Watch our founder Pierre Lassonde's keynote address at the 2016 Governor’s Utah Economic Summit. In this speech, you’ll learn Lassonde’s 10 rules for business and more. Learn more about the Utah Economic Summit here: lassonde.utah.edu/pierre-lassonde-to-keynote-utah-economic-summit/. For the full article, click here.
We know that innovation never sleeps, nor takes a summer vacation. So, to keep your creative juices flowing year round the Lassonde Institute is introducing new summer events. Enjoy the Workshops, Meetups, and Hours with Experts that you loved during the school year while you put school on hiatus. Because, ideally, you’ll have more time now to explore your idea or business venture. If [...]
A new partnership between the University of Utah and the U.S. Olympic Committee will help the David Eccles School of Business educate Olympians. The U.S.O.C. will also work with University Healthcare. The Eccles School will give $250,000 in scholarships and dedicated support to athletes. KSL also reported on the new partnership: Speedskater Derek Parra was in Milwaukee, training for the 2002 Olympics, when he crossed [...]
Editor’s note: Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute talks about a new medical device that could prevent an infant death. Want to verify your baby’s breathing at all times? You’ll need a device with wires, electrodes or other physical attachments to the child, said University of Utah bioengineering student Spencer Madsen. The Ph.D. candidate and new dad — with No. 2 on the way — set out to create a [...]
The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute and Hinckley Institute of Politics will produce a series of 2016 election products that will help Utah voters make informed decisions. Called “Informed Decisions 2016,” the collaboration will identify the most important issues on voters’ minds, analyze these issues, and host candidate conversations to engage and inform the public. The University of Utah institutes will deliver a series [...]
The Utah Real Estate Challenge is an intercollegiate real estate contest for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the state of Utah. The event was featured in the Salt Lake Tribune's Reality Show blog by Tony Semerad. Read the clip below and the full article here. The Utah Real Estate Challenge offers college students a shot at winning big bucks with their own development plans. Sponsored [...]
Natalie Gochnour discusses Utah's economy and how large families are benefiting the state. This full article appeared in the Deseret News. "From an economist's point of view, those characteristics make us very attractive," said Gochnour, associate dean of the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business and director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. "That's the real benefit of these large families [...]
As part of its global outreach, The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business will host an Entrepreneurial Summit in the Republic of Moldova on March 21, 2016. The Summit will include the release of findings from a survey of Moldovan businesses about the business climate in the country and the challenges entrepreneurs face. After the Summit, the Eccles School will assess opportunities [...]
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 [...]
The David Eccles School of Business is highlighting the five school values that engage in the future. The fourth value honored is Community. We're four days into our Eccles School Week celebration of the school's values of transformation, scholarship, innovation, entrepreneurship and community. Wear Utah Red Put on your best University of Utah or Eccles School red duds and show them off all day! Free Popcorn [...]