Women CEOs are much more likely than their male counterparts to be targeted by activist shareholders, according to research conducted by a team that included two University of Alabama business professors.
IN2, IMSA's innovation center, was named a winner of the 16th annual Chicago Innovation Awards. The Chicago Innovation Awards is the Chicago region’s foremost recognition of the most innovative new products or services brought to market each year.
NMSU receives NSF cyber infrastructure award to train local high school students.
In its annual survey of global business schools, The Economist has named the University of Virginia Darden School of Business the No. 1 education experience in the world — for the seventh consecutive year.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has expanded its Global Innovators Roundtable to Europe, convening senior business leaders this month in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they explored the impact of digital transformation on business and society.
A Salisbury University program to help create jobs throughout the mid-Atlantic will continue another five years, thanks to a new $1 million gift from the Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation of Baltimore.
For any other profession, customer relationship management is a great marketing tactic. For auditors, it makes them identify too readily with a client’s overly aggressive accounting approach
Current federal efforts to revive the coal industry will likely do more harm than good to fragile Appalachian communities transitioning from coal as a major source of employment, according to a study conducted by Indiana University researchers.
It's never too early in your college career to start preparing for your first real job.
This collaboration will enable UTC employees to pursue graduate or undergraduate degrees offered by the University of Redlands at one of its seven campuses in California or via the University’s online MBA program.
According to research from the University of Notre Dame, having a wide range of experience as a “jack-of-all-trades” can sometimes be an asset, but in certain environments this will make it difficult to get a startup business off the ground.
The American University Center for Innovation became the second entrepreneurship center to earn the "Oases of Excellence" honor by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni’s (ACTA) Oases of Excellence Network.
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management are collaborating to provide Northwestern Law students the opportunity to understand the legal and business environment of growth-stage start-up firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In this article, Professor Dan Murphy reveals a surprising reality about economic growth. He goes on to discuss policy implications of sector-biased growth that benefits the rich over the poor.
Employers will face tough competition for talent in the 2017-18 job market, thanks to a seven-year growth streak in the college labor market, according to Michigan State University's Recruiting Trends, the largest annual survey of employers in the nation. This year's graduates will enter one of the longest sustained periods of job growth, which puts them at an advantage, said Phil Gardner, survey author and director of MSU's Collegiate Employment Research Institute.
Here’s something both you and your boss can agree on: Workplace teams are better when they include your friends. Researchers analyzed the results of 26 different studies (called a meta-analysis) and found that teams composed of friends performed better on some tasks than groups of acquaintances or strangers.
Smith’s program geared to entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs has a new name — and new model.
Babson College and its Lewis Institute for Social Innovation have launched a new IoT For Good Lab—to encourage the creation of social impact solutions with the use of IoT (Internet of Things).
Broad consensus among researchers holds that licensure creates wage premiums by establishing economic monopolies, but according to Northwestern University research, licensure does not limit competition nor does it increase wages.
Babson College, ranked No. 1 for entrepreneurship, has announced the appointment of William B. Gartner as its first Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship—generously endowed by the Bertarelli Foundation through a substantial gift to the college.
Hispanics in the U.S. are souring on the direction of the economy and showing growing dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a new national consumer sentiment index conducted by the FAU Business and Economics Polling Initiative (FAU BEPI) in the College of Business.
At a recent Leadership Speaker Series event at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, the executive vice president of Danaher and Darden alum William Daniell II recounted his own path to general management whilst offering students key skills for the job.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management will host the 10th annual University of Virginia Investing Conference (UVIC) 9–10 November 2017.
Four postdoctoral researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named Entrepreneurial Fellows as part of a new joint initiative of the University of California and Los Alamos.
New York City-based Red Balloon Security, Inc. was awarded a $746,756 SBIR contract from the DHS S&T to develop an upgrade to its existing hybrid prediction system for embedded malware detection.
