People and programs of the Wisconsin School of Business were in the news recently.

Mason Carpenter, professor of management and human resources, was quoted in the article “The Art of Teaming in Tough Times” and coauthored a list of managing tips included in the article, which was presented in Yahoo! Finance.

“You have more capital to invest, and at the same time, you have more to lose” cautions Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship,” in the article “6 Tips for Starting a Business After Age 50,” which can be found in U.S. News & World Report and Yahoo! News.

James Johannes, professor and director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education, explains the function and purpose of the FDIC for Wisconsin State Journal readers in the article “Curiosities: What does the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Do?”

Chip Hunter, associate professor of management and human resources, was quoted in, among others, The Wall Street Journal and SmartMoney Magazine, in the article “Winners and Losers of the Minimum Wage Hike”.

The research of three student interns at Wisco Research from the Applied Security Analysis Program was featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the article “Wisco Research zeros in on state, consumer stocks”.

SmartMoney Magazine article, “Is the U.S. Becoming More Like Europe?” featured Mark Browne, professor of risk management, regarding the unique socio-economic state of the United States in relation to the rest of the world.

Morris Davis, assistant professor of real estate and urban land economics, weighed in on a CNNMoney article on the growing number of unemployed Americans defaulting on their mortgages. In the article, Davis references the Wisconsin Unemployment and Foreclosure Relief plan devised by fellow Professors Stephen Malpezzi and François Ortalo-Magne, which calls for attaching a temporary housing voucher to unemployment checks. The amount would depend on the housing costs for the area and the benefit would stop when unemployment returns to “more normal levels.”

Davis’ comments in CNNMoney were referenced in Daily Finance, an AOL money and finance blog.

The launch of a new online census of startups with ties to UW-Madison was featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal. Professor Anne Miner and INSITE Associate Director John Surdyk are working with a doctoral research team to build the new census. The group is soliciting university colleagues and experts across Wisconsin to contribute to refining and building the list of business start-ups —now numbered at more than 250— founded by university faculty, students and staff.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote an article on the Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp, held at the Wisconsin School of Business, July 19-24.

Entrepreneur magazine recognized the “renewed focus on entrepreneurship” at the Wisconsin School of Business in an article on the top 10 places to be an entrepreneur. The Business Journal of Milwaukee reported on the original article.

Linda Uitvlugt, director of Enterprise MBA Programs, was featured in the summer 2009 Executive Connections, the Executive MBA Council’s magazine, in an article on how Executive MBA programs are responding to the diverse impacts of the economic crisis on Executive MBA programs world wide.

A book by Professor Mason Carpenter, Management and Human Resources, on “Managing Effectively in Tough Times” was featured in Investor’s Business Daily.

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