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By Dr. Tamar Avnet - Head of the Graduate Programs and Marketing Professor, Sy Syms School of Business In today’s world, where information is constant, attention is fleeting, and noise competes with meaning, the ability to communicate effectively has never been more critical. For rabbis, whose work…

Dr. S. Abraham Ravid, Sy Syms Professor of Finance, and Dr. Shu Han, associate professor of information systems investigated an important workplace question: Do age and gender affect who gets hired to lead major film projects?

A Sy Syms study, “Technology Adoption and Career Concerns: Evidence from the Adoption of Digital Technology in Motion Pictures,” examines a simple but important question: Who is most likely to embrace risky new technology at work?

On the evening of Yom Hashoah, technologists and researchers discussed “AI vs. Antisemitism: Defending Truth in the Age of Generative Hate,” to confront a rapidly evolving threat: a world in which artificial intelligence can both distort reality and defend it.

At the Sy Syms School of Business, Ia Bater developed more than business acumen. She built the foundation for a leadership style defined by precision, adaptability and the ability to turn complexity into opportunity.

Assistant Professor Travis Oh's report explores how generative AI is transforming every stage of marketing research, while warning that speed alone does not guarantee better decisions.

A Journal of Corporate Finance study by Pablo Hernandez-Lagos, director of the MBA program in the Sy Syms School of Business, has found that AI companies can sometimes boost profits by keeping their technology less transparent, even if greater openness would increase user adoption.

In an industry defined by constant disruption, Melanie Winer, who holds an MBA from the Sy Syms School of Business, has built a career not by chasing certainty, but by embracing change.

Linda Driver volunteers with the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, known as PEP, an organization dedicated to helping incarcerated individuals successfully re-enter society while building second-chance communities through entrepreneurship.

A creative and visionary business school dean, Granot will lead the next phase of growth for one of YU’s most dynamic programs. Strengthening its commitment to business education rooted in both academic excellence and enduring values, Yeshiva University has named Dr. Elad Granot as Dean of the ...