  UConn's MBA curriculum carefully balances traditional business fundamentals with leading trends in contemporary business management. Add to that, practical real-world application through such learning accelerators as the GE/UConn edgelab and SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator, and you have a well-rounded MBA graduate who is ready and able to add immediate value to a hiring organization. This integrated, comprehensive experience is why Aetna continues to recruit UConn MBAs.
Melissa B. Cummings '98 MBA
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UConn successfully integrates classroom learning with practical applications through innovative experiential learning accelerators. These unique practice-based initiatives integrate traditional teaching and classroom experience with high-profile corporate partnering to significantly close the gap between theory and practice and are what ultimately give UConn MBA students the competitive edge – the highly desirable real-world experience that today’s global businesses demand.
UConn’s experiential learning initiatives bring together talented MBA students, top business faculty, and front-line industry executives to investigate and develop solutions to real-world, real-time, complex challenges facing business today. This intense educational model significantly benefits all parties involved: it offers a real-world lab for ground-breaking faculty research; it delivers tangible, innovative solutions to current market challenges faced by sponsoring companies; and it provides a dynamic learning environment for students that merges traditional education with practical experience.
UConn’s experiential learning initiatives include the GE/UConn edgelab, $2 Million Student Managed Fund, SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator,Innovation Accelerator, and SCOPE (Sustainable Community Outreach & Public Engagement).
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In edgelab, teams of faculty, students and GE managers work together on GE strategic projects with the mandate of challenging assumptions and infuse fresh ideas. The outcome is real innovative solutions for GE's business problems. This is possible by the unique combination of students' energy, intellect, faculty talent, academic knowledge and the amazing environment. There is nothing like it anywhere else.
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UConn’s Innovation Accelerator (IA) assists high-tech entrepreneurial ventures in addressing numerous challenges associated with the identification and capture of business opportunities. The IA utilizes interdisciplinary project teams comprised of graduate students that innovatively solve complex business issues for Connecticut’s technology-based entrepreneurial ventures.
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Operating at the intersection of finance and IT, the SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator serves as a real-world lab for developing solutions to real insurance and financial services industry challenges. Unlike conventional financial trading rooms that have become common at many business schools, 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.
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Established in 1999, UConn’s Student Managed Fund (SMF) is the only one of its kind among New England public research universities, and 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 market theory to help research and analyze stocks, and develop investment strategies.
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SCOPE promotes social entrepreneurship and social innovation by working with non-profit organizations and for-profit companies that have social outreach and community impact as a significant part of their strategic missions. We apply a business-centric lens to improve the sustainability and effectiveness of these organizations. Business Beyond Profit: Enhancing Peoples' Lives One Project at a Time.
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