Melissa Ferrigno


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Stamford Innovation Week

UConn Prominent in Stamford Innovation Week 2018

The UConn School of Business will bring top experts to present three timely and cutting-edge programs as part of Stamford Innovation Week (SiW), running Sept. 14 through 23 throughout the city.

UConn Fuels Insurtech Boom with Innovative New Program

UConn Fuels Insurtech Boom with Innovative New Program

When Hartford Innovation Places announced a plan to make the state capitol a center for the burgeoning insurtech industry, professor Timothy Folta, faculty director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI), was listening very carefully.

UConn School of Business Dean's Report 2017

School of Business Dean’s Report 2017

As we approach the final weeks of 2017, the School of Business is growing, thriving and delivering its best to our students, wherever they may be.

India Gravel Quarries (U.Roberto (Robin) Romano Papers, Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library)

UConn Human Rights Conference Gathers Experts to Address Ways to Watch Over Garment Workers

The new shirt that you are wearing is impeccably tailored and bears a prominent designer label, so it must be responsibly sourced. Right?

To spur creativity during the closing session, conference participants were given minimal resources such as old magazines and cardboard boxes, with which they created "toy theatres" at the Ballard Puppetry Museum. (Devin Basdekian/UConn School of Business)

Cooking, Puppetry, Research All Part of Management’s Creativity Conference

How do you celebrate and inspire creativity when you have three dozen top creative scholars coming to campus?

John Malfettone '77 speaks about corporate compliance as a competitive advantage. (Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business)

UConn Alum Malfettone Speaks About Corporate Compliance as a Competitive Advantage

John Malfettone '77, senior managing director and chief compliance officer at Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice, spoke to 100 students and alumni about "Corporate Compliance as a Competitive Advantage."

Mathieu receives his award from the Academy of Management, surrounded by past and present students. (John Mathieu/UConn School of Business)

Professor Mathieu Earns Prestigious Academy of Management Mentorship Award

The Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division has awarded its Mentorship Award to UConn Management Professor John Mathieu. It is the third prestigious award he has received in the last year.

Stephen Park (UConn School of Business)

Business Law’s Stephen Park Honored with ‘Distinguished Early Career Faculty’ Award

Business Law Assistant Professor Stephen Park was awarded the Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) at the 2017 annual conference in Savannah, Georgia in August.

2018 Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference Keynote Speaker Robin Roberts, Co-Anchor "Good Morning America"

Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts to Headline Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference

Leadership: A Gift That Should Be Used Wisely

Management professor Gary Powell has spent most of his 41-year UConn career as an expert on gender equality in the workplace. (Nathan Oldham/UConn photo)

Gender Equality: Are We Making Progress?

Management professor Gary Powell, an expert in gender equality in the workplace, recognizes some progress in 40+ years, but not enough.