Stetson Executive MBA

On July 13-14, Stetson University’s new dean of the School of Business, Thomas Schwarz, visited the Celebration Center’s Executive MBA current students, alumni from previous cohorts, and future students beginning their Executive MBA journey in August. “The Center was bustling with activity and excitement as current students were reunited after their International Trip experience in [...]

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Dr. Stuart Michelson, Roland & Sarah George Professor of Finance, announced he will be stepping aside from the Stetson University Executive MBA director role effective July 1, 2012, and is excited to get back to the classroom after spending the last three years as the dean of the School of Business Administration. He will return to [...]

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Dr. Thomas Schwarz, the new dean of the Stetson University School of Business, started on June 1. He will be visiting the Celebration campus and Cohort 9 on July 13. Alumni are invited to join Cohort 9 for lunch and to meet him. Simply RSVP to Wendy Lowe, Stetson University Executive MBA program coordinator, at wlowe@stetson.edu. Schwarz [...]

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Dr. Stuart Michelson has stepped down as the Dean of the Stetson University School of Business Administration, effective June 2012. This move will allow him to focus on the Executive MBA Program and his passion for Finance instruction. “I am grateful to Dean Michelson for stepping quickly into this important leadership position in fall 2009,” [...]

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Stetson University’s School of Business Administration has been named one of the nation’s best business schools in a new guidebook released Oct. 11 by The Princeton Review. The education services company compiles its guidebook of top business schools annually based on input from more than 19,000 students in Master of Business Administration programs accredited by AACSB [...]

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Stetson University Center at Celebration was buzzing with excitement last night, Aug. 10, as a diverse group of 14 women and 11 men from nine corporations gathered for the first time as Stetson University Executive MBA Cohort 9. The Cohort 9 orientation dinner was an opportunity for the students to meet each other, members of [...]

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While the students in Stetson University’s Executive MBA Cohort 8 were getting prepared to fly across the Atlantic to visit South Africa in a just a few days, their director was flying as well — but mid-flight, he jumped out of the plane. Dr. Stuart Michelson, dean of Stetson’s School of Business and director of [...]

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Recently, a Stetson University Executive MBA graduate flipped his former role as student to that of a professor — at least, for a day. On March 17, Russell Lowe (Stetson Executive MBA ’09) was a guest lecturer during a STAT500 class, Issues in Decision Science, at the Celebration campus. Dr. Betty Thorne had asked him [...]

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Stetson University’s School of Business Administration has been reaccredited in both business and accounting by AACSB International — The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The reaccreditation was received earlier this month following an in-depth review of the business school and visit by an AACSB team. “AACSB accreditation is the highest level of accreditation [...]

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Many of Stetson’s veteran professors left lasting impressions on Stetson EMBA’s Cohort 7, but when it came to choosing one to receive the EMBA Outstanding Professor Award, the overwhelming choice was Dr. Larry Belcher, a finance professor at Stetson since 1990. Students said he has a knack for putting complex academic concepts into understandable real-world [...]

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