April 30, 2026
UConn Today – The School of Business has announced the creation of a new endowed accounting professorship, supported through a collaboration with KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax, and advisory firm, to help attract and retain high-performing educators in UConn’s Accounting Department.
April 29, 2026
UConn Today – Researchers examined more than 6,000 cohorts of MBA and law students over several decades and found that having even one additional minority student among a cohort of 100 students increased starting salaries cumulatively across the cohort by up to $30,000
April 28, 2026
UConn Today – The UConn School of Business inducted five new alumni into the Hall of Fame on Friday night. All are giants in their fields, ranging from space travel to healthcare, professional basketball, and more.
Every one of them spoke passionately about the lasting impact their UConn education, experiences, and friendships had on their careers and their lives.
WFSB.com – Dorian Zwierewicz, director of the CTSBDC, and TJ Noel-Sullivan, founder of the Hartford Film Company, discuss an organization that helps small businesses.
April 23, 2026
UConn Today – The Innovation Quest (iQ) entrepreneurship competition crowned five new champions on April 20, with innovations that included a novel manufacturing innovation, a system for making tuition payments easier, and tool to help protect creative endeavors from being usurped by AI.
The students ranged from a second-semester freshman to a ready-to-graduate Ph.D. candidate. Together, they shared $35,000 in prize money.
April 17, 2026
UConn Today – Sean Howard ’29 (BUS) is not a code writer or a programmer.
He doesn’t have a background in computer science, and he comes from a family of teachers, not engineers.
But the first-year School of Business student from Branford, who hasn’t settled on his major quite yet, is an entrepreneur, which means that he tends to look at the world around him with an entrepreneurial mindset – seeing a need, and then trying to meet that need with a solution.
And in his first semester at UConn Storrs, he found a need.
April 16, 2026
UConn Today – Two student teams from the UConn School of Business’s Business Analytics and Project Management (MSBAPM) master’s program won competitions at the QuantumUP! hackathon at the UConn Graduate Business Learning Center in Hartford on April 8, combining cutting-edge technologies, innovation, and collaboration to solve complicated transportation issues. Both teams will be awarded $5,000 prizes.
April 14, 2026
UConn Today – Growing up as an impoverished child in Southern Italy, Antonietta ‘Toni’ (Iannuzzi) Boucher ’02 MBA never attended school. She and her brother were often left home alone, supervised by the family dog, while their parents worked in the fields. Her only toy was a “doll’’ consisting of a stone wrapped in one of her mother’s dishtowels.
At age 5, her family left their modest farmhouse, with its dirt floor, no running water, and no bathroom, and embarked on a new life in America.
April 8, 2026
UConn Today – The University has announced plans to relaunch its search for a permanent dean of the School of Business.
Management professor Greg Reilly, who has filled the interim dean position for more than a year, will return to the faculty in mid-May, and OPIM professor Robert ‘Bob’ Day will take the top leadership post until a permanent dean is named.
April 7, 2026
UConn Today – Several of UConn’s graduate and professional degree programs rank among the nation’s best, reflecting its emphasis on providing an innovative, rigorous, and supportive educational experience to guide those students to professional and personal success.
U.S. News & World Report’s new rankings, released Tuesday, showed several UConn graduate programs earning high marks across its campuses, including some that entered the rankings for the first time with impressive debuts.