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The Feld Center for Career & Alumni Engagement. The Feld Center reopened on Aug. 28 after a three-year renovation and reorganization process. COURTESY OF DAVE GREEN

Questrom’s Feld Center for Career and Alumni Engagement gets more than a facelift

Hillary Hao September 12, 2024
This fall, the Questrom School of Business didn't just celebrate the arrival of a new group of students, but also the opening of their newly renovated Feld Center for Career and Alumni Engagement on Aug. 28.
Boston University Questrom School of Business. The Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets and Society — funded by Mehrotra last year — was founded with the goal to examine the role business and markets play in solving global issues. ZARA MEGGETT/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute seeks to use business and markets for good

Charlie Dippolito February 9, 2024
Questrom recently announced the founding of the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets and Society with the goal of examining the role businesses and markets play in solving global issues.
Questrom School of Business. The Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy is Questrom’s first permanently endowed institute. ISABELLE MEGOSH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Business, ethics intersect in Questrom’s Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy

Sara Sugita November 17, 2023
In 2014, Harry Susilo endowed Boston University’s Questrom School of Business with the Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy, Questrom’s first permanently endowed institute.
Susan Fournier, Allen Questrom professor and dean outside of Questrom on Thursday. Fournier is the school’s first academic dean in 40 years and its first ever female and first-generation meeting. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Questrom’s first female dean Susan Fournier strives to create interdisciplinary, accessible business school

Kaninika Dey September 25, 2023

When Susan Fournier first stepped into Questrom School of Business in 2005, she was an associate professor of Marketing and a Dean’s Research Fellow. Flash forward to 2018 — Fournier became the school’s...

Marshall Van Alstyne, left, and Chris Dellarocas of the Questrom School of Business were honored last week with awards from the INFORMS Information Systems Society. PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARSHALL VAN ALSTYNE AND CHRIS DELLAROCAS

Two Questrom faculty receive prestigious awards from the Information Systems Society

Madhri Yehiya November 17, 2020
Two BU faculty members were honored internationally last week for their work with information technology. 
Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. The Human Resources Policy Institute at BU announced Feb. 14 that it was awarding $40,000 in grants for research into modern issues in the workplace. RACHEL SHARPLES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU researchers receive $40,000 in grants to study workplace issues

Alex LaSalvia February 22, 2019
The Human Resources Policy Institute announced that it will award $40,000 in grants for research into modern human resources issues.
The Eos Foundation identified Boston University as one of three universities in Massachusetts that it will target in its campaign to promote female leadership in higher education.  LAUREN RICHARDS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts-based foundation starts campaign to increase gender parity in BU leadership

Jennifer Suryadjaja November 18, 2018
Boston University will be one of three Massachusetts universities targeted in a campaign to increase female leadership in higher education administration.
Susan Fournier will take over as the new dean of Boston University's Questrom School of Business, making her the first woman to hold this position. A professor at the school for the past 13 years, she is also a leading expert in the field of brand marketing, PHOTO COURTESY OF DAN WATKINS.

Professor Susan Fournier named first female Questrom dean

JenRacoosin August 11, 2018
Marketing professor Susan Fournier has been appointed dean of the Questrom School of Business after Dean Kenneth Freeman announced in November that he would step down from the position.
Susan Fournier, a marketing professor in the Questrom School of Business, discusses recent issue of controversial advertisement placement. PHOTO BY SYDNEY MAES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Controversial ad placements bring politics into the digital age

Gaelen Morse April 6, 2017

The digital age has created an environment that connects customers to products with incredible ease, but with it can come the complications of an automated advertising world. Recently, for businesses...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Monday “Women Entrepreneurs Boston,” a City of Boston initiative that will advance Boston’s women in business. PHOTO COURTESY DAWN ARLOTTA/CDC

Walsh enacts advancement program for female entrepreneurs

Felicia Gans September 24, 2015

Over the past several years, colleges and universities have increased their focus on supporting female entrepreneurship and providing resources for women in business. But with an initiative launched...

Hubway seeks new riders with cost breakdown graphic

Adrian Baker September 4, 2014

Hubway, Boston’s city-wide bike rental service, will soon be simplifying how the company displays usage costs on its website in an effort to make the system easier for users to understand. “We’re...

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