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Often no one person within a company owns customer experience – and that’s how it should be. The CEO can lead it, but everyone within the company should be focused on customer experience.

NJBIZ has revealed the 2017 winners of one of its most popular awards: the Forty Under 40. These up-and-coming stars of the New Jersey business community have achieved professional excellence at a young age, representing the future of their industries and the state as a whole.

By Miklos A. Vasarhelyi, PhD and Ting Sun
This article introduces deep learning technology - an emerging form of artificial intelligence that can be trained to recognize patterns in vast volumes of data that would be impossible for humans to process.

Blockchain, a public, decentralized ledger first used to enable bitcoin trading, has the potential to serve as a secure accounting information system.

As more people shop online, changes in technology have opened up new doors for potential careers in supply chain management.

In content marketing, the similarities are readily apparent. Unlike baseball, whose basic rules have gone essentially unchanged over the years, content marketing is in a constant state of flux.

A street-level, block-long space that incorporates a vast skylight from the old Hahne & Company department store, the sunlit passage marking a different approach to urban renewal.

John Longo is chief investment officer of Beacon Trust, a Morristown-based wealth manager, and a professor of finance at Rutgers Business School. He has led students on four separate occasions to a personal meeting with Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska.

Carl Goldberg, a veteran New Jersey developer who is a managing member of the Rutgers Business School Center for Real Estate, comments on affordable housing requirements in Newark real estate development.

The Newark City Council is scheduled for a vote Wednesday night on a rule requiring 20 percent of large residential projects be set aside for people with low and moderate incomes to keep housing affordable.

“When you think about fast fashion, it’s not of the highest quality. We’re talking about materials that aren’t made in nature in some cases like polyesters and a whole host of chemicals made for things that are iron free. They don’t tell you how or why but it’s formaldehyde that makes the material non-ironable.

The 2017 rankings compiled by CEOWORLD magazine placed Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick 7th in the nation.

Terri Kurtzberg associate professor in the Management & Global Business department at Rutgers Business School got her daughter, Jillian, a smart phone for her 12th birthday, and asked her what she would do with it when she becomes old enough to drive.
Jillian said she knew; no texting and driving.
"I said, 'No. The rule is, the phone is going to have to be in the trunk,'" Kurtzberg said. It is that strong a pull if the thing is next to you and it goes off."

The angst is real, though politicians grossly overstate diagnoses by blaming international trade, offshoring of production and immigrants taking jobs. For every one U.S. job lost through international trade from 1980 to 2016, researchers conclude that about four jobs have been lost because of automation, robotics, information technology and other productivity boosters.

Peter Marchesini, Chief Operating Officer of Alamo Pharma Services, will participate in CBI's sixth annual "Bio/Pharma Product Forecasting and Analytics Summit" taking place in Philadelphia on June 15 and 16, 2017. The focus of the summit is to help attendees improve forecasting to optimize revenue potential for pipeline and inline products.

Chhavi Verg has proven yet again that perseverance and determination are the keys to success. On May 14, Verg, 20, who won the Miss New Jersey title last October, became first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant, which was won by Miss D.C., Kara McCullough.

"They want to send a signal that you can't mess with us," said Michael Barnett, professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School. "You can't get away with attacking them."

News about the coming death of India's information technology (IT) services industry started to trickle in about five years ago. KPMG broke the news of "the death of outsourcing" in a white paper in July 2012.
Despite such prognostications, there is also optimism about the prospects of India's IT services industry for the coming decade.
However, not all firms will do well, or even survive, in the new, hyper-competitive global business environment.

"Black-owned businesses are not on a level playing field," says Jerome D. Williams, Prudential Chair in Business as well as executive vice chancellor and provost at Rutgers University-Newark. "A lot of studies I've done show that black-owned businesses and black consumers are at a disadvantage in the marketplace."

When Crystal Marie Garcia decided to try the home-rental service Airbnb for the first time, she had a few questions.
Ms. Garcia, who is from El Paso, was planning a May trip with her family to the Chicago area and wanted to know if the places she was considering could accommodate her needs as someone with muscular dystrophy. Unfortunately, she said, her questions appeared to scare off at least two potential hosts.

Ms. Garcia is not alone in feeling that way. Other users have reported similar bias, and a new Rutgers University study — based on more than 3,800 Airbnb lodging requests sent by the researchers — suggests it may be common: Travelers with disabilities are more likely to be rejected and less likely to receive preapproval, or temporary clearance, for a potential stay, the authors found.

“If we’re entering an era where these new types of hotels, which are essentially private homes, can’t offer accommodations, it defeats and undoes all of the progress we’ve made with the A.D.A. as far as equal access is concerned,” said Mason Ameri, one of the authors of the Rutgers study and a postdoctoral fellow at the university’s School of Management and Labor Relations. “The law needs to catch up with services like Airbnb.”

Business credit cards are great for earning rewards in important spending categories, such as office supplies and telecommunication services. They also provide helpful expense tracking features and allow you to give employees cards with custom spending limits.

A crowdfunded start-up is hoping to provide an answer to a transportation problem in refugee communities in Pakistan when it comes to accessible, reliable, and affordable means of getting around.
"People view transportation as luxury item when it comes to refugees, but it's actually a necessity," Gia Farooqi, co-founder of Roshni Rides, told NBC News.

Being connected to the office from home feels like a miracle until you realize that your colleagues now count on you to answer every request or comment on every message clear around the clock, and your work time swells while your time with your family shrinks.

Do you believe Memorial Day has become too commercialized?
Ashwani Monga, professor and chair of the marketing department at Rutgers Business School
This Memorial Day, people are more likely to think about what to buy than to think about those who laid down their lives for the country.

