Coming from an arts background, Josh Brandner knows something about following his instincts. Although he already had a successful career in TV and film, he sensed he could go even further. Despite some initial reservations about pursuing a graduate degree in business, Brandner now sees that his instincts were right: The Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in the CU Denver Business School has broadened his skillset and overall marketability.  Read more

In a world driven by business, college graduates with a solid base of business knowledge have a distinct edge in the job market. This “difference-maker” objective is driving the new Business Fundamentals minor for non-business majors. The innovative program, offered by the CU Denver Business School, begins this fall and consists of five, one-semester courses that are specially designed for students who are outside of the Business School.  Read more

Scott Jones (student), Tashi Malik (Global Sports Mentoring Program), Nungshi Malik (Global Sports Mentoring Program), Allison Wozniak (student), Alex Kukuris (student), Davis DePonte (student), Brian Lee (student) The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative of the University of Colorado Denver Business School recently completed its first Shadow Days program this year.   Read more

The University of Colorado Denver chapter of the Association for Information Systems has been recognized for their efforts in the area of Careers in “IS”. These awards recognize deserving student chapters that have excelled in one or more of the following areas: professional development, membership, careers in IS, community service, fundraising, and communications.  Read more

On October 14, 2015, seventeen students from Graham Russell’s Business & Sustainability/Sustainable Business Opportunity course visited the Colorado facility of repurposedMATERIALS, Inc. in Brighton. Damon Carson, founder and owner of repurposedMATERIALS, explained that the company – which has operations in Chicago and Atlanta with new sites opening shortly in Dallas and Philadelphia – buys used or unwanted industrial and commercial equipment and materials with the objective of finding a use for them that is different from their original purpose.  Read more

With an interest rate of roughly 2%, the costs of investing in our infrastructure are as low as they have ever been, believes Marcelle Arak, CoBank Professor at the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities. A recent report showed unexpectedly slow job growth over the summer, raising the odds of a stall in the already sluggish U.S. economic recovery. While this in itself is disappointing, the even greater disappointment is the failure to do anything about it, particularly when there’s an obvious and costless solution: borrow hundreds of billions of dollars for essentially nothing and spend it on our nation’s crumbling infrastructure.  Read more

The Financial Engineer Times has ranked the CU Denver dual degrees in finance and economics program 7^th nationwide, moving up one spot in the rankings compared with last year. The prestigious standing in the national rankings is largely attributable to the hard working people in the Finance and the Economics departments (and supporting staff members), one of those people is Jian Yang, Professor and Director of the Finance Program.  Read more