Founded in 2002, the Financial Accelerator was created as a critical element of the business school's overall experiential learning initiatives. All of these programs have one common theme: opportunities for students to apply classroom concepts to solve real business problems.

 

Financial Accelerator as a Business Resource
Many businesses facing shortages of resources (time, skills, and technology) will benefit immensely from this union. A quality product will be the deliverable from a team comprised of the business executives and the best and the brightest University of Connecticut students and faculty.

Additionally, with the advanced technological infrastructure at UConn, and its access to cutting-edge research, the proprietary IP solutions provided by the powerful project team are not only the confidential property of the participating business, but also come at a cost much less than professional consultants or outsources.

The benefits to the participating businesses are UConn students and faculty are obvious, but the business leaders must be convinced that they stand to benefit too.

 

Experiential Learning
Interaction with business executives involved in these projects is an integral part of experiential learning. Partnerships with businesses and active participation of business executives are critical to the success of experiential learning projects. The approach taken at the Financial Accelerator is to couple the extensive research and analytical skills and resources of students and faculty with business executives to find solutions to their challenges.