If you’re reading this story on a cell phone, tablet or laptop, the technology in your hand is thanks to the University of Wisconsin alum’s startling invention 70 years ago Saturday.
UW history professor explains shift in viewing corporations from public to private, believes entrepreneurs’ success dictated by corporations.
Quoted: “My impression is that Foxconn’s interests are definitely larger than just setting up a plant,” said Peter Rafferty, a researcher in the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW’s College of Engineering.
The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has embarked on a US$11 million construction project to convert three floors in its facility into a vertically connected educational space called the Learning Commons. The Learning Commons will become the heart of the building, connecting its east and west wings, with ample natural light to open the space. The first floor will house the school’s finance and analytics lab, and the second and third floors will feature the business library and business learning center with five active learning classrooms equipped with wireless displays for collaboration. The upper floors will include ten breakout rooms, as well as collaborative and casual seating. Construction on the 33,000-square-foot space is due to be completed this spring.
Quoted: The economic side of the industry is “where all the questions are these days,” said Hart Posen, a UW-Madison associate professor of business who tracks sharing economies.
Professor Mark Eppli, who guided Marquette University’s real estate program to a Top 10 national ranking, will resign at the end of the academic year to teach and do research at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Noted: Researchers from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently stated in a paper that although there are plenty of frequently suggested benefits of “e-visits” and of electronic communication between providers and patients, such as enabling providers to give patients a low-cost alternative to visiting the doctor’s office, there could also be unintended consequences involved.
Wisconsin School of Business administrators are calling on students and alumni to help fund and recruit future M.B.A. classes after reversing course on a plan to suspend admissions to its program last month.
Noted: In “An Assessment of When, Where and Under What Conditions In-Store Sampling is Most Effective,” the three authors – Sandeep R. Chandakula of Singapore Management University, Jeffrey P. Dotson of Brigham Young University, and Qing Liu of University of Wisconsin-Madison – find that sampling has both an immediate, if short-term, effect and a sustained impact on sales, but that the impact varies according to the size of the store conducting the event. They also found that repeated sampling for a single product produces increased returns and that sampling tends to expand a category rather than purely substitute for another product.
According to research out of the University of Wisconsin School of Business, buying the same thing for yourself makes the gift even more special to the recipient. There’s even a name for it: companionizing.
“Recipients end up liking the gift more because it’s shared,” says Evan Polman, a UW marketing professor, who conducted the research with Sam Maglio, a marketing professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. They published the results of their study in July in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
When Zach Bohannon was a junior forward on the University of Wisconsin basketball team, his Badgers played in a Thanksgiving tournament at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. During pregame warmups, Zach nearly fell when he slipped on a large Continental Tire decal that had been slapped onto the middle of the basketball court.
From the moment I arrived in Wisconsin last year, I loved the familiar energy, intellect, and passion for doing things well. I was happy to return to my Midwestern roots.
Noted: One small winery that had a close call and is now looking to the future is Hamel Family Wines in Sonoma County. The family has longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison connections and their wines sport a badger on the label, albeit not exactly Bucky.
The second generation of the device is also getting more technical, adding a touchscreen interface to track patient process and apps developed in conjunction with bio-medical engineering students at UW-Madison to help patients with cognitive impairments.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — They seem an odd couple. J. D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir of growing up in the postindustrial Midwest and his journey of escape. And Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of America Online.
Noted: Three floors of the existing Grainger House will become a vertically connected education space. Set for completion in spring 2018, the $11 million project will include a new computer lab, business library, and finance and analytics lab. The Commons will also contain the Business Learning Center’s five classrooms with wireless displays.
UW-Madison selected design firm Potter Lawson (Madison), and MSR Design (Minneapolis) is serving as consultant and partner. Miron Construction (Neenah, Wisconsin) is handling construction.
“UW-Madison is unique, according to my colleagues at other universities,” says Steele, co-founder and CEO of Lactic Solutions and UW–Madison Winder-Bascom Professor of food science. “UW–Madison may be ahead of its peers in providing support to entrepreneurial faculty and staff. However, most faculty and staff, including us in the early years, are not aware of the resources available to them.”
Noted: Sybil Pressprich is a career and educational counselor in UW-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s corporate partnerships bring in revenue for the institution but also raise ethical questions.
A few months ago, a judge ordered Apple to pay the University of Wisconsin $506 million for infringing one of its tech patents.
EatStreet’s co-founders, CEO Matt Howard and Chief technology officer Alex Wyler, both 28, were named in Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list.
Co-founders of Madison-based startup EatStreetMatt Howard and Alex Wyler were named to the Forbes 2018 30 Under 30, released Tuesday. Howard and Wyler were selected in the consumer technology category. Their company, an online and mobile food ordering and delivery service, started in 2010 in a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison’s controversial new policy center, named after one of the state’s leading Republican figures, announced that its first event this month will feature speakers with varying political views.
Weiss is a junior studying business at the UW-Madison. He said he launched CupsOver in 2016 after he was inspired by what he heard from a professor about entrepreneurship.
Wisconsin State Patrol and the Department of Natural Resources are learning on how to fly a drone.
A ton of students lined up to get free donuts from Google on Thursday outside the Engineering Building on the UW Campus.
Business schools are facing a tough business problem. While graduate schools of management can make money for the institutions that house them, their M.B.A. programs sometimes bring in little more than prestige. (Subscription required.)
