It’s an intriguing premise for a book: Pack three economist buddies into a car for a cross-country road trip to explore how small businesses function in far-flung locales, and extract some lessons valuable to all manner of executives and entrepreneurs in the process. That’s exactly what Scott Schaefer, a professor of economics and strategy at the David Eccles School of Business, did with a [...]
The students of the Student Investment Fund class at the David Eccles School of Business have a consistent record of performing well at case competitions near and far, and that continued at the recent international student portfolio competition in Dayton, Ohio. Held in conjunction with the RISE 14 student investment conference, sponsored by the University of Dayton in association with the United Nations Global [...]
A team of undergraduate Finance students from the David Eccles School of Business recently made a splash in the CFA Institute Research Challenge, competing with teams from more than 800 universities from around the world and landing in the top 20 teams for all of North and South America. The feat was all the more impressive considering the team representing the U—junior Alex Schaaf, [...]
For the second straight year, a student team from the David Eccles School of Business earned its way into the finals of the National Investment Banking Competition in Vancouver, Canada, besting hundreds of competing teams from around the world in the qualifying rounds to land a spot in the January case competition showdown. A total of 250 teams vied in the qualifying round, and [...]