Few people are lucky enough to traverse the road of life without hitting a few potholes. For alumna Kathy Luria ’91, senior vice president, community affairs and director of philanthropy at Webster Bank, that jarring, shake-you-to-the-core moment came in 1988.Continue Reading
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UConn-Backed MedTech Accelerator Advances 10 Powerful Startups; ‘These Companies Will Absolutely Change Lives’
The excitement was palpable Monday night as 10 health care startups, including two that are UConn-grown, shared their medical technology innovations that promise unique solutions for some of medicine’s most vexing problems.Continue Reading
Even the Good News Is Bad for Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy
Bloomberg Businessweek – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is battling Russian-backed rebels in the east. He’s trying to zigzag around Donald Trump’s impeachment drama. Even what should pass for good news, the country’s flourishing economy, has a catch: The stronger Ukraine’s economic growth, the more an obscure debt derivative could punch a hole in its finances.
How Disasters – Manmade or Natural – Affect the Real Estate Market
Boston Globe Real Estate – Realtor Michelle Oates was in her Andover office on Sept. 13, 2018, when she was told to evacuate. As she and her colleagues stood paralyzed in the parking lot, sirens blaring in the distance and helicopters hovering overhead, selling houses was the last thing on her mind.
MSBAPM Program Among Top 20 in Nation
The UConn MSBAPM program is among the best masters of business analytics programs in the nation, according to The Financial Engineer (TFE) Times. The program was ranked No. 19.Continue Reading
UConn Entrepreneurship Program Celebrates Major Milestone
UConn Today – Accelerate UConn, an entrepreneurship program that helps students and faculty commercialize business ideas, reached a major milestone at the end of last year. Launched in 2015, Accelerate UConn announced that 100 teams of aspiring entrepreneurs had participated in the rigorous, seven-week training funded by the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Program.
EMBAs: Trip to South Africa Among the Highlights of Education
Before the EMBA Class of 2020 had landed in South Africa, Brian Waddell, director of process improvement at The Hartford, got a bird’s-eye view of the racial disparity that has divided the land for so long. Continue Reading
UConn MBA Program Ranked Among Public Top 20
The Financial Times released its highly regarded 2020 MBA rankings today and the UConn MBA program was among the Top 20 public universities for its academic rigor.
The UConn MBA ranked No. 16, up from No. 20 last year, in the category of public MBA programs in the U.S. It also ranked No. 5 in value for the money compared with its public peer institutions.Continue Reading
Alum Embarks on Search For True Happiness—Finds It All Across the USA
She should have been on top of the world.
Alumna Michelle Wax ’12 (BUS), was in her mid-20s and already the owner of two successful companies in the food industry. Business was great, yet something was amiss. Continue Reading
Business Moves into New Space at UConn Waterbury
Beginning this spring, we are excited to have many of our School of Business classes in the Rectory building at UConn Waterbury. It’s right across the street from the main campus building, and the space looks amazing!
With faculty, staff and students in the same place, it will be much easier to collaborate and meet with mentors and classmates alike. The Rectory itself includes classrooms, event space, meeting rooms and study areas. If you are in need of a quick pick-me-up between classes, try the coffee shop next door!
The four-story, historic building once hosted everything from community dances to meetings of a Prohibition-era intemperance league. The School of Business is happy to inhabit a space with such a story to tell.
