School of Management

Far Beyond Business as Usual

As one of the world's best business schools, the UB School of Management is continually on the rise. Now, with your support, we will aim higher still: a transformation of business education and the very future of management. How? By advancing thought leadership. By providing student experiences that develop leadership to the fullest. By leading through example. At UB, we’re not just teaching business innovation. We’re driving it.

Here Is How We Create Graduates Prepared to Lead Anywhere

Here, we build connections across cultures and prepare our graduates for success in today’s ever-changing global marketplace. With your investment, we’ll:

  • Endow award-winning programs like LeaderCORE™, which builds MBA students’ abilities to solve problems, motivate, communicate and collaborate, and expand it to other Schools and degree program across the University 
  • Foster international exchange by expanding our Center for Global Programs, boosting study-abroad opportunities and preparing our international students to return home as leaders
  • Allow more students to build programs with sustainable impact
  • Substantially increase undergraduate and graduate scholarships
  • Provide a new campus learning environment, including creating a Living and Learning space for our students to form cohorts and fuel innovation
  • Develop curriculum and programming that will prepare our students to launch successful entrepreneurial ventures

Here Is How We Help Organizations Work Smarter

Our faculty engage business and industry directly, from working with health care organizations to redefining accounting practices and standards. Philanthropy will allow us to bring more faculty thought leaders to UB and Buffalo with the addition of new endowed chair and professor positions. Your investment also will enable a dramatic expansion of interdisciplinary research and collaborations, such as our pioneering Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics. Here, we put our ingenuity to the ultimate test: We put it to work.

A student talking to other students in a study lab.

Here Is How We Build a Stronger Buffalo and a Better World

Our students serve as interns and volunteer business consultants. Our faculty consult and collaborate with businesses and industries. Now, with your investment we will expand and strengthen those collaborations by endowing these dynamic programs:  

  • Social Innovation activities—including Social Impact Fellowships and Nonprofit Board Fellowships—training our students to address complex issues through a multidisciplinary lens, while making a direct impact for local businesses and organizations
  • The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, helping startup executives launch ventures that survive and succeed
  • The Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness, providing innovative programming for managers and organizations

Join us on our path to ground-breaking business education and leadership development.

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We are seeking your investment in creating global business leaders.

News from the School of Management

  • This investment pays dividends
    5/10/20
    This past year, thanks to a gift from Gregg Fisher, BS ’92, the School of Management added four additional terminals to the center.
  • Helping Women Climb the Academic Ladder
    8/3/22
    Through her own experiences, Mirdza Neiders, PMCert '74 knew the importance of women receiving a college education. Now, she's giving back to elevate women in academics even further.
  • Close Family, Bold Legacy
    5/10/20
    For David Herer, CEL ’90, family is everything—it’s in the history of his company, the inspiration for his community involvement and the legacy he’s leaving at the UB School of Management.
  • Fond Memories of UB
    5/10/20
    Linda Edelman, BS ’66, PharmD, leaves a generous bequest.
  • The Backbone for Success
    4/21/22
    Dick Osborne is a firm believer in the power of education—so much so, he's created two substantial legacies at UB to support others' education.
  • Finding a Center
    5/10/20
    Tyler Orlando found happiness in the new Undergraduate Learning and Community Center at the UB School of Management. A lot of happiness.
  • Combining Forces for Good
    5/10/20
    Social work and management students collaborate to tackle pressing social problems.
  • Honoring Lifelong Friendship
    5/10/20
    The University at Buffalo School of Management announces one of the largest cash gifts in the school’s history that will create the Kenneth W. Colwell Chair in Accounting and Law.
  • Network—A story for Buffalo
    5/10/20
    Larry and Leslie Zielinski started the fund with an endowment gift and add to it every year. Now they’ve committed to further funding through their estate plan.
  • A family account: the Victor and Joan Brown MS Accounting Fellowship
    8/3/22
    Top accounting students will have even more reason to attend UB, thanks to an endowment created on behalf of Victor and Joan Brown.
  • How one gift left a legacy with three local businesswomen
    9/8/22
    UB entrepreneurs will make a lasting impact, thanks to the Huppuch bequest and their Core experience.

The Power of Your Investment

The UB School of Management: Bullish on brainpower. Invested in Buffalo. Committed to leveraging our leadership. Now, we seek visionary donors who recognize that bold investments in knowledge, leadership and skills yield immense returns—for UB, our graduates, our community and our world. We proudly invite you to partner with us, to work with us to build a future for business that is world-changing.

UB Fund: Immediate Support for Students

When you give to the UB Fund, your gift today is made available to help support students today. It’s that immediate. Giving to the UB Fund helps ensure our students have everything they need to become thoughtful global citizens, with 100 percent of gifts used to enhance the student experience, including crucial support for research, study abroad, student emergencies and community service opportunities.

Ready to make a bold impact?

Jeffrey Piscitelli

Senior Executive Director of Advancement, School of Management

907A Kimball Tower, South Campus, Buffalo, NY 14214

Phone: 829-4358

Email: jjpiscit@buffalo.edu

West Richter, MusB '13, BS/MBA '13.

West Richter, MusB '13, BS/MBA '13