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I would recommend people get a credit card with a low limit (e.g., $500), as soon as they understand the fundamentals of money and banking. Having a credit card and using it responsibly can help you develop a credit score.

M&T Bank and Rutgers Business School have launched a new partnership for the second annual Rutgers Business School New Jersey County College Case Competition, with M&T serving as the presenting sponsor of this year's competition.

With all the hoopla of National Signing Day behind us, I had a chance to catch up with, Burlington Township’s and 2017 Scarlet Knight Signee, Everett Wormley for an exclusive interview for all of our “On the Banks” fans to get to know Ev a little better. To see my scouting report on Wormley, simply click here.

During demonstrations at JFK Airport two weeks ago over President Donald Trump's travel ban, Uber's response was regarded by some to be more in league with the White House than with the protesters, and a #DeleteUber campaign went viral. In the aftermath, more than 200,000 customers shut down their accounts, The New York Times reported.

Artists still make movies. Consumers still watch them. But "in today's world, the technology has become one that has disenfranchised local merchants that delivered that content," said Marc Kalan, a marketing professor at Rutgers Business School.

An exceedingly helpful paper on the topic of this column (the merit of valuations-based market timing) was recently published by Valentin Dimitrov of Rutgers Business School and Prem C. Jain of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. It is titled: Shiller’s CAPE: Market Timing and Risk.

"Women are more independent and have more buying power than ever before," says Kristina Durante, associate professor of marketing at Rutgers Business School. "We have more opportunities and are outpacing men when it comes to education."

SEMPO, the world's largest nonprofit organization serving the search and digital marketing industry and the marketing professionals engaged in it, announced today that Mike Moran, long-time search marketing author and consultant, has joined SEMPO’s Board of Directors.

The classes at the European Business School were challenging, but Rutgers Business School had prepared me to do well.

U.S. schools are rebuilding their strength in this ranking, with their number increasing to 51. Six of the eight new or returning schools are from the U.S.
Among these six US schools, Rutgers Business School in New Jersey is the highest new entrant at 70 (and No. 37 in the U.S.).

Customized Distribution Services (CDS), a national provider of third-party logistics and warehousing services, is pleased to announce the inaugural recipient of its Supply Chain Management Education Scholarship, Ms. Colleen Graner, an undergraduate senior student at Rutgers Business School.

Without minority entrepreneurs being able to access these resources, the technology ecosystem and the world as a whole will find itself lacking. "That means important, profitable businesses are not being launched and not growing to scale, and really that means that our world is losing out on innovations that we all want and we all want to promote and encourage," explained Professor Lyneir Richardson of Rutgers Business School’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED), speaking with TNS Associate Podcast Producer Kiran Oliver on the new episode of The New Stack Makers podcast.

President Donald Trump's moves on Monday to steer the nation on a more isolationist path could generate more jobs, but it also could lead to trade wars, cede world leadership to China, and spark higher consumer prices, experts said.

The Hahne & Co. building was rechristened as Newark's showplace with a ceremony marking the reopening of the site as a residential, retail and educational complex.

Newspaper media companies continue to have a brand crisis on their hands and seem to either be oblivious to the problem or lack the will to do something about it.

The Chinese are not thrilled about their entanglement with the U.S. economy, any more than Donald Trump is, but like a quarreling couple, the two nations have kept dancing together out of mutual self-interest, according to a U.S. expert: Farok Contractor,

The B-STAR program helps Rutgers Business School fulfill its commitment to excellence in diversity and inclusion.

By Lyneir Richardson, executive director, The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Rutgers Business School.
Technology accelerators provide entrepreneurs with access to seed capital, business relationships, guidance and office space. Over the last 18 months, three accelerators have opened in Newark with great fanfare.

"I work with African-American entrepreneurs each day who believe that they can create opportunity and generate profit. Words like hustle, ingenuity, faith, and luck almost always trump fear and pessimism," said Lyneir Richardson, the director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, a research and practitioner-oriented center at Rutgers Business School.

"Most EMBA rankings use ranking techniques that are really extensions of those used for ranking traditional MBA and part-time MBA programs," offers Farrokh Langdana, Director of the Rutgers Executive MBA Program. "Ivy Exec has really broken free from this pack by emphasizing that Executive MBA rankings are in a whole separate category of their own."

