During times of lackluster snowfall, ski resorts can suffer without the help of artificially made snow. For slope enthusiasts, this man-made snow seems to resemble freezing drizzle rather than real snow, causing the still-liquid particles to freeze to goggles and create a worse experience for skiers and snowboarders. "Our thought was: Why not make a man-made snow that is the same as the [...]
The undergraduate Entrepreneurship program at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has earned the No. 15 spot in the 2019 list of Best Undergraduate Business Programs in U.S. News and World Report. The program was ranked No. 8 for state schools. “We are thrilled to be recognized as a top-15 school for Entrepreneurship,” said Troy D’Ambrosio, the executive director [...]
Pickleball courts, smoothies and skateboarding halfpipes might not be what most employees are looking for in a benefits package, but offbeat perks like these may help new companies compete for talent, according to Brad Williams, director of the Entrepreneurship program at the David Eccles School of Business. Williams tells The Salt Lake Tribune that these benefits can also help off-set challenges like lower starting [...]
Talk about entrepreneurial success. Shawn Nelson got started selling Lovesac's out of his van in 1999 while still a student here at the University of Utah. Fast forward to today, when the brand just raise $56 million in its IPO. "He was one of the early entrepreneurs in our program and really showed us, and a generation of students, what the possibilities were," Troy [...]
For the seventh-straight year, The Princeton Review ranked the University of Utah as one of the top 25 schools in the country in 2018 for entrepreneurship education in a new survey released today. Led by the David Eccles School of Business and its Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, the University of Utah ranked No. 15 for undergraduate and No. 23 for graduate programs. The Princeton Review surveyed more than [...]
The David Eccles School of Business is once more in the rankings, this time in the U.S. News Best Colleges list. The Eccles School came in at No. 45 for Business Programs, and No. 27 in the Entrepreneurship specialty. Read more in the Deseret News.
Disruptive entrepreneurship is something we encourage here at the David Eccles School of Business. And no one is a bigger champion than Troy D'Ambrosio, director of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute. So D'Ambrosio was the perfect person to lead a panel of entrepreneurs at the Utah Economic Summit. The panel, called "Change Agents: Disruptive Startups" brought together three Utah entrepreneurs who are all making disruptive [...]
Eccles School Week is an annual event held each spring that works to capture the momentum of the David Eccles School of Business. We honor the five values of the Eccles School that embrace the bright future of the school and its students, faculty, staff and alumni. During the week, we honor the tenets of innovation, transformation, scholarship, entrepreneurship and community. You can read [...]
LendEDU, an independent marketplace for student loans and student loan refinancing, recently ranked the top 50 colleges in the US for aspiring entrepreneurs. Unsurprisingly, the University of Utah and the David Eccles School of Business came in No. 1. With the support of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, unparalleled entrepreneurship faculty, and the aspiring and inspiring student body it's no surprise that entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial [...]
Entrepreneurship is again increasing across the country, according to The Associated Press. The 2015 numbers have increased over 2014 by about 10 percent, from 280 to 310 new entrepreneurs per 10,000 people. That means about 530,000 new businesses open every month. In Utah, one of the big contributors is Lassonde Studios, which is a living space designed to help students develop, grow and launch [...]