From the Iran war to rising energy prices, the American economy appears as split as ever. At the annual 2026 Economic Forecast event, featuring Ellen Zentner ’95, Morgan Stanley’s Chief Economic Strategist, and Kate Watkins, Colorado State Demographer, one underlying tension quietly sat beneath nearly every discussion point: who is paying for that split, and who is profiting from it?  Read more

Congratulations, Spring 2026 graduates! Each semester, the Business School recognizes two graduate, two undergraduate, and two First Generation and Multi-Cultural (FaM) graduating students, whose academic performance and contributions to the University have gone above and beyond, breaking down barriers not only for themselves, but also for their fellow students and future Lynx.   Read more

On Thursday, April 23, over 120 attendees packed into the CU Denver Business School’s Jake Jabs Event Center for the 25^th annual pitch competition for THE CLIMB. The evening event featured live pitch presentations from six CU Denver student teams, a panel of esteemed judges, and a supportive gathering of Denver’s business community. But unlike past years, the biggest question in everyone’s mind wasn’t just who would win the night’s top three prizes, but also how much.  Read more

Ushering in a new era of transparency, Federal rules now mandate that hospitals provide detailed pricing information for common services. However, the presentation of this data is often limited to large, sprawling spreadsheets that are inaccessible to many consumers. This spring, through its annual Case Competition, the Business School Alliance for Health Management (BAHM) challenged 7 graduate student teams to tackle this issue and translate confusing medical pricing information into a comprehensive, comprehensible, customer-facing solution.   Read more

For his outstanding contributions to CU Denver Business School and the Risk Management and Insurance program, Troy D. Sibelius, FASLA, CIC, CRM, has been recognized with the Business School’s Community Engagement Award and the RMI program’s Above & Beyond Award. 

“Troy’s leadership at Buckner and as Chair of the Surplus Lines Association of Colorado has made a lasting impact on the RMI Program.

Where do blushes and brushes transition from hobby to career? Dribbling a soccer ball, journaling, crafting a coffee, and solving puzzles. Many pastimes remain just that. A threshold, or rather a starting point, exists at which a person’s next step becomes intentional. That next step is rarely discussed. It is common to hear, “follow your passion,” but rare to consider what passion requests in return: discipline, structure, and the willingness to learn the parts that don’t come naturally.  Read more

Reinvention is one of life’s quiet constants. It keeps showing up and invites us to grow or imagine something different. The beauty of it lies in our ability to answer that invitation when we’re bold enough to do so, to move forward not because we have to, but because we choose to. ​For Brittany Guzmán Taylor, reinvention has long been a way of moving through the world.  Read more