Wesley J. Howe School recognized as offering one of top 5 Business and Technology Management programs in America

HOBOKEN, N.J. — The Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology has been ranked in the October issue of Optimize magazine as one of the five top national business and technology schools for preparing future executives to manage technology-oriented businesses. The rankings are based on the response of Optimize readers, who number more than 70,000 CTOs, CIOs, VPs and middle managers throughout the United States.

“In the five graduate technology programs identified by Optimize readers,” the editors of the magazine stated, “neither technology nor traditional business courses are slighted. Programs at Babson College, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Stevens Institute of Technology are preparing future executives to manage technology-oriented businesses.”

“This recognition is a confirmation of the real value that a Howe School education provides to America’s corporate leaders,” said the Dean of The Howe School, Jerry MacArthur Hultin, a former Under Secretary of the Navy and an advisor to major corporations. “It’s especially noteworthy that we are the sole business school in the New York and New Jersey region to receive this recognition – not NYU, not Columbia. What makes the Howe School unique is that we have daily contact with executives and managers of the leading global corporations in finance, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and defense. Our world-class faculty – many of them with real world corporate experience – use their insights and experience to design and implement our research and our courses. The result is that Howe School students get great jobs and promotions based on the real value they provide using their cutting-edge, technology management skills.”

The Optimize editors conclude:

“ [T]he Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute sees its niche as having a finger on the pulse of technology innovation and its application in business. ‘We’re not a traditional business school; we’re not a traditional management program. We’re focused on technology and the business aspects of technology,’ says Lex McCusker, associate dean for administration [at The Wesley J. Howe School]. Consistent with other leading programs, Stevens doesn’t view technology alone. The focus is on both new technology and developing products, managing that process, and then bringing it into the marketplace—a process McCusker calls ‘Technogenesis®.’”

For more information about The Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens, please visit howe.stevens.edu.

About Optimize

A monthly magazine, Optimize features CIO subject matter experts, a Who’s Who of thought-leaders in business, consulting, academia, and technology. They provide an unparalleled, real world prospective, outlining the leading and latest ideas and strategies in core disciplines like business management, finance, law, innovation, corporate culture and key business disciplines. Optimize is built on 4 editorial pillars that C-level Business Technology Executives require in their senior leadership role: Technology Leadership; CIO Credibility; Corporate Strategy; and LOB Accountability. By delivering on these four editorial points, Optimize uniquely provides the insight, knowledge and confidence to deliver on the core mission of business strategy and execution.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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