At one point or another, we’ve all fallen victim to binge watching. Netflix makes it easy, but it wasn’t always this way. Before Netflix became a household name for online video streaming, it was a DVD-rental business, like Blockbuster—yet Netflix …
When you think of Miami, what comes to mind? Palm trees, sunshine, and the ocean? At this month’s three-day AshokaU Exchange conference, 13 Fordham representatives gathered in Miami for a different kind of experience. The exchange brought together 750 students, faculty, …
It’s not uncommon to hear stereotypes describing millennials as lazy, entitled, or too tied to technology. At a joint event between the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association and the Fordham University Alternative Investments Club, not only was “millennial” not a …
Bringing together more than 200 people—most of them college students—early on a Saturday morning is no small feat. But Fordham’s Entrepreneurship Conference, known as TrepCon, is no typical gathering. Run by the Entrepreneurship Society and the Gabelli School of Business, it’s a day-long …
When it comes to the apparel industry, change is inevitable. Manny Chirico, BS ’79, CEO of the global apparel company PVH—perhaps better known as Phillips Van Heusen—visited the Lincoln Center campus to share his extensive knowledge of this field defined …
You can’t always be at the field or in the stadium of your favorite sports team, but DraftKings offers what many fans see as a fairly comparable alternative. The site is a platform for what it calls “skill-based daily fantasy sports,” in which …
Suppose you’d like to get a new phone, but you can’t decide between an iPhone 7 and an iPhone 7 Plus. You won’t buy the phone’s case before you figure out which type of phone you’re purchasing, because one size …
Go big or go home. This is the motto many Gabelli students live by on their quests for success. And when your home is New York City, going big means going global. So when International Business Week came around, the Gabelli School invited …
What do French pastries, international accountants, and Buddhist temples have in common? They were all part of the Gabelli School of Business’ International Business Week (IBW).
By Stevenson Swanson Despite the dramatic changes in the business world over the last few decades, the basic system of accounting to measure a firm’s profitability and prospects has remained largely unchanged since double-entry bookkeeping was devised some 500 years …
