Wisconsin School of Business

Projects

• Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE)

  The Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE) course provides graduate students with a applied practicum in starting and growing entrepreneu...

• Small Business Development Center at UW-Madison

  The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UW-Madison has helped create and grow successful businesses since 1979. The SBDC staff of experienced...

• Small Business Development Center Assistance to Platypus Technologies, LLC

  Dr. Barbara Israel of the UW School of Veterinary Medicine formed Platypus Technologies, a company focused on the development of liquid crystal detect...

• Center for Professional and Executive Development

  The Center for Professional and Executive Development's mission is to help individuals and organizations through the professional and market transitio...

• Urban Entrepreneur Partnership

  The goal of the Center on Business and Poverty, an initiative of the UW-Madison School of Business, is to support and disseminate high-quality researc...

• Applied Learning Projects (ALPs) for Arts Administration MBA Students

  MBA students in the Arts Administration program participate in hands-on projects with leading nonprofit arts and cultural institutions and statewide m...

• Family Business Center (FBC)

  The Family Business Center (FBC) helps family business owners, their families and employees maintain profitable businesses and successfully transfer c...

• Center on Business and Poverty - Associated Projects

  The goal of the Center on Business and Poverty, an initiative of the Wisconsin School of Business, is to support ways in which employers can help impr...

• Building the Case for FRESH Food in Southern Wisconsin

  Farmers Raising Ecologically Sustainable, Healthy Food, or FRESH Food Connection, is a newly formed cooperative of community supported agriculture far...

• Growing the EnAct Program, A Business Plan for Social Sustainability

  The goal of this project was to develop a business plan that outlines the sustainable growth of Madison Environmental Group, Inc.’s EnAct Steps to Gre...

• What can a laundry business do to improve their "green quotient"?

  Lazybones, Inc. is a student-orientated pick-up laundry and dry cleaning service with locations in Madison, Boulder, Boston and others. Many of their...

• Analysis of Socially Responsible Investing as an Investment Strategy

  Since 1974, Madison Investment Advisors, Inc. has served investment management clients with a sound blend of investment philosophy and process, discip...

• Springs Window Fashions - Sustainability

  Springs is the largest provider of residential window coverings in this country. Over the last few years, the Gen Bus 601 class has done a number of...

• Chamber of Sustainability, Inc. Rating System for Sustainable Companies

  The Chamber of Sustainability’s mission is to foster dialogue between organizations working towards sustainability practices. The development of a nat...

• F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture: Market Viability Proposal

  F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture has been a student organization on the UW-Madison campus since 1979. Since being granted funds from the...

• Fitchburg Fields Marketing Plan

  The mission of Fitchburg Fields is to promote sustainable living, especially regionally-based food systems, across the United States - primarily by cr...

• Enterprise MBA Programs

  Enterprise MBA programs are the Evening and Executive MBA programs designed for working professionals. The majority of the students and alums of the p...

• Project Teach Sustainability: Spring Harbor

  As a business class focused on sustainability, students from our class worked in teams to develop a lesson plan and teach various topics of sustainabi...

• Project Teach Sustainability: IMMS

  As a business class focused on sustainability, students from our class worked in teams to develop a lesson plan and teach various topics of sustainabi...

• Entrepreneurial Management Venture Analysis Program - Wisconsin School of Business

  MBA students in teams of three to four students work with a local or regional small business or non-profit (less than 50 employees) in Dane County to...

• Wisconsin Corporate Executive MBA Program at Kohl’s Corporation

  The Wisconsin School of Business offers a Corporate Executive MBA program for Kohl’s employees at Kohl’s corporate headquarters in Menomonee Falls. Ko...

• Wisconsin MBA Evening Program

  The Wisconsin MBA Evening Program is a program that provides the opportunity to obtain an MBA degree while continuing to work. Students come to Madiso...

• Wisconsin MBA Executive Program

  The Wisconsin MBA Executive program offers professionals in the state the opportunity to obtain an MBA degree while continuing to work. Executives fro...

• Sustainable Springs Window Fashions

  Springs Window Fashions produces blinds, shades, and drapery which have sustainable qualities. One of these qualities is heat retention/blockage, and...

• Lands’ End-Solar Hot Water Energy

  The overall goal of this project was to provide new and realistic ideas for energy efficient facilities at the Lands’ End headquarters in Dodgeville,...

• Land’s End- Calculating a Carbon Footprint

  Students were tasked with finding a way to measure the carbon footprint of products from Lands' End. A follow up question was asked on whether Lands’...

• Lands' End- Sustainable Clothing Dyes Project

  Students were asked to consider whether Lands' End should use alternative more environmentally friendly dyes in their products. Lands' End provided th...

• Greening of Willy St.

  Students were tasked with creating ideas for "greening" Williamson St. here in Madison. This street, also known as Willy St., is slated for reconstruc...

• Partnerships for Sustainability Project

  Partnerships for Sustainability (PFS) is a nonprofit organization designed to provide businesses of 250 employees or less in Southeastern Wisconsin wi...

• Supervisory Leadership Series

  The Supervisory Leadership Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, is designed to offer core supervisory...

• High Performance Leadership Series

  The High Performance Leadership Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, is designed for people that are l...

• People and Communication Skills Series

  The People and Communication Skills Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, is designed for business lead...

• Financial Management Series

  The Financial Management Series, held on the UW-Madison campus through the Small Business Development Center, teaches people how to set up financial r...

• WI Sustainable Business Green Masters Program

  The WI Sustainable Business Green Masters Program (Green Masters Program), launched in December 2009, is an objective, points based certification pro...

• Business, Environment & Social Responsibility Program (BESR)

  The Business, Environment & Social Responsibility Program (BESR) is housed within the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madi...

• Small Business Venture Development Plans

  For over 40 years, the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship has prepared Venture Development Plans for small businesses and non-profit organizations th...

• Jobs for Wisconsin Grads

  All 13 UW-System four-year institutions are part of a partnership that allows an employer to post a job opening once and that position will be sent to...

• Nonprofit Board Leadership and Development

  This course is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to serve on nonprofit boards, learn about the roles and responsibilities of bo...

• Strategic Impact Consulting Projects

  2nd year Bolz Center for Arts Administration MBA students, in the Wisconsin School of Business, serve statewide communities and their creative organiz...

• Gener8tor

  Started in Wisconsin, gener8tor is a nationally ranked seed investment fund and business accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. The company...