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Promising entrepreneurs hoping to win this year’s record $25,000 Holloway Prize – the oldest business plan competition in the state and one of the first in the nation – will vie in the first stage of the competition this April, having only 10 minutes to make their best first impression.
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Fifteen teams of students will compete in the Bud Albin Challenge Round, the semi-final round of the Holloway Prize Innovation-to-Market Competition. The semi-final round will be held Friday, April 26, 2013, during the UNH Undergraduate Research Conference. The business plan competition runs from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Peter T...
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The recession: The economic downturn in 2008 and early 2009 is thought to be the major reason for the jump in disability payments to people who were formerly working.
"With every recession, we see a rise in the number of applicants," said Andrew Houtenville, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire's...
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The Paul College of Business and Economics Distinguished Lecture will present Douglas Irwin, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, Thursday, March 28, from 5-6:15 p.m. at the Paul College, room 175. A reception immediate follows.
Irwin will give the talk “Bono, Sweatshops,...
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The Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics is pleased to announce that professor Michael D. Goldberg will be awarded the Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics on Friday, Feb. 15. Dean Daniel Innis cordially invites the entire UNH community to come and celebrate Goldberg’s award and achievements.
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On the bright side, interest rates on consumer loans could head lower as global investors retreat into cash and safe investments, including paradoxically U.S. Treasuries, says Michael Goldberg, Roland H. O'Neal professor at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
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Older Americans receive income tax preferences – often significant ones – from every state and from the federal government. UNH professor of economics Karen Conwayhas been studying these tax breaks for the elderly. She wants to know how and why they arose, who benefits the most, how much they cost, their effect on the...
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In 2011, UNH said it graduated 130 associate, 2,670 bachelor, 811 master and 60 doctoral degree students. Based on the latest census data, high school graduates earn an estimated $1.59 million (2011 dollars) in their lifetime. Those with an associate's degree earn $2.12 million, bachelor's degrees earn $2.79 million,...
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The University of New Hampshire contributed approximately $1.4 billion to the state's economy in academic year 2010-11, according to the results of a study UNH released Friday...The economic impact study, prepared by Ross Gittell, chancellor of the community college system of New Hampshire, and Josh Stillwagon, a doctoral...
