School of Business Learning Accelerators
 | edgelab Unprecedented in graduate business education, edgelab is a strategic alliance between GE and the UConn School of Business that offers incomparable research facilities and applied research experience for MBA students. Working in an intensive research environment, MBA students collaborate directly with business school faculty and GE executives to generate team-based solutions to real-time, complex, business challenges being faced by the company. Teams are typically comprised of three to five students, two cross-disciplinary faculty members, a GE program manager, and GE subject-matter experts. Offering exciting projects that impact real-time needs of GE businesses, edgelab has become a center of excellence for new product introductions, stochastic/financial modeling, emerging technologies research, process improvement, risk management, and business development.MORE INFO |
 | Innovation Accelerator The Innovation Accelerator (IA) is one of the primary outreach initiatives of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) at the School of Business. The IA assists entrepreneurial ventures in addressing myriad challenges associated with the identification and capture of business opportunities. All projects operate under the guidance of UConn faculty, with the involvement of the senior management of the participating venture, and the advice of the IA’s Solutions Advisory Board. The teams help move innovation forward and the client venture closer to market by engaging in consulting projects such as performing comprehensive market analyses and associated market-entry strategies, developing strategic roadmaps and sustainable business models, fleshing-out business plans, evaluating the market feasibility of emerging technologies, and constructing customer relationship strategies.MORE INFO |
 | SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator The SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator serves as a real-world lab for developing solutions to insurance and financial services industry challenges. UConn’s Financial Accelerator features a live trading floor, real-time stock feeds, a broad array of financial databases and software, and advanced enabling technology. Bright, skilled, and creative students, UConn's top faculty, and front-line financial industry executives work together in focused teams to investigate alternative markets and trader support tools, study insider trading identification and control, review alternative auction market mechanisms, design financial programs and develop products that enhance competitive advantage, evaluate emerging technologies, and create specialized business processes that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and/or increase revenues.MORE INFO |
 | Student Managed Fund (SMF) Established in 1999, UConn’s Student Managed Fund (SMF) is one of only a handful in the nation to have $2 million of real money to manage. Reporting to the University’s Investment Advisory Board, students use their intensive classroom training in stock market theory to help them research and analyze stocks, and develop investment strategies. SMF students also learn the accounting and reporting necessary for professional fund management, and are treated in this regard by the UConn Foundation like any other outside manager of the University's endowment money. Aside from enhancing their marketability to potential employers, students gain vital first-hand experience in investment and portfolio management, and work closely with seasoned professional investment managers within the Investment Advisory Board.MORE INFO |