Category: Business/Technology

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.

Quoted: Sandra Kelzenberg, assistant dean for the master’s program at UW-Madison’s School of Business, said applications for the school’s MBA program are down substantially, she said a shift this fall in the program means the school will not be affected negatively.

Students entering the UW-Madison School of Business MBA program in September will encounter a revamped curriculum that has thrown off its generalist past to concentrate on 14 specific career tracks.

The University of Wisconsin School of Business has persuaded two utility groups to relocate training programs to the Madison campus.

For the past five years, private and public actors have been putting some of the pieces together in the puzzle that is South Madison economic revitalization. Since at least the early 1980s, various city administrations have tried to put the right configuration together to spur private investment. A lot of groundwork has been laid in place.

Quoted: LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the UW Chancellor and advisor to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz,

July 30 (Bloomberg) — Ryan Hertel, a student tour guide at the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus, pauses before the Old Red Gym, a former armory firebombed by Vietnam War protesters in 1970. That same year, homemade explosives killed a graduate student in physics working late into the night.

Bruce R. Ellig, a graduate of the UW-Madison School of Business, has donated an unspecified amount to establish the Bruce R. Ellig Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness in the school’s Department of Management and Human Resources.

GenTel BioSurfaces Inc., Madison, said Wednesday that in 2004, it has been awarded five Small Business Innovation Research grants totaling more than $900,000 by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. GenTel BioSurfaces is a privately held University of Wisconsin spin-off company.

The University of Wisconsin health care system will buy a health maintenance organization serving 80,000 people, university officials said Monday.