Utah Business magazine recently highlighted three successful companies that launched with the support of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and are still thriving today. The leaders of the companies, Neighbor, a peer-to-peer storage platform, Blerp, an app that allows users to share audio clips, and Thirst, a shop that specializes in drinks and treats, shared with Utah Business what has led to their success, including [...]
Utah Business has released its annual 30 Women to Watch list, and one face will be familiar to the Eccles School community. Ruchi Watson, Managing Director of the Goff Strategic Leadership Center, made the list this year. Read her advice to her younger self in Utah Business.
Natalie Gochnour, associate dean at the David Eccles School of Business and director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, wrote an op-ed in Utah Business about her predictions for 2017. She believes there is a lot to keep an eye this year on and predicts many changes for Utah and the world. To Gochnour, the landscape of geopolitics will be the biggest story of the year, [...]
One of the Eccles School’s newest professors, David Bradford, has a superpower. He can’t leap buildings in a single bound or see through walls using x-ray vision. He has the ability to do something even cooler: build billion-dollar businesses. Bradford, who joined the Eccles School faculty this semester, has created successful business after business – from Novell to Fusion-io to HireVue. He has a [...]
Associate Dean Natalie Gochnour is an expert on Utah's economy--chief economist for the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, in fact--and a regular contributor to Utah Business and the Deseret News, in addition to being called on by all manner of media outlets and civic groups hoping to tap into her knowledge. In her most recent Utah Business column, she discusses the economic impact [...]