Professors Sam Holloway and Mark Meckler are once again leading the conversation in the craft beer business arena. Large breweries have now, entered a strategic decline, merging and acquiring each other and chasing profits at the expense of future customers. Chasing higher profitability through lower-quality products and acquisitions might please shareholders, but it also fits…Continue Reading Professors Holloway and Meckler are once again leading the conversation
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Winners Announced – $100K Venture Competition
This year thirty-four teams participated in the $100K Challenge Venture Competition. We want to thank all our judges, mentors, sponsors, faculty and staff that helped to make the event a success and prepared the students for their outstanding presentations. All the judges reported the presentations were more advanced than any in previous year and the choices…Continue Reading Winners Announced – $100K Venture Competition
Founder’s Day 2016
Founder’s Day is a UP tradition where we celebrate the past, where we honor our leaders and the future where our best and brightest students showcase their research as undergraduates. We followed a few students and faculty to see what they are up to this year. Dr. Naveen Gudigantala and his students, Janelle Li, Mace Provost,…Continue Reading Founder’s Day 2016
Guest Speakers Bring Real Life Experience into the Classroom
To most people the subject of international finance is business on a global level. The students of Bus 441 International Finance, taught by Chris Dunnaville, this semester were fortunate to meet with and learn from three executives who know the intricate financial considerations of globalization and what it means for their companies. The first executive…Continue Reading Guest Speakers Bring Real Life Experience into the Classroom
Prestigious Journal Publishes a UP Business Professor’s Paper
The highly regarded and prestigious, Academy of Management Journal, AMJ, published a research article by our Professor Dr. Sam Holloway. We are thrilled to share this honor and congratulate Dr. Holloway on this outstanding achievement. He wrote, ‘Friends and Profits Don’t Mix: The Performance Implications of Repeated Partnerships’ with Dr. Anne Parmigiani from the University…Continue Reading Prestigious Journal Publishes a UP Business Professor’s Paper
An Investing Class That Uses Real Money
When students sign up for BUS 468 and BUS 567 with Dr. Brian Adams, they are jumping into the world of applied portfolio management with real money! The description for the Applied Portfolio Management class indicates that investment philosophy, asset allocation, asset class management, investment process, and behavioral finance are covered. Students gain experience using…Continue Reading An Investing Class That Uses Real Money