On Thursday, September 17th, employers and business students from multiple schools came together at Sports Authority Field for the 2nd annual Colorado Business School Career Fair. The Career Fair is a collaborative effort between the business schools of the University of Colorado, Colorado State University, and the University of Denver. There were about 150 local and national employers that set up booths and sent recruiters to speak to students about jobs.  Read more

CU Denver Business School has achieved an impressive ranking on the 2016 Best Colleges list from U.S. News & World Report for its Undergraduate Business Program. Attaining a top 100 placement is an exciting success for the school and the program. The 2016 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Colleges places CU Denver’s Undergraduate Business Program as the 58th among the public universities it ranks, and 93rd overall among all national universities.  Read more

Failure teaches best when blame is hard to pin down a study by CU Denver Business School Associate Professor Vinit Desai finds. The study was recently published in Academy of Management Journal, one of the world’s foremost scholarly management periodicals. For this study, Professor Desai analyzed failures in a life or death situation by looking at death rates from cardiac-bypass surgery in over 115 Californian hospitals.  Read more

Failure is more likely to encourage positive change if blame is hard to assign. CU Denver Business School Associate Professor Vinit Desai analyzed failures in a life or death situation and published his results in Academy of Management, one of the world’s foremost scholarly management periodicals. A study based on hospital mortality rates For this study, Desai analyzed failures by analyzing death rates from cardiac-bypass surgery in over 115 Californian hospitals.  Read more

Both Denver and Colorado Springs are in the top ten for best cities nationwide to live in. An recent analysis by WalletHub ranked the nation’s biggest cities according to which cities were the best to live in. The study used 31 different criteria to rank the cities, separated into four categories of livability; education; health; and local economy and taxes.  Read more

In their 17^th annual list of the Best Places for Business and Careers, Forbes ranked Denver as the number one city out of 401 metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. The cities were rated on a dozen different factors, and Forbes quoted Denver’s “diverse economy, highly educated labor force and outdoor recreational opportunities” as the reasons that it ranked in the first spot.  Read more

Not only did an annual rating place Denver at the top of the list for economic development and jobs, three other Colorado cities also made it into the top twenty. The state of Colorado is doing well economically according to a report by  Area Development magazine. The magazine looked at 375 cities and metro areas in the United States in order to compile its list of places that are “creating jobs and nurturing sustainable economic development.”  Read more