video games Archives - The David Eccles School of Business

Samsung S Health sponsors title and grand prize for 2017 Games4Health Challenge

Samsung S Health, in partnership with the Sorenson Center for Discovery & Innovation at The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, will sponsor the first-ever Grand Prize in the 2017 Games4Health Challenge, the largest game-design competition of its kind. In the Games4Health Challenge, contestants exercise their creativity by designing a game or app that promotes improvements in people’s health and well-being. Drawing [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:33-07:00March 17th, 2017|

Stryker to join list of Games4Health sponsors

Like attracts like among organizations that strive for excellence. It is no surprise, then, that Stryker’s Neurovascular division and the David Eccles School of Business have become associated through the 2017 Games4Health Challenge. Stryker is home to an exceptional and collaborative group of results driven, innovative employees seeking to improve the lives of patients. Stryker’s Neurovascular Division President, Mark Paul, is passionate about the [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:35-07:00February 28th, 2017|

MetLife and SCDI announce competition for game and app developers

MetLife, in partnership with the Sorenson Center for Discovery & Innovation at The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, will sponsor the Corporate Wellness Challenge in the 2017 Games4Health Challenge, the largest game-design competition of its kind. In the Games4Health Challenge, contestants exercise their creativity by designing a game or app that promotes improvements in people’s health and well-being. Drawing participation and [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:35-07:00February 27th, 2017|

O.C. Tanner to support Games4Health Challenge

Organizations are like human bodies. The healthier they are, the better they function; and healthy organizations contribute to healthy communities. O.C. Tanner Company’s proven expertise demonstrates their understanding of the key elements that influence the health of an organization. The global employee recognition and engagement leader helps thousands of the world’s most respected companies accomplish and appreciate great work. O.C. Tanner promotes wellbeing, both [...]

Jerry Norton2017-12-20T10:07:37-07:00February 12th, 2017|

Sorenson Center announces competition for game and app developers

The Sorenson Center for Discovery & Innovation at The University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, in partnership with MetLife and SocialWellth, today announced the MetLife - SocialWellth Games4Health Challenge. The event will be held on March 31 and will foster a cooperative ecosystem of hundreds of game developers, health experts, investors, donors, researchers and students from around the world to address [...]

Jerry Norton2016-02-03T14:13:36-07:00February 3rd, 2016|

Games4Health winners get total of $50,000 to improve health using digital games

As Americans grow more concerned about the obesity epidemic, video games tend to get a bad rap. But what if a video game could actually improve your health? That’s the challenge the Sorenson Center for Discover & Innovation at the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business presented in its annual Games4Health college student challenge. Students from around Utah and the world recently [...]

Jerry Norton2015-04-08T16:17:19-06:00April 8th, 2015|