School of Business

New faculty members pose for a photograph during orientation. Fourteen new faculty members join the UConn School of Business for the Fall 2016 semester. (Nathan Oldham/UConn photo)

School of Business Welcomes New Faculty

An OPIM professor with a near-perfect student rating, an expert in entrepreneurship and startups, an MSA graduate who wants to help lead the program she loves, and a management professor who specializes in international business growth are among 14 new faculty members joining the School of Business for the Fall 2016 semester.

Bent Cordy rides one of his COMA skateboards at the Mansfield Skate Park on Sept. 25, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Intellectual Property Clinic: Help for Inventors, Experience for Students

UConn's Intellectual Property Law Clinic assists clients with services such as patent applications, trademark registration applications, and copyright issues.

NAWMBA Women MBA Conference Stamford Connecticut

Connecting Women MBA’s with Mentors, Sponsors

The National Association of Women MBA's (NAWMBA) will hold its annual conference and career fair in Stamford, from Oct. 20 to 22, with the UConn School of Business as the lead academic sponsor. Upwards of 1,500 professional women and MBA students are expected to attend the event at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Center.

Corliss Montesi '86, vice president and corporate controller at Stanley Black & Decker, advises hundreds of enthusiastic students to embrace their personal brand at one of several graduate student Convocation events. (Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business)

Embrace Your “Personal Brand,” Advises Alumna

"A brand is a promise of what's to come," Corliss Montesi '86, vice president and corporate controller at Stanley Black & Decker, told hundreds of enthusiastic students at one of several graduate student Convocation events held on Aug. 25 at the Gershon Fox Ballroom in Hartford.

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Furthering the Study of Human Rights in Business

Business law professor Stephen Park and UConn colleagues have been awarded a $265,000 research grant under UConn's Academic Plan to investigate ways to protect and promote human rights in the business world.

John Kim '87 MBA. (UConn Photo)

Alumnus Pledges $1 Million to Scholarship Fund

John Kim '87 MBA and his wife Diane have pledged to help underrepresented students attend the UConn School of Business.

UConn junior Anthony Pizzola '18 (ENG) spent his summer as an intern working with engineers at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. (Photo courtesy of Pratt & Whitney)

A Summer of Engines, Additive Manufacturing, and Patents

For UConn junior Anthony Pizzola '18 (ENG), a summer internship was an opportunity to work with engineers at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney.

Emeka Okafor receives his diploma from former School of Business Dean Curt Hunter during Commencement ceremonies at Gampel Pavilion in May 2004. ( Ryan McKee/NCAA Photos)

Driven and Kind

Some of the members of the 2004 National Championship UConn Men’s Basketball Team would wear a weight vest in practice to improve their endurance as they ran up the bleachers in the old Memorial Stadium. Not Emeka Okafor '04.

Professor Penny Vlahos, and graduate assistant Joe Warren recipients of a grant from the University’s new National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Site, Accelerate UConn on Aug. 18, 2016. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

New Device Improves Measurement of Water Pollution

UConn scientists are commercializing a technology they developed to more easily measure contaminants in water.

UConn School of Business Executive Leadership Breakfast: Becoming Yourself as a Leader

Becoming Yourself as a Leader

The UConn School of Business will offer a free breakfast seminar titled "Becoming Yourself as a Leader," from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sept. 14 at the Graduate Business Learning Center, 100 Constitution Plaza, Hartford.