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...

MBAs Visit GE edgelab for a Day
10/10/2007 - First year (full-time) MBA students recently spent a day at UConn Stamford learning about and getting acquainted with the business school’s highly acclaimed edgelab facility. Unprecedented ...

UTC & Blum Shapiro Executives highlight value of MIS major
10/8/2007 - School of Business students enrolled in OPIM 203C had the opportunity on September 26th of attending an executive lecture given by John Doucette, the current Vice President and Chief Information Offic...

Emeka Okafor '04 Makes $250,000 Gift to UConn
10/1/2007 - Emeka Okafor, the 2003-04 National Player of the Year for the NCAA champion University of Connecticut basketball team and business school finance major, announced Sept. 27 that he will contribute $250...

Deb Reif ’95 MBA, President & CEO of GE Equipment Services, Welcomes Class of 2009
9/28/2007 - Nobody working in the payroll department at GE in 1973 could’ve guessed that the clerk they were sitting next to would be a member of the GE Corporate Executive Committee and be working to develop new...

UConn Stamford MBA Student Awarded NSHMBA & Hansen Scholarships
9/27/2007 - UConn MBA student Monica Flores was recently awarded two educational scholarships – one from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) and one from the Janet and Leo Hansen Scholarship Fund. ...

UConn School of Business Welcomes MBA Class of 2009
8/31/2007 - The UConn full-time MBA Class of 2009 kicked off their two year program with an orientation week focused on team building, networking and acclimation. Each year the Graduate Business Association and t...

Accounting Department Receives Enhancement Fund
8/10/2007 - Gerald '82 and Katrina DesRoches have established a $50,000 endowment to support the Department of Accounting within the School of Business, to be matched by his employer. Mr. DesRoches, managing d...

Dean Earley Visits UConn Prior to January Start
8/8/2007 - Though slated to start his new post at UConn in January, the new School of Business Dean P. Christopher Earley has already made two trips half way around the world to begin working with faculty, staff...