Category: Business/Technology

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.)

“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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.