Jen Brown
The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has appointed Jen Brown as chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy. Brown succeeds Matthew Higgins, who served in this role from July 2020 through June 2023. Brown’s threeyear term began July 1. Brown has been a professor at the Eccles School since 2017. Before that, she taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include examining competitors’ incentives and strategies in tournaments and job seekers’ behavior during the Great Recession. She is currently working on projects studying the consequences of consumer protection laws, how choices in higher education vary with students’ gender, how individuals gather information when making risky decisions, and how firms’ investment in safety varies with firm type. Brown teaches courses including managerial economics and competitive strategy at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
