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Ivory Innovations Celebrates the 2024 Ivory Prize Winners
Ivory Innovations, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the housing affordability crisis, in conjunction with the David Eccles School of Business, proudly announces the winners of the highly anticipated 2024 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability. A competition in its sixth year that celebrates the work of innovative organizations making an impact in housing affordability in three areas of focus: construction and design, finance, and policy and regulatory reform. This year, Ivory Innovations is championing the work of four remarkable Ivory Prize winners. “The winners of the 2024 Ivory Prize are a testament to the power of bold new [...]
Eccles School ranked No. 12 for MBA entrepreneurship
The University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business ranks No. 12 overall (and No. 5 among public schools) in the latest 2024 MBA rankings for entrepreneurship released by U.S. News & World Report. Related rankings previously released by U.S. News & World Report have the Eccles School ranked No. 7 for undergraduate entrepreneurship (No. 4 among public schools) for 2024. “We have a large and growing number of opportunities for entrepreneurs at the University of Utah, and we welcome everyone to learn more and get involved,” said Jennifer Brown, chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the Eccles School. “We have [...]
Eccles School professor Jay Barney honored with U.’s Rosenblatt Prize of Excellence
Jay Barney, a presidential professor of strategic management at the David Eccles School of Business and the Lassonde Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, is one of two 2024 recipients of the Rosenblatt Prize of Excellence— the University of Utah’s top academic honor. Barney, who is among the world’s top scholars in strategic management (a field he helped establish), has long studied the relationship between firms’ resources and their competitive advantages and explored how entrepreneurs create business opportunities. In the field of entrepreneurship, he has been a leading voice in the debate over the extent to which entrepreneurial opportunities are discovered [...]
