Welcome to the Spring 2016 Research Newsletter of the University of Connecticut School of Business. As a top public research institution, our faculty are drawn, in part, by the opportunity to merge their love of teaching with their passion for discovery. This spring, our professors have studied a wide range of topics in the business field. In this issue, we feature a fascinating article about how…
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Corporate Compliance as Competitive Advantage
Can Corporate Compliance be Achieved without Breaking the Bank? Two UConn Professors Offer a New Way to Answer this Increasingly Important Business Question
Corporate compliance is one of the hot-button topics in business today, and the need to identify, prioritize and optimize it is a growing source of concern for companies, business managers, lawyers and legal scholars alike.Continue Reading
Teaming Up
McEvoy and Jackson Earn Best Presentation Award
At the Academy of Business Research Conference in New Orleans on March 23-25, Nicole Jackson, Assistant Professor of Management, and Kevin McEvoy, Assistant Professor In-Residence of Marketing, earned a Best Session Presentation Award for their work titled, “Mindfulness, Marketing and Management – Is it all that?”Continue Reading
Alumnus Gordon Flynn ’56 Leaves $1 Million to Business School
Alumnus Gordon Flynn ’56, an industrial engineer and research consultant who enjoyed collecting prints, paintings, clocks and unusual artifacts, has left his $1 million estate to the School of Business.Continue Reading
Show Me The Money
Hartford Magazine – We save it and we spend it. On our best days, we give it away. When it comes to dealing with money, the smart money is betting on these Greater Hartford Players.
Making Great Clothing That’s Also Organic And Made In The USA
Got Coffee? UConn Students Compete in Sales Competition
On March 2, Junto Coffee—a fictitious coffee company represented by eight teams of UConn students—presented sales proposals to a panel of Altria Case Competition judges for the purchase of state-of-the-art coffee machines. Each student team spent two weeks honing their teamwork and sales skills by creating a business plan designed to close a sale to a large retail chain.Continue Reading
‘Unplanned, Unexpected, Full of Surprise’
Business Law Professor Carrafiello’s 51-Year Career
Teaching business law at the UConn School of Business for 51 years, turned out to be a delightful surprise for beloved Professor Vincent Carrafiello.
“I passed my state bar exam in August 1965, and started teaching at UConn in September,” he said. “If you told me then that I’d be spending the rest of my professional life at the University of Connecticut, I would have told you that you were crazy, and certifiably so!Continue Reading
Business Law Negotiation Competition
Six Cross-Disciplinary Teams Compete in Annual Competition
About 40 UConn business and law students competed and collaborated recently in the second annual Business Law Negotiation Competition, working on the first day of the competition to settle a business dispute and on the second day to reach an agreement to build a dam. Continue Reading
Corporate Social Responsibility is Topic of UConn’s ‘Thought Leadership’ Breakfast on April 26
“Global Corporate Social Responsibility: What Every Manager Should Know,” is the subject of the University of Connecticut School of Business’ third Spring 2016 Thought Leadership Breakfast Seminar.
The April 26 program will be held at the Graduate Business Learning Center, 100 Constitution Plaza in Hartford. The event begins with breakfast and networking from 7:30 to 8 a.m., followed by the presentation and questions from 8 to 8:45 a.m. The program is free, but registration is limited. For more information or to register, please call Amanda Spada at 860-486-5498 or email Amanda.Spada@business.uconn.edu.Continue Reading