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Leveraging the VDC: Student Collaboration to Boost Innovative New Ventures

Leveraging the VDC: Student Collaboration to Boost Innovative New Ventures

by aijanisakova | Jun 1, 2018 | GEIR program, Mentoring, Startups, Student Successes

by Stephan Manning, Associate Professor of Management at College of Management, UMass Boston, stephan.manning@umb.edu In Spring 2018, the UMass Venture Development Center (VDC) collaborated with my MBA ‘Strategic Management’ capstone class to jointly assess and...
My First Semester as a GEIR!

My First Semester as a GEIR!

by aijanisakova | May 24, 2018 | GEIR program, Mentoring, Startups, Student Successes

by Giovanni Conserva My first project as a GEIR reminded me that the best aspect of entrepreneurship is the opportunity to cooperate with brilliant and enthusiastic professionals from different backgrounds. During the last semester, 5 MBAs from Stephen Manning’s...
My Experience Working with UMass Boston’s Students: Designing a Final Year Project

My Experience Working with UMass Boston’s Students: Designing a Final Year Project

by aijanisakova | May 17, 2018 | GEIR program, Mentoring, Student Successes

by Himanshu Agrawal As a part of my GEIR responsibilities, I was asked to offer a semester long projects for a IT Capstone class of 2018. The course aims to prepare students for ‘successful careers in the industry’. As I began thinking about how to...
VDC HOSTS HEALTHCARE INNOVATION MBA COURSE

VDC HOSTS HEALTHCARE INNOVATION MBA COURSE

by aijanisakova | Jun 2, 2017 | GEIR program, Student Successes

By Robert Schultz Boston is home to the world’s leading life science supercluster. This provides ample learning opportunities for the next generation of health entrepreneurs. UMass-Boston’s MBA program now offers a course allowing student to quickly develop a new...
Meet the UMass Boston Students Who Just Published in the Journal Science

Meet the UMass Boston Students Who Just Published in the Journal Science

by william.brah | Oct 22, 2015 | Hiring, Startups, Student Successes

For any scientist, let alone an undergraduate, getting published in Nature or Science is very difficult to do. Less than 1% of the researchers at the entire university last year authored a paper in either journal, according to Nature Index. So, imagine the high-five...

How We Can Immerse Students in Startup Culture, featuring Kahmali Rose

by christianvialva | Jul 2, 2015 | General, Innovation, Internships, Mentoring, Startups, Student Successes

To most, Kahmali Rose is just a Computer Science grad at UMass Boston. However, to the people who have worked with him, Kahmali Rose is more than that; he is an ambitious, interesting, and tenacious young entrepreneur.  Co-founder of NimbleNotes, Rose has spent the...
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