A group of five students from the 11-Month MBA program were able to directly impact a new company by way of naming the new entity. The student team partnered with entrepreneur, Rich McNamara, who had started a math-based home-school curriculum company in 2014. Like many entrepreneurs, McNamara had a great idea and the skills to back it up. But, he continued to struggle with what to name his new company.  Read more

With headlines across all of the news publications, debates in the senate, and even the president making a special note about climate change at the White House Correspondents Dinner; sustainability is everywhere. And Colorado is proving itself a leader in this field. Sustainability could very well be the greatest business opportunity the world has ever seen.   Read more

A recent study conducted by the Council for Aid to Education found that 4 in 10 U.S. college students graduate without the complex reasoning skills to manage white-collar work. One of the solutions that many have proposed to combat this, is for educational institutions to offer comprehensive programs that teach students the fundamentals of business. In the Fall of 2015, the Business School will launch a new business certificate that focuses on giving individuals with a non-business undergraduate degree, business essentials.  Read more

Colorado scored high in the first “Best Places for Tech Jobs” list by researcher NerdWallet, which studied tech jobs, salaries and median rents in 370 metropolitan areas. San Jose, Calif., outscored all other cities, but Boulder ranked fifth, while Denver came in at No. 13 and Colorado Springs at No. 15. Read more…  Read more

The MS Finance program at the University of Colorado Denver Business School was recently recognized as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) recognized university by the CFA Institute.  This is the gold standard of acknowledgement in the global finance industry.  The Business School will join the ranks of other global universities which prepare their students to become a CFA.  Read more

“Many small people, who in many small places do many small things, can alter the face of the world.” So reads an inscription on one of the remaining panels of the Berlin Wall, a barrier between East and West Berlin that stood for nearly three decades and became a symbol of a divided world. When the wall fell, so too did barriers to the flow of capital, goods, and people. Twenty-five years later, the University of Colorado’s 11-Month MBA program arrived in Germany to observe the economic landscape and explore business opportunities in this once divided region.  Read more

According to a recent study cited by Forbes, fewer than two in five managers believe that college graduates were well-prepared for a job in their field of study.  Additionally, “only one in ten business leaders strongly agreed that institutions were graduating students with the skills and competencies their businesses needed.” The University of Colorado Denver Business School has recently taken initiative to change this.  Read more