Dean Earley Envisions a Global Business School
1/28/2008 - Dr. P. Christopher Earley, the new dean of the University of Connecticut School of Business, believes there are great opportunities to the make the school more visible and deeply engaged with business...

New Faculty & Staff - Fall 2007
1/28/2008 - On the move - new faculty and staff appointments for Fall 2007. NEW DEPARTMENT HEADS ANNOUNCED Dr. Robin Coulter, Professor of Marketing and Ackerman Scholar, was recently appointed ...

Experiencing Business in China
1/3/2008 - More than thirty MBA students traveled to China for the Thanksgiving holiday to experience first-hand much of what they had been learning all semester long in two of UConn's MBA courses – OPIM 300: In...

Hartford EMBA Student Awarded John Ben Snow Memorial Scholarship
12/17/2007 - UConn Executive MBA (EMBA) student Julie Gamble was recently awarded the John Ben Snow Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $10,000. Gamble, director of finance and operations for the Community Econo...

School Hosts 2007 Undergraduate Business & Career Exploration Conference
12/12/2007 - On Friday, November 9th, 2007, more than 150 undergraduate students attended the annual Business & Career Exploration Conference hosted by the Undergraduate Program Office. This year's topic, Essentia...

Marketing Ph.D. Candidate Wins Best Doctoral Dissertation on Retailing
12/11/2007 - Marketing doctoral candidate Denish Shah recently won the 2007 Levy and Weitz Doctoral Dissertation Competition, sponsored by the Miller Center for Retailing Education and Research at the University o...

Business Students Win Collegiate Business Plan Competition
12/7/2007 - Following presentations to a panel of financial and business start-up experts, a business plan for 4Paws Mobile Pet Grooming, submitted by UConn-Stamford business students Ewa Lupinska and Tsz (Janet)...

UConn School of Business Briefs - December 2007
12/3/2007 - In this issue: Management professor accepts positions on editorial boards of three premier journals; UConn to host Women's Conference in 2008; Student Managed Fund members present to the Investment Ad...

Public Accounting Report Ranks UConn Accounting Programs
11/27/2007 - UConn's undergraduate Accounting program and Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) program debuted in this year's Public Accounting Report (PAR) annual rankings. In its October 31, 2007 edition th...

Accounting majors try their hand at investigating tax fraud
11/26/2007 - "Special tax agents" Jose Garcia and Demetrios Psarofagis – whose day jobs are studying accounting at UConn's School of Business – recently found themselves across a table from Chris Shots, owner of C...

UConn School of Business Briefs - November 2007
11/5/2007 - In this issue: Robert Bird presented with two awards, Shantaram Hegde publishes book, and the UConn Finance Society participates in Travelers case competition. Wal-Mart COO Kicks Off MBA 50th Celebration
10/26/2007 - "Seek out new experiences and things that are not the norm." That's the message William S. Simon delivered in an October 13, 2007 keynote speech highlighting a daylong celebration of the 50th anniv...

Lin Klein Completes HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education
10/23/2007 - Associate dean and finance professor Dr. Linda (Lin) Klein recently completed the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration. The Summer Institute is sponsored jointl...

UConn Awarded New Federal Center
10/17/2007 - A new federal center to be established at the University of Connecticut may help determine which treatments your doctor recommends and which prescription drugs your health plan covers. The five-yea...

Vernon Releases Report Estimating Cost of Low Health Literacy - $106 - 236 Billion Annually
10/11/2007 - A new report released today from the University of Connecticut states that the cost of low health literacy to the United States economy is in the range of $106 billion to $236 billion annually. Accor...