Martin Tuchman School of Management

As Classes Begin, Meet 10 Highlanders Energizing Campus

Thursday, September 7, 2023
NJIT welcomed its Class of 2027 during this year’s University Convocation, where first-year students from all schools were in attendance. The new academic year has kicked off with a record number of students enrolled. Helping to fuel the new high water mark are 1,805 first-year students— an increase of 23% from the previous year — as of Sept. 1. This year’s incoming freshman class is the largest and most diverse in school history.  “We’re truly happy to have you join this community of learners, scholars, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs,” said NJIT President Teik C. Lim. “...

Wall Street Journal/College Pulse Ranks NJIT No. 2 Public University in the US

Wednesday, September 6, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the second-highest ranked public university in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 list of the Best Colleges in the U.S. At No. 19 nationally, NJIT is second only to the University of Florida among public universities nationally and to Princeton University among colleges and universities in New Jersey.  The new list replaces the former WSJ/Times Higher Education ranking with some similar methodology components. It uses a much larger survey, however, and places more emphasis on student outcomes and feedback from students and alumni. It’s...

Turkey Earthquake Victim, Ibrahim Aras, Finds Hope in NJIT Business School Scholarship

Wednesday, August 30, 2023
A natural disaster in Turkey brought transfer student Ibrahim Aras, who is studying financial technology, to NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management. Before the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit on February 6, 2023, all was well with Aras, at the time a computer science major, who graduated from one of the best international science high schools in Turkey and fulfilled his dream to attend college in America, where he studied at Drexel University. Everything changed that day. Almost 60,000 people died, including two of Aras' friends. He heard the breaking news through a group chat among...

NJIT's New Provost on His Goals, Approach and Why He Pops into Classrooms

Tuesday, August 1, 2023
As the new provost of New Jersey Institute of Technology, John Pelesko brings decades of experience as a professor, department chair, associate dean and most recently dean at the University of Delaware, where he had spent 21 years. Pelesko also has the benefit of knowing NJIT firsthand: he was a graduate student here in the 1990s, when he earned a Ph.D. in mathematical sciences. The campus has changed a lot since then, of course. But the new administrator has fond memories of his days as a student and a bevy of ideas for getting reacclimated this fall. What are your initial goals as...

Industrial Designer Matthew Negron Shares his Path from NJIT to President of Dauphin Americas

Monday, July 24, 2023
When Matthew Negron ’13, ‘16 started his education at NJIT, he was among the earliest cohorts to join the newly-formed industrial design program at Hillier College of Architecture and Design.  Initially starting as an architecture student, his interests shifted and found that the budding industrial design program was the best fit to mix his passions for art, technology and materials. After completing his bachelor’s degree, Negron came back to NJIT to get his Master of Science in Management and Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering. He’s currently the president of...

U.S. Coast Guard Flotilla Among Three New Ways for Highlanders to Earn Wings

Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Several new aeronautical opportunities will provide hands-on training for New Jersey Institute of Technology students who look to the sky. Starting this fall, NJIT will establish an official group of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary University Program, known as a flotilla. It will meet at Caldwell Airport and it's only the fifth air station out of 79 flotillas in the Auxiliary's first district, southern region, which covers metropolitan New York and beyond. Other campus initiatives are already underway, including construction of a flight simulation laboratory and development of a drone...

Accounting Expert: Executive Networks Can Lead to Earnings Manipulation

Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Publicly traded companies manipulate their financial documents more often when their officers and directors have well-connected social circles, Assistant Professor Ming Taylor (Ming Fang) of NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management found, earning her the Best Paper of 2022 award from British Accounting Journal. Taylor, with assistance from colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Fordham University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found a proveable overlap between the profiles of nearly 200,000 business executives using 17 years of data from relationship mapping firm BoardEx...

For NJIT Faculty, Artificial Intelligence is a Learning Opportunity

Thursday, May 25, 2023
Public artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT are being embraced by faculty across New Jersey Institute of Technology as the latest classroom tool, just like the introductions of videoconferencing, laptops, computer-aided drafting and pocket calculators that came before. AI itself is an established technology that emerged from research labs in the 1950s — here's a Newark College of Engineering chemical engineering dissertation using AI techniques in 1974. AI also makes periodic dalliances into consumer life, such as computer chess games in the 1980s and IBM's Jeopardy-dominating...

PSE&G President Tells NJIT Class of 2023 to 'Move Forward with Purpose'

Friday, May 19, 2023
The head of New Jersey’s largest utility urged the Class of 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to embrace change and remain positive in the face of challenges ranging from climate change and social inequity to artificial intelligence. “Finding solutions will require new faces and perspectives and for us to reject the status quo,” said Kim Hanemann, president and chief operating officer of PSE&G. “I encourage you to stay hopeful and press on even when things seem scary. What the world needs now is creative thinking and for the next generation of leaders — for all of you — to...

Indonesian Tennis Star Joleta Budiman, Via NJIT, is Now a Business Analyst

Wednesday, May 17, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is rarely on the minds of high school counselors in Indonesia, but things were different for student tennis player Joleta Budiman, out of suburban Bandung, West Java — "I am utterly grateful that I was given the choice because coming here really did change my life, as cliché as it sounds," she said. Budiman was an internationally ranked under-18 player who learned English while touring and had a teenage epiphany that she could stay in Indonesia and chase the dream of turning professional, or come to the United States, play collegiately and start a...

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