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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.

In a study published in the Journal of Marketing Research in October, Durante and Juliano Laran at University of Miami find that stress leads consumers to save money in general but spend strategically on products they believe are essential.

Green and red are the traditional colors that signify the celebration of Yuletide and that Americans use to deck their halls for the holidays. But digital marketers who want to see more green and avoid the red on their sales charts, post-Thanksgiving, need to think less about mass appeal and instead stress better brand experiences via one-on-one engagement. In other words, package more emarketing customization to gift-minded shoppers in the form of personalized digital advertising.

Rutgers Executive MBA was ranked No. 15 for U.S.-only programs in the Financial Times latest rankings of the top 100 Executive MBA programs in the world. Rutgers EMBA graduates saw a 53 percent increase in their salaries three years after finishing the program - ranking No. 10 for "Salary Increase" for U.S.-based programs - highlighting the tremendous advantage Rutgers EMBA provided their careers.

In addition to providing MBAs with experience in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries, an internship at Bayer is designed to allow MBAs to apply their innovation skills to making a difference in patients' lives. Suraj Adiecha is a Rutgers MBA student who decided to intern at Bayer after visiting the company for a presentation and learning that the company's values aligned with his own. In this interview, Adiecha discusses his experience interning with Bayer, including how building relationships helps get things done within the organization.

New Jersey's future economic vitality is linked to entrepreneurial innovation, coordinating and leveraging resources, noted Michele Siekerka, president and CEO of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, at its recent Innovation Summit at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. "New Jersey was the Innovation State. New Jersey is the Innovation State," she said. "Collaboration between industry, academia, and government is essential." Rutgers Business School is part of Newark Venture Partners, which will soon take applications to fund a second round of companies.

The event recognized four CEOs as top innovators and leaders in their industry: Adenah Bayoh, founder and CEO of Adenah Bayoh and Companies; Kevin Cummings, CEO and president of Investors Bank; Paul Hoffman, CEO and president of Liberty Science Center; Gene Muller, founder and CEO of Flying Fish Brewing. The award presentations were followed by a panel discussion involving this year's honorees and moderator Edward Horton, partner at Citrin Cooperman.

As Jerome Williams, marketing professor and provost of Rutgers University-Newark, told The Christian Science Monitor in a phone interview, the original purpose of targeted advertising was not to “exclude other groups” but to “concentrate your message to a particular group.”

Manufacturing jobs are no longer the basis of US prosperity. "Most advanced economies have become primarily service economies," they explain. "Rich countries are service economies, focused on finance, engineering, design and health care, and this is dictated by their comparative advantage."

Two years ago, a high school senior read a newsletter which inspired her to begin competing in pageants. Now, she wears the crown and sash of Miss New Jersey USA 2017. It took Chhavi Verg three pageants to achieve her dream of winning the title, though she had been dreaming of it since she was a junior or senior in high school. "If I can do this, anyone else can," she said. "It's all about determination, grit and never losing faith in yourself."

Steve Forbes highlighted some of the greatest business leaders of his generation in hopes of inspiring the next generation in a speech given at the State Theatre New Jersey in partnership with the Rutgers Business School on Sept. 25. The business school event that attracted close to 900 attendees from both the university and the surrounding community was part of an ongoing celebration of Rutgers' 250th anniversary.

A new academic study by professors from four esteemed universities applied News Quantified’s unique data to conclude that, when crucial financial news is released during extended stock market hours, returns are positively and appreciably associated with subsequent main trading session returns.

Taxes managed to break through the noise of the campaign during Sunday's debate, when a voter asked the candidates what provisions they would support to ensure the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share. It highlighted one of the biggest policy differences between the two candidates. Donald J. Trump wants to lower the highest tax rate. Hillary Clinton wants to raise it.

Have you been thinking about earning an MBA in marketing? First, you need to choose the right provider. Consider online learning as an alternative to attending classes in person. Online learning gives you access to programs you can not get locally which may be higher in quality or more prestigious. The cost of online learning is usually much less expensive, possibly placing an otherwise out of reach program within your grasp.

