School News Archives

Alumni Relations Program Goes Global
8/25/2008 - UConn School of Business alumni are everywhere. On at least five continents and in most every country around the world, our 30,000+ alumni are successful business leaders in every field and industry....
School to Host Student Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship in Guatemala
8/25/2008 - On Monday, October 6, the School of Business will host a student symposium on the new Social Entrepreneurship Study Abroad Internship program in Guatemala. The University-wide event will begin at 6:30...
Marketing Professor Joseph Pancras Receives Prestigious 2008 Donald R. Lehmann Award
8/16/2008 - The American Marketing Association has announced that marketing professor Dr. Joseph Pancras has received the prestigious 2008 Donald R. Lehmann award for "Optimal Marketing Strategies for a Cu...
OPIM Professor Robert Day Receives INFORMS Computing Society Prize
8/16/2008 - The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) recently announced operations and information management professor Robert Day – along with co-author S. Raghavan (Uni...
Partnership Provides UConn Alumni Another Tool in Job Placement
8/13/2008 - Bringing together over 50 UConn School of Business MBA students and alumni with potential employers, the first partnership event between the University of Connecticut and the Woodcliff Lake, NJ based ...
OPIM Professor Dowding forges relationship with Shandong University School of Management in China
8/12/2008 - As the world delights in the athletic and cultural displays brought on by the 2008 Olympics, being hosted in China, UConn Professor, Timothy Dowding, shares with Chinese MBA students at Shandong Unive...
Finance Professor John Knopf Receives European Financial Managment 2007 Readers' Choice Award
7/22/2008 - European Financial Management, the Journal of European Financial Management Association, recently announced UConn finance professor John Knopf – along with co-authors Niclas Hagelin (Swedish Na...
M.B.A. Student Volunteers at Special Olympics
7/8/2008 - Volunteerism and public service come naturally to Olivia Skiffington, for — as she puts it — "I definitely think it's important for people to give back to the community. Even if you don't have the mon...
Scholarship Donor and Recipient Find Common Bonds
7/2/2008 - When Toni Boucher decided to endow a scholarship in the School of Business, she was hoping to help students with financial needs to get a good start. What she didn't expect was to see her donation sup...
MBA Alums Support Dean's Fund
7/2/2008 - Finding ample funding for both established priorities and urgent needs is a common challenge faced by all schools and colleges. Each dean is assisted by an unrestricted fund that gives him the power t...
UConn School of Business Briefs - June 2008
6/26/2008 - Lisa Anne Cottrell Frank '08 Ph.D. (Finance) successfully defended her dissertation titled, "Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts, Corporate Governance, Institutional Investment, and Corpora...
2008 School of Business Hall of Fame Celebration
6/20/2008 - The UConn School of Business proudly inducted three outstanding alumni into its prestigious School of Business Hall of Fame in May. Brian P. McKeon '84, executive vice president and CFO of Iro...
Youth Financial Education Institute Focuses on Financial Literacy
5/28/2008 - A select group of high achieving secondary school students participated in the second annual Youth Financial Education Institute hosted by the UConn School of Business on May 16, 2008. The day include...
Management Professor Studies Dynamics of Teamwork
5/9/2008 - What do such diverse settings as a building on fire, a corporate office, a manufacturing floor, or an air traffic control tower have in common? All are places where teamwork occurs. And they are pl...
Class of '08 Outstanding Students - Marshall Dougherty
5/9/2008 - When Marshall Dougherty took his first course in the business school's operations and information management department, he was hooked. "It really c...