entrepreneurship Archives - The David Eccles School of Business

Undergrad entrepreneurship ranked No. 2 in the West by Princeton Review

Congratulations to the undergraduate entrepreneurship program at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. The Princeton Review just ranked our entrepreneurship program No. 2 in the West and No. 5 overall for 2023. The Eccles School's Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy and the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute have created an incredible partnership that provides exceptional experiences for students who want to start their [...]

Jerry Norton2022-11-15T18:03:38-07:00November 15th, 2022|

Eccles School’s undergrad entrepreneurship program ranked No. 5 in U.S.

The David Eccles School of Business ranked No 5 for undergraduate entrepreneurship (and No. 2 for public schools) in the latest U.S. New & World Report rankings. The entrepreneurship program at the Eccles School is provided in partnership between the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy and the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Together, these programs provide a growing and broad range of programs [...]

Jerry Norton2022-09-12T16:31:32-06:00September 12th, 2022|

New Fenton Founders Fund to support student-founded startups

The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and the Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation today announced the creation of the Joan and Tim Fenton Founders Fund at the David Eccles School of Business, aimed at supporting startup companies formed by business students or others within the broader university network. Created through a $5 million investment by the Fenton Foundation, [...]

Jerry Norton2022-01-27T12:50:19-07:00January 27th, 2022|

Celebrating our Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate Graduates

In 2017, leaders at the University of Utah College of Engineering and the David Eccles School of Business recognized a vital intersection between engineering and entrepreneurship – which launched the Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate (EEC). The unique hybrid of business, entrepreneurship, innovation and law courses has proven to be in-demand across both undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Fast forward to 2019, and the first student to [...]

Jerry Norton2021-01-11T12:39:08-07:00January 11th, 2021|

Eccles ranked top 10 for entrepreneurship for 2021 by Princeton Review

The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah received another top 10 ranking for entrepreneurship today as the Princeton Review ranked its undergraduate entrepreneurship program No. 10 and its graduate program No. 16 for 2021. The new undergraduate ranking adds to a series of top 10 rankings for the Eccles School from organizations including US News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek. “Entrepreneurship is one of [...]

Jerry Norton2020-11-17T09:22:08-07:00November 17th, 2020|

Creating your own career: Women in entrepreneurship

The Women in Entrepreneurship Alumnae Panel brought together creative minds from across the University of Utah to share their experiences as real-world entrepreneurs. Participants included Camryn Polansky of the Lassonde Founders student group; Juliana Duran, small-business owner and entrepreneur; Anne Bastien, Program Director at Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute; Justin Kahn, Instructor in the Master of Business Creation program at the David Eccles School of [...]

Lisa Collins2020-10-26T14:31:34-06:00October 27th, 2020|

Eccles School launches postdoctoral program in Entrepreneurship & Strategy

The Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program with the hire of Maria Kurakina, a young scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Postdoctoral programs provide recent Ph.D. graduates with an opportunity to grow their expertise and publish original research, while also [...]

Jerry Norton2023-03-16T17:32:29-06:00September 29th, 2020|

Eccles School ranked No. 12 for MBA entrepreneurship by U.S. News

The David Eccles School of Business ranks No. 12 in the latest MBA rankings for entrepreneurship released today by US News and World Report. The rankings are for the year 2021. The Eccles School ranking is an improvement from the last year’s ranking of No. 17 for MBA entrepreneurship. In related rankings released earlier from US News and World Report, the Eccles School [...]

Jerry Norton2021-03-05T13:11:48-07:00March 17th, 2020|

IPO market seeing more women CEOs, despite disadvantages

This year has been a fantastic one for women CEOs taking companies through an IPO, despite the disadvantages they often experience from professional investors, who are overwhelmingly men. Read more about the IPO journey for female CEOs — including research from associate professor Lyda Bigelow — at Yahoo! Finance.

Jerry Norton2019-07-08T14:12:21-06:00July 8th, 2019|

Eccles School ranks No. 9 for undergrad entrepreneurship in Princeton Review

The University of Utah jumped six places to be ranked No. 9 for undergrad entrepreneur studies among all schools in the country in the latest survey released by The Princeton Review today. The U also improved four places in the survey to be ranked No. 19 for graduate entrepreneur studies. Entrepreneur programs at the U are provided by the David Eccles School of Business and the Lassonde [...]

Jerry Norton2023-03-16T17:37:01-06:00November 13th, 2018|