Research

To Gigabit or Not

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Blue Fiber Optic Strands

Business Analytics Professor, Students Unravel Mystery Surrounding Fiber-Optic Broadband Benefits

Connecticut’s 169 towns and cities now have some critical new information to consider as they examine whether to invest in ultra-fast, fiber-optic based broadband internet.

Professor Sudip Bhattacharjee and graduate students in UConn’s Business Analytics and Project Management (MSBAPM) program ranked each municipality on a three-tier scale, highlighting which are most likely to benefit from adding broadband service.

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Accelerate UConn Welcomes 1st Class of Entrepreneurs

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UConn Health- Accelerate UConn, a National Science Foundation (NSF) entrepreneurship program at UConn, has selected 10 faculty-student teams to receive seed grants and business training aimed at more quickly and successfully commercializing early-stage technologies developed at the University.

In It To Win It

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Corporate Stadium Sponsors’ Stock Fluctuates With an NFL Team’s Success, Failure

Your favorite NFL team has “skin in the game,’’ but perhaps more surprising is that the large corporations that sponsor the stadiums do too.

Those are the findings of UConn Professor of Finance Assaf Eisdorfer and alumna Elizabeth Kohl, ’15 Ph.D., now a professor at the University of Cincinnati. The two football enthusiasts will have their research published in a future issue of the journal Critical Finance Review.Continue Reading

Ukraine’s Quietly Revolutionary Debt Restructuring

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Financial Times – Ukraine’s debt restructuring plan, announced last month, is both revolutionary and evolutionary. The agreement to restructure $18bn of privately held government debt stands in stark contrast to Greece’s nearly apocalyptic showdown with the European Union this year and Argentina’s simmering standoff with holdout creditors.

Stronger Partnerships

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Professor Robin Coulter Brings New Ideas, Energy to American Marketing Association

UConn Marketing Professor Robin Coulter has been selected as the 2015-16 president of the prestigious American Marketing Association’s Academic Council.

Coulter said she has identified three key goals to focus on during her tenure with the organization, which has 30,000 members worldwide.

“It’s an exciting time to be president of Academic Council, as there are many opportunities to make change,” Coulter said. “I’m looking forward to working with Russ Klein, the AMA’s new CEO, and his management team.”Continue Reading

How an NFL Team’s Record Can Affect Its Sponsor’s Stocks

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CNBC –  Research shows that a sports team’s performance on the field can have a direct effect on the stock returns of sponsoring firms.

A pair of researchers at the University of Connecticut wrote a paper to be published next year in a journal called Critical Finance Review that points to up to a 127 basis point abnormal return for sponsors of winning NFL teams.

John Mathieu Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

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Management Professor John Mathieu (Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business)
Management Professor John Mathieu (Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business)

Improving High-Stress Outcomes Drives Mathieu’s Research

Professor John Mathieu is the recipient of a national lifetime achievement award recognizing his exceptional research, teaching and mentoring in the field of group dynamics.

The Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups is given to an individual whose work has shown an enduring commitment to advancing the interdisciplinary science of team behavior, dynamics, and outcomes.Continue Reading

‘You Don’t Have to Know Everything’

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Research Finds That When Top Executives Divide Responsibilities, Companies Fare Better

CEOs and other top executives can breathe a little easier now.

Contrary to popular belief, executive managers in small- to medium-sized firms don’t need to know every aspect of how the business operates, according to new research by UConn Management Professor Zeki Simsek and alumnus Ciaran Heavey ’09 Ph.D.Continue Reading

Research Scholar: Professor John Clapp

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UConn Professor John Clapp, of West Hartford, Named Kinnard Distinguished Research Scholar

Hartford Courant – UConn Professor John Clapp, who has been recognized as one of the top real estate researchers in the world, has been named the first Kinnard Distinguished Research Scholar in the business school’s Center for Real Estate.

John Clapp Named Kinnard Distinguished Research Scholar

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UConn Professor John Clapp, who has been recognized as one of the top real estate researchers in the world, has been named the first Kinnard Distinguished Research Scholar in the business school’s Center for Real Estate.

Clapp is a long-time professor of real estate and finance at the UConn School of Business. His areas of expertise include real estate and retail markets, housing price indices, location of anchor stores, option to redevelopment and Connecticut housing.Continue Reading