"I think the casinos are going to diversify as far as the services they offer, and I think online gambling is just going to be one of them," Arthur Guarino says.

"For a Main Street investor you can't respond to the gyrations of the market," said John Longo, a professor of finance and economics at Rutgers Business School. "You're never going to be as quick as the experts. You've got to go back to the basics."

Whatever the size of your firm, whether you’re B2B or B2C, and regardless of the industry in which you operate, here are four must do’s that Lyneir Richardson, executive director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Rutgers Business School, says you need to launch if you’re aiming to increase profits and market share over the next 365 days:

James Abruzzo, a compensation consultant to nonprofits who cofounded the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School, said that while Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston's move is not routine, the Internal Revenue Service permits nonprofits to do a "look back" to determine if their executives have been underpaid, and to make up the possible difference.
"Any time you make a payment like that, you should be ready to explain it," he added, "but if the board followed the correct steps, even though it sounds juicy, I can't say there’s something wrong with it."

Corporate raider Carl Icahn is worth an estimated $16 billion and he's President-elect Donald Trump's surprising choice as adviser for regulatory reform, an unpaid position to end so-called strangling regulations.
John Longo is a Rutgers Business School professor and the chief investment officer and portfolio manager for Beacon Investment Advisory Services.

"The barring of any business is not great for long-term growth of New Jersey. Carl Icahn is there to advise the president-elect on what can be done to increase business in general, so if one person, even if he's an insignificant player, is impeded from doing business in New Jersey, the overall state might do well with the lesser regulation or more efficient regulations," he said.

"Kevin's far-reaching experience in the real estate field, knowledge of the industry and strategic thinking make him an ideal fit as the executive director of The Center for Real Estate," Morris A. Davis, the Paul V. Profeta chair and academic director of the Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School, said in a prepared statement.

Valeritas Holdings, Inc. (VLRX) announced today that Matthew Nguyen, PharmD, has been promoted to chief commercial officer (CCO) to lead the Company's efforts to accelerate adoption of the V-Go® Insulin Delivery device in the United States.
Dr. Nguyen earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a Doctor of Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. He also completed a fellowship in health economics and outcomes research in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. and earned an MBA from Rutgers Business School.

"One thing I teach is when you’re on an interview, you want a person focusing on your eyes and your mouth. Not to be distracted by whatever adornment you have on your body," said Eugene Gentile, director of Undergraduate Career Management Office at Rutgers Business School in New Brunswick.

Many millennials simply want things removed or filled in because they are entering a new, more conservative phase of life. And well they should, says Eugene Gentile, director of the Undergraduate Career Management Office at Rutgers Business School in New Brunswick.

But what Fontes buys and why were the subjects of Rutgers Business School’s Kristina Durante's study — in conjunction with the University of Miami — recently published in the Journal of Marketing Research.

Durante said, "I noticed that sometimes when I myself was feeling stressed I would sometimes want to eat a tub of ice cream or go out and do retail therapy and spend my money. Other times when I was stressed I noticed that I couldn't eat, I didn't have an appetite and I just wanted to be isolated and conserve resources."

Stacy Smollin Schwartz, marketing department instructor at Rutgers Business School, says free social media marketing has created an echo chamber where consumers are only exposed to those brands with which they already interact. “Those brands need consistent interaction levels in order to stay consistent in the conversation with their existing followers,” she says. “In order to reach new consumers and ensure that current followers see their posts, marketers will need to supplement their presence with paid advertising.”

"Rahul has the ability to rally a team and find ways to help everybody who is on his team," says Alfred Blake, assistant director of undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the business school's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development. "He is a true entrepreneur who can draw people in by helping them see the value in it for them."

The acquisition, completed this fall, gives RU-N a multimillion-dollar research center on the Hackensack River estuary along with a sizable research-grant portfolio. It also makes the school an important source of environmental data for state and federal agencies as MERI continues to advance critical scientific research in the Meadowlands region.

"Only when cyclically adjusted P/E (CAPE) is very high, say, CAPE is in the upper half of the tenth decile (CAPE higher than 27.6), future 10-year stock returns, on average, are lower than those on 10-year U.S. Treasurys," Valentin Dimitrov and Prem C. Jain wrote in paper titled "Shiller's CAPE: Market Timing and Risk" on Nov. 17.

