Learning Opportunities
Build the knowledge and skills of your in-house talent
Partner with our faculty, thought leaders in both academics and industry, to customize continuing education seminars for your organization’s specific needs. We also facilitate conferences that benefit your organization specifically and the industry generally.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Predictive modeling
- Health analytics
- Behavioral analytics
- Insurance company financial operations
- Enterprise risk management
Email the department chair of Risk and Insurance, Joan Schmit, to learn more.
Insurance Management Education
In collaboration with The Institutes, we offer an Insurance Management Education program for professionals. This three-day interactive program focuses on the combined aspects of insurance acumen and personal leadership development. Participants have expressed positive reactions and that they’ve experienced significant personal growth after completing the program.
Solve your business challenges through applied learning projects
Achieve your goals by helping our students achieve theirs
Select a business problem for our students to work on. You’ll offer your time and support as students analyze your problem, develop recommendations, and present these recommendations to top leaders within your organization.
Students will learn about organizational structure and develop their project management and teamwork skills, as well as specific content acumen.
Recent partners and projects
Semester-long projects have been completed in coordination with a variety of organizations, including:
- Abbott Labs
- American Family Insurance Company
- CUNA Mutual Group
- East Madison Community Center
- Lands’ End
- Willis Towers Watson
- United Airlines
- Validus
- Meemic Insurance
- Wartburg College
Enterprise risk management audit for TomoTherapy
Shortly after TomoTherapy, a Madison-based biotech firm, became a public entity, a group of MBA students led by alumna Christy Kaufman conducted an ERM audit of the organization. Reporting to the firm’s C-Suite, the MBA team offered a series of recommendations to manage TomoTherapy’s risks in a holistic fashion, several of which were implemented by the company.
Risk management dashboard for United Airlines
A team of MBA and undergraduate students analyzed United Airline’s claims history and identified relevant relationships within the data. The team then recommended a better way to represent these relationships using United’s new data management tool. The resulting dashboards and recommendations were presented to the company’s leadership team in order to enhance their risk management decisions.
“Collaborating with the Risk Management and Insurance program provided valuable insights into United’s attritional losses and risk profile. The students identified opportunities to more strategically collect data that we are implementing to improve risk awareness. Working with students who bring talent, enthusiasm, and a fresh perspective is one of the benefits of developing a strong partnership with WSB.”
Managing Director, Risk and Management – United Airlines, Inc.