At MBS, we all go by the saying “leadership is leading your own ship.” On April 15, 2020, MBS students learned how to lead our own ships when pitching ourselves in a workshop led by Abbe Rosenthal, PCC, Assistant Director/Head of Corporate Partnerships, Employment & Professional Development, and Executive Coach.
This fantastic event, held on February 10, 2020, started with an enthusiastic welcome by Kathleen Cashman, Professor of Communication and Leadership and Industrial Advisory Board Liaison, who addressed a packed audience of MBS students, staff, and industry advisors with her signature and energetic greeting: “How are we all doing tonight?”
Disruption is a constant presence in our lives and can stem from forces in our professional and personal worlds. On February 7, 2020, Rutgers’ Women in Technology group—in conjunction with peer institutions in the Big Ten Academic Alliance—hosted a virtual conference featuring seven dynamic women leaders in educational technology who discussed the ways that disruption created opportunities for reflection, learning, growth, and humor in their personal lives and their careers.
On February 14, 2020, our MBS Externship Exchange team visited Bentley Labs in Edison, New Jersey, for a company tour and to meet with our project mentor, Matt Brennan MBS’17, Senior Manager, Business Excellence and Analytics.
For more than 80 years, the Wizard of Oz movie–in its technicolor splendor—has mesmerized audiences while becoming a fundamental element of American pop culture. It has generated spot-on metaphors to describe everything from things being not as they initially appear (what’s really “behind the curtain”) to people who either wittingly or unwittingly do the evil bidding of others. (“Flying monkeys” is actually a widely recognized term used in popular psychology, usually in the context of narcissism.)
Face-to-Face Job Opportunities: Leveraging Rutgers Professional Science Master’s Program
On January 28, 2020, the Rutgers MBS program held a career development workshop about how to prepare for the Career & Internship Mega Fair, which is taking place at the Louis Brown Athletic Center (RAC) tomorrow, February 4, and Wednesday, February 5, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. both days.
On January 8, 2020, Rutgers MBS and Honors College students displayed their collective ingenuity, problem-solving skills, and tech savvy via a collaborative Externship Exchange presentation to members of Citi Ventures’ CUPID (Citi University Partnerships in Innovation & Discovery) program.
Each year, the Rutgers MBS family rings in the holiday season in style with a department holiday party—the MBS Holiday Mingle! This year’s mingle, held on December 17 at the Rutgers Club, provided a fun and much-needed celebration as we wrapped up the semester and prepared for winter break.
An event where you receive great pharmaceutical industry career advice, a colloquium credit, and pizza is surely a win, win, win by all measures! The Pharmaceutical Industry Career Panel event held on Thursday, December 5, 2019, featured four panelists, three of whom were recent MBS program graduates (extra win!), and was moderated seamlessly by Abbe Rosenthal, the Rutgers MBS assistant director, executive coach, and head of corporate partnerships, student employment, alumni engagement & professional development.
First, a bit about the panelists: