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How Do I Navigate the Job Search in the Age of AI?
It’s a question we hear often—from undergraduates, graduates, and returning professional students alike. At the 2025 University of Pittsburgh School of Business Career Conference, we invited senior Human Resource and talent executives from our corporate network to...
Helen van der Sluis Receives Ferber Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research
Helen van der Sluis, assistant professor of business administration at the University of Pittsburgh School of Business, has been named the 2025 winner of the Ferber Award for her article, “How Do Physical Disability Cues Influence Assumptions about Consumer Tastes?...
Faculty Perspectives – PhD Program
Leming Lin, Associate Professor of Finance PhD, University of Florida What are your interactions with the PhD Program? Ie. Teaching a specific course, Doctoral and Research Committee, etc. I currently serve as the finance area representative on the Doctoral and...
Meet PhD Student Courtney Stefanick
Previous academic degrees: BSBA in Marketing with Certificates in Leadership and Ethics and Communications from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business; Master of Arts in Corporate Communication from Duquesne University What motivated you to pursue a PhD in...
Pitt Business Honors the Katz Family
A “Katz Day” celebration on September 30, 2025, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Business honored the generosity of Joseph M. Katz. The day included a proclamation from the city of Pittsburgh honoring the philanthropic efforts of this entrepreneur. Members of...
TL Saaty Decision Making Hackathon Tackles Scalability
This year’s T.L. Saaty Decision Making for Leaders Hackathon challenges students to design systems where AI agents handle the data-gathering and analysis, while decision frameworks like AHP and ANP provide the strategic logic to act on it. Because intelligent scaling...
Devish Udasi Named an MBA to Watch by Poets&Quants
Devesh Udasi (MBA/MS ’25), 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. Katz Graduate...
One Pitt Business: Honoring Our Legacy, Leading Our Future
Over the past century, our school has evolved significantly—from its origins in 1908 to becoming the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and the College of Business Administration. As part of our recent strategic planning process, we recognized the need for a...
Stephanie L. Hannan Among 2025 “Best and Brightest Executive MBAs”
Stephanie L. Hannan (EMBA ‘25) from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business is among Poets&Quants’ 2025 Best and Brightest Executive MBAs across the globe. The list celebrates students from the Class of 2025 who embody the excellence and voices of their...
Blueprint for Success: Engineers Earning MBAs
Why would a project manager at the largest commercial construction company in West Virginia decide to earn an Executive MBA at the University of Pittsburgh School of Business?To follow in the footsteps of four other executives at the company. “The Executive MBA...