by Gabby Gartner-Coliane | Oct 26 | College of Business Administration, In The News
“These are real-world problems the students are solving,” says Stacy Splitstone, chief accounting officer at UPMC. On Friday, October 20, 2023, five teams of Pitt Business undergraduate students were tasked to provide insights and solutions to solve a physical space...
by Gabby Gartner-Coliane | Oct 11 | Alumni, EMBA-50-Stories, EMBA50Memories, Executive Education, Executive MBA, In The News
Westinghouse Semiconductor Division wanted to develop rising employees, so they selected Woodson “Woody” Savage III for the first-ever Executive MBA class at Pitt in 1973. “At age 29, I could not fully foresee the benefits I would gain through participating in the...
by Gabby Gartner-Coliane | Oct 11 | Centers and Initiatives
Transforming communities across the globe, demonstrating that business strategies can increase profits while addressing societal needs – that’s the purpose of the Business of Humanity Project, a collaboration between Pitt Business and the Swanson School of...
by Gabby Gartner-Coliane | Oct 4 | Accelerated MBA, Africa Business Initiatives, Alumni, Centers and Initiatives, Featured News, In The News, MBA, Real World Learning
As an MBA student at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business in 1990, Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba learned that strong leadership is not about the individual, but how much can be accomplished by working with others. Today, she continues to apply that philosophy as...
by Gabby Gartner-Coliane | Sep 14 | College of Business Administration, In The News, Students
Since 2021, Pitt Business undergraduate students have worked as Student CEOs, leading one or more of the three Saxbys café locations around the University of Pittsburgh’s Oakland campus. For Fall 2023, the Cathedral of Learning café will be led by Evan Coury. Coury is...