UConn Today – The UConn Finance Society hosted its 9th Annual Finance Conference March 28 at Morgan Stanley headquarters in Manhattan. Wall Street leaders joined business students and alumni to discuss trends in equities, dealmaking, and how to start a career in the sector.
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Robert Bird: Legal Strategy is an Untapped Competitive Advantage for Companies
UConn Today – CEOs and corporations should integrate legal strategy – an often-overlooked competitive advantage – into the core of their business plans, says Business law professor Robert Bird.
“Legal knowledge is the last great source of untapped competitive advantage in organizations, and the corporations that recognize this can unlock a storehouse of value creation that their rivals might miss,’’ Bird says.
Equity Now Lecture Series Asks: ‘Is Sustainability Dead?’
UConn Today – Professor John Mandyck, the CEO of the Urban Green Council and the former Chief Sustainability Officer at United Technologies, will speak on the topic, “Is Sustainability Dead?’’ next month.
The presentation is part of the Equity Now speaker series and it will be livestreamed at 6 p.m. March 27. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university are welcome to participate. Pre-registration is required.
With the United States again out of the Paris Climate Treaty and the Trump administration favoring fossil fuels, it’s easy to wonder if the sustainability movement is over. It’s definitely not, according to Mandyck.
Ask the Experts – What Is a Budget?
Wallethub – A budget is a plan that outlines how much of your income should go to different parts of your finances, from monthly bills and day-to-day purchases to savings, charitable donations and investments. Having a budget helps you stay organized while moving toward your financial goals and holding yourself accountable.
Ask the experts – Robert Bird
WalletHub – Zero-based budgeting is a budgeting strategy that involves assigning each dollar of your income to a specific monthly expense, so your income minus your expenses always equals zero. The point of zero-based budgeting is to avoid overspending and to ensure that all the money you make serves a purpose.
Ask the experts – Frank Murphy
WalletHub – Zero-based budgeting is a budgeting strategy that involves assigning each dollar of your income to a specific monthly expense, so your income minus your expenses always equals zero. The point of zero-based budgeting is to avoid overspending and to ensure that all the money you make serves a purpose.
Rising prices hit CT student budgets
ctpublic.org – M’Lynn Gonzalez walks up and down the aisles of her local grocery store, picking up ingredients for dinner tonight. She finds what she needs, heads to the register and rings herself up. She sighs and takes her card out to pay as she reads her total — $40.
Gonzalez, a student at the University of Connecticut, says $40 is the average price she pays at the grocery store for just one dinner’s worth of ingredients. The cost of food and other essential items has risen beyond the budgets of many. Services such as food pantries continue to grow in popularity as the U.S. population deals with the increased costs of essential goods.
With Fierce Work Ethic, Business Students Take First Place in American University Case Challenge
UConn Today – A fierce work ethic, great research, and many hours of practice helped the Husky Case Competition Club win the top prize at the 32nd Kogod Case Competition at American University earlier this month.
Dan Haar: Slow growth quells Connecticut’s claim as the richest state. Who’s No. 1?
CT Insider – That’s a complicated question for a lot of us. For the state as a whole, it’s even more so. Connecticut held the claim as the nation’s richest state, measured by average income per person, from 1987 until 2021. Massachusetts passed us that year, powered by a biotech boom in the Boston area.
UConn Online MBA Program Debuts Highly in New National Ranking
UConn Today – The UConn Online MBA program debuted at No. 33 among the best online programs in the nation, considered an honor for a program that recently entered the academic arena.
Poets & Quants, a news and ranking organization focused on graduate business education, announced the results this week. The UConn program also ranked No. 27 for career outcomes and No. 26 for academic experience.