The Rutgers’ Fall Career and Internship Mega fair took place on September 9-11 at RAC on Livingston Campus. The MBS students attending summed up their experience as exciting, engaging and informative. Many Rutgers students seeking technical opportunities visited the fair on September 9th, while others who were interested in both technical and non-technical opportunities attended on September 10th and 11th. This event was open to all Rutgers students and alumni. Students had opportunity to meet fellow Rutgers students from Newark and Camden campus.

MBS alumni and students attended the first-ever Rutgers MBS Leadership Bootcamp on June 14, 2019. Abbe Rosenthal, Assistant Director and Executive Coach at the Professional Science Master's (PSM) program envisioned and hosted the successful event that provided the participants with a range of leadership development tools. Abbe welcomed students, and Kathleen Cashman, an instructor and also an Executive Coach at the PSM program, kicked off the bootcamp by asking the participants ‘What will you do when you cross the threshold?’.

The flavors and fragrances industry (F&F) creates scents and tastes for use in a broad range of consumer products, including prepared foods, personal care and household products, fine fragrances, cosmetics, and beverages. Ingredients can be raw or synthetic.

The Fundamentals of Intellectual Property class, a course offered by the Masters of Business and Science (MBS) program at Rutgers University, entails a day at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, VA. In this once in a lifetime opportunity (not many programs offer this exclusive opportunity), MBS students interact and learn with USPTO staff. This blog post tells the story of the day that the class of Summer 2019 spent at the USPTO.

For many working adults, the word “intern” invokes visions—or memories—of a young person eagerly fetching coffee, organizing files, or performing assorted menial, unchallenging tasks for a boss too busy to delegate meaningful work.

Not so for MBS students, who spent the past semester using their talents to redesign websites, employ data visualization and statistical modeling, execute SWOT analyses, perform extensive prototyping along with corresponding internal and external testing, and—for some interns—make presentations to stakeholders.

On April 30, after weeks of hard work, externs representing nearly every MBS concentration displayed the semester-long fruits of their labors during colorful and interactive poster presentations held in the CoRE building lobby.

MBS student externs set up their poster presentations in the CoRE building lobby.

In the Capstone course offered by the MBS department, students develop their entrepreneurship skills. Student teams search out patented product technology or ideas, work out how to use the idea in an actual product, and develop a business plan for marketing the product. This exercise allows the students an opportunity to enhance their marketing, finance, technology, supply chain, and operations knowledge in creating a viable start-up company (on paper at least).  On May 8^th, 2019, the Capstone presented their products and business plans to an esteemed panel of judges.

School of Graduate Studies Convocation happened on May 17, 2019 in Rutgers Athletic Center

The Honorable Staff of Rutgers School of Graduate Studies

On May 6th, 2019, students in the Artificial Intelligence: From Concept to Market MBS course presented their final projects under the guidance from Prof. Richard Mammone. The students had developed technology as well as devised plans to enter the market as a start-up company. Five teams used various AI technologies such as CNN, transfer learning, and LSTM to develop their products:

Storytelling is how humans have communicated for centuries. The ability to tell a good story is an important skill for employees and companies to master.  Nis Frome, co-founder and head of experimentation at Alpha and Rutgers Business School alumnus (‘14), spoke to the MBS Marketing class taught by Mark Burgess on Thursday, February 28, 2019 about storytelling in his lecture entitled, “Storytelling to Drive Inspired Action.”