O'Malley School of Business

Join us on Wed Nov 8 at 6:00pm for an evening of thought-provoking conversation and networking with industry leaders focused on the impact of recent AI innovations on workplace design.

Register now and explore further details at https://manhattan.edu/aiworkplace

Calling all Manhattan College Alumni in Business. Join us for the O'Malley School of Business Fall Business Dinner on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

5:30 PM | Cocktail Reception with Dean Gibson
7:00 PM | Complimentary Dinner and Presentation of the Distinguished Business Leader Awards

Come see the campus, catch up with friends and meet the great faculty and students of the OMSB. Join us in honoring Peter Torrente '88, Julia Sutton '90, and Bernadette Kelly-Finch '95.

Register for this great alumni event below:
https://connect.manhattan.edu/FY24FallBusinessDinner

IT'S OFFICIAL! The 3rd floor of De La Salle is complete and open! Thank you to everyone who has made this renovation possible and to everyone who came on Friday, October 20th, as we officially opened the 3rd floor.

On Monday, the OMSB Sophomore Symposium attendees got to hear from Alumni speaker Michelle Lapreay. Thank you so much for sharing your insights.

This summer, some of our business school students participated in the Jasper Summer Scholars program. See below the students, their topics, and their supervisors. Great Job everyone!

Daniel Baer, supervised by Dr. MJ Kim
Topic: Out of Many, One: Analyzing How Colleges and Universities
Market to Geographically Diverse Students

Nicholas DiMassimo, supervised by Dr. Grishma Shah
Topic: Emerging Global Infrastructure: What is the United States Doing to Improve?

Alexander Kosko, supervised by Dr. Jimena González
Topic: Estimating the Value of a Disc Golf Course with Environmental Economics Tools

Exciting news! O'Malley School of Business professors worked together with an undergraduate student on a corporate social responsibility research study that was just published in the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance. Dr. Amanda Sanseverino (Accounting, Business Analytics, CIS & Law Department) and Dr. Jimena González Ramírez (Economics and Finance Department) collaborated with Kelly Cwik ('23, Economics) to examine how the information companies provide about their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities affect investment decisions.

Specifically, the team examined whether the inclusion of progress metrics in a company's ESG disclosures, as opposed to targets alone, affects the proportion of capital allocated by investors. They investigated this question by running a randomized survey experiment using disclosures focused on child labor and responsible sourcing issues in chocolate production. As they did not find conclusive evidence of a significant incremental effect from progress reporting, despite such metrics enhancing the relevance and accuracy of ESG disclosures, their study highlights challenges in how nonprofessional investors utilize ESG disclosures when making capital allocation decisions.

We take pride in this work between faculty and students, where Kelly's contributions spanned the entire research journey—including shaping the objective and hypothesis, delving into relevant academic literature, designing and executing the experiment, conducting data analyses, drafting results, and undergoing the peer review process. It was rewarding for Dr. Sanseverino and Dr. González Ramírez to work alongside such a bright and motivated student like Kelly. We are grateful to the Thieke Fellowship for its generous support, which has enabled invaluable collaboration and research endeavors between our faculty and students at the O'Malley School of Business. This partnership enriches our academic community and highlights the remarkable research opportunities available to our business students at Manhattan College.

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Do ESG progress disclosures influence investment decisions? - International Journal of Disclosure and Governance Firms frequently provide voluntary environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports. Our study focuses on the effect of ESG disclosures on investment decisions. We compare the influence of disclosures containing only forward-looking ESG targets with those containing both targets and progress made...

This past Saturday, September 30th, members and candidates of Manhattan College Beta Alpha Psi enhanced their research skills by presenting hot new industry topics to OMSB students at BAP’s Topic Presentations.

On Saturday, Sept 23rd members and candidates of Manhattan College Beta Alpha Psi and students of the OMSB volunteered at the Cabrini Immigrant Services food pantry.

Calling all Manhattan College Alumni in Business. Join us for the O'Malley School of Business Fall Business Dinner.

