Honorary, Service, and Professional Organizations
Accounting Association
Bridging the gap between the academic and professional worlds, the Accounting Association sponsors events that both bring the industry into the classroom and take the concentrator into the community.
Event highlights:
- Student internship panels and company information sessions.
- EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit Campaign) Program. The IRS trains students to provide tax preparation services to qualified Boston area families.
Email buaa@bu.edu for more information.
Alpha Kappa Psi
Established in 1904 and co-ed since 1976, Alpha Kappa Psi is the oldest and largest professional business fraternity in the country. With its core values of brotherhood, knowledge, integrity, service, and unity, it is recognized as the premier developer of principled business leaders. Through guest speakers from every industry, professional workshops, internships offered exclusively to brothers, community service projects, and social events, AKPsi improves every brother’s college experience and beyond.
American Marketing Association
The American Marketing Association fosters excellence in the field of marketing, providing formal presentations by marketing practitioners and social events with practitioners and the BU marketing faculty.
APICS—The Association for Operations Management
The organization fosters interest and support for Operations & Technology Management students at Boston University School of Management.
Beta Gamma Sigma
Beta Gamma Sigma is the international honor society for students of business. It was established in 1913 by the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business, and Boston University’s chapter was installed in 1925. Its purpose is to encourage and reward outstanding scholarly accomplishments. Students are tapped for membership during their junior or senior year on the basis of their academic performance in the program. Students must rank in the upper seven percent of the junior class or the upper ten percent of the senior class to be eligible for membership.
Boston University Marketing
Boston University Marketing is an on-campus student association for those who have an interest in the marketing field. Through guest speakers and other events planned throughout the year, Boston University Marketing connects students with the marketing world outside of the classroom.
Boston University Finance and Investment Club
The Boston University Finance and Investment Club offers all students at Boston University an insight into the world of finance and an opportunity to learn by practical experience. Comprehensive analysis is conducted by meeting with company executives, analyzing their companies, and reporting to their board members. Club members interact with professionals in the field of finance to discuss career paths and establish long-term working relationships between corporations and the University. The Club hosts interactive tutorials that explore topics to an extent above and beyond the undergraduate and even the MBA level. They also host a credited directed study in which students manage and optimize a real money portfolio. Members graduate full of hands-on experience and with a network of contacts within the industry. For additional information please email.
BSBA Private Equity Club
The BSBA Private Equity Club was founded to stimulate student interest in an ever-growing profession offering lucrative salaries, and to help students obtain knowledge about the industry through guest speakers (professors and industry experts), current events articles, major player analysis, simulation of leveraged buyouts, research, and social events, and possibly a field trip (i.e., conferences at Wharton, Tuck, or Stern and dinner networking events).
Corporate Law Society
The Corporate Law Society is an organization dedicated to the study of business law. It sponsors various law panels and offers members exclusive discussions with industry professionals, including partners at some of the country’s most prestigious law firms. The organization also hosts a mock trial, as well as open forum discussions throughout the semester on current legal issues and cases. The organization is open to both concentrators and non-concentrators, and no prior legal knowledge is necessary.
Dean’s Hosts
The Dean’s Hosts are a group of 25–30 talented, studious, and articulate students who have been competitively selected to host visitors to the School of Management. They guide tours for special guests and prospective students, serve as hosts at special SMG functions, and participate in SMG recruitment events.
Delta Sigma Pi
Delta Sigma Pi is a professional business fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social activity, and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce; and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture as well as the civic and commercial welfare of the community.
Diversity in Management
This organization serves to advance the movement of diversity throughout the management community. This will be accomplished by the enrichment of diversity within the student body by serving as representatives to potential students, and by establishing relationships between our members and those in the management field. This group is for all students interested in management, regardless of declared concentration.
Entrepreneurship Club
The Entrepreneurship Club is a networking organization dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship for undergraduates. We meet successful, unsuccessful, and active entrepreneurs to build relationships to help start new ventures, inform personal decisions on whether entrepreneurship is right for us, and connect with the Boston entrepreneurial community.
Fashion and Retail Association
The Fashion and Retail Association of Boston University (FAB) is an excellent outlet for BU students who are interested in the design, marketing, public relations, retail, publishing, and management aspects of the fashion industry. Members gain valuable knowledge and experience through seminars, guest speakers, networking events, company site visits in New York, student-run fashion shows, and more.
International Management Organization
The International Management Organization aims at fostering SMG students’ interest in the International Management concentration and the field in general. Club activities not only expand students’ horizons to include global business issues, but also provide opportunities to get to know international students from all over the world.
LOCK Honorary Service Society
LOCK is the oldest student organization at SMG, established in 1924 by Professor Charles Stratton and Lyman Phillips. LOCK was founded and still operates on the belief that those who have the privilege of scholarship must share what they have gained. LOCK members aim to fulfill that responsibility by providing their peers in SMG with tutoring help in all required SMG courses and performing other community services.
Management Consulting Association
The Management Consulting Association (BUMAC) provides a forum for students to learn more about the consulting industry and to acquire the skills necessary for a career in consulting. Through guest speakers, volunteer consulting projects, intensive case analysis, and résumé development sessions, we seek to make Boston University students competitive candidates for positions at leading consultancies.
Management Information Systems Club
The MIS Club helps unite and create a forum between students, alumni, faculty, and recruiters interested in the field of Information Systems Management. The purpose of the group is to promote the awareness of Management Information Systems and provide an opportunity for collaboration between members. We will focus on: 1) inviting companies to campus to talk about different careers, 2) creating scholarship opportunities, and 3) establishing and maintaining relationships with companies who hire MIS students.
Media and Entertainment Club
The Media and Entertainment Club is an organization for students interested in the entertainment industry. The club provides a forum for students to network with professionals, participate and assist in the organization of local events, and learn about potential internships and career opportunities in the various media and entertainment fields. Membership is open to students of any school/college, and meetings are held as needed.
Real Estate Club
The Real Estate Club seeks to give students an understanding of the real estate industry by discussing topics such as land development, construction, architecture, financing, property management, and the relationships that can turn an empty plot of earth into a new building. Guest speakers attend meetings to discuss their roles in the real estate industry, and occasional outings to a building or construction site are also scheduled.
SMGazette
The SMGazette is a student-run business newsletter covering business school news, events, and global business stories.
SMG Student Government
Student Government plans educational and social activities for undergraduate students and acts as a liaison between students and the administration. There are many leadership opportunities available to positively contribute to the SMG community throughout the year. Weekly General Assembly meetings are open to all SMG undergraduates.
Sports Management Association
The Sports Management Association was created to give all students the chance to experience sports from a different perspective. We offer students of any year, both graduate and undergraduate, the opportunity to go behind the scenes and learn about the management aspects of professional sports through guest speakers, sports venue tours, attending/volunteering for sports events, and discussion panels.
Students in Free Enterprise
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) is a global, nonprofit organization that is literally changing the world through highly dedicated student teams on more than 1,600 university campuses in 40 countries. SIFE offers students the opportunity to develop leadership, teamwork, and communication skills through learning, practicing, and teaching the principles of free enterprise, thereby improving the standard of living for millions in the process. The organization is dedicated to developing community outreach projects that embrace SIFE’s five educational topics: market economics, success skills, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and business ethics. Membership involves active participation in helping communities in each of these five areas. More information can be found on the organization’s website at www.sife.org.
