Approximately 50 percent of women experience some form of sexual harassment in the workplace at some point during their career.
As shocking as that number is, perhaps more so is the fact that many of those women find themselves doubly victimized through the reactions of judgmental coworkers who might think the victims didn’t do enough to stop the harassment, or that they somehow “asked for it,” depending on how the victim responded to the situation.
When Inc. set out to find some of the biggest, mind-blowing business ideas, we knew what we didn't want. Those smartphone apps with crazy growth stats? Another slickly designed Web dashboard to manage your finances? The next Angry Birds? All perfectly valid start-up ideas--but they don't exactly make your head spin. We wanted boldness.
AdvanceCath’s Foley Catheter won the grand prize of $5,000 at the techTITANS final round on Friday at the University of Utah (the U). The product offers a new way to reduce urinary tract infections, which add billions of dollars of additional health care costs per year in the United States by preventing the growth of bacterial film on the surface of the device.
For years, researchers have scoured the Internet for evidence of how bloggers and social media affect consumer decisions like choosing what movie to see or which book to buy. Never has there been a similar look at how the blogosphere affects larger financial decisions—particularly new venture financing decisions in which every choice is worth millions of dollars—until now.
Dr. Christine Botosan, an accounting professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Affairs, has been nominated for the prestigious EIU Business Professor of the Year award, and you can help her represent the David Eccles School of Business in a live London classroom showdown against some of the world’s best teachers.
For many student entrepreneurs at colleges across Utah, this week was crunch time. Participants in the techTITANS innovation competition, part of the Utah Entrepreneur Series, were required to submit a three-page business idea summary combined with a 90-second video explaining their concept. On Saturday, 10 teams were selected from a total of 87 separate submissions to present their ideas in person to an investor-style panel of judges.
That's one comforting conclusion from "The Value of Bosses," a new working paper from three business school professors who set out to quantify the effect supervisors actually have on their workers.
DAYTON, OHIO -- The American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants (AWSCPA) announced today that it will present its annual awards at its Women’s Leadership in Accounting Conference – (WALC) – in Salt Lake City on June 22, 2012.
Receiving the Woman CPA of the Year Award is Betsy Rafael, Corporate Controller and Principal
