Corporate Counsel – While it is recognized that corporate counsel can play an integral role in a company’s long term success, the processes through which corporate legal departments provide competitive advantages remain poorly understood. The prevailing wisdom recognizes that companies need to incorporate legal considerations into top-level decision-making, but are most companies doing this?
In the Media
External media mentions
Student-Athlete Strong: Laura Webster
UConn Today – UConn’s student-athletes are often lauded for their on-field achievements, but there’s an equally important – often unseen – dimension to the student-athlete. UConn Today is publishing a series of profiles to highlight the academic prowess of these student-athletes. Follow along as we profile two athletes each month, and provide an inside look at the academic pursuits of these high-achieving student-athletes.
UConn Tech Startup Attracts $500K Investment
Hartford Business Journal – A new bioinformatics technology developed at the University of Connecticut to power biomedical research and diagnostics received a boost last week when Connecticut Innovations announced a $500,000 investment in Smpl Bio, UConn announced Monday.
Enhancing Entrepreneurial Experiences at the University of Connecticut
Innovation Destination: Hartford- Michelle Cote is Managing Director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) at the University of Connecticut School of Business. Cote shared insight about the Center and told Innovation Destination: Hartford more about the entrepreneurial programs at UConn.
50 Classes of Teens – Changing the World in a Matter of Weeks
Leadership Greater Hartford – 50 classes of high school students are changing the world through Leadership Greater Hartford’s (LGH) Common Ground program, one of the region’s most significant youth leadership programs.
Sales: Black Friday Down, Cyber Monday Up
The Daily Campus – Robin Coulter, a professor at UConn and head of the marketing department within the School of Business, offered her perspective on this year’s Black Friday. Coulter echoed the idea that some find it objectionable to shop on Thanksgiving, while adding that there are a variety of reasons for people to shop online over a “brick and mortar store.”
Economist Fred Carstensen: No Public Investment in R&D, Infrastructure Destroys U.S. Growth, Competitiveness
Seeking Alpha –
Summary
- The Fed’s small rate hike won’t affect much, except strengthening the dollar.
- 150,000 to 250,000 new jobs a month not the gains of our historic recoveries.
- Chinese slowdown lops half a percent off U.S. growth
Do Managers Seek Control and Entrenchment?
The CLS Blue Sky Blog – Do managers seek control of the firm, or the level of ownership consistent with entrenchment? Entrenched managers own shares within a range which is high enough to give them control, but sufficiently low to make other shareholders bear the brunt of their non-value maximizing actions. There is a large literature on how entrenched managers can benefit themselves by extracting wealth from other shareholders, but conclusive evidence that managers seek entrenchment is currently lacking.
Pink Tax Forces Women to Pay More for Products
WFSB Channel 3 TV- Women are shelling out thousands of dollars more on products that are marketed to women, over the same things that are geared toward men.
Women may want to start looking in the men’s section if they want to save some extra money.
Experts estimate women pay $1,400 more each year on products that are marketed toward them, and over $100,000 in a lifetime.
It is called the ‘Pink Tax.’
Meriden Veteran Goes from Military Service to Entrepreneurship
Record-Journal- When Gulaid and Davina Ismail’s second child Issaq was born three years ago, the child suffered from acid reflux so badly he threw up often. The couple was going through plenty of infant clothes.
“We were constantly changing clothes and throwing them out when they get stained,” Davina said. “So we asked ourselves ‘why don’t we start making clothes ourselves?'”
Gulaid Ismail, a U.S. Marine who served seven months in Fallujah, Iraq, was able to get some assistance from Veterans Administration programs and the couple soon started Dribblebabies, a baby and toddler web-based store for parents five years after his honorable discharge.