Nora Madjar-Nanovska, Assistant Professor, Management Department; Han Srinivasan, Associate Professor and Fulbright Senior Specialist, Marketing Department; and Tim Dowding, Professor In-Residence Operations and Information Management Department, received Fulbright Awards this year. Nora received a full research award that she will be pursuing this fall and Profs. Srinivasan and Dowding have been selected for Fulbright Specialist Awards for intensive visits abroad. Having three Fulbright Awards for the business school in the same year is a great sign of our recognition of being a globally-focused school.
Month: March 2011
Prof. Karla Fox Received University Service Award
Karla Fox, Professor, Business Law, Marketing Department and Executive Director, MBA Programs, has won the University Service Award for 2011. The University Service Award is presented by the UConn Alumni Association to honor alumni, faculty, staff and friends whose volunteer efforts have enriched the depth and stature of UConn.
Prof. Hussein Elected to University Senate
The University Senate has announced that Mohamed Hussein, Professor and Department Head, Accounting, UConn School of Business, has been elected to the University Senate for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2011 and ending June 30, 2014. The University Senate is a legislative body responsible for establishing minimum rules and general regulations pertaining to all undergraduate schools and colleges. The Senate also is responsible for establishing general educational policy in areas not reserved to the Board of Trustees, to the administration, or to the several faculties.
Students from the Program for Sales Leadership compete in the National Collegiate Sales Competition
Melanie Nunes, a senior psychology major, and Michael Ferrone, a junior marketing major, represented UConn at the 13th Annual National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC), hosted by the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. Melanie and Michael’s performances placed UConn in the top 3rd of the 61 schools that competed. Melanie made it to the wildcard round, having placed 3rd in her first round session. Michael made it to the quarterfinals, having placed 4th in his first round session, and 1st in his Wildcard round session.
Inaugurated in 1999, the National Collegiate Sales Competition is the largest and oldest sales role-play competition in existence. Instituted for the purpose of enhancing the practice and professionalism of the sales profession. The NCSC, places students in simulated one-on-one sales call challenges. Each sales call is broadcast live to faculty and recruiters, who evaluate each student’s performance.
The NCSC hosts the top collegiate sales talent and sales faculty from the most elite University Sales Programs in North America. Up-coming sales graduates are provided a venue for sharpening their sales skills in a highly competitive environment and networking with their peers and sales faculty from across the United States. NCSC Corporate Sponsors have the opportunity to network with and preview the elite talent and greatly contribute to their education and careers and in turn make a great investment in the future of the sales profession.
Pictured (left to right): Cyndi Soucy, Whitney McIntosh, Melanie Nunes, Michael Ferrone
Connecticut’s Leading MBA Programs to Compete in Second Annual ACG Connecticut Cup Competition
ACG Connecticut, the Connecticut Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the premier authority on corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions, will hold the second annual ACG Connecticut Cup Competition on March 28, 2011 at the offices of RBS Business Capital in Stamford, CT. Continue Reading
Alumna to receive an Honors Distinguished Alumni Award
On Friday April 29th and Saturday April 30th Nicole McKinney Lindsay, a School of Business alum, will be visiting UConn to receive an Honors Distinguished Alumni Award. On Friday she will be giving a presentation to students, faculty and staff at 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in the Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room. She will speak about her nonprofit career and her advice to students regarding careers in this field. Refreshments will be served.
Nicole Lindsay is Executive Director of New York Needs You (NYNY), a start-up non-profit which supports first-generation college students in realizing their college and career ambitions. Ms. Lindsay joined NYNY in September 2009 as the first staff person. Now the organization has a six-person staff and an operating budget of $1.2MM. NYNY closes the opportunity gap through the most intensive career mentorship program in New York City, enabling high-potential, first-generation college students to realize their college and career aspirations. NYNY is the only non-profit in NYC that focuses exclusively on first-generation college students. The primary components of the NYNY curriculum are life planning, career development, and community leadership. The first class of 50 NYNY Fellows began the two-year program in June 2010 and recruitment for the second class is underway. Previously, she was the Vice President of Talent Development at Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), overseeing all program-related activities.
Ms. Lindsay earned her BS in Business Administration and graduated as an Honors Scholar from the University of Connecticut in 1996. She attended UConn with her twin brother, Anthony McKinney ’97 and her favorite pastime during her time at UConn was cheering for him and her friends on the Husky football team. She then enrolled in a joint JD/MBA program at the University of Virginia. Ms. Lindsay received a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, in 2000 and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business in 2000. Upon graduation, she joined Wachovia Bank as a Corporate Finance Associate and later moved into Community Development Finance as a program manager. In 2003, Nicole became the Associate Director of Admissions and Student Affairs at the Yale School of Management (SOM), overseeing minority and women’s admissions and diversity student affairs. She was instrumental in diversifying the applicant pool and in increasing the number of underrepresented minorities that matriculated at the SOM.
While at the SOM, Ms. Lindsay also served as a coach for MLT’s Career Prep program, aiding eight college juniors in their career exploration and development process. She later managed MBA recruiting initiatives for Goldman Sachs at the Wharton School, Chicago Graduate Schools of Business (GSB), Kelloggat Northwestern, and the Tuck School at Dartmouth before joining MLT full-time as director of the Career Prep program in June 2006. In February 2007, Ms. Lindsay became Director of the Career Prep and MBA Prep programs for MLT and in July 2008 was promoted to Vice President.
Ms. Lindsay serves on the UVA Darden School Alumni Board, the Board of Directors of New York Chapter of the UConn Alumni Association, on the Advisory Board of MOVE, an NYC-based high school mentoring program, and is licensed to practice law in Connecticut and Georgia. She is a 2010 recipient of the Rebirth Renaissance Award for Perpetuating Excellence and Leading Generation Now from the New York Urban League Young Professionals.
She is married to Josiah Lindsay.
UConn B-School Featured in the Princeton Review’s “The Best 300 Business Schools: 2011 Edition”
UConn is an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2011 edition of its book, “The Best 300 Business Schools” (Random House / Princeton Review).
According to Robert Franek, Princeton Review Senior VP-Publishing, “We are pleased to recommend UConn’s School of Business as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an MBA. We chose the 300 business schools in this book based on our high opinion of their academic programs and offerings, as well as our review of institutional data we collect from the schools. We also strongly consider the candid opinions of students attending the schools who rate and report on their campus experiences at their schools on our survey for the book.”Continue Reading