience—that’s just one reason his undergraduate students voted Jones their “favorite prof.”
Read more about Ray Jones and BusinessWeek’s other “favorite profs” >
Katz Graduate Funds Research Assistance and Lecture Series
Mark Gleason (CAS ’72, MBA ’73), managing director of Gleason & Associates, has made a gift to the Katz School to establish a graduate student research assistance fund and a lecture series on corporate valuation.
Read more about the Gleason & Associates assistance fund and lecture series >
How a Dual-Degree Graduate Made Inroads at GlaxoSmithKline
Anthony Williams (MBA/MSIE ’06) has gone full circle. He came to Katz for an education. Now, in addition to working at GlaxoSmithKline, Williams is contributing to the education of other Katz students.
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Question:
What do junk mail, Mother Teresa, and motor homes have in common?
Answer:
You’ll find them all in the newest KatzQuiz.