There's a great deal of anticipation heading into the fall term at Pitt Business. Our calendar is full of exciting events that include the G-20 World Tour—a month-long celebration of this historic meeting of world leaders taking place right in our backyard, -C-level speakers, and Homecoming 2009. Read more about what will be taking place this fall at Pitt Business.
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There is still time to join us for Homecoming Weekend 2009, October 23-25! Mark your calendar and plan to attend some of the events we have planned for the Pitt Business Alumni Reunion and Celebration, including an Executive Women's Panel, an Alumni Networking Reception, a Late Night Mixer, the CBA Alumni Anniversary Celebration and much more.
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Tenth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process Held at Katz
The tenth annual International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process was hosted by Distinguished University Professor Tom Saaty in Mervis Hall this month.
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Things are big in Texas, but EMBA graduate Paul Patek ('09) discovered the world is much bigger. Patek left a successful job in sales and moved halfway around the world to Prague to pursue his Executive MBA degree with the Katz School. Read more about the higher education adventure of a lifetime and lessons Patek learned that have changed his life.
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Their objective was to create internal buy-in for a demand-driven internal service model or Variable Cost Model (VCM). A team of four Katz MBA candidates selected to work on a Consulting Field Project for Bayer MaterialSciences, LLC developed a teaching case that integrated activity based costing and a VCM. Owing to their success of their Consulting Field Project, some of the students were asked to continue their work and deploy the model for two other Bayer Groups.
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An entrepreneur doesn't necessarily expect business to grow in the midst of a global recession. But with the economic downturn came great concern from students and families about financing higher education and, consequently, greater opportunities for Andrew Reichert (CBA '07), chief executive officer and founder of Go Financial Aid, to grow the company he started while an undergraduate student in the CBA.
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