"We see a tremendous need for supply-chain talent by employers," says Rudolf Leuschner, assistant professor and co-director of the online Master of Supply Chain Management program at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey. "They keep paying for students to come to our master's program. … I think there is a definite trend toward a specialized degree program such as Supply Chain Management. We haven't seen this type of growth in other programs."

Rutgers University, through its Rutgers Business School Center for Real Estate and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is offering a new graduate certificate in real estate development and redevelopment, it announced recently.

During the holiday season, consumers have less skepticism and a greater tendency to spend. This, combined with the rushed nature of online sales, can lead people to fall into internet scams. "People are happy and their guard is down,” said Ashwani Monga, a professor and chair of the Marketing Department at Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick. "They are in a mood to give to charity as well as spend on themselves and their friends and family."

On November 15, Rutgers Business School's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (CUEED) held its Third Annual Entrepreneurship Awards Ceremony and Etsy Craft Entrepreneurship Program graduation. The event auspiciously coincided with Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Rutgers Center for Real Estate, an academic program positioned to transform and inspire the next generation of real estate leaders, announces Jonathan F.P. Rose and Thomas Gleason as the keynote speakers for its upcoming conference The Mount Laurel Doctrine: Where We Are & What Happens Now? on December 15th.

Professor Farok Contractor, distinguished professor, management and global business, Rutgers Business School, said that an alternative to renegotiating trade deals is to give additional incentives to companies to increase US exports and thereby create more jobs in the US.

The opening of a new retail store or restaurant can quickly bolster a neighborhood, creating cascading benefits for the residents ranging from access to healthy food and convenient services to increased property values and safer streets. Here are six snapshots of how the opening of retail stores dramatically upgraded Chicago neighborhoods that had fallen on lean times.

Rutgers now is involved through its branch of Enactus, an international nonprofit that helps other nonprofits become self-sustaining. Rutgers students work pro bono so that they can learn real-world skills while doing good in the community. At present Popcorn For The People has about 15 students involved in different facets of the operation, from finance, to supply chain to sales and marketing.

Arturo Osorio, a professor at Rutgers Business School, said the impact would be felt in communities across New Jersey. “The conveyor belt of economy of goods and services in the U.S. will have a domino effect in the local economy," he told NJTV correspondent Brenda Flanagan.

Thousands of college students consumed root beer floats and advice from Warren Buffett at Piccolo's before the 20th Street restaurant closed last New Year's Eve. Now the lunchtime lectures for future business leaders have moved to 72nd and F Streets, where Anthony's Steakhouse becomes a classroom/dining hall for students eager to hear the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman talk about business, the economy and life in general.

"Jobs, and in particular well-paying jobs, were clustered around Jersey City," said Kevin Riordan, executive director of the Center for Real Estate at the Rutgers Business School in Newark. "Jersey City and Hoboken always had attractive brownstones. The next level of development was to create vertical, or high-rise."

Gerard Adams, the founder of social impact startup accelerator, FOWNDERS, and the founder of "Voice of Generation Y" publication Elite Daily, will be speaking at Rutgers Business School on November 30 at 6:30PM.

Investigate what recent grads are doing: Jeffrey Robinson, associate professor at the Rutgers Business School at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark and New Brunswick, says prospective students should target b-schools whose grads are making an impact through social enterprise.

Our Full-Time MBA rankings comprise five elements. So it's possible to rank highly without knocking every category out of the park. For example, Stanford which is the No. 2 school on our list, ranked No. 57 for job placement. And Rutgers Business School landed at No. 52 on the list, but in job placement for its MBA students, Rutgers ranked No. 1.

The academic director at Rutgers University's real estate program has been elected to serve on the board of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the school announced. Morris A. Davis, the Paul V. Profeta Chair of Real Estate, will serve a three-year term that begins in 2017. The board appointment with the association, known as AREUEA, will allow Davis to network with fellow academic and industry leaders and foster continued research in the real estate sector to help guide decision making for years to come.

Rutgers Center for Real Estate, an academic program positioned to transform and inspire the next generation of real estate leaders, will continue its premier conference series hosting a landmark Real Estate Conference: The Mount Laurel Doctrine; Where We Are & What Happens Now? The conference will bring together leaders in policy making, government, law and real estate on both sides of the affordable housing issue to examine the tensions that currently exist between municipalities and developers.