citibizlist.com – Cushman & Wakefield announced today that Executive Managing Director Jared Thal was awarded “Alumni of the Year” by the University of Connecticut’s Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies, at the university’s Annual Awards Banquet on Thursday, April 27th, 2017.
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A Connecticut Marine Reflects On His Mission In Iraq
WNPR – Connecticut U.S. Marine Michael Zacchea had a job to do in 2004: train and lead the first Iraqi Army battalion after the U.S. disbanded the country’s military post invasion.
This hour, we revisit our conversation with Zacchea, and co-author Ted Kemp about their book The Ragged Edge which details the challenges Zacchea faced leading a diverse group of Iraqis.
Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, UConn, on Effect of Rail Rapid Transit on Commercial Property
Rensselaer Department of Economics– The Department of Economics, in conjunction with the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment (CITE) of the School of Engineering, is pleased to present a talk by Dr. Jeffrey P. Cohen, Associate Professor of Business, University of Connecticut, on Wednesday, April 26 at 2:30 pm in JEC 3117. Dr. Cohen’s talk is entitled, “Does a New Rail Rapid Transit Line Affect Various Commercial Property Prices Differently?”
How to Cut the Price of Prescription Drugs
CNN– Reducing the cost of medical care, rather than health insurance, is so often underemphasized or even absent from discussions of reforming the health care system. And yet lowering costs of medical care is essential for broadening access to care, reducing insurance premiums and ultimately ensuring better health.
Litchfield County Struggles With Population Decline
Fodor Inducted to UConn Hall of Fame
Telegram.com– The University of Connecticut School of Business inducted investor and entrepreneur John R. Fodor into its hall of fame.
Mr. Fodor recently retired as executive vice president of Capital Group/American Funds, a mutual fund investment company. He also serves on the UConn business school dean’s advisory cabinet and has lectured at the school.
2017 Best & Brightest: Romanna (Roma) Romaniv, University of Connecticut
11 MBAs With the Highest Return for Grads Earning $100,000-Plus
U.S. News – MBA grads from these business schools have at least a 240 percent average return, U.S. News data show.
The Social & Academic Case for Living in a Learning Community
Poets & Quants for Undergrads– As a freshman business major at the University of Connecticut, Elizabeth Perry has already hobnobbed with the dean of the business school, helped organize a case competition for Target and attended speed-networking events that have helped her forge valuable connections in the business world. Those types of experiences would have been out of her reach had she not checked off a box on the housing application for UConn’s Business Connections Learning Community back when she was a senior in high school.