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Unique, Creative Startups Win $30,000
Innovation Quest Tops Participation Record; Winners Present Vastly Different, Creative Startup Ideas
The winners of this year’s Innovation Quest (iQ) competition had a unique set of people to credit for inspiring their success, including:
- A friend with a teddy bear tattoo, emblazoned with his ex-girlfriend’s name;
- A waitress who was trying to handle a mad-house of customers during a blizzard, when the rest of the wait staff didn’t show up;
- A little brother who leaves his EpiPen home because it is too bulky to carry;
- Americans who have very polarized beliefs about political events, depending on which news source they follow.
Senior Business Students Pause, Reflect as Commencement Nears
As this year’s graduating seniors prepare for their careers, we asked a few School of Business students to reflect on their time spent at the University of Connecticut.
Each with different stories, memories and struggles to share, this year’s graduating class is as unique as they are impressive. Continue Reading
CEO Evolution 2017
Business Executives to Share Insight, Strategy at Stamford Program
Two prominent executives will reveal the secrets to business success at the fourth annual “CEO Evolution” from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, in the GenRe Auditorium at the University of Connecticut, One University Place, in Stamford, Conn.
The program is presented by Citrin Cooperman, the UConn School of Business and the Fairfield County Business Journal. Continue Reading
Graduate Student Investors’ Portfolio #1
UConn Beat 100 Colleges in Quinnipiac G.A.M.E. Challenge
The UConn Student Managed Fund Graduate Team won first-place in a highly competitive Student-Managed Portfolio Competition, besting some 100 colleges from all over the world. Continue Reading
Business Fundamentals: Gateway to a Business Minor
For the third year in a row, the School of Business is offering a 10-credit summer business program for undergraduate, non-business majors who want to gain valuable business knowledge and expand their marketability. Continue Reading
‘Always Think About the Common Good’
Personal Story of Overcoming Homelessness Adds Powerful Dimension to Net Impact Panel Discussion
Daryl Shore‘s personal story silenced the crowd at the inaugural meeting of the new UConn graduate students’ Net Impact chapter, an organization of people eager to make a positive change in the environment and the world. Continue Reading
Three Marketing Professors to Retire
School of Business Wishes a Happy Future to Professors Carrafiello, Spiggle and Ross
Kayaking in South Carolina, reading, gardening and tackling new research projects are on the retirement ‘to-do’ lists of three prominent Marketing Department professors.
This year’s three School of Business retirees all hail from the Marketing Department, and include: Continue Reading
UConn Senior Margo Bailey Awarded Fulbright
Bailey Plans Career Helping Kids Appreciate Foreign Languages, Cultures, People
How do you top a college career that includes two study-abroad trips, internships at international companies, and a three-part honors thesis exploring bilingual advertising and the toy industry?
Margo Bailey, a senior honors student majoring in marketing, did it by earning a Fulbright Scholarship. Continue Reading
Leadership: 3 Tips for Students
Associate Director for Leadership Development Offers Students Three Tips to Maximize Their Potential
“Great ideas and innovations come from people who ask: what if we do it a different way?”
Joseph Briody ’86, UConn’s associate director for leadership development, still uses the background knowledge and skills that his accounting education gave him, but in non-financial ways. Continue Reading