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News Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management and Technology Named One of the 25 Best Entrepreneurial Programs in the Nation by Entrepreneur Magazine HARTFORD, CONN – Entrepreneur magazine has named the technological entrepreneurship program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management and Technology one of the 25 best entrepreneurial programs in the nation. The magazine’s "Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities" is featured in the April 2003 issue. More than 700 entrepreneurship programs were researched for the piece, and final listings were based on more than 30 criteria, including curriculum, teaching and research faculty, degrees and certificates offered, research centers and institutes, advisory boards, and business-community outreach. The complete list is available online at: www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges. "Rensselaer has a long track record of success in providing its students with the skills they need to take their ideas and technologies to market," said Denis Fred Simon, dean of Rensselaer’s Lally School. "Our ‘techno-MBA program’ channels the passion and energy of our students, and helps them develop new ideas and concepts into commercially relevant products and services. What differentiates Lally is our first-year MBA course, Design, Marketing and Manufacturing, which allows students the opportunity to develop, market, and create their own products and services." Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management and Technology is comprised of two departments: one in Hartford, Connecticut, and one in Troy, New York. The Lally School and all its programs are based upon three core principles: 1) Technology is becoming a primary source of competitive advantage in all sectors of the economy, 2) The ability to convert technology to competitive advantage is a function of managerial practice, and 3) The conventional style of business education, isolated from technology, is obsolete. A new paradigm of business education, in which management and technology are blended together, is required.
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