School of Business

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.

American film producer and former film studio executive Harvey Weinstein. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Men At the Top Play By Different Rules

Is the answer more female CEOs, asks School of Business expert Gary Powell.

Students measure sugar kelp at the Yarish lab at the Stamford campus on Oct. 19, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Fueling the Future with Seaweed

UConn researchers are part of a federally funded project to boost seaweed production for use as a biofuel.

MASS MoCA, a contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts, is one example of how former industrial cities can attract jobs and tourists. (Beth J. Harpaz/AP Photo)

Op-ed: Gentrification? Bring it

Hartford will never become New York. But why not look to North Adams, Pittsburgh, or Columbus for examples of a different kind of gentrification?

Britney Reynolds at Blue State Coffee in Hartford. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Student Perspective: Britney Reynolds ’19 (BUS, CLAS)

A new U.S. citizen, this psychology and business major still contributes to a scholarship she established in her name in Jamaica.

UConn alumnus Brian Paganini '03 (BUS) designed and runs ‘Quantum Biopower,’ Connecticut’s first food waste-to-energy facility. (Nathan Oldham/UConn Photo)

UConn Alum Heads State’s First Food Waste-to-Energy Plant

'It's staggering what we throw away,' says Brian Paganini '03 (BUS), who launched his business, Quantum BioPower, last December.