Business & World Affairs
Before you light up, consider this: cigarette cravings signal poor credit
Two UWM economists have figured out a way to guess your credit score: They look at whether or not you need a nicotine fix.
Student entrepreneurs could change how athletes compete
The Student Startup Challenge provides funding and classroom support to help winners develop prototypes, mobile applications and business plans.
Support, reality can help older workers cope with late-career job loss
Helping older people who lose their jobs deal with that reality is a challenge for mental health professionals.
Turning student brainstorms into businesses
UWM’s Student Startup Challenge, a campuswide competition for students, puts the focus on the earliest entrepreneurial stage – a product idea.
Bringing out the entrepreneur in students
UW-Milwaukee helps budding entrepreneurs by offering competitive opportunities to obtain hard-to-come-by, early-stage financing.
Controlling risky business
It’s baptism by fire in UWM’s elite investment management certificate program.
UWM footprints on a company’s lean transformation
What began as a quest to procure the right kind of raw materials from vendors became ongoing process improvement.
Companies get greener with student power
UWM’s Industrial Assessment Center is the only center of its kind in Wisconsin and the largest of the 24 funded nationwide.
Innovative UWM caregiver support system going commercial
TCARE Navigator LLC, a Milwaukee-based start-up, will commercialize an innovative caregiver support system developed UWM.
Start me up!
The Student Startup Challenge is making it possible for UWM students to graduate not only with a degree, but also their own company.