Former Gov. Jim Florio and Rutgers faculty hosted a delegation of Namibian executives to identify mutual research solutions in energy, infrastructure, agriculture and finance. John McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Global Network facilitated the Sept. 19 visit with the Rutgers' Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs and Rutgers Business School. Kevin Lyons, a faculty member in Rutgers Business School, presented a supply chain model designed to mitigate risk and help direct cost-efficient operations.

"In 2016 many central banks have driven interest rates to near zero or even negative values. This has produced only a small discernible stimulus," Farok Contractor, distinguished professor of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, told Salon. "This is an unhealthy situation on two counts. First, historically low interest rates have created asset bubbles around the world in real estate, stocks, and bonds. Worse, central banks now have little or no room for further maneuvers in monetary policy, should future crises arise requiring further stimulus."

If you automatically reach for a $39.99 sweater or load up on $11.99 albums on iTunes, you’re not alone. The strategy of ending prices with 99 cents has worked its magic on all of us. Merchants use a variety of strategies to get us to spend more — from labeling prices without dollar signs to setting a per-customer limit. These practices are used with all kinds of products, including clothes, food, toys, cars and houses.

Everyone fails, but not everyone can learn from mistakes and go on to succeed. That was just one of the lessons Forbes Magazine Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes presented Sunday at the State Theatre at Rutgers Business School's "Coming Home: Honoring our Heroes and Heritage" event.

I spent most of the week at Rutgers Business School attending a conference on the future of graduate business education. Usually I consider attending a conference a "win" if I leave feeling affirmed about what we are doing along with one good idea I can steal. I left this conference feeling affirmed with three good ideas I could steal. No doubt my team will be thrilled with today's "to do" list.

The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development offers classes at Rutgers Business School to help craft makers establish an Etsy shop to sell their products. "The program started by Etsy, they develop the curriculum and they find an Etsy seller who lives in the area and have them teach the course," said Becky Garcia, the instructor of the Rutgers class.

Standing on the corner of 39th Street and King Drive on the site of the soon-to-open Mariano's in Bronzeville, Lyneir Richardson stares admiringly—not at the grocer's shiny new sign, but at the vacant lots across the street. "Look at those 'For Sale,' signs," he says. "They weren't there a few months ago. (The Mariano's store) is a catalytic type of investment. The question is, what other retail should be here that will help continue strengthening the neighborhood?"

The audit field is rapidly evolving. Changes such as the emergence of continuous auditing, data analytics, Big Data, and integration of information technology require auditors to have new approaches and to become proficient in information technologies and analytical methods.

Violence and poverty took center stage at a west Louisville forum on Wednesday. It was part of "The West Louisville Forum: Solutions for Urban American" held at the St. Stephen Baptist Church Family Life Center. The guest speaker was Dr. Nancy DiTomaso, professor from Rutgers University. Her research on the root cause of violence and poverty in urban areas might be controversial to some because she believes it starts with whites. "They use their family members, they use acquaintances, all of whom, of course, primarily look like them," Dr. DiTomaso said.

Mark Burgess, Rutgers Business School Executive Education faculty member, was a guest on the Wharton Marketing Matters Business radio show on Sirius XM (Sept 7th). He and his business partner and wife Cheryl, also co-author of The Social Employee (McGraw-Hill), were invited to lead discussions on social employee advocacy marketing and social leaders. The host was Catharine Hays, Executive Director of the Wharton Future of Advertising program.

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech while addressing the Business 20 (B20) summit in east China's Hangzhou on Saturday. Distinguished Professor Farok J. Contractor, Management & Global Business, Rutgers Business School said: "Well, I thought it was a very comprehensive speech which covers not only the concerns about other G20 governments, but also showing China as an example over the last 38 years of reform of how it lifted 700 or more million people out of poverty into middle class status."

