Data-driven decision expertise is critical for the survival and growth of modern enterprises. The Decision Sciences Department brings together faculty with special expertise in decision support systems, enterprise information systems, enterprise integration, management science, business statistics, operations/technology management, operations research, and manufacturing strategy. This department coordinates the options in Information Systems Management and Entrepreneurial Studies.
The department is composed of the four disciplines: information systems, management science, operations management, and statistics. As each discipline is critical to management education, the faculty seek to infuse their expertise and endeavors with the broad mission and specific goals of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. The three specific objectives of the Decision Sciences Department are:
- To transmit, through excellent teaching, basic and advanced education in the Department's four academic disciplines.
- To distinguish the University by making and disseminating significant research in the individual fields.
- To serve regional, national and international businesses, professional organizations, and government agencies.
Through programs which provide the opportunity for students to concentrate in one of these disciplines, the Department strengthens its mission by providing: advanced education; dissemination of faculty research activities; and targeted services to regional, national and international businesses and organizations.
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The angel investor market in 2012 continued the upward trend started in 2010 in investment dollars and in the number of investments, albeit at a moderate pace, according to the 2012 Angel Market Analysis released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
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Promising entrepreneurs hoping to win this year’s record $25,000 Holloway Prize – the oldest business plan competition in the state and one of the first in the nation – will vie in the first stage of the competition this April, having only 10 minutes to make their best first impression.
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Fifteen teams of students will compete in the Bud Albin Challenge Round, the semi-final round of the Holloway Prize Innovation-to-Market Competition. The semi-final round will be held Friday, April 26, 2013, during the UNH Undergraduate Research Conference. The business plan competition runs from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Peter T...
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While only 12 percent of angels were women in 2011, the number is on the rise. “All arrows seem to be pointing up,” according to Jeffrey E. Sohl, Director, Center for Venture Research. “Women are joining existing initiatives, [such as Golden Seeds, an angel network that funds women entrepreneurs].
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When Gov. Maggie Hassan cited the Green Launching Pad as a budget priority last month, it was an important sign to GLP project director Venky Venkatachalam. He believes Hassan's support of the "innovation ecosystem for New Hampshire entrepreneurs" will help take the GLP to its next stage.
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Angel investing nationwide grew 12.1 percent to $22.5 billion in 2011, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Through the first six months of 2012 — the latest figures available — angel investment gained about 3.5 percent over prior year levels.
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Women-owned firms start and grow businesses with substantially less outside financing, according to a Department of Commerce survey of women-owned companies across the U.S. That helps to explain why the average women-owned business has 25% lower revenue than the typical male-owned firm in the same industry.
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U.S. Angels put $9.2 billion to work in the first and second quarters of 2012, a 3.1% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to estimates by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. For all of 2012, the Center estimates that U.S. angel investment deals increased 3% and total...
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..."You're adding a whole layer of risk to an already very risky investment class," says Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. "With most of these investments, you're going to lose money."
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Christine Shea, professor of technology and operations management in the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, has been named interim vice provost for faculty development and inclusive excellence.
