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From Designing Spaces to Shaping Strategy
It’s rare that a person earns an Executive MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and receives the highest international honors for architects, but Jayesh Hariyani (EMBA ’05) holds that unique distinction. With his induction into the 2026 cohort of...
Classroom to Career: Professional Development Week
Wavestone North America sponsored the Fall 2026 Professional Development Week (PDW) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Business, home of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. “Professional Development Week is where what our students learn in the...
From the Career Fair to the Boardroom: What Industry Leaders Told Students
Pitt Business’s Industry Advisory Council, a network of senior HR executives from more than twenty leading corporations, convened this fall at the Valasek Club in the Peterson Event Center. The IAC meeting was held at the same time, in the same building, as the Pitt...
Bridging the Gap Between Coursework and Impact
When Pittsburgh community-based organizations face challenges, they turn to the next generation of business leaders for help developing and implementing new and novel solutions. Since the summer of 2020, the Pitt Business Bridge Program has paired 200 graduate...
Association for Consumer Research honors Pitt Professor Emeritus and PhD Graduate
The Association for Consumer Research (ACR) honored two people affiliated with theUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Business at their recent awards luncheon. Emeritus Professor Jeff Inman was named ACR Fellow and Lauren Grewal won the ACR Early Career Award. Grewal...
Pitt Business Students Place Second at National Black MBA Case Competition
A team of four graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business placed second in the National Black MBA Association case competition. The event took place during the National Black MBA Conference and Exposition in Los Angeles, CA, September 23 to...
U.S. News & World Report Ranks Pitt Business 39th Best Undergraduate Program Nationally
The 2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings were released on September 22, highlighting the University of Pittsburgh School of Business as the 39th Best Undergraduate Business Schools, an improvement from last year. We sit at 25th on the list of...
Bloomberg Businessweek Ranks Pitt Business in the Top 10 for Learning
The University of Pittsburgh School of Business, home of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, is ranked in the top 10 in Learning in the 2026-2027 Bloomberg Businessweek top business schools ranking. The rankings released on September 15,...
Sarah King Named MBA to Watch by Poetst&Quants
Sarah King (MBA/MPIA ’26), from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business, was named an MBA to Watch by Poets&Quants. This feature highlights some of the outstanding MBA students from schools worldwide. Before enrolling in Pitt’s Joseph M....
Pitt Business Unveils Blueprint for Agentic Branding and AI Governance
The future of brand management isn’t just strong storytelling and creative execution designed to improve KPIs. Instead, there is a greater importance on how leaders build guardrails necessary for AI agents interacting with current and potential customers. As AI agents...