| The Omura-Saxena Endowed Professorship in Responsible AI gets a $1 million founding gift The idea behind the new professorship and the gift are both courtesy Manoj Saxena (MBA '91), founder and CEO of CognitiveScale and the first GM of IBM Watson. He sees both a bright upside and a dark downside to artificial intelligence, and he wants to ensure only the former comes to be. “I have never been more worried about AI than I am now, because this technology — if you don’t deploy it properly, and don’t make it accessible properly — will end up making the rich richer, and it will end up making the evil more evil,” Saxena said at an MBA Reunion event on Nov. 9. | | | | Alums play starring role on Give Green Day Broad College alumni and others affiliated with the college raise a leaderboard-topping $125,258 during MSU's Day of Giving event Nov. 27. Of that, $71,584 is designated for student technology use at the Edward J. Minskoff Pavilion. | | | | Broad Spartan alum survives 'Shark Tank' And Joe Johnson (BA Finance '16) leaves the hit prime-time TV show with a $700,000 investment for his business. | | | | MSU Grand Awards honor Broad alums Marc Conlin and Manoj Saxena were among 11 Spartans honored as top-achieving MSU alumni at the Nov. 9 event. | | | | january 7-11 | | | Spartan Innovations Student Teams at CES Las Vegas | Times Vary By Date | | | | | | | january 8 | | | MSU Spartan Men's Basketball Las Vegas Watch Party | 6:00PM - 9:00PM PST | | | Location TBA, Las Vegas, NV | | | | | | JANUary 29 | | | Hospitality Business Alumni Reception at ALIS Los Angeles | 5:30PM - 7:30PM PST | | | 1011 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA | | | | | | | Booming interest in entrepreneurship The nationally-recognized Entrepreneurship & Innovation minor is adding 100 new students per semester. | | | | Warrington speaker touts ongoing change Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert says the curious and agile will triumph as change will continue to disrupt traditional business. | | | | | Broad in business of empowering women The fall Advancing Women in Business event gives professionals a space to network, empower, and inspire one another. | | | | Growing the bonds between China, MSU The MSU Executive Forum in Beijing caps Broad College Dean Sanjay Gupta's trip East to meet with colleagues and alumni. | | | | | Welcome back to Michigan State University and the Eli Broad College of Business after Thanksgiving break, #BroadSpartans. We got you some snow. | | | | Congrats to the MSU team of School of Hospitality Business Spartans for your top-three finish in the STR Hotel Market Analysis Competition in NYC! | | | | In the newest episode of the #SpartanBizCast, Broad College expert Bill McCarthy explores the promise and perils of #Blockchain. | | | | | MSU in Top 10 for study abroad participation So says the Institute of International Education's annual Open Doors Report in ranking MSU eighth nationally in that category. It's the 21st consecutive year MSU finished among the Top 10. | | | | Perles leaves behind a long legacy at MSU 1988 Rose Bowl-winning football coach and former athletic director George Perles steps down from MSU's Board of Trustees. | | | | MSU is getting a new top cop for campus Current MSUPD Deputy Chief Kelly Roudebush takes charge of the department Jan. 1. She will be MSU's first female chief of police. | | | | Have You Visited the Alumni Directory Lately? Get connected today with Spartans around the world in accounting, finance, hospitality business, management, marketing, and supply chain management. | | | | | |
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