A new report from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) added nearly $2 billion in combined economic contributions across the two states in the 2016 fiscal year.
Business consultant and serial entrepreneur Steven Puckett has been named managing director of Southern Research’s Prosperity Fund, a $2.4 million initiative that seeks to inject economic vitality into four Alabama counties hit hard by the coal industry’s downturn.
NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences has launched a one-year Master of Science in Computing, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (MS-CEI) degree program in collaboration with the Stern School of Business to foster the next-generation of technical innovators and entrepreneurs.
Darden Professor Lalin Anik has some practical advice for aspiring female entrepreneurs: Start by asking questions. Beyond the obvious benefits of asking for help, Anik points out that doing so can trigger deeper thinking. In other words, thoughtfully asking for help can train the ego, develop social skills, and push forward an idea into action.
Before coming to the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, Molly Deale designed and created hats for smash Broadway hits like “Wicked,” “Hamilton” and “Book of Mormon.” Deale found herself looking for something outside the entertainment industry and was drawn to Darden because of its very involved case method approach to teaching.
As Darden students examine the purpose of business, Professor Ed Hess shares insights on how it has shifted over the years and implications for the technology age.
According to panelists at a University of Virginia Darden School of Business Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation panel discussion held at the Yale Club in New York City recently, when trying to find the best route to capital for new ventures, entrepreneurs must be specific about their needs and what that support will cost them.
The desire to combine math and business in her future career led senior and McNair Scholar Maleesha Ebanks to receive the first Milliman Opportunity Scholarship, a scholarship for minority students who are underrepresented in the field of actuarial science.
Finance remains a sector of both ample opportunities and unique challenges for women. According to a panel of University of Virginia Darden School of Business alumnae working in various areas of the industry, many sectors of finance remain male-dominated but concerted efforts to attract and retain women mean the pathways to advancement are more apparent than ever.
American University Experts Available to Discuss Tax Reform and Related Issues
The McCombs School of Business at UT Austin has named Robert Franklin (Frank) Muller, Jr. and Matthew Thomas as entrepreneurs-in-residence.
With a DOE grant, two professors will create a new investment tool to manage risk and catalyze funding at critical stages for energy companies
Twenty years after the largest number of initial public offerings in one year took place, a new study from The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce explores what happened to the IPO companies.
Wesley Bricker, chief accountant for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), along with Jeanette M. Franzel, a member of the SEC’s Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), are the featured keynote speakers for the fourth annual UCI Audit Committee Summit to be held Friday, October 6, at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, California.
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that UTEP has been awarded a $500,000 grant to create and expand cluster-focused proof-of-concept and commercialization programs through the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) program.
Alexandra Christina, the Countess of Frederiksborg in Denmark and a member of European philanthropic and corporate boards, has been named a leader-in-residence at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business as its Poling Chair of Business and Government for the upcoming academic year.
Today Forbes released its America’s Best Business Schools report ranking Full-Time MBA programs based on return-on-investment. The 2017 report placed UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business Full-Time MBA program at 41st in the nation, up one place since the last Forbes report in 2015, and up 20 places since the report was published in 2013. The Merage School ranked 19th this year among public schools.
DHS S&T has awarded a $749,241 Small Business Innovation Program (SBIR) contract to Digital Bazaar, Inc. to develop fit-for-purpose blockhains for identity and access management.
Dan and Mike Friedman launched their business, Tall Order, which offers fashionable socks for plus-sized feet. The other, more somber impetus behind the launch is the desire to commemorate the legacy of their father, Andrew, who was working at the World Trade Center and killed in the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
In a study published in PLOS ONE, UNC School of Medicine researchers found that skills developed during science PhD programs translate to success in a wide range of fields.
The original Pizza Hut building at Wichita State University since 1986 was moved to WSU's new Innovation Campus on Monday, Sept. 18. It will be turned into a museum dedicated to the history of the world-famous pizza chain.
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