I shouldn’t tell you this. Publicity will only make the problem worse. But you deserve to know: Tax cheating is about to rise in the United States. Now, there are at least two counterarguments to my dire prediction: Fewer business transactions are done in cash today, so they’re harder to hide; and, relatedly, in the era of “Big Data,” there’s more third-party information for the IRS to check to figure out if people are cheating, opinion writer Kathrine Rampell writes, citing research presented at New York University School of Law in April by Rutgers Business School professor Jay Soled and Tulane University professor James Alm.

When Terina McKinney of Camden displays her leather bags and belts at events attended primarily by black women, they are often interested in her designs, and in her experience as an African-American business owner. But she seldom makes sales. While calls have been increasing for black consumers to support black-owned businesses with their buying power estimated at more than $1.2 trillion a year, social media campaigns with momentum like #buyblack are relatively new.

The abnormal 2016 presidential election: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Farok Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Department of Management & Global Business, was interviewed on New China TV, the official YouTube channel for Xinhua News Agency. The 2016 presidential election is quite different in many ways, controversial candidates, unhappy voters, rifted Parties.

The dueling promotions are part of a war in the ride-hailing industry to grab market share, industry analysts say, and mark Uber’s latest effort to stomp out competitors by starving them of drivers. The more drivers a service attracts, the more it can lower passenger fares and increase demand, hopefully outpacing its rivals. "These types of markets tend to become winner take all," said Jerry Kim, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School. "If they tip to one side, you don’t have to subsidize."

Jerry Kim, a Management & Global Business professor at Rutgers Business School, said consumers are savvy enough to differentiate when a company's actions are for the good of society and when they are simply veiled attempts to pad their bottom line. Even situations where the motivation may be murky open the door to scrutiny from customers. An obvious example is the common practice among hotel chains to urge customers to re-use bath towels. Do they really want to save the planet, or just save on their energy costs?

For decades, Rutgers University-Newark has offered seed grants to artists whose creations highlight the essence of the city.

One of the best-kept secrets about Newark is how it nurtures the arts.

Through another of the seed grants – obtained by faculty members Ian Watson, chair of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media; and James Abruzzo of Rutgers Business School – Rutgers University-Newark has made plans to launch a two-track Master’s Program in Urban Arts and Cultural Leadership.

China's burgeoning class of financial elites has long been feted at home and abroad as an embodiment of the country's growing economic might. But they now face mounting scrutiny as part of President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption and as the Chinese economy cools.

Some companies defend their targeting of African-American shoppers by claiming that blacks shoplift more than other races. "They try to provide a justification, such as, 'Well, there are certain groups that tend to engage more in shoplifting,'" says Rutgers University-Newark provost Jerome Williams, who is co-author of the forthcoming book "Consumer Equality: Race and the American Marketplace." "I have not found any evidence of that."

Morris Davis is no stranger to New Jersey, having grown up in Philadelphia and spent summers at the Jersey Shore. But that couldn't have prepared him for what he learned about the state last year, once he showed up to help build a new real estate program at Rutgers University.
“I didn’t realize how fertile the ground was here,” said Davis, the academic director for the Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School.

Trump's statement on Monday was perhaps the last straw for many political observers and Trump foes, if not GOP primary voters. The billionaire businessman called for a complete "shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" with terrorism.

Ashwani Monga, professor and chair of the Marketing Department at Rutgers Business School, said Trump threatens further damage to his personal brand. He notes, however, that Trump only seems to care about one core group right now — those who support his primary campaign.

The Best Bang for Your Buck: weighing tuition against ROI for EMBA Programs.

Ivy Exec has compiled the best program options based solely on tuition weighed against the average percent increase in salary after receiving a degree.

Rutgers Business School, about an hour from Manhattan, also provides commuter access to the Big Apple while offering a competitive tuition and return on investment. With a price tag of $92,043 and an average post-graduation salary boost of about 49-percent, Rutgers could offer EMBA program participants a much stronger value than the Stern School.