David J. Reilly, former and now retired CEO of Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, addresses students in the course, “Real Estate: The Practical Approach.” (UConn School of Business)
$1.4M Gift Gives Students Practical View of Real Estate Industry
An international real estate company is giving $1.4 million to the UConn School of Business’s highly-ranked Real Estate Center to continue offering a popular course that gives students a realistic, hands-on approach to real estate.
The gift from Hartford-based Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers will make the course, “Real Estate: The Practical Approach,” a permanent addition to the Center. Prior to 2015, Cornerstone executives had been teaching the course with UConn faculty on a trial basis for three years.Continue Reading
Tyler Elliot, Adam Lefkowitz, INST Bill Ryan, Beau Baker, and Dylan DeLeon
For 150 students interested in professional sales across the Northeast, the Northeast Intercollegiate Sales Competition (NISC) at Bryant University is the ultimate chance to prove their selling skills. This past November, four UConn students from the UCONN Program for Sales Leadership (PSL), Marketing Department, joined Marketing Instructor Bill Ryan to compete at NISC. William Baker ‘16, Dylan Deleon ’16, Tyler Elliott ’16, and Adam Lefkowitz ’16 competed in sales role plays with sales professionals that represented various companies, attended sales development seminars, and networked with 24 corporate sponsors. Other competitions involved social media and the classic elevator pitch. The students used their strongest persuasion abilities to convince corporate recruiters, managers, or vice presidents that they were the strongest job candidate.
Out of the 17 attending universities, UConn took third place for Overall Sales Team. William Baker, a senior finance major, won second place out of 150 students. He remarked, “It was a fantastic opportunity to get a chance to network with some great companies and individuals. Bryant put on a great competition, and I strongly recommend UConn students interested in professional sales to attend the next one.” About his second place standing, he said, “I’m very pleased with how I did at the competition, but there is always room for improvement.”
The UConn School of Business offers a Professional Sales Concentration for Marketing majors and a Professional Sales Minor for non-marketing business majors and non-business majors taking classes in the school of business. There are two marketing electives offered each semester – Professional Selling and Sales Management and Leadership. And, coupled with a sales internship over the summer, you can prepare yourself for a successful performance at a collegiate sales competition or a professional sales role after graduation!
Governing – Why are some states losing people, even as the country continues to grow? Jobs, jobs, jobs (and, in some cases, aging).
Most states are gaining residents, but a few have lost population in recent years. None are seeing major losses, but it looks as if some states’ populations will continue to stagnate or slowly decline in the years to come.
Scripps Media, Inc. – Of the 32 teams in the NFL, 24 play in stadiums that have sold their naming rights to large corporations. (Well, pending the name of the new home of the Los Angeles Rams; but their former home in St. Louis was sponsored by the financial services firm Edward Jones, which is included in this total.)
Some are getting relative deals: RCA and Ford pay only $1 million a year for the naming rights to the RCA Dome and Ford Field, the respective home of the Indianapolis Colts and Detroit Lions. The numbers can go as high as the $11 million a year that Levi’s pays to sponsor the San Francisco 49er’s home stadium.
Hartford Business Journal – As football fans in Connecticut and around the country gear up for next weekend’s NFL conference championships, few fans will be thinking about their stock portfolios as they indulge in buffalo wings and a frosty beverage.
WTNH News 8 – The ticker-tape that wraps around the UConn Business School brought bad news and then more bad news as people stopped to watch as the Dow closed down nearly 400 points.
New England Real Estate Journal – The Connecticut/Western Massachusetts Chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) has named the University of Connecticut Scholarship recipients for the 2015/2016 academic year.
Taylor Hammeke is a senior marketing major who interned with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a global pharmaceutical company. She heard about this internship by researching medical companies and discovering that GSK is a leader in the pharmaceutical industry. This opportunity seemed right up her alley so she applied and got the internship!Continue Reading
The CT Mirror – It’s relatively easy to find consensus on where Connecticut must invest to improve its business climate. The bigger challenge for state government, said economists and business leaders Wednesday, will be to find the resources to invest — in transportation, information technology and higher education — as the cost of public-sector retirement benefits spikes over the next decade to 15 years.
Hartford Courant – An exit by General Electric Co. from its Fairfield headquarters would be a psychological blow to Connecticut’s business reputation rather than a hit to the state’s economy, say several business advocates and others who are bracing for a decision expected any day.
