Events and Networking: The REMBA Alumni Upgrade

Prof. Mark Castelino (extreme right), faculty advisor of the Rutgers Alumni Association, poses along with the Rutgers Alumni Board beside the terracotta warrior presented to Prof. Langdana by the EMBA class of 2010, following their class visit to Xian, China.

Events & Networking

We host 1-2 Back-to-School Alumni events a year.  These are typically all-day events from 8:30 am to 5pm in Bove Auditorium on the Newark Campus and include breakfast, lunch, and a coffee break.  These events have been mammoth successes—each one has been attended by over 120 EMBA alumni.

The morning is comprised of a get-together over breakfast followed by 1.5 hour updates on key, “must-know”refresher topics delivered by former EMBA professors and, occasionally, guest speakers. The event also includes networking opportunities for EMBA alumni to reconnect with each other.

Our next Back to School Event will include 3 very exciting updates. The first update will pertain to business strategies that an innovative start-up needs to adopt when entering an industry dominated by mature firms. The second will revolve around the power of Social Media Listening Programs and the tools that are available for these programs. The third update will involve a macro review and deployment of macromodels examining innovation, employment, global trade as well as confidence and macropolicy analysis for the US, the Eurozone and China. There will also be networking sessions during the breaks and lunch as well.

REMBA Back-to-School reunion

International Networking

Rutgers EMBA has been conducting classes in China since 1993.  Consequently, we have a large cohort of Rutgers International EMBA (IEMBA) graduates from our China and Singapore programs.  Every June, when the US Embas visit China for two weeks, we conduct networking sessions in Beijing and Shanghai.  These are very well attended, and often are the first steps in forming strong networking alliances across the Pacific.

EMBA Golf Classics

These are organized totally by the current classes, and are usually held on the Rutgers golf course in New Brunswick.  Golf is followed by dinner and of course, vigorous networking all day!  Often, golf classes for first-time golfers are also arranged.  If golf is not your thing, then do attend the dinner and the networking.

The Embas have been very successful in obtaining valuable corporate sponsorship for the golf classics.  Thanks to pioneering work by Keri DeMayo (Emba 2006) and Amar Shrivastava (2006), who worked with Michael Desenna (2006) to bring in Vonage, and Chris McCrae (2006) to obtain sponsorship from Sirius Satellite Radio for the last EMBA golf classic.