Lisa Bisaccia ’85 MBA, CVS Executive, Discusses Decision to Yank Tobacco from Store Shelves
Selling cigarettes had long been a point of contention for executives at CVS pharmacy, who felt that the sale of tobacco contradicted the company’s mission to promote good health.
But with CVS consumers spending roughly $2 billion a year on cigarettes, other forms of tobacco, and add-on merchandise, the decision to abandon sales was not one that any retailer could make lightly.Continue Reading
Startups Give Students Experience
Hartford Courant – When Eric Sirois was looking for an intern to handle marketing this summer at his heart-valve startup company, he combed through a list of MBA candidates to find the right one. But it was UConn freshman Chia-Yi Jean, one of the only undergraduates to apply, who secured the position.
Students Move in to Business Connections House
Fran Graham, Nathan Ives, and Tina Pierce assisted business students as they returned to campus on Friday, August 28.
(Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business)
When Tulane University President Scott Cowen bid farewell to the Class of 2005, he had no idea that in just four months, everything the then-171-year-old university embodied would be in jeopardy.
When Hurricane Katrina, the historic and catastrophic Category 5 hurricane, made landfall in New Orleans, and the levees could no longer contain the water, parts of the Tulane campus became a lake. The Big Easy was in shambles. Continue Reading
1. Having more freedom. Living off-campus gives you more choice of how many friends you would like to live with. Also you can mostly feel free to decide how to decorate your own room.
2. It’s a better place if you want to invite your friends over. Dorms are apparently not the best places to hang out because they are too small. However, off-campus apartments gives you more space. Continue Reading
Accounting Major Shantaye Taylor ’16 Describes Program as ‘Exceptional and Life Changing’
Summer break provides ample opportunity for students to strengthen skills that are learned outside of the classroom. For accounting major Shantaye Taylor ’16, the Finance Leaders in Technology (FLT) Workshop at Microsoft provided her the opportunity to strengthen her leadership skills and learn more about corporate global finance.Continue Reading
If Laurence J. Ackerman, the first dean of the UConn School of Business, could see how the small program he created has grown into an educational powerhouse, no doubt he would be pleased.
The School, then known as the School of Business Administration, started in 1940-1941 with fewer than three dozen students. Its formation was nestled between two seismic events in American history: The Great Depression and the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War II.Continue Reading
Hartford Business Journal – The University of Connecticut recently promoted Meg Warren to director of the full-time MBA Program in the Graduate School of Business.
“Women in the Corporate Boardroom: A Business Imperative for American Companies,’’ is the topic of a Sept. 16 program at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, sponsored by the University of Connecticut School of Business, the Connecticut State Treasurer’s Office and the Connecticut Forum.
Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, will moderate a panel of experts who will discuss various viewpoints, enhanced by their own experiences and research, in addressing the shortage of women in the boardroom.Continue Reading
Hartford Business Journal – Q&A talks about Accelerate UConn, a new entrepreneurship program at the University of Connecticut, with Michelle Cote, managing director of UConn’s Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and UConn business professor Timothy B. Folta.