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Every semester, the X-Culture Competition challenges thousands of students and professionals around the world to work together on business projects presented by corporate partners. This year, seven students from UD’s Lerner College placed among the top 40 best...
This year, the Lerner College celebrated eight excellent alumni at its 27th annual Alumni Awards of Excellence. In the Alumni Spotlight blog series, we get to know these professional trailblazers with Q&A sessions. The blog series’ first article highlighted alumna...
In this video, Nicholas Makos talks about his experiences with the Lerner Executive Mentor Program, and all the opportunities he has acquired because of it. Transcript I heard about the Lerner Executive Mentor Program from word of mouth. A couple of my friends in my...
On Oct. 9, over 350 students from 17 local middle and high schools gathered at Clayton Hall at UD for the fifth SYLP. Siegfried returns biannually to his alma mater to host this unique program in collaboration with his company, The Siegfried Group, the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) in UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Junior Achievement of Delaware.
Last year, Lauren Pizzimenti spoke in a video about her experiences with undergraduate programs at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and how they helped her land a career opportunity with Bloomberg. Pizzimenti recently returned to UD campus for her first homecoming weekend as an alumna, and chatted with Lerner about her life so far as a working professional.
Gritty, the new mascot of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, is a 7-foot, googly-eyed furry orange creature who wears a hockey jersey. Since Gritty’s recent debut, fans’ reactions have run the gamut from delighted to horrified. According to The Guardian, Gritty “embodies everything that’s good and bad about [Philadelphia]. But mostly the bad,” while the New York Post described Gritty as “engineered to terrify Twitter.”
Lerner College of Business and Economics awarded an array of internship opportunities to graduate and MBA students this fall to enhance their skills and gain firsthand working experience in different companies. Through the Lerner Career Services, students are guided to select and apply to their ideal experiential opportunity–either with the university or partnering companies. Lerner MBA and graduate students also benefit from pre-internship preparation and awareness workshops.
In this video, Nicholas Makos shares his engagement on campus, the opportunities he's been given at UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and his experiences while selecting a discipline in the undeclared business major. Transcript I think that the...
This year, the Lerner College celebrated eight excellent alumni at its 27th annual Alumni Awards of Excellence. In the Alumni Spotlight blog series, we get to know these professional trailblazers with Q&A sessions. The blog series’ first article highlighted alumna...
Fewer women are leading the biggest companies and the number of female chief executives is falling, especially in the Fortune 500. The Lerner Women’s Leadership Initiative will be exploring how to reverse this downward trend with business leaders around the region in October with two events: The Women’s Leadership Summit and the Women’s Leadership Forum.
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