Stephen Stubben is a professor of accounting and associate dean for faculty and research at the David Eccles School of Business. His paper, co-authored with Wayne Landsman, and Jing Pan (one of our own Ph.D. student graduates!), "Equity Market Fragmentation and Capital Investment Efficiency, has been published Management Science, which is a is a scholarly journal with an analytical focus on scientific research on the [...]
Finals at the David Eccles School of Business are now felt half-way around the world. Fall 2022 is the first semester for the University of Utah Asia Campus in South Korea to offer business degree majors as part of their academic curriculum. Students now have the option to earn an undergraduate degree in either Information Systems (IS) or Accounting. Students have already enrolled in [...]
Students in the MSCM, MSIS, and MSBA programs at the Eccles School Graduate Programs in Business celebrated with friends and family at a dinner on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022 at the University Guest House. Congratulations to everyone graduating! We can't wait to see the positive impacts you have on the world. You can learn more about these and the other Graduate Programs in Business [...]
The David Eccles School of Business recently hosted its largest Game Day Analytics Challenge (GDAC) to date, both in the number of participating teams and sponsors. GDAC is an annual competition that gives student teams just four days to analyze millions of Tweets related to Super Bowl ads and produce a professional infographic and white paper. This year 32 made it to the [...]
The big, blue DOMO bus was on campus this fall, which signified the return of the DOMO & Layton Construction Hackathon hosted by the Information Systems department at the David Eccles School of Business. For this competition, undergraduate and graduate students teams are presented with a real-world problem and are tasked to formulate a solution using the DOMO Business Intelligence (BI) platform and [...]
April 22, 2021 — The Granary District could soon have a new look, if developers bite on one of several proposals put forth by students in the Utah Real Estate Challenge. The Utah Real Estate Challenge (UREC) is an intercollegiate real estate development competition for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the state of Utah. The competition fosters understanding of real estate development by giving [...]
Master of Business Creation student Yasmin Khan is getting some major recognition for her Khalm Skincare line. Her Overnight Oil Elixir was just named one of the Five Best Face Oils to Use in 2021. Read the full article in Forbes, and get your own oil at Khalm Skincare.
More than 100 graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Howard University, and Salt Lake Community College competed in this year's Game Day Analytics Challenge. With thousands of dollars in prize money and guaranteed internship interviews on the line, the competition was intense. Since 2016, Chong Oh, an Associate Professor (Lecturer) from the Operations & Information Systems (OIS) Department [...]
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Dr. Jill Jim, executive director of the Navajo Department of Health, to serve on his COVID-19 Advisory Board. Jim earned her Master of Healthcare Administration from the David Eccles School of Business and her doctorate in Public Health from the University of Utah. "Dr. Jim's extensive public health experience and expertise (have) been a major benefit for the Navajo [...]
Graduates in all of the Specialized Master’s Programs at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah experienced strong career placements and high starting salaries despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Career placement rates ranged from 93% to 100%, and starting salaries showed the return on investment Specialized Master’s Program students received. The impressive statistics come from a combination of well-prepared graduates, a [...]