School of Business

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.

Student-athlete Tosin Adeniyi ’18 (BUS), Women’s Volleyball, talks with her advisor, Ingrid Hohmann. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Student-Athlete Strong: Tosin Adeniyi

'I am one of the luckiest girls to have received such an amazing education and college experience through volleyball.'

A UConn Stamford business professor has developed software that can comb the internet, including the dark web, and identify radical, violent content. (Shutterstock Photo)

New Software Can Pinpoint Hate Groups’ Radicalization Sites

A UConn Stamford business professor has developed software that can comb the internet, including the dark web, and identify terrorist content.

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.

Undergraduate Student Government President Irma Valverde '18 (BUS)(CLAS) speaks during a rally at the Hugh S. Greer Field House on Sept. 20, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Find Your Niche: A Day in the Life of Irma Valverde ’18

The way to carve your own niche at UConn is to get involved, says Valverde, president of the Undergraduate Student Government.

Joseph Pancras, associate professor of marketing, used data on customer traffic, sales per transaction, and profit margin for a total of almost 14,000 transactions over a period of 49 weeks. (Nathan Oldham/UConn Photo)

If You Slash the Price, They Will Come

But not all discounted items are equal, marketing researcher Joseph Pancras found, and some can even decrease a store’s profit margin.