Come see the campus, catch up with friends and meet the great faculty and students of the OMSB.

Register for this great alumni event below:
https://connect.manhattan.edu/FY24FallBusinessDinner

Yesterday, we hosted the Honors Business Students. New freshmen in the program got to meet some faculty that will be teaching their courses over the next few years. They also got to meet some seniors and board members. Thank you to everyone who came. Special thank you to Professor Boliari and Dean Gibson for hosting.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jimena Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Economics in the O’Malley School of Business, for being awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program.

This two-year grant, which begins in January, 2024, provides $39,939 to support her research project entitled, “Diversifying Economics Education through Plug and Play Video Modules with Diverse Role Models, Relevant Research, and Active Learning”. Below is a summary of Dr. Gonzalez’s project.

Introductory economics is a key general education course taken by almost half of the undergraduate students in the U.S; however, because of outdated teaching methods and un-inclusive practices, the field falls short of its promise in the classroom. This project aims to improve economics education by developing and evaluating a classroom intervention for undergraduate principles of economics courses, using evidence-based methods from STEM education literature. The proposed intervention is a series of “plug and play” easy-to-implement modules consisting of professionally produced videos featuring diverse economists discussing their timely and policy-relevant research, accompanied by curricular materials designed around evidence-based active learning principles to deepen learning and engagement. We theorize that by exposing students to diverse role models and providing instructors with tools to implement active learning, our intervention will influence perceptions about economics; build students’ sense of belonging, economic identity, and self-efficacy; and improve learning, persistence, and retention in economics, especially for diverse students. We use a mixed methods approach to develop and assess the efficacy of our intervention, using focus groups to co-develop our modules with instructors and students and quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate impact. We will test the impact of our modules with data from pre- and post- student surveys, distributed to both control and treatment sections, that include constructs from validated surveys to measure STEM identity, self-efficacy, connectedness and belonging, and perceptions that are combined with questions that are formulated from our focus groups to measure persistence in economics. We will combine these data with institutional data and estimate a difference-in-differences regression specification.

Dr. Gonzalez will be collaborating on this project with researchers from Salisbury University, Valdosta State University, Williams College, the University of West Georgia and the University of Louisville.

Join us at the Economics and Finance Society Kick-Off Meeting tonight at 6:30pm. See you there!

Last week, Beta Alpha Psi hosted NYLife employees, Manhattan College alumni, Gianna Gaudio, and Christopher Freund. OMSB students learned about New York Life, the NY Life Accounting and Finance Internship, and full time opportunities at NY Life.

Thank you to everyone who came and spoke.

An article by Dr. Amanda Sanseverino, an OMSB faculty member in the Accounting, Business Analytics, CIS & Law Department, is now published in the Review of Accounting Studies. The study, which researches the impact of foreign anti-corruption laws on U.S. firms, can be accessed here. The importance of anti-corruption laws is recognized in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 (peace, justice, and strong institutions), with target 16.5 aiming to substantially reduce corruption in all forms. Her research offers evidence that extraterritorial laws can enhance the effectiveness of anti-corruption regulation in the global economy. Congratulations!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11142-023-09783-8

We had a packed house for the OMSB First Year Experience Faculty Panel yesterday in Kelly Commons.

Thank you to Professors Edy Moulton-Tetlock, Georgios Koimisis, Haoran Zhang, Simion Tomoiaga, Hanni Liu, and Kang-Pyo Lee for talking about the departments and various majors in the O’Malley School of Business.

Great study abroad opportunity this January in Singapore! If you want to learn more or have questions about this trip, email Dr. Grishma Shah or the study abroad office

OMSB Opening Weekend presentation to Freshmen. The Dean welcomed the Freshmen and the students participated in the Dean’s marshmallow challenge and heard from Professors Sansaverino and Ross about tips for how to succeed as a freshman. Next, they learned about the Manhattan College Code of Conduct and Academic Integrity from Professor Sheridan and building community from Professor Livne-Tarandach.

Professor Farrelly talked about how to get engaged outside of the classroom through the Passport Program and the OMSB activities and clubs.

