Drew Castellanos has always thought it would cool to start a business. He's wondered what it would feel like to take an idea, build it from scratch, and turn it into something real and lasting. "That seems really gratifying to me," he said. That ambition is now one step closer. Castellanos and two other seniors in the Park City Center for Advanced Professional Studies [...]
Adyson Edwards believes students should always dress for success. She shares her advice for how to dress when coming to class or heading off to an event at the Eccles School. Photo: Kailey Critchley Back to school has sneaked up on us and classes are now in full swing. Staying up all night completing assignments only to wake up early to attend class is [...]
Eccles School freshmen showed off their ability to find innovative solutions to everyday problems at the Business Scholars Innovation Showcase. The showcase featured 142 students who divided into 36 teams that found new ways to address issues in fields ranging from fashion to recreation to health and more. Students were judged based on how well their idea addressed a problem and how deeply involved [...]
Associate Dean Natalie Gochnour took time to stop by the dean’s leadership class today to discuss how her leadership style has developed throughout her career. Gochnour describes her passion and bailiwick as working within public policy and maximizing the “productive middle” as she tells the students. Throughout her experiences, Gochnour has developed these 10 lessons which are evident in top leaders across all industries: [...]
Several students are taking business classes in Paris through a summer program sponsored by the David Eccles School of Business, exploring the city, its culture and its business landscape. We’ll be sharing several of their experiences here. Here, student Sarah Brown writes about Arrondissment #4, one of the city’s 20 distinct districts: Paris is a highly romanticized city, and for good reason. You have the [...]
Several students are taking business classes in Paris through a summer program sponsored by the David Eccles School of Business, exploring the city, its culture and its business landscape. We’ll be sharing several of their experiences here. Here, student Ryan Jones introduces his Summer on the Seine blog and shares his impressions of the district known as Paris's 3rd Arrondissment. Ryan writes: So, I [...]
Several students are taking business classes in Paris through a summer program sponsored by the David Eccles School of Business, exploring the city, its culture and its business landscape. We’ll be sharing several of their experiences here. Here, student Ashton Meeks writes about arrondissment #2, one of the city's 20 distinct districts: I am a senior (still can’t believe it) at the University of [...]
Several students are taking business classes in Paris through a summer program sponsored by the David Eccles School of Business, exploring the city, its culture and its business landscape. We'll be sharing several of their experiences here. We start with student Ashley Teter, who writes about starting the trip, and exploring one of the 20 unique districts making up the French city. Ashley writes: [...]
Brianna Koucos, a senior career counselor with the Undergraduate Career Management Center, traveled recently with two groups of students to visit Grant Thornton offices in Paris and the Bay Area. Here, she writes a bit about the trips: The David Eccles School of Business students made two trips to Grant Thornton this spring. The first was in Paris, France, where the Business Scholars met [...]
The Opportunity Scholars Program celebrated this year's graduates with a festive and emotional gathering of family, friends and faculty and staff from the David Eccles School of Business. There were a lot of tears, many laughs, and a celebratory "haka" dance to top it all off. Dedicated to providing scholarships and support--academic, professional and emotional--to first-generation college students at the business school, the Opportunity [...]