GE/UConn edgelab

Unprecedented in graduate business education, the UConn/GE edgelab offers incomparable research facilities and exceptional learning and applied experience for UConn MBA students. Working in an intensive, deadline-driven environment, MBA students collaborate directly with business school faculty and GE managers to generate team-based solutions to real-time, complex, business challenges being faced by GE.

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. 

Since the inception of edgelab, student teams have tackled and delivered on more than 90 critical path strategic business projects, including projects requiring: 1) the integration of wireless technologies to maintain critical medical services while enabling safe handling and human bonding in neo-natal care, 2) creative and viable business strategies for renewable energy, 3) IT enabled auction markets for pollution credits, and 4) IT enhanced fraud prevention processes.

Testimonials

UConn’s GE edgelab gave me the opporutnitye to learn how a large courporateion can use information technology, finance and marketing to solve problems and find new ways of doing thingss. At edgelab, I learned so much from the interrelationships between students, professors and GE managers. Having these different perspectives made our project status meetings lively and dynamic, and contribute out our projects’ success. Richard Rivas '03 MBA P&L Analyst, S.A.C. Capital Advisors

What had started as a modest project in edgelab of developing a [Consumer Mortgage] risk assessment model grew into a global initiative and a paradigm shift in risk management at GECF. Modeling skills gained in edgelab fast-forwarded my career 10 years ahead. Edgelab was certainly one of the best things that happened in my career, and my success today would not be possible without it. Irina Tsikhelashvili Moore '04 MBA Vice President of Risk Management, GE Money Recipient of the GE Edison Award