Gen Z—a key demographic born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s—comprises 27% of the global population, commands $44 billion in purchasing power, and represents the first true generation of digital natives. But your efforts to reach them via digital ads could fail miserably, new research suggests.

"In today's uncertain, intertwined, complex global environment, businesses are desperately seeking ways to increase velocity, reliability, resilience and efficiency of their supply chains," said Professor Alok Baveja, who is chair of the Rutgers Business School Supply Chain Management Department.

Rutgers Business School—New Brunswick has been awarded the Gold Chapter Award by the Beta Gamma Sigma international honor business society, making it the No. 1 ranked chapter in the world out of 544 business schools.

"I want to pay it forward," she says. "I want to help inner-city students get exposure to professional settings and to let them know you can be so much more than you're seeing in your immediate environment."

When Sarah Rumbaugh enrolled at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 2013, she planned to launch her own business soon after graduation. The MBA, she figured, would provide her with the skills to help her do that and build a network of contacts.

"The reason for the shift in my POV is the current shaky state of American retail. To say that the robust shopping industry that so many of us fell in love with is under siege is an understatement."

For the first time, Rutgers Business School will have a woman holding an endowed chair, it announced Monday.
Simi Kedia, a member of the finance and economics faculty who has held the rank of full professor since 2012, will now hold the Albert R. Gamper Chair in Business, the university said in a news release.

Congratulations to this year's award-winning students and to all of our 18,000 graduates.
1st PLACE
College Fed Challenge

1st PLACE
CME Group Trading Challenge

1st PLACE
Cross-Examination Debate Association National Tournament

1st PLACE
Regional Hult Prize Challenge

Eighteen MBA students – selected from close to 1,000 worldwide – have won a share of nearly $35,000 in scholarship money by tackling a real-life business challenge at the intersection of corporate profitability and positive social and environmental impact.

In the 2017 CNBC Stock Draft, Karn Dalal: The Rutgers All-Stars choose their second-round draft pick: Pfizer (PFE)

Elayne McClaine, regional director of the N.J. Small Business Development Center at Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick, said franchises offer more than just a roadmap.

"It’s also an opportunity for the competitor to be viewed as one of the many brands to be considered," said Sandy Becker, who teaches marketing at Rutgers Business School.

Lyneir Richardson, the executive director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Rutgers Business School, says it’s time to ditch training programs for specific jobs in favor of entrepreneurship guidance that gives strivers the tools to start businesses or side hustles.

Overall, 49 schools participated in our 2nd annual “Best & Brightest.”
On the 2017 list are students Lauren Kelly and Zoe Makropoulos from Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick and Chanel Clarke and Jorge Paneque from Rutgers Business School-Newark.

The Newark Times recently sat down with Dr. Bonita Vesey and Alexander Sannella, an associate professor at Rutgers Business School-Newark to learn about the new P3 Collaboratory (Pedagogy, Professional Development, and Publicly-Engaged Scholarship)being implemented in conjunction with Association of College and University Educators to take a new approach to professional development among students and the professoriate.

Orangi Town is a community of over 1,000,000 inhabitants, mostly refugees, in northwestern Karachi, Pakistan.
The crowded area is plagued by a variety of problems. Among the most pressing is access to clean, reliable, affordable transportation, leaving citizens with few options when they need to get to work, school, markets, hospitals and other crucial resources.
A team of Pakistani-American Rutgers Business School students – and one alumnus – is looking to change that with the rollout of their company Roshni Rides, which aims to provide electric-powered rickshaw transportation service to Orangi Town.

Marc Kalan, Rutgers Business School assistant professor of marketing, said it's an interesting concept what Macy's is doing, opening an outlet store within an existing store.
"If it draws traffic into the base store, it's a clever and good idea," said Kalan, adding that retail stores still face challenges from big-box and online retailers.

Every scroll and click: websites, movies, shopping, your bank, even your doctor. When you go online, your internet service provider, or ISP, will be allowed to track every move.
But you rarely get more than one option for broadband internet service. You're stuck and privacy will be out of your control, says Rutgers Business School marketing professor Ashwani Monga.

Founded by Ralph Shulberg, Rutgers Executive MBA ’15, Smartbulance is an economical and efficient repair service for smartphones.

Rutgers Business School Executive Education is conducting a two-day Digital Bootcamp at the Media Rotana in Dubai. This program, offered by Rutgers Business School in partnership with Know How Training & Consultancy and Hibiscus Media Group (both Abu Dhabi-based companies) will be held on April 11 and 12, 2017.

What do the three wealthiest entrepreneurs in the United States — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett — have in common? Likely, not a single penny of income tax will be paid on their appreciated stock. Ever.

Rutgers University is located in a region where transportation is rampant. What about communities who do not have this luxury? I have a strong notion that Roshni Rides may be the solution and will be making a big impact internationally.

A team of Rutgers Business School students won the CME Group Trading Challenge, beating out nearly 600 other teams. The students doubled its money in the futures market and crushed the competition to win one of the world's biggest financial championships.

How will President Donald Trump’s promise to renegotiate trade agreements to make them more favorable to American businesses and workers affect New Jersey?

A team of Rutgers Business School students and one alumna won first prize in the regional Hult Prize Challenge with an idea of operating a system of electric-powered rickshaws in refugee settlements.

The students are the first team from Rutgers to win the regional competition in Boston.
A team of Rutgers Business School students and one alumna won first prize in the regional Hult Prize Challenge with an idea of operating a system of electric-powered rickshaws in refugee settlements.