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Combined Power of GE Store Helps CPV Move Forward with High Efficiency 7HA Technology at Connecticut Plant
Bloomberg– A study by the University of Connecticut’s Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis (CCEA) projects construction and operation of CPV Towantic will generate more than $7.9 billion in new personal income for Connecticut residents over the next 25 years and will create, at its peak in the construction phase, more than 2,300 positions.
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Student Interview: Yaacov Kopeliovich
EDHEC Business School – You recently obtained a faculty position in the Finance department of the School of Business at the University of Connecticut. You are the first of our graduates in the executive track of the programme to become a permanent faculty member in an academic institution. This is quite a career change. Can you tell us what made this change possible?
On 31 August 2015 when I entered to give my first lecture as a new faculty of the finance department in the University of Connecticut, I completed a personal
journey transferring from industry to academia. Let me try to capture in a few sentences the main stages of this career change.
Differences Between Not-for-Profits and For-Profit Hospitals Marginal
Health Leaders Magazine – “The absence of a residual claimant with a financial interest in the organization means that no one individual, or group of individuals, has strong incentives to monitor the behavior of the organization at nonprofit hospitals,” Rexford Santerre, Ph.D. , a professor of finance and healthcare management at the University of Connecticut, wrote in a National Bureau of Economic Research report with a Finance Department colleague John Vernon, Ph.D.
MGM Springfield Could Be ‘Devastating Blow’ to Conn. Gaming, Tribal Leaders Say at Hearing
Nonprofit Profile: Greater Hartford Legal Aid
Hartford Business Journal – The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) awarded a total of $11,000 to four students from UConn’s School of Business, all majoring in real estate and urban economics.
Why Are There So Many Mattress Stores?
WFMY News 2 – John Clapp studies retail at the University of Connecticut. He says it’s common for companies to cover an area with their own stores.
“It’s a game they’re playing with each other. Of course they’re trying to do well with sales but they’re also trying to block each other out,” says Clapp.
UConn Business School Announces 10 New Professors
Hartford Business Journal – The UConn School of Business has welcomed 10 new professors to this year’s faculty roster.
Sports Sponsorship and Stock Returns
BYU Radio – Asaaf Eisdorfer, associate professor of finance at the University of Connecticut, and author of the study, “Corporate Sport Sponsorship and Stock Returns: Evidence from the NFL.” Eisdorfer’s study seeks to examine the effect on Sponsor’s stock returns after game day. Eisdorfer shares his findings.