Jacob Eugster was in 9th grade when he asked his parents if they could turn their family’s farm into a haunted house for Halloween. Now it’s one of the scariest and most elaborate Halloween attractions around.
“I think there’s no question the Madison region is on the national radar screen a lot more than it was a few years ago,” MadREP president Paul Jadin said. The area’s growing reputation as a technology hub and the strength of the University of Wisconsin are contributing to that, he said.
Computer experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say illegal downloading has gone down over the years.
Noted: A second study, from the University of Wisconsin School of Business and economics researchers from two additional universities, focused on property values in Denver and found that homes near retail cannabis outlets — within just 0.1 miles — gained 8.4 percent more in value than houses just steps further away, from 0.1 to 0.25 miles. That big increase amounted to almost $27,000 for an average house.
Noted: A study from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison found property values in the immediate vicinity of Denver’s retail marijuana establishments showed an 8 percent increase since Amendment 64 took effect in January 2014.
Apple Inc has asked an appeals court to either reverse or reduce a judgment that it owes $506 million to the licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for infringing on a patent relating to computer processing technology.
The question put to the venture capitalist was: How do you juice up the Wisconsin startup scene when the state is judged the absolute worst in the nation for fostering new businesses?
Wisconsin School of Business officials are reversing course on suspending the Master of Business Administration program for a year.
Just one week after news broke that the University of Wisconsin Business School was considering suspension of its full-time MBA program — and following a swift backlash among alumni and current students — the school is backpedaling.
The decision today (Oct. 25) to backpedal on a non-sensical proposal to shut down the full-time MBA program at Wisconsin’s School of Business is a welcome relief to many students, alumni and company recruiters of the school’s graduates. The mea culpa couldn’t have been clearer.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business has decided to end discussion of the one-year suspension of the full-time MBA program, according to officials.
Wisconsin School of Business leaders say they are no longer pursuing a proposal that would have suspended the school’s full-time Master of Business Administration program for a year, and could have led to the program’s closure.
Officials at the Wisconsin School of Business have proposed suspending admissions to its full-time master’s in business administration program for a year.
A petition is circulating after a proposal that would suspend admissions to the full-time Master of Business Administration Program degree for one year surfaced last week.
UW-Madison faculty are reviewing a proposal that calls for the Wisconsin School of Business to suspend admissions into its full-time Master of Business Administration program for one year while leaders undertake a long-term review of program offerings, officials said Monday.
The Wisconsin School of Business is considering shutting down its full-time Master of Business Administration program, officials say, in a move that would make UW-Madison the latest university to stop offering a traditional MBA.
The main barrier to taking more is a lack of faculty to educate more students without diminishing the quality of the experience for all. Private gifts help, but the core funding for faculty hires comes from state government support and student tuition. Neither source has grown much for years.
In a change sure to send shockwaves through the college, the Wisconsin School of Business may eliminate its full-time Master of Business Administration program if a proposal from its administration is accepted.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is considering changes to its master’s of business administration program that could include a greater focus on older, part-time students.
When it comes to voting, UW-Madison students have regularly reigned Big Ten champs. There’s never been a formal competition for the highest voter turnout among the 14 universities, but reports from nine of the schools show UW a clear leader.
KIINCE—shorthand for Kinetic Immersive Interfaces for Neuromuscular Coordination Enhancement—is a Madison-based corporation that has emerged from the research of Kreg Gruben, associate professor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison department of kinesiology.
One of the country’s oldest business schools is considering closing its M.B.A. program, the latest tremor in the troubled market for graduate business degrees. (Subscription required.)
Jadin would not name the sites, but three are in Madison — one on the East Side, another on the Far West Side in the as-yet unused University Research Park 2.
Noted: EMSI, an economic consulting firm, calculates that workers in only five of the nation’s 100 largest cities experienced healthy average annual pay increases of at least 2 percent, adjusted for inflation, from 2012 through 2016: San Jose; Seattle; San Francisco; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Madison, Wisconsin. The first four are tech hubs, while Madison is the home of the University of Wisconsin.
Noted: Jacob said because of his business, he’s on track to graduate the University of Wisconsin-Madison debt free.
Noted: This article is by Robin J. Tanner, associate professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Navy has awarded a team of computer science researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over $6 million to work on developing technology for better performance, management and security of container software.
Over a thousand students and recruiters jostled about the Varsity Hall conference room in Union South on Tuesday afternoon. Lines of varying sizes snaked throughout the space, some even winding outside of it, as students — many wearing formal wear, almost all clutching resumes — waited to chat with potential employers from almost 50 different startups, tech firms and government institutions. Local institutions like Epic Systems and American Family Insurance had booths side by side with global brands like Facebook and Bloomberg.
Noted: But the hiring of Chris Murdoch as a special advisor marks the first state resident hired by the company. Murdoch brings an unusual background to the job as a Navy pilot who until last month ran the Naval ROTC program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dreaming big can pay off — if you are passionate and persistent. That was the message from four University of Wisconsin alumni who told their stories to several hundred students Thursday night at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Showcase at Gordon Commons.
One is a series of articles highlighting innovation in the Madison area marketplace series. Many of the stories have UW-Madison roots.
The percentage of U.S. hospitals that rely entirely on paper records to document information on their patients now stands at 1 percent, down from 69 percent in 2003, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
