Students

Accounting for a Top-Five Finish, Once Again

The Carroll School’s Accounting Department ranked #4 nationwide for first-time CPA exam performance

Seniors Named To PQ’s Best & Brightest

Poets & Quants included seniors Isaiah Cyprien and Julianna Marandola in its “Best & Brightest Business Majors” list for 2019. The publication named 100 students nationwide as “role models [who] embody the spirit of their school.”

Cold Cuts and the Courage to Fail

CEO alum speaks candidly of “unmitigated disasters” as part of the popular Lunch with an Entrepreneur series.

Wrestling the Bear in His Own Cave

Alum once in the thick of Cold War gives Winston Center talk

A Christmas Carroll

While studying for finals and otherwise wrapping up their work for the fall semester, Carroll School students and others found moments to celebrate the season at a smorgasbord of campus events.

Student Proposal Triggers “New Hope” for Historic Theater in Boston

In spring 2017, a team of undergraduates spearheaded a $10.2 million plan to renovate the long-shuttered Everett Square Theatre in Boston, as part of the Carroll School’s Field Projects in Real Estate class. Now, key members of the community are taking action on the plan, according to The Boston Globe.

Insight into the 'other' Korea

Two weeks working with North Korean defectors opened the eyes of BC students Jieun and Jueun Lee

Corcoran Case Competition

BC NEWS: Students will compete for a $5,000 prize while learning about affordable housing challenges

Passing the Baton

The new Fulton Honors Society will carry on key aspects of the Honors Program

New Management Minors Have Major Impact

BC NEWS: This fall, the Carroll School rolled out four new minors for non–Carroll School students. The School now offers the three most popular minors at Boston College.

Student Entrepreneurship Highlighted at Strakosch Venture Competition

At Shea Center celebration, winners are announced in the competition newly named for Greg ’84 and Peggy ’85 Strakosch

In Silicon Valley, a Trek to Remember

These tech-curious students spent their spring break learning the ins and outs of Silicon Valley.

The Company that Saved the Internet

As a result of their laser focus, made possible by their excellence in algorithms and analytics, Google remained standing amid the dot-com bust of the early 2000s. “I think Google saved the internet,” says Doyle.

What a Company, And a Career, Could Be

Whether or not all of the TechTrek West students decide to go into tech after graduation, the trip this past spring to Silicon Valley opened their eyes to new career possibilities.

Seeing—and Serving—the City

With a boost from a bus, Carroll School student volunteers make an impact across Boston

MBA Students Design a “Bank Account of the Future”

Carroll School MBA students work across the Atlantic on the banking app of tomorrow.

Senior to Remember: Phat Nguyen

A first-generation to college Vietnamese immigrant, Phat Nguyen's strong desire for an education enabled him to serve the community.

Poets & Quants “Best and Brightest” 2018: Sairah Mahmud, MBA’18

“An energetic, caring person who strives for a life and career that will improve lives.”

Something from Nothing

Student entrepreneurs pitch ideas on Accelerate@Shea Demo Day

Carroll School freshman garners TEDx slot

Revealing what he hid, Kofi Nimo wins competition to speak at TEDxBostonCollege

Heights-Bred Startup Harvard Bound

Founded at Boston College, Campus Insights is Acquired by Harvard Student Agencies

2017 Romero Scholarship

Carroll School of Management student Steven Guerrero '18, a leader in the BC student group Organization of Latin American Affairs, received the award at a ceremony on campus last month.

Carroll School Senior, Jack Manning, Awarded First BC Strong Scholarship

BC HEIGHTS: Jack Manning, CSOM ’20, was awarded the Boston College Strong scholarship at a ceremony Monday morning sponsored by two survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

“A Great Hope”: Students Offer Plan to Revive Historic Theater

Students in Senior Lecturer Edward Chazen’s Field Projects in Real Estate course draw headlines in the Boston Globe and other local outlets for their bold plan to renovate the long-shuttered Everett Square Theater in Boston’s Hyde Park section.

Rating Corporate Social Performance, Students Reveal Themselves to be Tough Graders

The importance of Social Impact shines through at Boston College with new minors, symposiums, and publications

In New Course, Everyone Finds an Idea2Launch

The class is built upon the idea of learning by doing and structured around a semester-long project. Teams of students conceive of an idea for a new product or service and shepherd it all the way through to a formal presentation to a group of executives.

Springing to Action—on Spring Break

Many hundreds of Boston College students devoted their spring vacations to a plethora of service projects in the United States and abroad, helping communities near and far.

A FanTAXtic Performance

They came from 43 colleges and universities for the Deloitte FanTAXtic regional case-study competition. And one of the 60 teams from those schools emerged on top: a five-member group of undergraduates from the Carroll School of Management.

“As real as can be without using someone else’s money”: New M.B.A. Course Simulates Eight Years of High-Stakes Competition

M.B.A. course The DNA of Business pits student groups against one another to simulate the competition of six fictional companies over an imaginary eight years.

“What struck me was how philosophical he is”: M.B.A. Students Meet the Oracle of Omaha

Each year, Warren Buffett, who’s chairman, president, and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment holding company, invites a handful of M.B.A. programs to send small groups of students to Omaha. He hosts them for a two-hour Q&A session and then treats them to lunch at one of his favorite steakhouses.

A Summer Program Gives Liberal Arts Students “Wheels” in the Business World

The Carroll School’s three-year-old Summer Management Catalyst Program is a 10-week deep dive into the major disciplines of management, and it’s designed exclusively for liberal arts students.

“Nothing Will Compare”: A Carroll School Freshman Meets the Oracle of Omaha

In early April, Meagan Loyst ’19 was one of 20 college students from around the country who had dinner with Warren Buffett. The dinner was organized by Smart Women Securities, a national nonprofit organization for undergraduate women interested in finance and investments.

When Seniors Need Not Apply ... Because They’ve Already Landed the Job

Last year, fully 87 percent of Carroll School graduates had signed on with an employer by graduation. Most of the rest were looking ahead to other endeavors such as graduate school and volunteer opportunities; some were still negotiating or interviewing. Here's a look at five soon-to be-graduates.

“Best and Brightest” Pick Their Spots

Two of the 50 “Best and Brightest” management students in the United States are Carroll School students headed for top positions in their professional areas of concentration.

Max Prio’s Art–and His Surprising Next Act

In the past couple of years, finance and marketing student Max Prio has produced some 40 promotional videos, mostly for student organizations and the Boston College administration. He has also forayed into dramatic productions with his miniseries Mod of Cards, a Chestnut Hill sendup of the Netflix original series House of Cards.
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