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Week of Belonging 2025: A Celebration of Community and Connection
Week of Belonging is an annual tradition at the David Eccles School of Business that aims to showcase our collective culture, to build a stronger sense of community, and to amplify unique voices. The 2025 iteration, which took place between Feb. 10-13, featured panel discussions and lectures that proved both educational and connective, illustrating not only the commonality of the issues that impact our daily lives, but also the personal and distinct ways that we experience those issues. Monday The events kicked off with an Opening Session in which Dean Kurt Dirks unveiled the Eccles School’s feature in the BBC [...]
Ivory Innovations announces top 25 selections for the annual Ivory Prize, which honors creative solutions for housing affordability issues
Ivory Innovations, a nonprofit that operates as an applied academic institution at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business dedicated to catalyzing high-impact innovations in housing affordability, today announced its top 25 finalists for its annual Ivory Prize. The Ivory Prize is an award recognizing ambitious but feasible solutions to housing affordability and is designed to award innovators for their efforts and provide material support to advance their work. A core mission of the Ivory Prize is to amplify the impact of housing innovators in three key areas: construction & design, finance, and policy & regulatory reform. In [...]
David Eccles School of Business showcases “holistic approach to students” in Leader Generation series film
As Glen Kreiner, Professor of Management at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, notes, “Oftentimes, business schools have a bit of a bad rap about being about numbers and formulas, and [being] cold and calculating.” In a new mini documentary-style film that is part of the Leader Generation series, the Eccles School aims to instead demonstrate its holistic, multi-pronged, and integrated approach to student success. Leader Generation, a new branded content online series presented by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and produced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions, illustrates the role that business schools [...]
