Upcoming Events


Innovation Quest (iQ) Kickoff Workshop

Do you want the chance to win $15,000? Do you have an idea that you would like to see made into a business? If so, check-out Innovation Quest (iQ)!

The iQ Program fosters creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship across campus. Students who have new ideas for a product or service can compete for cash prizes up to $15,000 to make their idea into a reality. Past successes include Macroscopic Solutions, PartsTech, Secor Water, and Sobrio.

The kickoff workshop will be held on Tuesday, February 11th in Gentry 131 at 7pm. Free Pizza will be served!

Join our Facebook group (Innovation Quest- UConn) to Sign-up for the Feb. 11th Workshop!

If you have any questions please email us at iQ@uconn.edu.

See you there!

The UConn iQ Team

www.innovationquest.org/uconn

http://facebook.com/groups/uconniq


Dates Confirmed, Sponsors Return for Second Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference

Geno Auriemma Leadership ConferenceThe University of Connecticut is pleased to announce the dates for the 2014 Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference (http://genoleadership.uconn.edu) – October 22-23. The conference will once again be held at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center in Uncasville, Connecticut.

“After an extremely successful inaugural conference in 2013, I am very excited to be partnering with the UConn School of Business again to bring leadership insights to business leaders throughout the region,” said UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma.Continue Reading


UConn Business School Announces New Hands-on Lean Business Process Improvement Interactive Workshop

Hands-On Lean Process ImprovementThe UConn School of Business has announced a new 2-day workshop – Hands-on Lean Business Process Improvement, designed to provide individuals at all levels of an organization with a solid foundation for using Lean to help achieve operational excellence from the top-down and the bottom-up.

The workshop will be held on February 27 & 28, 9am-4pm, at UConn’s Graduate Business Learning Center in downtown Hartford. The cost of the 2-day program is $1,200.

“The Hands-on Lean Business Process Improvement workshop enables individuals to quickly and easily follow a common roadmap and use simple tools to improve business processes by eliminating waste and improving flow to enhance value for your customers and stakeholders,” says David A. Burn, Chief Statistician in corporate operations for Boston Scientific Corporation and workshop instructor.

The workshop format is highly interactive and relies on simulation and competition to challenge individuals and teams to quickly learn concepts and skills and to reinforce their learning using a low-tech, high-touch approach. Features of the hands-on program include: real-time simulation of business processes; fast-paced competition between teams; and interactive discussion of relevant examples.

At the completion of Hands-on Lean Business Process Improvement, participants will be able to identify waste and flow problems in business processes, and design and follow a structured roadmap toward improvement. In other words, workshop participants will be able to cut costs and increase efficiencies within their organization.

“Lean processing is particularly important for Connecticut companies where the cost of doing business is one of the highest in the nation,” adds Colleen McGuire, director of UConn’s School of Business in Hartford. “We plan to offer more of these timely, relevant workshops in the months to come in support of a stronger, more competitive Connecticut economy.”


2nd Annual UConn Innovation Quest Competition

Do you have an idea for a new product, service, or business process? Ever wonder what you can do with your idea? All University of Connecticut students are invited to join the 2013 Innovation Quest (IQ) Kickoff event on Tuesday, February 12th.

The iQ Competition was brought to UConn at the encouragement of of Keith R. Fox ’80, a longtime entrepreneur, executive, and philanthropist who offered to sponsor the contest after seeing its success at Cal Poly.

The iQ kickoff event on February 12th will feature a team of current students and UConn alumni explaining the competition guidelines and instructions on how to enter and win up to $15,000 in cash prizes.

Winners and selected runners-up will have the opportunity to build their businesses as part of a training program known as the inQbator. “The InQbator program finally forced us to sit down and think about how to scale our business,” says Adam Boyajian ’12, whose idea was one of the few chosen for the program last year.

Discover the potential in your ideas – attend the February 12th kickoff event to learn about competition details and requirements. RSVP for the Feb. 12th Kickoff Event:

Innovation Quest Kickoff Event*
Idea to Prototype to Company
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7:00 PM
CUE Building, Room 134, UConn Storrs Campus
RSVP at:

Refreshments will be served

*This event is open to UConn students only


Engage – Inspire – Lead

Leadership has never held a more critical role than in today’s fast paced and ever-changing culture. Remaining innovative and agile within a multi-generational and technologically advanced workforce requires the ability to sustain leadership excellence.

