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.”

A legal expert, an engineer, and an ethicist walk into a classroom. The first thing they see is an Unavoidable Death Warning sign that states, “Your driverless car is about to cause a death – please select a target”. The options are: 1) Someone on the left, 2) You, and 3) Someone on the right. This is how a compelling discussion about Ethics and Self-Driving Cars started, which was hosted on April 10, 2019. 

On April 9, 2019, the MBS Program hosted a career panel discussion for the Personal Care Industry. The panelists were drawn from different specialties, providing some glimpse of the various opportunities within the industry. Having these panelists speak about their roles and reaching their career goals gave the attending students the opportunity to learn about the different careers paths within the Personal Care Industry. 

On March 19, MBS students, alumni, faculty, and members of the Industrial Advisory Board joined to mingle, network, dine, and reconnect at the 7th Annual PSM Alumni-Student Mixer, a now-signature event for the MBS program, which will celebrate its milestone 10th anniversary next year. 

March is the National Women’s History month. What better way to celebrate than attending the Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS)? MBS students remotely attended this unique and energetic event along with members of more than 150 organizations across the globe. The fourth annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference was hosted at Stanford University on March 4th, 2019. Talk topics ranged from ethics, cybersecurity, data privacy, ML applications to career motivation.

As part of the Communications and Leadership class, we listened to TED Talks about the gender gap which inspired us to take action to change the imbalance of women leaders in the sciences (read our first blog).  We organized The Douglas Project to share our experiences as women working in the pharmaceutical and biotech in

During the Communication and Leadership class, we discussed why fewer women are in leadership roles in the life sciences than their male counterparts (read our earlier blog). We decided to host an event to share our personal experiences as females in the working in life sciences. We were nervous and exhilarated.

If you’ve ever visited the Rutgers Makerspace on Livingston Campus, then you’ve likely observed—or perhaps even used—3D printing: the technology capable of transforming project concepts and creative ideas from simple designs into tangible, functional, three-dimensional objects.

On Tuesday, February 11th, 2019, MBS students from the Fall 2019 semester Becton Dickinson Externship Exchange teams, along with Dr. Christie Nelson, presented their work at Becton Dickinson’s Headquarter located in Franklin Lakes, NJ. The Becton Dickinson Externship Exchange comprised two teams of MBS students: team 1 focused on the analysis of the results of the Voice of the Associates Survey and team 2 focused on anomaly detection in Travel and Expenses. These projects were initiated in Sept 2018 and ended in Feb 2019.

After listening to several TED Talks during the Communications & Leadership course, seven MBS women employed in the healthcare profession were inspired to act. We joined the MBS Women’s Leadership Initiative, a sisterhood which educates and empowers women in science and technology jobs.  Our class assignment for the “demonstrate your personal best leadership” project developed into a program to educate future women leaders.