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With $40,000 in seed funding up for grabs, �鶹��Ƶ undergraduate students and recent alumni are preparing to pitch their business ideas to a panel of local business professionals and �鶹��Ƶ alumni on Thursday, April 13 at the School of Business Patriot Pitch Competition.

Financially troubled U.S. hospitals are petitioning for more support from the federal government, but handouts won’t fix the underlying problem.

Negotiation is a critical skillset in business and in society. Negotiation is a complicated, joint decision problem where parties can, potentially, make each other better off—but also have some competing interests. Einav Hart, assistant professor of management at �鶹��Ƶ, suggests that our relationships and context influence how we should negotiate—and even whether it is a good idea to negotiate at all.

Research by �鶹��Ƶ Accounting Professor Bret Johnson, a former SEC staff accountant and academic fellow, shows how seemingly mundane intra-agency policies can have unintended effects that benefit Wall Street over Main Street.

�鶹��Ƶ’s online degree offerings are some of the best in the nation, with five programs in education and engineering ranked in the top 20 among public universities, according to the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings released Jan. 24.

Faculty and students at �鶹��Ƶ are conducting impactful environmental research with the help of the Business for a Better World Center's Honey Bee Initiative.

�鶹��Ƶ will receive $1 million in federal funding to support the creation a first-of-its-kind �鶹��Ƶ Center for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience, and nearly $1 million for the Saving Lives and Decreasing Health Disparities project

�鶹��Ƶ alum Horace Blackman was elected as rector of �鶹��Ƶ’s Board of Visitors in July, after serving as vice rector for the past two years.

Managers often struggle to motivate their teams, but that could be because they’re looking in the wrong place. �鶹��Ƶ School of Business professor Shora Moteabbed believes that how employees relate to one another on a one-to-one basis is key to understanding—and influencing—workplace behavior.

Faculty, staff, and students from three units across �鶹��Ƶ have worked together to create a new VR experience so elementary students can take a “field trip” to the �鶹��Ƶ apiary and learn from an expert beekeeper.