Evaluated on presence and activity levels on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and others, the University of Connecticut School of Business was ranked among the “Top 100 Most Social Media Friendly MBA Schools for 2013” by OnlineMBAPage.com. The ranking site is ‘a social education community formed in 2012 in response to the growing demand of MBAs in the United States, China and the emerging markets,’ according to their website. The rankings are based on a comparison of data from over 400 business campus-based schools and their use of various social media platforms.Continue Reading
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Cigna CIO Mark Boxer ’87 MBA Addresses Undergraduate Business Students
UConn School of Business Dean John Elliott welcomed Dr. Mark Boxer ’87 MBA, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Cigna, to campus on March 12th. Dr. Boxer spoke to a full audience of 240 undergraduates about the importance of information technology in the insurance industry and for Cigna. He was joined by Cigna staff Ida Chaplinski ’96, Willis Gee, Kirstin Ferreira ’12, and Fatima Quraishi.
Dr. Boxer shared his career experiences and spoke about Cigna’s career opportunities in information technology for business majors, and shared an overview of the company’s Technology Early Career Development Program (TECDP).
The Cigna Executive Lecture event was part of the Management Information Systems (MIS) Executive Lecture series, where senior business IT executives share their experiences with undergraduates at the UConn School of Business.
Learn more about the UConn MIS major at http://www.business.uconn.edu/MIS
NBC Sports and Olympics at Stamford Learning Accelerator
Executives from NBC Sports and Olympics in Stamford met recently with over 80 UConn students at the UConn School of Business Stamford Learning Accelerator (SLA). The event was video streamed live from Stamford to the School of Business Cafe in Storrs, where students at that campus were able to simultaneously participate and pose questions to the NBC Sports team.
NBC Sports kicked off the event showing video highlights from its award winning Sports and Olympics programming. Next, Emanuel Adjekum, Manager Diversity & Pipeline Programs at NBC Sports Group, led a presentation on joining NBC Sports for a number of full-time positions and internships, including internship opportunities for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Students were also able to participate with a panel of NBC Sports executives represented by Eric Hamilton, Senior Broadband Producer, Nathan Suh, Director Business of Development and Michael Benjamin, Production Associate. The panel spoke of their experiences at NBC Sports and Olympics, discussed their own career paths and enthusiastically answered students’ questions from both Stamford and Storrs.
After the presentation, all panelists were available for further discussions and students were encouraged to personally bring up their resumes to Mr. Adjekum for upcoming internships and employment opportunities. A long line of students, resumes in hand, were delighted to do so.
The event was arranged by Brian Brady, Director of the Stamford Learning Accelerator, along with Halina Holloway and Celeste Baran from the UConn Stamford Career Center, in cooperation with Kathy Hendrickson at the School of Business Career Center in Storrs. Live streaming was made possible with support from Jeremy Pollack, Director of IT for the School of Business, James Simon, Director of IT for the School of Business Stamford campus, and Matt Proulx and Ian Hollis from UConn Stamford’s Technology Services.
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UConn Undergraduate Team Wins 1st Round of Hartford Financial Services Case Competition
On Friday, March 1, 2013 Rebecca Kantor ’15, Katharine Coulter ’14, Blake Molnar ’14, and Stephanie Simko ’14 won first place in the third annual Hartford Financial Services Group Campus Case Competition held at the University of Connecticut School of Business.
The case competition focused on a team’s ability to research and analyze a business technology issue and to provide creative solutions. Four teams participated in the competition, assisted by mentors provided by The Hartford Financial Group. At the conclusion of a two-week long process, the teams presented their solutions to a panel of judges consisting of senior executives from The Hartford.
The winning team will now go on to represent the University of Connecticut School of Business at The Hartford’s regional competition which includes students from Quinnipiac, Bentley, Bryant, Boston University and the University of Hartford.
2013 Risk Management Conference
Thursday, November 14, 2013
7:30 AM – 4:45 PM
Marriott Downtown
243 Tresser Boulevard
Stamford, Connecticut
Join us at the second annual Connecticut Risk Management Conference which has been designed to align risk management with strategy. This conference will bring together professionals engaged in risk management, senior management, and regulators, as well as faculty members and students in UConn’s MS in Financial Risk Management (MSFRM) Program. Continue Reading
2012 Cohort Dinner
Harvest Moon Luncheon
On Sunday, September 2012, the MSFRM program held a Mid Autumn Moon Chinese Luncheon at PF Chang’s in downtown Stamford, Connecticut.
Wedding
Best wishes to Yu and Xuyuan for their recent marriage!
Yu and Xuyuan met as part of the MS in Financial Risk Management 2012 cohort.
UConn FRM Basketball Game
The FRM Stamford and Hartford Cohorts met at Storrs to watch a UConn Basketball Game.
UConn MBAs Take 1st Place in Illinois Strategy Case Competition
A team of four University of Connecticut MBA candidates took first place in the fifth annual MBA Strategy Case Competition hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, held February 7-9. Ten schools participated in the competition: Arizona State, Baylor, Connecticut, Hong Kong UST, Illinois, Iowa State, Michigan State, Minnesota, Penn State, and Purdue. Continue Reading