MBA

Neha Parikh Shah, an assistant professor who teaches organizational behavior at Rutgers Business School, co-authored a paper that is receiving lots of interest among those who care about the qualities of good managers, teams and business leaders.

From where John Castellani sits as head of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the largest trade organization for the bio-pharmaceutical industry, the development of new medicines continues to occur in spite of huge risks and great expense.

PNC Chairman and CEO James Rohr doesn’t take credit for instilling his bank with a sense of corporate social responsibility.

As he told a class of Rutgers MBA students during a visit last week, when he began working at the bank in 1972, he was asked to sign two papers. One was his job offer and the other was a pledge that he would donate a percentage of his pay check to the local United Way.

"At PNC,” Rohr said, "it has always been part of the culture to be committed to the community.”

Gloria Wahl never set out to be a trail blazer.     

But when she was working on her MBA at Rutgers Business School in the early 1970s, she was part of a generation of females who were striving for more – in terms of their education, their careers and their salaries. They were ambitious, determined and tenacious.

Even for a seasoned executive, putting together two legacy banks dedicated to the money matters of the wealthy was a daunting task.

Keith Banks, who oversaw the merger of U.S. Trust and Bank of America’s Private Bank beginning in 2007, talked about it recently as a test of leadership style and decisiveness.

Architect Enrique Norton, whose firm designed the Rutgers Business School building under construction on the Livingston Campus, has spent more than a decade working on a project that is intended to embody the school’s ambitions and serve its practical needs.

Rutgers has strong connections with the bio-pharmaceutical industry - Tarak, Rutgers MBA '13

Professor Marc Kalan, a veteran marketing executive who teaches in the Department of Supply Chain Management and Marketing Sciences, wrote three articles on public speaking that appeared earlier this month in the trade publication, Sales and Marketing Management.

Construction will continue on Rutgers Business School’s newest building through the spring and summer months. In the coming weeks, workers are scheduled to begin installing the first sections of a glass curtain wall exterior, adding to the building's striking appearance.