The Daily Campus – Robin Coulter, a professor at UConn and head of the marketing department within the School of Business, offered her perspective on this year’s Black Friday. Coulter echoed the idea that some find it objectionable to shop on Thanksgiving, while adding that there are a variety of reasons for people to shop online over a “brick and mortar store.”
Author: Melissa Ferrigno
Economist Fred Carstensen: No Public Investment in R&D, Infrastructure Destroys U.S. Growth, Competitiveness
Seeking Alpha –
Summary
- The Fed’s small rate hike won’t affect much, except strengthening the dollar.
- 150,000 to 250,000 new jobs a month not the gains of our historic recoveries.
- Chinese slowdown lops half a percent off U.S. growth
Do Managers Seek Control and Entrenchment?
The CLS Blue Sky Blog – Do managers seek control of the firm, or the level of ownership consistent with entrenchment? Entrenched managers own shares within a range which is high enough to give them control, but sufficiently low to make other shareholders bear the brunt of their non-value maximizing actions. There is a large literature on how entrenched managers can benefit themselves by extracting wealth from other shareholders, but conclusive evidence that managers seek entrenchment is currently lacking.
Pink Tax Forces Women to Pay More for Products
WFSB Channel 3 TV- Women are shelling out thousands of dollars more on products that are marketed to women, over the same things that are geared toward men.
Women may want to start looking in the men’s section if they want to save some extra money.
Experts estimate women pay $1,400 more each year on products that are marketed toward them, and over $100,000 in a lifetime.
It is called the ‘Pink Tax.’
Meriden Veteran Goes from Military Service to Entrepreneurship
Record-Journal- When Gulaid and Davina Ismail’s second child Issaq was born three years ago, the child suffered from acid reflux so badly he threw up often. The couple was going through plenty of infant clothes.
“We were constantly changing clothes and throwing them out when they get stained,” Davina said. “So we asked ourselves ‘why don’t we start making clothes ourselves?'”
Gulaid Ismail, a U.S. Marine who served seven months in Fallujah, Iraq, was able to get some assistance from Veterans Administration programs and the couple soon started Dribblebabies, a baby and toddler web-based store for parents five years after his honorable discharge.
America in Circulation: A History of U.S. Currency
Flying the ‘Husky Flag’ in Far Away Kosovo
UConn has reason to be proud of everyone associated with the University who has served in the armed forces through the years. This group with UConn connections is currently serving in Kosovo where they proudly display the Husky banner. To them and to all who are currently serving at home and abroad, we say ‘Thanks for your service.’
UConn Graduates Scott and Krista Yaglowski are Doing Double Duty Overseas
Walking the nighttime perimeter of his base in Kabul, Afghanistan, First Lieutenant Scott Yaglowski ’12 (CLAS) may well be dreaming of wings. Wings from Wings Over Storrs. The West Texas Mesquite to be precise.
Yaglowski says going out for those wings is one of the first things he plans to do when his tour ends and he comes home to Connecticut, in December or January. At the top of his list, however, is seeing his family in Newington and hugging his little sister.
Unfortunately he will have to wait a bit longer to hug his older sister. Krista Yaglowski ’09 (BUS), also an Army First Lieutenant in the Connecticut National Guard, is stationed in Kosovo until the spring.
Merger and Acquisitions Class Helps Students Specialize, Diversify
The Daily Campus – A new merger and acquisitions class at the University of Connecticut helps specialize and distinguish business students in the job market and increase the reputation of the business school.
How Veterans Can Sign Up for Entrepreneurial Training Through College Initiatives
New York Post- Last year, Army Reserves veteran Dr. Stephannie L. Addo-Zuniga was knee-deep in the trenches on a daily basis from 8 a.m. to midnight, relying on her tenacity and perseverance to pull her through.
This wasn’t army bootcamp, but an intense learning initiative offered through Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities at the University of Connecticut.