Academic Showcase
The academic showcase highlights the research, experiences and successes of the Lerner academic community. Lerner faculty produce impactful research into technological innovations, consumer behavior and global business trends.
2025 Carol A. Ammon Case Competition - The 2025 Carol A. Ammon Case Competition brought together 56 Lerner graduate business students to tackle a timely, high-stakes business challenge, a Harvard Business School case study on NVIDIA.
Malek Elsayyid Uses AI Grad Certificate, Biology Ph.D. to Help Advance Research - A UD grad student is completing a dual Biology Ph.D. and MBA in Lerner College, and also became the first student to complete Lerner’s new Generative AI for Business graduate certificate program. 
Lerner Professors Receive Funding for Large Language Model Research - Yu Zhu, Jared Sharpe, and Xiao Fang will use large language models (LLMs) to act like customers, hence significantly saving time and money, in their upcoming research.
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Political Polling - Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting and MIS Jared Sharpe highlights the growing role of Generative AI in political polling and media.
Lerner Hosts Annual Management Research Summit - On March 14, the Lerner College hosted its annual Management Research Summit "Pi in the Sky: Dreaming Big in Management Research." With over 18 schools throughout the Mid-Atlantic region being represented by attendees, this particular Management Research Summit was the largest one to date.
Lerner College Announces Strategic Plan for Transformative Excellence - Oliver Yao, dean of the Lerner College, has announced the college’s strategic plan, Transformative Excellence, to guide its efforts through 2030. This framework aims to enhance business and economics education, advance research and increase Lerner’s societal impact.
Lerner Moves Up to No. 52 in 2025 Poets&Quants Undergrad Rankings - Lerner jumped 13 spots from a year ago, one of just six schools to post double-digit rises from 2024.
UD’s Weinberg Center Holds 4th Annual Panel on ESG in the Boardroom - The Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance hosted its fourth annual event, “From Boom to Backlash: Guiding Directors in a Shifting ESG Landscape,” and brought together nearly 100 corporate leaders, legal experts and students to discuss the evolving challenges and responsibilities of directors in the ever-changing ESG landscape.
UD Junior McKinley Lynn Shines in Lerner College’s Fall 2024 Sales Competitions - The entrepreneurship and marketing double major placed second in the Lerner Sales Competition and ranked in the top 1% of thousands of competitors in the national RNMKRS competition.
Lerner MIS Professor John D’Arcy Discusses Teaching Path, MIS Quarterly Senior Editor Reappointment - D'Arcy was an Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly from 2017-21, earning an Outstanding Associate Editor Award in 2019. He was promoted to Senior Editor in 2022 and was recently reappointed to a second term in the role.
Lerner In The News
Read the latest on Lerner faculty and staff featured in news publications.