Republican American – The UConn-Waterbury School of Business and Main Street Waterbury will hold a workshop for the business community on Sept. 15. The session, titled Exploring Pivot Points: Creating Space for Opportunity, will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the school’s multipurpose room at 99 East Main Street.
Author: Claire Hall
Report Shows Slow Recovery from Recession
From Contest to Success: Following iQ Startups
Blue Edge Labs – The UCONN program is run by Dr. Richard Dino, a professor from the School of Business with an endless amount of enthusiasm and encouragement. Keith Fox, an alumnus of UCONN, provides iQ support from the national program level. In addition to Rich and Keith, there are twenty or more individuals both inside and outside the University who provide mentoring and other program support.
Job Recovery Has Been Steady, But Slow, Under Malloy
New Haven Register – Malloy’s Republican opponent, Tom Foley, has suggested elimination of the business entity tax, a cut to sales tax and the creation of enterprise zones in the city’s hardest hit by the recession could resuscitate Connecticut’s economy and labor market. But Fred Carstensen, University of Connecticut finance and economics professor and the director of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis, isn’t sold on Foley’s ideas.
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How to Build a 21st-Century Business Plan
Hartford Business Journal – Q&A talks about the evolution of business plans with Timothy B. Folta, a UConn professor and Thomas John and Bette Wolff Family chair in strategic entrepreneurship.
State’s Sales Tax ‘Holiday’ for Clothing, Shoes Starts Sunday
Greenwich Housing Market Shows Signs of Strength
McKinney Seeks to Eliminate Middle-Class Income Tax
UConn Students Compete in 7th Annual Business Language Case Competition
On Friday, November 8, three students from the University of Connecticut traveled to Provo, Utah to compete in the Seventh Annual Business Language Case Competition at the Brigham Young University (BYU) Marriott School of Business. The three students were Sarah Scheffel ’14, a senior who is majoring in international business with a minor in Spanish, Akanksha Singh ’16, a second-year student studying finance and Spanish, and Jonathan Sanchez ’14 (CLAS), a political science major also in his last year. The team was accompanied by Kelly Aceto, Managing Director of the UConn Center for International Business Education and Research.
The competition was conducted in two categories: Spanish and Mandarin. All of the participants were non-native speakers of each language. The team from UConn participated in the Spanish competition, in which they had to read a case about Wal-Mart’s expansion into organics, create an executive summary and PowerPoint presentation, and answer ten minutes of questions all in Spanish.
Overall, the BYU competition was an incredible experience for the students who took part because it allowed them to showcase their business acumen and foreign language skills, sharpen their presentation skills for real-life global business situations, and network with international business professionals who served as judges and coaches, as well as the other participants. Other schools present at the competition were Arizona State University, University of Miami, Indiana University, American University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Washington, University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania, Utah State University, and University of Notre Dame. This is the first year that UConn has participated in the Business Language Case Competition.
The UConn team was sponsored by the UConn Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), which is one of the 33 CIBERs located in top business schools throughout the U.S. The UConn CIBER is mandated to increase the competitiveness of U.S. business in the global marketplace.
The Value of a Day’s Work: Panel Addresses Pay Equity
Women make up 48% of Connecticut’s labor force, and yet in 2011, Connecticut full-time working women earned just 78% of what their male counterparts earned, according to a research brief on pay equity by the Connecticut General Assembly Permanent Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW).Continue Reading