The Sorenson Impact Center is paving the way for groundbreaking programs in social impact financing. Forbes contributor Devin Thorpe took note and published this lead in his recent piece about how the David Eccles School of Business, the University of Utah and Salt Lake County at the forefront of this world changing program. It is almost as if the earth shifted a few degrees [...]
The Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and Pima County, Ariz. today announced a groundbreaking effort to address the causes of homelessness in Pima County. Together, they are preparing to implement a $1.3 million federal “Pay for Success” (PFS) Supportive Housing Demonstration Grant, the first of its kind in Arizona. Funded by the Department of Justice (DOJ) [...]
The David Eccles School of Business today announced that its MBA Online program has been ranked as No. 13 in the world, the only Utah business school ranked in the top 25 this year. The ranking comes from The Princeton Review, which provides the first ranking of online MBA programs that is based both on school data and student feedback. The Princeton Review chose [...]
The recipe for a good book includes almost 3,800 haiku poems written by 2,060 university students over a period of 12 years, juried by 6 university, community and business leaders for 1 professor whose sections of Foundations of Business Thought those students took. The result was a book entitled, Haikus on Business. Professor Cal Boardman initiated the Foundations of Business Thought course as a [...]
James Lee Sorenson provided the Eccles School of Business with gift in 2013 to create the James Lee Sorenson Global Impact Investing Center (SGI Center) which focuses on impact investing. He wrote this guest post about the subject in Forbes. ### Charitable giving has hit a record high in the United States; household, charitable, and foundation giving are all on the rise. In 2014, Americans [...]
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