Students from the University of Colorado Denver Business School are competing for the first time in the annual CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge. The challenge pits teams from Universities around the world in a competition trading on Crude Oil, Gold and Corn Futures in, with teams compiling the greatest returns advancing to a championship round.  Read more

U.S. News and World Report recently published an article that should be good news for students of the University of Colorado Business School and recent alumni. According to the article, job prospects for business school graduate are the best they have been since 2003, with 92 percent of 2012 graduates finding employment within three months of graduation. See the whole U.S.  Read more

Local Denver company Udi’s, which is well known for its breads, gluten-free products, and granola, will be opening a new café in the University of Colorado Denver Business School Building. The location will be the company’s fifth café, but will the prototype for their new Juice Bar, Café and Bakery concept. Udi’s Juice Bar will open in the Business School building at 1475 Lawrence Street on January 22^nd, 2013.  Read more

Students at the University of Colorado Denver Business School recently engaged in a project to make blankets for homeless youth, to be donated to Urban Peak. First-year students in the CU Denver Business School’s class “Business, Leadership, and You” were given the task of deciding how to spend funds allocated to the class. These funds are intended to be used to help build relationships and enrich students’ lives.  Read more

The Information Systems (IS) Program at the University of Colorado Denver Business School recently announced that they are adding several new specializations to their degree programs. Beginning Spring 2013, graduate students will be able to add Enterprise Risk Management, Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship, or eHealth and Healthcare Service Entrepreneurship as a specialization to their degree.  Read more

App-It Ventures, one of the two first place winners in the most recent business plan competition at the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver Business School, recently won another business plan competition. This time, the company beat out over 150 competitors to win the City and County of Denver’s inaugural JumpStart Biz Plan Awards competition.  Read more