Business News and Events
09/02/2024 - St. John Fisher University’s Family Business Program announces their fall forum event “Family Business Compensation,” running from 8 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, in Cleary Family Auditorium in Kearney Hall. The program includes presentations on recent national compensation research, regional trends and a panel discussion from area family business leaders.
08/28/2024 - This summer, more than two dozen high school students experienced entrepreneurship in action during the inaugural EmpowerED Program.
08/26/2024 - St. John Fisher University’s Family Business Program has announced Key Private Bank as the inaugural Cardinal Sponsor for the 2024-2025 academic year.
07/17/2024 - Elle McEneany, a May 2024 graduate of St. John Fisher University, recently completed her Honors Keystone project, where she built upon experiences from her graduate-level Forensic Accounting class and further investigated the complex—and often overlooked—issue of fraud within family businesses.
07/12/2024 - A record-breaking 37 St. John Fisher University undergraduates are engaging in the Summer Fellows Research Program, collaborating with faculty mentors on research projects representing more than a dozen disciplines.
07/03/2024 - St. John Fisher University recently announced the Dean’s List honorees for the Spring 2024 semester, which includes more than 1,400 undergraduate students.
06/27/2024 - A newly endowed scholarship fund at St. John Fisher University will benefit undergraduate students in the School of Business, thanks to the generosity of alumnus and University Trustee Matt Rowe ’90.
06/25/2024 - This spring, 22 students and one faculty member in the School of Business were tapped to join St. John Fisher University’s chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, an international honor society for AACSB-accredited schools representing the top five percent of business programs around the world.
06/19/2024 - Twenty St. John Fisher University students who are stakeholders in family firms took the course Family Business Management during the spring semester. The course provided the opportunity to attend the Family Business Program’s Successful Successions dinner, tour family firms including Gorbel Inc. and Rochester Colonial, and hear from several alumni who are family business leaders.
06/18/2024 - St. John Fisher University’s undergraduate and graduate programs were selected as the top “reader favorites” in the Rochester Business Journal’s 2024 Reader Rankings Awards.