UConn Today – Former Connecticut State Sen. Antonietta “Toni” Boucher ’02 MBA and her husband, Henry “Bud” Boucher, had a lot to celebrate in 2020. They had just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and Bud, a management consultant and entrepreneur, had reached his greatest career success. The couple had always wanted to do philanthropic work, and now they would have the financial means to do so.
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The Right Man for the Job
UConn Magazine – When Greg Lewis ’91 (BUS) teaches executive leadership seminars at Honeywell, where he is the Senior Vice President and CFO, there is one story he inevitably shares.
If you want to be a leader, you need to think like one, he says. And there was a pivotal moment when he learned that lesson.
Real Estate Alum David Wharmby Returns to UConn As Program Director
UConn Today – As a new business student, David ‘Dave’ Wharmby ’89 (BUS), ’02 MBA took an introductory real estate course that changed his life.
“Professor Byrl Boyce was a very personable guy, with a dry sense of humor, who really wanted to make sure we understood the material,’’ Wharmby says. “He took some complex financial math and went over it again and again, until students really felt like they were masters of difficult material.’’
UConn Will Name New Hockey Arena the Toscano Family Ice Forum
UConn Startup Uses Tech To Ensure Breastfed Babies Thrive
UConn Today – At least half of breastfeeding mothers stop nursing by their infant’s second week of life, largely due to concerns about the baby receiving enough milk.
UConn alumnae Jayme Coates MS ’07, MBA ’10 and Brittany Molkenthin ’17 (NUR) believe they have created a solution. Lactation Innovations is an easy-to-use, non-invasive technology that may alleviate mothers’ concerns.
At-Risk High Schoolers Learning Personal Finance Basics at UConn
UConn Today – About 50 students from four high schools in Hartford and East Hartford have been traveling by bus to UConn’s Storrs campus for several Saturdays this spring to learn the basics of personal finance. Among those lessons are how to open a bank account, managing personal spending, and ways to fund a college education.
In Memoriam: EBV Director Michael Zacchea
Dad and Daughter Huskies Ready to Walk the Gampel Stage – Together
Michelle Cote, Relentless Advocate for Innovation and Hartford, Named A Top Woman in Business
Michelle Cote, a relentless advocate for innovation in Hartford, and an instructor at the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, will be honored with a Top 25 Women in Business Award by The Hartford Business Journal.Continue Reading
Serial Entrepreneur, UConn Alum Nadav Ullman Tackling Supply Chain Nightmare
UConn Today – When UConn alumnus and serial entrepreneur Nadav Ullman ‘12 (BUS) created Project N95, a national clearinghouse vetting PPE from around the world in the thick of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, he discovered something more daunting than a shortage of surgical masks and gloves.
He realized the whole global supply chain process was broken.