Category: Business/Technology

When sitting down at a table with co-workers, how often do we ask why someone is not there? This was Ella Bell’s question when she spoke on the final day of the three-day Women’s Executive Leadership Summit at UW-Madison.

Mentions UW-Madison and College of Engineering efforts to emphasize interaction with business.

As one of several speakers at the second annual Women’s Executive Leadership Summit at the Fluno Center on the UW- Madison campus, Nancy Chen provided statistical and historical information on the state of working women in America.

Carol Bartz, a 1971 UW-Madison computer science graduate and CEO of Autodesk, will be inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame next Tuesday. She will receive this annual award from the UW-Madison Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship.

Women in top-level corporate positions around the country will be converging on UW-Madison for the second annual Women’s Executive Leadership Summit.

State Rep. Spencer Black called the project ‘ill-conceived, … never competitively bid … and sold with a promise to give the university first call on the power produced that was later broken by the PSC. ‘A Dane County circuit judge this week upheld the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s approval of the $180 million power plant that Madison Gas and Electric and the UW-Madison are building on the west side of campus.

When it was looking for a new home for its 28 weeks of training programs, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association evaluated 13 universities.
Having won international accolades for food and lodging and since it already housed the Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Fluno Center for executive education got the nod, said Gary Pfann, director of university-based programs for the Arlington, Va.-based cooperative association.

Barry Gerhart, a professor and researcher in the field of human resources, has been named to the Bruce R. Ellig Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Nicholas Center for Applied Corporate Finance at the UW-Madison School of Business will host the grand opening of its expansion Thursday at Grainger Hall.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MBA program ranked 33rd among 44 regional schools in an annual survey done by Harris Interactive and the Wall Street Journal.

The Wall Street Journal ranks UW-Madison’s MBA program 33rd . The poll is based on a survey of 2,849 corporate recruiters.

Madison entrepreneurs surveyed believe the University of Wisconsin (69 percent), Madison’s lifestyle (60 percent), population growth (60 percent) and geographic location (48 percent) are the keys to their small business success.

The widening gap between the salaries of UW System employees and those of their peers is causing concern among UW System administrators.

The problem is such that UW Regent President Toby Marcovich recently called for a comparison study of salary information for faculty, academic staff and academic leadership between UW employees and employees of comparable Midwest universities, according to George Brooks, UW System associate vice president for human resources.

With consumers far from tapped out and business spending picking up, the sputtering U.S. economy should keep growing through 2005 and perhaps beyond. That was the reassuring message attendees at UW-Madison’s semi-annual Economic Outlook heard Friday.

It’s been a lively year on campus for labor matters, from striking teaching assistants to the classified employees fighting for raises that will let them break even.

One campus labor organization even folded: There is no union at the Wisconsin Union.

A University of Wisconsin board of trustees member recently made a deal that will give him and a business partner ownership of Penthouse magazines later this month.

Entrepreneurs have reputations as being a finicky bunch.

They can be great idea people, but struggle with getting their companies off the ground. Then, once they get beyond survival stage, many are loathe to take advice from consultants or academics.

Dane County’s economy powered forward through the recent economic downturn, adding jobs at nearly three times the rate of the country as a whole and making even bigger strides compared to the rest of Wisconsin, a new report shows.

Leaders of small electric companies from around the nation will be coming to Madison for training, providing what could be an infusion of millions of dollars to UW-Madison and the local economy and taking home ideas that could boost their own communities.

MADISON — After spending nearly two years scrutinizing 13 universities nationwide, the head of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association said it is the dedication to the cooperative business method plus academic excellence that put the University of Wisconsin-Madison out front.