BERTOLON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NEWSLETTER

Spring 2023

internships in local, regional and national organizations. While our students gained valuable experience, almost every employer had extremely positive feedback about the work ethic and dedication of our students.

Dean’s Message

We have just ended a hugely successful academic year 202223 and are looking forward to welcoming a more diverse class in Fall 2023. 270 business students walked the commencement stage, 239 receiving a BS in Business Administration, 16 receiving the MBA degree and 15 receiving the MSA degree.

We continue to strive for our tomorrow to be better than today, and we started implementing some key initiatives from our 2022-27 strategic plan this academic year. Experiential education and success for ALL students have been the top priorities this year, in addition to ensuring support for faculty in their intellectual endeavors as they prepare students to be successful in this increasingly interconnected global economy. We held many events in person and almost every event was to capacity including the Entrepreneurship Panel in November, celebration of our experiential education successes in December, Bertolon Speaker Series in March, and the Business Pitch competition finals in April.

We signed 1-2-1 program agreement with Nanfang University in China and a MoU for student and faculty collaboration with University of Johannesburg in South Africa. We are working on another MoU with University of Mitrovica in Kosovo, and other agreements in China and India. COIL efforts by faculty and these internationalization efforts are expected to provide a broader global exposure to students and faculty and will yield additional enrollment in our programs.

We continue to play a vital role in the economic and social growth of communities around us. More than 200 students were involved in experiential education either by undertaking projects for local organizations, making investment decisions for the Student Managed Investment Fund which is approaching $400K, or helping low-income families file taxes in April 2023 through our VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program. Almost 20 teams participated in the Third Annual Viking Business Pitch competition and more than 60 students undertook

Once again, on behalf of the BSB family I’d like to thank all of you who continue to invest in the future of our students and the growth of our school. This support has allowed us to provide internship stipends for unpaid internships, provide cutting-edge investment education using Bloomberg terminals, provide cash prizes to winners of our Business Pitch competition and provide faculty the much-needed time to research issues currently impacting our society.

I look forward to continued engagement by all of you. Happy Summer!

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For more information about the Bertolon School of Business, please visit salemstate.edu/bertolon or contact us at bsbstaff@salemstate.edu or 978.542.6608.

We look forward to speaking with you!

Department Chair Changes

Prof. Sanjay Jain continued as chair of Accounting and Finance, Prof. Fernando Colina filled in as chair of Marketing and Decision Sciences for Spring 2023 when Prof. Mayuresh Kelkar was on sabbatical, and Prof. James Gu will fill in as chair of the Management department for Prof. Leah Ritchie when she goes on sabbatical in Fall 2023.

Mcnamara Award

Professor Chaerin Yun received the 2023 McNamara Faculty Excellence Award in Emerging Teaching.

ARTICLES, CASES, AND BOOK CHAPTERS PUBLISHED

Tang, Z., Chen, L., Jain, A. (2023). Exploring Individual Feature Importance in Student Persistence Prediction. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 23(6), 1-14.

Nigam, S., Chopra, D., Jain, S. (2023). India’s Economic Ecosystem Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs. Empirical Economics Letters, 22 (Special Issue 2): (January 2023) (ISSN 1681 8997), 35-44.

Tarnoff, K. A., Barnes, K. , Bostwick, E. (2023). Is Your AoL Process Overly Complex? Organization Management Journal, 20(2), 46-55.

Hakstian, A.-M. (2023). Racial/Ethnic Disparities in traffic citations, Tisbury, MA.