Business Today: the latest news, events, and research updates from the University of Connecticut School of Business.
Disney’s Jenny Gaffney on Business Success: Follow Your Passion, Use Humor When Appropriate, Be Nearly Indispensable
If you’re a fan of college basketball’s March Madness, professional hockey, or football, you can thank UConn alumna Jenny Gaffney ’17 MBA, and her colleagues at ESPN/Disney for giving you front-row seats to the game, right in your home.
UConn’s EMBA Program Ranks No. 20 in the Nation
According to Fortune, the EMBA program earned its high ranking because of its ability to attract top students, its outstanding reputation among companies, and its alumni representation in senior management of Fortune 1000 companies. Keep Reading
MBA Student Who Attended UN Climate Conference: ‘You Felt the Weight of the World There!’
MBA candidate Ben North expected his experience at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27) in Egypt to be impactful, but it exceeded his expectations from the beginning. Less than an hour after arriving, he and other UConn students were introduced to former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, now the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Keep Reading
OPIM Professor Jing Peng Among Most Promising Young Scholars
OPIM professor Jing Peng was one of only five academics selected for the Information Systems Society’s Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award for 2022. The award is presented to pre-tenure scholars who have completed quality research and who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline. Keep Reading
Lee McChesney ’94 was named senior vice president and chief financial officer of MSA Safety, the global leader in the development and manufacture of safety products.
Rimvydas Baltaduonis 02 MS, ’07 Ph.D., associate professor in the Economics Department at Gettysburg College, traveled with agroup of students to the Lithuanian Embassy to meet with diplomats as part of a week focused on issues in Eastern Europe and Ukraine.
Jeffrey Rossi ’93 has joined Marcum LLP as an assurance partner in Connecticut’s Hartford office and serves as the New England Consumer & Industrials Practice Leader.
