Jindal School Now is the official communique of Naveen Jindal School of Management Dean Hasan Pirkul. The newsletter periodically reports significant current events and developments within the school, including news about events, programs, research, and alumni, faculty and student achievements.
Jindal School Now is the successor to eManagement.
The newsletter is sent to JSOM alumni, corporate supporters and other friends, and to fellow deans in other business programs, which, like the Jindal School, have been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International.
Read the newsletter archive below.
Jindal School Now – July 2024
A new ranking of university supply chain management programs has put both the graduate and undergraduate programs from the Naveen Jindal School of Management among the very elite in the nation. Gartner, a business management consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, released its biennial Gartner Supply Chain University Top 25 (registration required) June 26, placing the Jindal School’s Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MS SCM) program at No. 4 and the Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management and Analytics (BS SCMA) program at No. 6.
Jindal School Now – January 2024
Poets&Quants, an online publication that reports on the graduate business education market, has ranked the Naveen Jindal School of Management third on its recently released list of the Best Online MBA Programs for 2024. It is the highest ranking to date for the school from this site, and the second consecutive year in which JSOM has risen sharply in the rankings. The education provided by the school is always at the core of any rankings, said Lisa Shatz, assistant dean and director of the Jindal School’s MBA programs. “Our strength has always been the quality of our students and faculty,” she said.
Jindal School Now – July 2023
Naveen Jindal, MBA’92, made a notable return to The University of Texas at Dallas, his first visit since the Naveen Jindal School of Management was named after him in 2011. During his recent trip in March, accompanied by his wife, Shallu, and their two children, Jindal attended the University’s Awards Gala, where he was honored with the University’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Jindal is recognized as one of UT Dallas’ most accomplished alumni. He is esteemed globally for his leadership in industry, his statesmanship in India, his advocacy for human rights, and his sporting achievements.
Jindal School Now – January 2023
New rankings show that the master’s and bachelor’s degree programs in supply chain management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management are among the best in North America.
Gartner, a technological research and consulting firm, ranked the Jindal School’s Master of Science in Supply Chain Management STEM program No. 4 among North American universities.
Jindal School Now – July 2022
The Naveen Jindal School of Management reached several noteworthy new milestones in the 2023 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Business Schools Rankings — including its first time in the top 30 among U.S. business schools and first time in the top 10 among U.S. public schools.
Jindal School Now – January 2022
Positive feedback from recent UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management graduates, alumni from years past and employers who have recruited them propelled the school forward four places — to No. 32 among U.S. schools — in the 2021-2022 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools MBA rankings.
Jindal School Now – July 2021
Over the past several months, the Naveen Jindal School of Management made strong showings in multiple rankings. The productivity of the Jindal School’s research faculty earned a No. 3 ranking in the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™, both worldwide and in North America. Two other placements come in the wake of the school’s transition of its Global MBA program to a fully online format. Read more about each of the rankings here:
Jindal School Now – January 2021
The Naveen Jindal School of Management stands among the elite institutions of higher learning in two new online rankings — and several online specialty rankings — from U.S. News & World Report. Released Jan. 26, the rankings place the Jindal School’s online graduate programs in the top 10 in the following categories, including all four of the specialties that U.S. News ranked this year:
Jindal School Now – July 2020
The Full-Time MBA program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management moved up five places in U.S. News & World Report rankings released March 17.
Jindal School Now – January 2020
Alumni from the Naveen Jindal School of Management boosted the school’s reputation recently in their responses to survey questions from Bloomberg Businessweek. The Jindal School ranked highly on four of five questions Bloomberg asked MBA graduates. The questions were part of survey data Bloomberg collected in compiling its 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools rankings.
Jindal School Now – July 2019
The UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™, released Feb. 21, show universities around the globe gaining competitive ground in business school research productivity.Published annually since 2005 by the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, the rankings are a compilation based on business school faculty research publications in 24 leading peer-reviewed journals. Each year, the rankings, reported for schools in North America and across the globe, reflect a rolling five-year average.
Jindal School Now – January 2019
North Texas real estate luminaries Donna and Herb Weitzman announced a $3 million gift to the Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas at the school’s annual Scholarship Breakfast on Nov. 6. The gift establishes the Herbert D. Weitzman Institute for Real Estate, which will provide scholarships to eligible undergraduate finance and business administration students pursuing a concentration in real estate. The money also will finance real estate student trips to case competitions and conferences. The cachet of the Weitzman name will open doors for student internship opportunities as well.
Jindal School Now – July 2018
I hope you and your loved ones are doing well. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many people. However, we at UT Dallas are prepared to deal with this situation. To protect our students and faculty, we have moved in-person classes to online teaching via Blackboard Collaborate. While it is a learning experience for us all, so far everything is going smoothly. We are optimistic that we will resume normal activities in the near future.
Jindal School Now – July 2017
I hope you and your loved ones are doing well. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many people. However, we at UT Dallas are prepared to deal with this situation. To protect our students and faculty, we have moved in-person classes to online teaching via Blackboard Collaborate. While it is a learning experience for us all, so far everything is going smoothly. We are optimistic that we will resume normal activities in the near future.
Jindal School Now – January 2017
Two new rankings from U.S. News & World Report reinforce UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management’s leadership role in online learning programs in graduate management education. Released Jan. 10, the 2017 Best Online Programs Rankings placed both the online MBA and online graduate business programs in the Top 10. JSOM’s online graduate business programs solidified their positions by jumping from No. 4 in 2016 to No. 2 in 2017. The online MBA program moved up from No. 9 to No. 7.
Jindal School Now – February 2016
The Naveen Jindal School of Management stands among the elite institutions of higher learning in two new online rankings — and several online specialty rankings — from U.S. News & World Report.
