University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: May 2018

Research collaboration with American Family Insurance highlights UW’s ability to tackle business challenges.

Departments from across UW are collaborating with American Family Insurance -- helping to apply big data analytics to the company’s data stream. Learn about the project goals and how the process got underway.

Badger entrepreneurial spirit shines bright

Check out this impressive group of UW–Madison students whose innovations, ideas and products will change the shape of the world we live in.

Entrepreneur Class project becomes career for graduating UW–Madison undergraduate

When Shawn Michels’ took the class Intro to Entrepreneurship, Jon Eckhardt, associate professor of management and human resources and executive director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, assigned a project to develop a new product. The advice Echhardt gave his class was, “Focus on problems that you have personally.” Michels, an undergraduate at the University …