DENVER – The website NerdWallet, a site that uses number-crunching to help consumers make informed decision, recently released their list of the 10 “Best Cities for Female Entrepreneurs.” Coming in at number 7 is Denver, thanks in part to the education offered by the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School.  Read more

Faculty Upside Down sessions encourage casual conversation between students and faculty DENVER — PeterMax Miller, an instructor of marketing, has a winning style with students. You can tell by the way their faces light up when they see him, the way they greet him with a fist pump. So it makes perfect sense that the Office of Student Life kicked off its new series of faculty-student socials, called “Faculty Upside Down,” with Miller on Feb.  Read more

Business School team, mentored by finance instructor, advances to Trading Challenge final round Successfully navigating today’s financial markets takes uncommon nuance, experience and strategic knowledge. Two CU Denver Business School teams competing in the 2014 CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge have found the ideal mentor in finance instructor Gavan Duemke.  Read more

The OneBeacon Insurance Group Charitable Trust has made a scholarship gift of $10,000 to the Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) program at University of Colorado Denver Business School. This is the first gift from OneBeacon Insurance Group to the RMI program and it will continue the program’s goal to recruit more students into the insurance industry workforce. A large proportion of risk management and insurance employees are expected to retire in the next five years, and as Denver grows as an insurance and business hub, it will require an increasing number of new industry professionals.  Read more

The number-crunchers at the consumer website NerdWallet have ranked the 20 best cities in America for female entrepreneurs, and Denver made the list. Denver is No. 7 on the list, which was created based on five factors: a city’s entrepreneurial climate, the percentage of businesses owned by women, median earnings for female workers, the percentage of residents with a college degree, and the unemployment rate.  Read more

More than 500 attend annual Donor Dinner for the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus “For Jean Barban, every day is a gift. Fifteen years ago her heart stopped.” The annual Donor Recognition Dinner always highlights inspiring stories of generosity, passion and vision, but this year’s event chronicled a tale that went straight to the heart.  Read more

Professionals entering global energy system need a holistic understanding of the industry, Kaminski says Students who gain a big-picture understanding of the global energy system will find a wealth of job prospects in the evolving energy industry, Vincent Kaminski, Ph.D., told a CU Denver Business School audience on Feb. 13. “I tell my students that if they choose to specialize in energy, they cannot make a wrong decision,” said Kaminski, a professor in Rice University’s business school.  Read more