When Mike Amegashie ’09, owner of Clyver Interview Prep, was invited to attend InnovateNJ’s inaugural “happy hour” for New Jersey entrepreneurs, he jumped at the opportunity to participate. “[I saw it as] a way to meet other aspiring entrepreneurs and exchange ideas on topics such as go-to-market strategies, pricing, customer discovery, etc.,” said the Martin Tuchman School of Graduate (MTSM) management information systems alumnus, who started his business through the NJIT Lean Startup Accelerator program. Clyver is an app that combines video-based practice with professional feedback to help…

While Martin Tuchman School of Management ’s faculty, staff and students and their families could not gather traditionally this year for MTSM’s annual awards ceremony, the event, held virtually May 19, still emanated great pride in and affection for the school’s 2020 graduates. Like most other end-of-school-year celebrations worldwide, it was conducted online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dean Oya Tukel, attending from MTSM’s Leir Conference Room, remarked at the beginning of the Webex festivities, “All of our students, we can’t see you, but we miss you! “We are all here, all of the…

LeShannon Wright was stunned. She had just learned that she placed first in the 2019 New Business Model Competition (NBMC), a contest sponsored by the New Jersey Acceleration Center at NJIT — this after making her first pitch for a business concept she had never talked about publicly before. “I just basically spoke from the heart and … modeled [my story] after what I experienced. From there the first question was why would you be the best person to run this type of business. … That’s when the emotion came out, that’s when the truth came out,” said Wright, adding that she was shaking from…

NJIT has announced the launch of a new initiative dedicated to the growing professional practice of creative placemaking — a field that places arts and culture at the center of community, social and economic development.  The program — the NJIT Hub for Creative Placemaking — will serve as both a professional training center and collaborative platform for NJIT faculty and students to partner with arts organizations and local artists, community planners and citizens, civic leaders, philanthropists and others interested in leveraging the arts to help shape and revitalize physical public…

Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in Livingston, N.J., is no stranger to accolades. Among other notable rankings, the acute-care teaching hospital has received 16 A ratings in a row from the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, and is one of less than 41 hospitals in the country to achieve this consistency. The hospital was seeking to further improve its delivery of patient care by reducing emergency department (ED) delays. Upon learning of this objective as an invited guest at an SBMC leadership meeting, NJIT knew it could help and offered to apply the collective know-how of its Martin…

TEDxNJIT aims to bring innovation and remarkable people together to share a TED-like experience in Newark. This year’s event was all about stories of resilience from guest speakers of all different backgrounds, including the following members of Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM). Tomi Antoljak Tomi Antoljak is vice president of MTSM’s Investment Club and an international student-athlete undegrad at NJIT, where he came in on a tennis scholarship as the 535th-ranked junior tennis player in the world. During his studies, he has completed several internships, including in investment…

Entrepreneurs looking to develop their startup businesses are invited to a free Lean Startup Jumpstart Seminar. The introductory training workshop will be held April 10 at Seton Hall, April 17 at Stevens Institute of Technology, May 1 at NJIT and May 8 at New Jersey City University. “The Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to creating and managing startups and [getting] a desired product to customers’ hands faster,” notes the event’s website. “The Lean Startup method teaches entrepreneurs how to drive a startup, how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere ― and grow a business…

Two faculty members from NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) — Associate Professor of Finance Michael Ehrlich and Professor of Marketing Rajiv Mehta — have been honored as “professors to know” by BSchools.org, an online resource for individuals interested in pursuing an MBA. More specifically, the platform “provides a comprehensive look at online MBA programs and related programmatic alternatives, and features detailed program and professor profiles, career guides, and blog posts of interest to potential MBA students.” Ehrlich was cited as a “Professor to Know in Online…

Eighty-two percent of participating businesses reported profitability, while overall they secured $776 million in government, institutional and corporate contracting. These are just two of the noteworthy results* of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation’s (CEDC) Mini MBA Program. The seven-month hands-on course provides practical business education, a supportive business network and access to capital and contracting — all of which enable participants to gain the “management know-how and networks needed to think like a CEO, grow revenue, increase jobs and be contract-…

Harpuneet Kaur is all smiles on a Friday afternoon as she seats herself at a table in the main communal area of The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Research Institute for Business, Technology, and Society, on the NJIT campus. The Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) finance major is happy to have her exams behind her and the MTSM awards ceremony and NJIT commencement just ahead. Her parents have arrived from India to attend the festivities and with a full-time position awaiting her at IEX, the Investors Exchange, life is good. “Oh, it’s so exciting!” exclaimed Kaur about graduating, then…