Women In Boardroom Good for Business

Hartford Courant – On Sept. 16, the state treasurer’s office and the University of Connecticut will host (with the Connecticut Forum) “Women in the Corporate Boardroom: A Business Imperative for American Companies” at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, moderated by Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” The forum will explore how having more women on corporate boards improves a company’s performance, as well as how to get more women on boards.


New Book Explores School of Business’ Ascent

Proceeds from Rob Hoskin’s 75th Anniversary Manuscript to Fund Scholarships

While delving into his family’s genealogy in 2010, UConn Accounting Professor Rob Hoskin realized the value of keeping track of one’s history, both big and small.

For the last five years, in addition to tracing his own roots, Hoskin has explored the vast and ever-changing history of the School of Business, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this academic year.Continue Reading


No Butts About It

Lisa Bisaccia '85 MBA, EVP and Chief HR Officer, CVS Health
Lisa Bisaccia ’85 MBA, speaks to over 300 graduate students. (Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business)

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




Tulane President Stood Up to Hurricane Katrina—and Won

Alumni Profile: Scott Cowen ’68

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


Top 10 Reasons to Live Off-Campus for at Least a Year During College

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


UConn Student Learns Leadership Skills at Microsoft

FLT Workshop

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


1941-2016: School of Business Celebrates 75th Anniversary

UConn School of Business 75th Anniversary
UConn School of Business 75th Anniversary

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