Awards

• One $1,000 graduate student award
• One $700 undergraduate student award
• An invitation to participate in key activities produced by the School of Management Alumni Chapter or Mason’s Alumni Association

Award recognition and announcement of winners will take place during the Annual Business Alumni Celebration on Friday, October 4, 2013.

Click here to view last year’s finalists!

Please visit http://som.gmu.edu/alumni/somac/emerging-business-leader-awards for more information and to apply.

Deadline: July 1, 2013

GradFest activities are a collaborative effort coordinated by University Life and a university-wide committee of staff and students. In addition, the Alumni Association and Career Services coordinate several activities designed to send graduates off on the right path.

Perfect Your Resume Event:
Join us during the week of May 6-17th to meet with employers on 5 special days to have your 15 minutes resume critique appointment. This is a chance to School of Management students to meet with our Career Services team and have their resume and other career related documents reviewed during extended walk-in hours. Come prepare your resume to network, secure your summer job/internship, or to get ready for the fall semester.

Walk-In Hours:
Monday & Tuesday (9:00am-12:00pm and 1-4pm)
Wednesday (No walk-ins)
Thursday (9:00am-12:00pm and 1-4pm)
*Friday (9:00am-12:00pm)

*Please Note that due to the School of Management Convocation on Friday, May 17th, the career walk-in hours will end at noon.

Location: Enterprise Hall, Room 008
RSVP: mycareer@gmu.edu
Contact Phone: 703-993-1880

Participating Employers:
May 7th and 16th: Sherwin-Williams

Joseph Mortati, Adjunct Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management just had a book published, “Collision Course – How Good Business Decisions Sank the Titanic and Why.”  

What if you found out most of what you’ve been told about why this ship was lost is not true? What if using a different perspective, you were able to see that that far from being the classic case study of pride, greed, and shortsightedness that led to reckless risk-taking, that Titanic’s designers, owners, and operators made a set of very rational strategic choices? In fact it’s likely you are making the very same ones in your own business to stay competitive.

Providing both a revealing case history for businesspeople and students and new insights for historians and scholars, this book takes you on a fascinating journey into the real story – the business story – behind the most famous ship in history. In doing so, you will learn how to assess risk – even when it appears each individual decision is a good one. 

To read more visit, http://www.titaniccollisioncourse.com/

MIS 462: Data Mining for Business Intelligence (3 credits)
(HONORS SEMINAR: Fall 2013)

Location: Enterprise Hall, Room 174
Time: Tuesdays 7:20 pm – 10:00 pm
Instructor: Pallab Sanyal, Ph. D.
Email: psanyal@gmu.edu

Course Description:

• What is this course about? Data mining is the art of extracting useful information from large amounts of data. You have probably heard stories about companies using data to recommend movies (e.g., Netflix), identify potential soul mates for people (e.g., eHarmony), and even discover who is pregnant based on credit card receipts (e.g., Target Corp.). But, how does one turn data into these types of insights? That’s what we will be exploring in this course.

• Who can benefit from this course? Whether you are interested in accounting, finance, operations, management or marketing—you will benefit from learning how to make decisions driven by data and knowledge rather than hunches and intuition. In fact, the financial sector as a whole, and the accounting sector in particular, are areas which are seeing an extraordinary increase in the volume of information which requires processing, storing and analyzing.

• What software will we use? Throughout the semester, we will use real data to work on a variety of data mining problems using a software called XLMiner. The software is an easy to use add-in for Microsoft Excel. You do not need any extraordinary technical abilities to excel in this course.

• What will be the nature of assignments? Assignments will consist of homework problems and a final exam where you will apply the data-analysis techniques covered in class. In addition, there will be a group project and in-class discussions of articles related to big-data.

• What about jobs? There is a growing demand for people skilled in analyzing large datasets. In a report published in May 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute projected that by 2018 the United States could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 workers with “deep analytical” expertise. In addition, they projected a need for 1.5 million more data-savvy managers and analysts, who are capable of asking the right questions and consuming the results of data analysis.

Prerequisites: MIS 301, OM 301, OM 210, admission to SOM, and an overall GPA of at least 3.0.
(If you have a strong interest in the topic but your GPA is slightly lower than 3.0, send an email to Prof. Sanyal.)

Enrollment Procedure: If you wish to enroll in this course, you must send an email to Prof. Sanyal (psanyal@gmu.edu) expressing your interest with the following information:

• Your Name:
• Your G#:
• Your Major:
• Your Overall GPA:

Prof. Sanyal will issue overrides to selected students (maximum 20), who will be then able to register for the course via PatriotWeb.

The mission of Virginia Women in Public Finance (http://www.wpfc.com/) is to advance women’s leadership opportunities and potential by fostering relationships and networking, and providing educational and learning activities and forums.

Membership is FREE! To join visit http://www.virginiawpf.org/

Starting in Fall 2013, students will have a maximum of three attempts to complete each Accounting major course.  Withdrawals do not count as attempts. A student who is unable to complete a major course within three attempts will be removed from the Accounting major, and required to select another major within the School of Management or elsewhere at George Mason University.

Attempts will be counted starting in Fall 2013 for the purposes of this policy, meaning that unsuccessful attempts of major courses prior to Fall 2013 will not be considered as part of the three maximum attempts.  Students who will be making their third (or higher) attempt at a course in Fall 2013 or Spring 2014 should be able to register without any approvals or overrides.

Please contact the Office of Academic and Career Services at 703-993-1880 or somserv@gmu.edu if you have any questions.

The course is now open for registration in Patriot Web.

ITU is looking for the next generation of social technopreneurs—young people aged between 18 and 26 with an inspirational information and communication technologies-based solution to developmental challenges.

Ten winning finalists will be selected to attend ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok, taking part in workshops, pitching sessions, mentoring and networking, plus receiving seed funding of up to USD $10,000 per project.

Your idea could be a start-up already up and running but in need of funding to implement the next stage and bring it to scale. Or it could be a concept worked out on paper but in need of support to make it real.

ITU is looking for innovative solutions which can really make an impact on the world and improve people’s lives by using connected technologies (ICTs) to address one of Six Grand Challenges:

• Improve employment opportunities for young people and migrant workers
• Reduce food and water wastage at individual and retail level
• Facilitate access to public services for the elderly
• Improve natural disaster prediction and response
• Improve road safety for both drivers and pedestrians
• Protect sensitive personal data and inspire the creation of local digital content

Deadline for applications: June 30th, 2013

For details on how to enter the competition, visit: http://world2013.itu.int/event/innovation/