Thank you to the following OMSB students, Ysabella Rincon, Daniel Taylor, Kevin Burke, Kathy Vu, and Nick Sgammato and alumnus, Clare Farrelly-O’Brien for sharing their experience with the Freshmen today and helping with all the logistics.

Welcome OMSB Freshmen! Looking forward to a great year!

Packed house for the O'Malley School of Business Orientation yesterday! New Freshmen heard from Dean Gibson, Assistant Dean Farrelly and Academic Advisor Rhonda Shuler about the OMSB and how to succeed in their first year. It was so nice to meet you all. We can't wait for a great year!

Big News--We're thrilled to announce that Kelly Student Commons has earned enough LEED points to apply for LEED Gold O+M certification with the US Green Building Council. Students in the O'Malley School of Business Real Estate Capstone class, taught by real estate instructor Richard Ross, have been working on this Operations and Maintenance application as a class project.

This prestigious certification recognizes our commitment to sustainability and our efforts to create a healthier, more efficient space for our students, faculty, employees and visitors. With impressive features such as the building management system, energy-efficient equipment, green roof, and proximity to transportation, Kelly Commons has reduced our environmental impact and substantially saved on operating costs.

Huge thanks to the LEED Lab Student Capstone Team, Craig Collins and the Manhattan College Facilities Department, and the O'Malley School of Business for making this achievement possible!

Michael Fitzpatrick, New York City's Chief Privacy Officer and Manhattan College alumni, visited Dr. Patricia Sheridan's Data Privacy Class last week. Thank you Michael for answering the students' questions. Thank you Nick Baldi for taking such wonderful pictures.

The O'Malley School of Business is excited to continue the Meet The Faculty Series. Meet Dr. Shah.

See these MC students go from local to global.

Interested in Entrepreneurship? Please join us for the 10th annual Manhattan College Innovation Challenge, at Manhattan College in the Kelly Center, TONIGHT, March 21st, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., EST.

Be there to watch Shark Tank, with a Jasper twist, as students from across campus battle it out for Cash Prizes totaling $10,000, to be awarded by a panel of entrepreneur judges, including Mike Kelly '80, Julia Sutton '90, Ben Hart '11, and Exec. Dir. at Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, Michael Partis. Be there to vote for the Audience Favorite award.

This is a terrific opportunity to see our top students present their ideas for startup businesses. From a rehabilitation device to prevent injuries, to a sustainable food company, to an instrument to help young kids with Down Syndrome, to a sustainable energy device using water current, this is the best of business and engineering students at Manhattan College.

Check it out and see our students go up against the Sharks! You have to be there!

The O'Malley School of Business is excited to announce that our Beta Alpha Psi chapter has placed 2nd and 3rd in Beta Alpha Psi’s Mid-Semester Best Practices Competition sponsored by in the Reimagine Career Aspirations and Reimagine Community Service categories. Great work to our 2nd place winners, William Connors and Nicholas Baldi, as well as our 3rd place winners, Kevin McGoldrick and Theresa Donlon for your incredible presentations.

We are especially excited because for the first time Manhattan College Beta Alpha Psi students qualified to compete at the Annual International Beta Alpha Psi Competion this summer! Congratulations!

Thank you to all the participants for their hard work and dedication in Reimagine Leadership and Collaboration: Laurice Dabain, Jacob McCole, and Luke Fiorino.

Special thanks to Laenaly Guerrero and Roen Crameri for all their help!

A big thanks to faculty advisor Aileen Farrelly for her constant help and endless support!

The O'Malley School of Business is excited to continue the Meet The Faculty Series. Meet Angela Grotto.

The O'Malley School of Business is excited to start the Meet The Faculty Series back up this semester. Meet Professor Amir Masoumi.

Attention All Freshmen Business Students! Scan the QR Code and fill out the form to be assigned a Peer Mentor. This is a great opportunity!

Welcome Back Jaspers! We hope you had a great break. We can't wait for all the amazing things this semester holds. Always check your email to hear about the upcoming events to stay involved.