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Ruchi Watson Q&A: Entrepreneurs Maximize Their Potential
By Jacqueline Mumford Preview
Ruchi M. Watson teaches in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, while also serving as managing director of the Goff Strategic Leadership Center. Watson has many years of experience in academia, […]
Eccles School launches postdoctoral program in Entrepreneurship & Strategy
The Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program with the hire of Maria Kurakina, a young scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
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Gender Diversifying the Business Curriculum
By Gary Fraser and Ruchi Watson Preview
SINCE THE LATE 1970s, more women than men have studied at higher education institutions in the United States. As of 2018, 56 percent of undergraduate students in the U.S. were women, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Even […]
Call Me Oobleck
By Ruchi M. Watson Preview
I’ve discovered that I am oobleck. What is oobleck, you ask? For those of you who haven’t hung around a young child or a chemistry class recently, oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid – it acts like a solid under pressure and a […]
Eccles’ Ruchi Watson shares thoughts on career shifts, embracing change
Ruchi Watson graduated with her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2008 in the midst of the economic crisis. She completed her Ed.D. in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. In a conversation with fellow Kellogg classmate, […]
Eccles School Professor Jay Barney racks up another major award
Congratulations are once again in order for professor Jay Barney, who has received the 2020 Strategic Management Division Outstanding Scholarship Award. He shares the joint award with Margie Peteraf of Dartmouth College. The award will be presented at the upcoming Academy of Management Meeting in Philadelphia.
The […]