PIMCO executive a featured guest of CU Denver’s J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities DENVER – When world stock markets plunged on Black Monday in October 1987, one asset class held remarkably steady. “If you looked at the markets and economy through the eyes of the commodity index, people kept drinking their coffee, eating their Wheaties,” Robert Greer, executive vice president and manager of Real Return Products at PIMCO, told a large CU Denver Business School audience at a lunchtime discussion on Jan.  Read more

Fowke delivers an energy outlook at CU Denver’s Global Energy Management program’s CEO Briefing DENVER – Xcel Energy is on track to reduce its carbon emissions by almost 35 percent by 2020 and continues progressive approaches to meeting environmental challenges, customer needs and the demands of today’s two-way energy system, CEO Ben Fowke said at CU Denver.  Read more

Global Energy Management hosts robust discussions that drill into one of state’s key industries DENVER – Water recycling remains relatively uncommon in oil fields — less than 10 percent of water used in hydraulic fracturing is recycled — but the practice is gaining momentum as technology and infrastructure evolves. A wide range of energy experts from the academic, business and government worlds met for a robust three-hour discussion about the water-energy nexus on Jan.  Read more

Business School offers many services, including boot camps and career fairs, to help students and graduates land top jobs DENVER – Jonathan Maher, who recently earned his master’s degree in international business from the CU Denver Business School, is in the thick of a job search. He’s finding his alma mater to be quite helpful. He attended a recent Job Search Boot Camp in the Business School along with about 30 students.  Read more

Certificate Ceremony features prominent Colorado business leaders Jabs, Lewan DENVER – Two of Denver’s most accomplished entrepreneurs and leaders spoke at the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship certificate ceremony on Thursday evening. One speaker was Jabs himself, who last May made a $10 million contribution to dramatically expand entrepreneurship education, research, programmatic reach and caliber within the CU Denver Business School.  Read more

DENVER – Students in the 11-Month MBA program participated in a variety of business collaboration projects during the fall, giving value and strategic insight to local businesses. These projects offer real-world learning scenarios to students, while providing businesses with fresh approaches to some of their greatest business challenges. Projects included planning, data analysis, growth strategies, and marketing for local non-profits and companies in a variety of industries.  Read more

The University of Colorado Denver has teamed up with CPAexcel to offer special prices on review courses for the certified public accountant (CPA) examination. CPAexcel has broken down their exam prep sections into easily digestible “Bite-Sized Lessons.” They also offer over 5,000 CPA exam practice questions, task-based simulations, unlimited practice exams, and a host of other features.  Read more