Join the University of Connecticut School of Business and Coach Geno Auriemma for an intimate two-day workshop to hear from the nation’s top leaders, including keynotes from Bill Simon ’81, ’88 MBA, president & CEO of Walmart U.S. and Charlie Denson, president of NIKE Brand.

Open to all industries and executives, the Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference brings together provocative thinkers from various fields who will share perspectives on leadership, identify best practices and discuss how approaches change as the workforce evolves.

For full conference details and registration options, visit genoleadership.com – Fewer than 80 spots left – Sign up today!


Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference Announced

At a University of Connecticut press conference this morning, Coach Geno Auriemma, School of Business Dean John Elliott, Professor Lucy Gilson, and UConn President Susan Herbst, along with other members of the university community, officially announced a major new leadership initiative: the inaugural Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference, presented by Walmart, to be held April 29-30th at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center in Uncasville.Continue Reading


Connecticut’s Leading MBA Programs to Compete in Second Annual ACG Connecticut Cup Competition

ACG Connecticut, the Connecticut Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the premier authority on corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions, will hold the second annual ACG Connecticut Cup Competition on March 28, 2011 at the offices of RBS Business Capital in Stamford, CT. Continue Reading


Alumna to receive an Honors Distinguished Alumni Award

On  Friday April 29th and Saturday April 30th Nicole McKinney Lindsay, a School of Business alum, will be visiting UConn to receive an Honors Distinguished Alumni Award.  On Friday she will be giving a presentation to students, faculty and staff at 3:00 – 4:30  p.m. in the Babbidge Library Class of 1947 Conference Room. She will speak about her nonprofit career and her advice to students regarding careers in this field.   Refreshments will be served.

Nicole Lindsay is Executive Director of New York Needs You (NYNY), a start-up non-profit which supports first-generation college students in realizing their college and career ambitions.  Ms. Lindsay joined NYNY in September 2009 as the first staff person.  Now the organization has a six-person staff and an operating budget of $1.2MM.  NYNY closes the opportunity gap through the most intensive career mentorship program in New York City, enabling high-potential, first-generation college students to realize their college and career aspirations.  NYNY is the only non-profit in NYC that focuses exclusively on first-generation college students. The primary components of the NYNY curriculum are life planning, career development, and community leadership. The first class of 50 NYNY Fellows began the two-year program in June 2010 and recruitment for the second class is underway.   Previously, she was the Vice President of Talent Development at Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), overseeing all program-related activities.

Ms. Lindsay earned her BS in Business Administration and graduated as an Honors Scholar from the University of Connecticut in 1996.  She attended UConn with her twin brother, Anthony McKinney ’97 and her favorite pastime during her time at UConn was cheering for him and her friends on the Husky football team.  She then enrolled in a joint JD/MBA program at the University of Virginia. Ms. Lindsay received a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, in 2000 and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business in 2000. Upon graduation, she joined Wachovia Bank as a Corporate Finance Associate and later moved into Community Development Finance as a program manager.  In 2003, Nicole became the Associate Director of Admissions and Student Affairs at the Yale School of Management (SOM), overseeing minority and women’s admissions and diversity student affairs. She was instrumental in diversifying the applicant pool and in increasing the number of underrepresented minorities that matriculated at the SOM.

While at the SOM, Ms. Lindsay also served as a coach for MLT’s Career Prep program, aiding eight college juniors in their career exploration and development process. She later managed MBA recruiting initiatives for Goldman Sachs at the Wharton School, Chicago Graduate Schools of Business (GSB), Kelloggat Northwestern, and the Tuck School at Dartmouth before joining MLT full-time as director of the Career Prep program in June 2006. In February 2007, Ms. Lindsay became Director of the Career Prep and MBA Prep programs for MLT and in July 2008 was promoted to Vice President.

Ms. Lindsay serves on the UVA Darden School Alumni Board, the Board of Directors of New York Chapter of the UConn Alumni Association, on the Advisory Board of MOVE, an NYC-based high school mentoring program, and is licensed to practice law in Connecticut and Georgia.  She is a 2010 recipient of the Rebirth Renaissance Award for Perpetuating Excellence and Leading Generation Now from the New York Urban League Young Professionals.

She is married to Josiah Lindsay.